Year Six

Tuesday, 2 January 2018

Home Learning Information for Year Six

This coming term, the home learning expectations are as follows:

Each week, there will be either a written or Mathletics task set. These will link to End of Key Stage Expectations for arithmetic or reasoning. (20 minutes)

Weekly, we will set a grammar and punctuation activity to consolidate our work in class.(20 minutes)

In school, we have a weekly focus on a spelling rule. A list of spellings to learn that follow the week's rule will be provided. (20 minutes)

Children should read on a daily basis. Renaissance Home Connect enables parents to see information about your child's progress within Accelerated Reader.

This home learning will be set on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. Home learning will begin on Thursday 11th January.

Class teachers will let their class know the day of the week spelling tests will take place.

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Monday, 1 January 2018

Y6 Dates for This Term

Important dates for the coming term:

January 2018
3^rd	Training Day – school closed to pupils
4^th	Term Three begins
8^th – 11^th	Y6 Mock Key Stage Two Tests
10^th	#AskCJS
22^nd	Clubs begin
February
1^st	#AskCJS
1^st – 7^th	Book Fair
5^th – 7^th	PCLRs
5^th – 9^th	Be an Author Week
12^th – 16^th	Half Term
19^th	Term Four begins
March
1^st	Cardiff Bonus Day - St David’s Day
5^th – 9^th	Mother’s Day Lunch
6^th	Class Photograph Day
12^th & 13^th	Mother’s Day Lunch
14^th	#AskCJS
19^th	Belfast House Day - St Patrick’s Day
29^th	Last Day
April
16^th	Training Day - school closed to pupils
17^th	Term Five begins

Sunday, 31 December 2017

Year Six Curriculum - Spring 2018

Thursday, 21 December 2017

The end of term has finally arrived! After 14 weeks of hard work, Year Six have been enjoying the wide range of Christmas activities that CJS has had to offer. Below is a poem detailing some of the activities we have done.

Hundreds of presents bought at the Christmas shop;

When Year Three performed their Nativity we didn't want it to stop.

The pantomime had everyone dancing and singing;

At the Carol Service we could hear the sleigh bells ringing.

A challenge to draw a snowflake with the largest perimeter,

Had everyone silent, no sound of a whisper.

Presents have been gifted;

Spirits have been lifted;

At the Christmas Disco, everybody twisted!

And when the staff performed their Christmas dance,

They raised the roof along with a chorus of laughs.

Bellies are rumbling as we look forward to Christmas dinner;

Games are being played - who will be the winner?

6CC's Secret Santa - all gifts handmade from recycled goods. Merry Christmas!

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

How flexible are your feet?

Over the past two weeks, Year Six been investigating the flexibility of their feet.

Foot flexibility is a measurement of how much your feet change when you move and varies from person to person. It is controlled by lots of things, such as how old you are and what sports you play. Scientists at the University of Kent think what kind of ground you play on can also affect how flexible your foot is.

Working in small groups, the pupils came up with their own hypothesis as to why foot flexibility may differ in their class. Some ideas were: the type of sport people play; whether people walk to school or not and how many hours people spend sitting down.

Once the hypotheses had been decided, the pupils got to work on collecting the foot flexibility data by taking careful measurements and following a series of calculations.

A class list of foot flexibility was then produced on Excel and shared with the pupils on Google Drive. The hypotheses were added to the spreadsheet and the pupils input their answers to a series of questions to support the testing of hypotheses (for example, which sports they played and if they walked to school or not).

Each of the groups then used the information on the spreadsheet to collate their chosen data set and analyse the data by calculating averages.