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Year 6 Sharks love being recognised for our positive choices including showing our Waterside values and being ready, respectful and safe. We love to see our faces lit up and being recognised, using post-it comments, for our achievements each week. Miss Cooke hopes that next week, we will have the…

Today, Year 6 have been planning their writing. The children will be producing a first person narrative as Ayesha, the protgaonist from our class text, ‘Oranges in No-Man’s Land’. They will be finishing the story, giving an alternative ending for how Ayesha manages to cross into enemy territory in…

Year 6 have been public speaking as famous humanist thinkers from throughout history, expressing their views on religion. We have shown respect and tolerance in hearing beliefs different from our own and being able to present our knowledge using our drama skills.

As part of our DT topic ‘Floor Robots’, Sharks class have created an input for our Bee-Bot before observing its output. We were very impressed with how clever Bill the Bee-Bot was following our input!

Year 6 have been practicing reading musical notation and understanding the progression up and down the musical stave. We have learnt about crotchet, minim and dotted notes and their values (using our Maths skills to understand that a dot indicates half the value of the musical note added on…

In Year 6 this week, we have started to read about our new class text ‘Oranges in No Man’s Land’. 

We have researched about the Lebanese Civil War - where the story is set - and learnt about how life changed during these times. Finally, we re-enacted the moment that the protagonist, Ayesha,…

In our English lessons, we have discussed the importance of planning and how this skill is necessary throughout our lives. Sharks then chose their own method to plan for their alternative perspective narrative, retelling ‘Wonder’.

In Writing, we have amazed Miss Cooke and Mrs Lawton with our alternative perspective narratives. We have been practising our skills writing as Eddie, the bully from the camp in ‘Wonder’. We have focused on including direct and indirect speech to move the action forwards and develop…

In our Writing lessons, we have been reading about the events at camp from our class text, ‘Wonder’. We learnt how Amos, Miles and Henry showed courage to defend Auggie, and showed our understanding through answering comprehension questions and writing a social media post as one of the…

In our Writing lessons this week, we have culminated our learning into writing a formal letter. This is addressed to Mr Tushman from the novel Wonder, and the children wrote as the character Jack Will. We used techniques re-visited over the past few lessons, including subjunctive form, perfect…

To celebrate World Book Day, we used a pencil to express ourselves through drawing and words the same way Malala Yousafzai and Benjamin Zephaniah did. We performed our poetry to the class.

We have written formal letters in our English lessons, practicing the skill of using formal language…

We are ending our half term by looking at statistics, specifically pie charts. We have consolidated our ability to read and interpret pie charts before working with percentages and even drawing our own!

We are writing a third person narrative describing the events of Wonder.

In our Science…