SATs – well done!
This week, I couldn’t have been prouder of the class for their attitude, resilience and focus when completing their SATs.
It’s a testament to how hard they’ve worked so far this year that we went into each paper feeling confident (and competent)!
Breakfast club was a pleasure – the children were polite, grateful and tidy.
No matter their results, released in July, they can all hold their heads very high because of how they’ve carried themselves and that they’ve all tried their very best.
Well done, everybody.
Miss Wilson & the Y6 team
Living and learning: healthy eating
This week, we’ve looked at what makes a healthy diet, an unhealthy diet and the associated risks of poor choices.
First, we had fun creating a meal plan full of unhealthy choices. We discussed how skipping meals, high fats and sugars and not eating a balance of the food groups across the day is bad for you. We also discussed the importance of drinking enough water.
Next, we discussed risks associated with poor diets.
Finally, we created a much better, healthy meal plan for the day. We wanted to include a balance of the food groups, based around fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates and some proteins.
Grammar Games 2025
This week, Y6 have been embroiled in the hotly anticipated Grammar Games 2025. Each day has seen the children take part in a variety of tasks all related to grammar.
We’ve looked at punctuation such as apostrophes, commas and hyphens and we’ve recapped grammatical terms such as conjunctions, tenses and Standard English.
Each round, they totalled their points and worked out their table’s mean average to add to the leaderboard.
As we know, punctuation saves lives…
By the end of the week, we could crown our winners!
Help at home by asking your child which areas of grammar they’re confident with and which they need help with.
VE Day
Yesterday was VE Day which means that WWII ended in Europe 80 years ago.
Y6 took part in a webinar that was all about VE Day, why we should celebrate peace and our British Values.
You can remember the British Values (Individual Liberty, Rule of Law, Democracy and Mutual Respect and Tolerance) with the following memory aid: I Really Do Matter.
The British Values link to VE Day because people had fewer choices for food due to rationing and shortages, people were fighting to have our voices heard, people were sadly treated extremely badly and weren’t following laws.
Help at home by matching the four reasons above to each of the four British Values.
Netball
The weather has been really helping us to enjoy our new PE topic this week. We’ve started a unit of netball which we’re really enjoying so far.
This week, we’ve focused on throwing but mainly catching, using a ready position and sticky feet.
Help at home by asking what sticky feet means!
Netball is a fantastic sport which teaches so many crucial skills like hand-eye coordination, using space and communication.
Living and learning: sleep
In Living and Learning this week, we’ve been talking about sleep.
We’ve analysed our own sleep to suggest any helpful changes. We know poor quality sleep really isn’t good for us so we want to make the best possible choices to look after our body and minds.
We also debated whether “a perfect night’s sleep is impossible” in Philosophy Friday and came up with some interesting contributions.
Jensen explained, “I don’t think it’s possible for anything to be perfect but there’s always small choices you can make to have good quality sleep. You can go to bed a little earlier, stay away from devices, read and make it as peaceful as possible.”
Summer term after-school clubs
Year 5/6 netball event
As part of our involvement with the Leeds Well Schools Partnership, we took a team of 8 Year 5/6 children to a Bee Netball Development Event at Allerton High.
The event was aimed at developing netball skills and the children put them into practise in some games at the end. Well done to all the children for representing our school so well.
To take part in netball outside of school, here are details of a local club.
What is WWII?
We’ve started our new topic for this half term – history! We’ve been very excited about it and the children know lots already.
Before we got started, we looked at our new history vocabulary and rated our confidence as a class: red is never heard it before, orange is heard it but not confident and green is I am fully confident.
Today, we learnt about what WWII was and how it began.
We made a lot of great notes before we recorded a report to announce the outbreak of war.
Help at home by discussing how this lesson links with the following historical concepts:
- invasion
- power
The other concepts we learn about are trade, inequality and innovation.
We met a famous author!
It was Dermot O’Leary! We walked to a different primary school to hear about his new book.
He answered lots of questions – including Ryan’s!
We even did a draw along with his illustrator! It was really fun and we were all able to draw his main character Agent Feathers.
He was really nice and even signed some of our sketch books!
Luca said, “It was really inspiring.”
Rayhan said, “He had such great ideas and imagination.”
Raheem said, “It was really fun going to see a different school and of course meeting Dermot O’Leary.”