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Big Topic Review

Posted on Friday 18 March 2016 by Mr Catherall

A big thank you to those parents that were able to attend our open afternoon on Wednesday. We hope you enjoyed finding out about all the great learning that’s happened in Y6 during our ‘Life’ topic.

For those that didn’t attend, we reflected on each piece of learning we have done by writing down on big sheets something we remembered.

  
Then, we created a ‘diamond 9’ of the skills we have learnt/practised and some of the knowledge we have gained. It was interesting how everyone had different ideas of what they’d learnt most about.



Finally, we sat down to review our big topic book. It works as a diary of all the great topic-related learning we do!

 If you’d like to find out more about our brilliant ‘Life’ topic, ask your child how they’ve found it.

This week’s maths learning 

Posted on Wednesday 16 March 2016 by Mr Catherall

This week, in maths, we’ve been learning all about measures.

After exploring mass through weighing items using different methods, we moved on to capacity. We spent time measuring, estimating and converting between units. (Remarkably, we didn’t make much mess!)


You can help at home by:

  • Encouraging your child to find examples of measures in every day life
  • Encouraging your child to estimate the mass/capacity of things you find in the house (eg what do you think is the capacity of that glass? What do you think is the mass of the laptop? What do you think is the capacity of our bath? Hint: benchmarking helps – ask you child about this!)
  • Practising converting between units (eg ml to litres, g to kg)
  • Using the revision books handed out last week

We’ll continue our learning by solving problems involving different measures.

Computing with ‘Lego WeDo’

Posted on Monday 07 March 2016 by Mr Catherall

This half term, as part of our computing curriculum, we have been using a resource called ‘Lego WeDo’. We have built models of animals from Lego blocks and then programmed them to perform actions using the accompanying computer software.





So far, we have focused, and will continue to focus, on using and applying computational thinking concepts.

You can help at home by:

  • Discussing your child’s learning with them;
  • Talking about how computational thinking concepts effect our everyday lives;
  • Encouraging them to think about how they may use some of these concepts without realising.

If, like me, much of this is new to you, or, if you’d like to brush up your own computing knowledge, there are some great websites that can help. Although it’s aimed at teachers, Barefoot Computing offers lots of support with the new curriculum, its key concepts and a breakdown of technical language.

Doggy drama 

Posted on Friday 04 March 2016 by Mr Wilks

We’ve had a great afternoon, practising our drama skills. We’ve used our class novel – The 100mph dog – as our stimulus to do lots of drama about dogs. We’ve become dogs, making friends and enemies. We’ve discovered the first dog. We’ve protected our wolf pack and fought challengers. We’ve told the story of how dog and man became friends. Finally, we created our own – fairly gruesome – story about dogs! 
  
  
  
  


  

Creative shape homework

Posted on Friday 04 March 2016 by Mr Wilks

Here are the five homeworks as  chosen by the class:


  
  

World Book Day maths

Posted on Thursday 03 March 2016 by Mr Catherall

After we’d finished our blurbs (which were brilliant!), we revised some statistics learning using pie charts about books.

Ask your child how they calculated the answers.

 

Blurb writing

Posted on Thursday 03 March 2016 by Mr Catherall

We’re busy writing a blurb for our favourite books at the moment. Here’s Cleopatra and Pippi Longstocking designing theirs:


And Captain Underpants getting some feedback from Burglar Bill about hers:


I love the artwork on Rayhaan’s alternative ‘Warhorse’ blurb:

World Book Day

Posted on Thursday 03 March 2016 by Mr Catherall

In English today, we’re writing an alternative blurb for our favourite books. To practise our promotional language, we are currently ‘speed-dating’ to sell our books to others.

Here are some pics:


  

Creative homework review

Posted on Wednesday 02 March 2016 by Mr Catherall

This afternoon, we spent some time reflecting on last week’s creative homework. We had a chance to look at everyone else’s before voting for our favourite (with a focus on effort and originality).

The standard was high across the class. In particular, we loved Henry’s, Ethan’s, Laurielynn’s, Gloria’s and Jennifer’s.


  
  
Homework is a really important part of school life and can lead to some very rich learning. We can’t wait to see next week’s!

 

Yoga

Posted on Wednesday 02 March 2016 by Mr Roundtree

As part of the health aspect to our Big Topic, Life, we tried out some yoga, stretching our muscles and relaxing.