Year 6 Autumn

6.12.2024

This week we started designing our Freedom Quilt. We looked at the messages that it carried and the important role it played. We designed our own patterns and wrote what it symbolises. The next step was to create our pattern with triangles, squares and rectangles which we then traced and cut out from felt. The sewing process started...

29.11.2024

This week was our residential visit to Fairplay House. Keep your eyes peeled for photos - COMING SOON!

For those few who stayed behind, learning didn't stop. We wrote:

Acrostic Poems
Thank You Letters
School Advertisements
Word Searches

We also continued working on a range of Maths skills to support us with our learning.

We also created individual art pieces. These were created by drawing only one long connected line.

Ever experimented folding your own aeroplane to see how far it can fly? Why not fold one at home and get gliding?

22.11.2024

We completed writing our independent News Reports on Fairytales with a twist this week!

In Science we built and tested simple electrical circuits. First we drew the components of our circuit and then tested it. Afterwards, we replaced the images of the components with the correct symbols.

Our Fraction chapter continues...

We are continuing to build on our fraction knowledge lesson after lesson. This week refined our skills adding and subtracting fractions and solved multi-step problems. We then moved onto multiplying fractions.

15.11.2024

This week, Year 6 had a jam-packed week. It started with Remembrance Day where we commemorated the armed forces members killed in all wars and conflicts worldwide.

Odd Socks Day on Tuesday! All part of Anti-Bullying week to help raise awareness of bullying and to show we are all unique.

Wednesday, as part of the Into Film Festival 2024, we got to see the film Kensuke's Kingdom (the novel we studied in both Reading and English). It was a great experience and a film worth watching.

Sara Humayoun - Film Review for Kensuke’s Kingdom .pdf

Mohamed Saeed Mohamed - Film Review for Kensuke’s Kingdom .pdf

Lunna Castro Monteiro - Film Review for Kensuke’s Kingdom .pdf

Ansi Koloshi - Film Review for Kensuke’s Kingdom .pdf

Aydin Ali - Film Review for Kensuke’s Kingdom .pdf

Elvyss Eluku - Film Review for Kensuke’s Kingdom .pdf

Harun Sayed - Film Review for Kensuke’s Kingdom .pdf

Ayesha Begum - Film Review for Kensuke’s Kingdom .pdf

Isaiah Weekes - Film Review for Kensuke’s Kingdom .pdf

Levyss Eluku - Film Review for Kensuke’s Kingdom .pdf

Thursday we took part in The Junior Citizen Scheme. A partnership initiative aimed at giving young children the skills to deal with a wide range of emergency situations, and to enable them to make a valued contribution to their local community through good citizenship.

Friday we took part in the BBC Children in Need day. We could come to school in our pyjamas to help raise funds for the charity. We also joined the online assembly and had various other tasks throughout the rest of the day that we participated in.

8.11.2024

We started a new chapter in Maths this week: Fractions!

We will recap and build on work learnt in Year 5 and become Fraction Masters!

English took us on a Fairytale Crime journey. Have you ever questioned right from wrong in fairytales? This week we looked at Jack and the Beanstalk and Goldilocks and the crimes committed by these two characters.

In Science this halfterm we will continue to build on our existing knowledge of Electricity and circuits. This week we started it off by looking at how electricity is generated.

This halfterm, in our unit sessions, the focus will be more on Geography. We looked at where the Caribbean is and what islands it consists of. We used Google Earth to locate these islands.

How many Caribbean Islands can you name?

Do you know their location?

25.10.2024

During our unit sessions we continued learning about the experience of enslaved people.

We used this information to create an artwork depicting the emotions and mistreatment of an enslaved person.

18.10.2024

In English this week, we finished our Plot Points on Varmints. We started planning our independent writing basing it on The Flower by John Light.

Maths took us on a journey exploring and deepening our understanding of multiples, factor, common factors, prime numbers and composite numbers.

In Science we were collecting data and presented it in bar charts. This week the focus was on invertebrates. Invertebrates can be classified into further groups, including insects, arachnids, crustaceans and molluscs.

11.10.2024

In Science we continued looking at the classification of Animals (Vertebrates and Invertebrates). In this sessions we were introduced to a branching key. To start the session of we explored how to use it using sweets.

We then applied this to create our own branching keys for Vertebrates.

Starting our new text in English, we explored places of beauty and used the lenses to help us generate adjectives.

We also acted out scenes of Varmints with freeze frames and a narrator.

4.10.2024

We've completed the novel Kensuke's Kingdom! What a journey Michael Morpurgo took us on! We have thoroughly enjoyed reading it and can't wait for our next adventure.

We have also completed our Independent Writing on the next few plot points of our version of Kensuke.

What writing features can you spot?

27.09.2024

We continued our journey with Kensuke's Kingdom in Reading and Writing. We continue to learn more about the characters every day and can't wait to find out what happens to Kensuke and Michael next.

As part of our Freedom Unit, we went to visit the Museum of Docklands to go and look at the London, Sugar and Slavery Gallery. We've completed some work prior to this to help us understand what was going to be at the Museum.

20.09.2024

We continued our work on Olaudah Equiano and created some art pieces with words that reminds us of him and what he stood for.

In English ( Reading and Writing) we are looking at Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. We are finding it fascinating and can't wait to read the next few chapters.

Who is Kensuke?

Why is it called Kensuke's Kingdom?

In Maths we will be refining our knowledge of place value and extend it to working with numbers up to 10 000 000. We will look at rounding numbers, comparing them to 10 000 000 as well as placing them in order from greatest to smallest or vice versa.

13.09.2024

In unit this half term we will learn about the origins of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the role in which Britain and the Americas played. We will learn about significant people who fought against slavery including Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and the abolitionist movement in Britain and North America. We will explore the concept of freedom.

To start with, we looked at who Olaudah Equiano was and his significance. We researched facts about him and created our own artwork resembling freedom.

In Science we will describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals. We will give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics.

Looking at the animals in these pictures. How would you classify them?

What is a micro-organism?

We started looking at classifying animals into groups. The main groups we looked at was Vertebrates and Invertebrates.

Following this, we looked at Carl Linnaeus who was an eighteenth century scientist interested in organising plants and animals into groups.

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