Monday, 14 November 2022

Autumn in Year Six so far

 Wow! What a busy term so far in Year Six! The children have achieved so much already and they are enjoying their learning. 

Below are some pictures illustrating what we've been up to.


We have made blood soup as part of our science unit of work. The children learnt what the four components of blood were and used food items to represent each component, making their blood soup!




The children, after being inspired by their Legoland trip, made their own Lego fairground rides. They incorporated motors into their models and coded it to provide a desired motion - great fun! 



As part of their history unit 'The Ancient Maya', the children have engaged in a range of activities to learn all about the ancient civilisation. This includes writing Maya numbers on the playground in chalk and creating a timeline of events through the ancient Maya's history. 


On top of this, children have been mastering the four operations of calculation in maths. We have loved seeing the fortnightly arithmetic test scores go up and up each week! We are soon going to be conquering Year Six fractions! 

In English, the children have been enthused with the learning. We have written morality tales and read them to Year Three children, written newspaper reports about stolen Maya masks in the school (naughty Mrs Hamilton-Peck!) and they are currently writing discussion texts about whether graffiti is art or vandalism. 

The children should be very proud of themselves! 






Tuesday, 1 November 2022

Morality Tales

Last month, the children in Year Six had the opportunity to read their recently written morality tales to a Year Three child. They were so excited, and it was lovely to see the Year Six students proud of their final drafts. Well done to the Year Three children for their listening skills!


Monday, 20 June 2022

The Eye - by Bella W and Harriet A

 Recently, we provided some of our pupils the below image as a prompt for their writing.


Here is what Bella W and Harriet wrote in response to the prompt:

Harriet:

Bella:

Monday, 13 June 2022

The Day I Woke and Found Myself Invisible - by Harry C

 Recently, we provided some of our pupils the below image as a prompt for their writing.


Here is what Harry C wrote in response to the prompt:


Wednesday, 20 April 2022

Visit Canada

As the conclusion to our Canada study, we wrote persuasive leaflets advertising Canada as a tourist destination. Some examples of our work can be found below. 












Friday, 1 April 2022

Monica Gewurz - Canadian Landscape Art

As part of our Canada study, we've created some mixed media landscape art. Our inspiration came from looking at the artwork of Monica Gewurz. Some examples can be found below:















Saturday, 12 February 2022

Book Week 2022 and Horror Stories

Our Book Week 2022 focused on Horror Stories. Below are some extracts from the stories we wrote and examples of the accompanying artwork created. 

The extracts below are from the stories written by Laycie, Zeren and Harriet.




Additionally, below are the Horror Story book covers painted by Isaac, Sahvana, Laycie & Bella W. 





Thursday, 10 February 2022

The Evolutionary Biology of the Peppered Moth

As part of our work in science, we have been learning about 'evolutionary biology'. An example of this can be found in the peppered moth. Below is Bella W's explanation of what she learned during our lessons. 



Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Curling Comes to Crosshall

Our geography learning this term is focused on the North American country of Canada. We have so far learned about its location, territories/provinces, major cities and the location of the largest lakes and mountain ranges. 

As part of learning about 'everyday life and culture', we learned about some popular Canadian sports. In the past week, all four Year Six classes have had a go at playing a version of curling in the school hall. Our thanks to Hunts School Sports Partnership for the loan of the equipment.