27/02/23
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…
W/B 13/02/23
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…
W/B 06/02/23
We have written an internal monologue from Auggie’s perspective, detailing the internal conflict he experienced during Halloween.
We have learnt about the radius, diameters and circumference of circles this week. We showed great understanding in this topic and were determined to get to…
W/B 30/01/23
We have practised a number of skills, including expanded noun phrases, to add further detail to our internal monologues. This is inspired by our class text, ‘Wonder’.
We showed our understanding of the four quadrants through a carousel of activities.
In Maths, we have consolidated our…
W/B 23/01/23
In our Maths lessons, we have worked practically to show our understanding of scale factors and enlarging shapes.
In English, we have read more of our class text ‘Wonder’ and discussed how Auggie felt before and after the events of Halloween, where his best friend betrays him. This is in…
W/B 16/01/23
We are writing a first person narrative as a character from Wonder, describing when they met Auggie for the first time.
In Maths, we have learnt about percentage of amounts and finding missing numbers,
In Science, we investigated refraction by making drawings face opposite directions and…
WB 09/01/23
In our Writing lessons, we have been practicing writing a first person retell as Auggie, using key skills such as adverbs and prepositions to add detail and meaning.
In Maths, we are moving into learning about percentages and their relationship with fractions and decimals.
In History, we…
W/B 02/01/23
We started to read our new class text, Wonder. We learnt about the protagonist and researched the condition which led to him being ‘born differently’.
In Maths, we have consolidated our knowledge of working with decimals in preparation for linking this with fractions and percentages. Anjy…
WB 12/12/22
We wrote a narrative re-tell of the Christmas Truce. Melody particularly impressed us with her work, including her editing and uplevelling.
In Maths this week, we multiplied and divided decimal numbers using written method.
We produced some seasonal art to take home to our families. We hope…
WB 05/12/22
In Science, we learnt about GM crops and discussed the controversial topic of genetic modification.
As part of our History topic, we took part in a class discussion of who played a part in the growth of Islamic Civilisation across the world.
WB 28/11/22
Year 6 made salsa as part of our Global Foods topic in DT - lots of fun was had as you can see!
In our History topic (Islamic Civilisation) we learnt about Abd-al-Rahman and his mosque in Cordoba. We put him in our hot seat and asked him about his journey over!
Today, we analyzed Wilfred…
WB 21/11/22
We had a visit from Zoo Lab, who showed us their animals and discussed how they evolved and adapted over time in order to survive.
This week, we were news reporters. We told how the Arabs had entered different countries spreading the religion of Islam throughout the world.
We have written a…