What’s in a name?

In the New Year we are introducing a new BEST award – Chosen by You…  Pupils will get to nominate and vote for a pupil they think deserves a special class award.  In the Friday award assembly they will be presented by the class their award with a reason why they were the BEST.

 

But we have a problem…  We can’t think of a name for the award!  One teacher thought of BEST Value but it sounds a little like a supermarket own brand label!  So over the holiday have a think of a name for the certificate.  Post your idea on the Blog below and we will pick the best idea for our Class BEST Award.

 

Our Lowry Paintings!

Today we painted a Lowry painting of VE Day, we all hd to do a different part each. Take a look!

Our World War Two Projects!

Take a look at what we made for our homework!

Amazing artists in Year 6

Today we have been imitating the style of Lowry to recreate his painting VE Day. We carefully sketched a part of the painting first and then begun to paint using careful brush strokes.

Bread Experiment

Today we observed our bread experiments and answered some questions about what they looked like. We also talked about our predictions, that we made, to see if we were right or wrong. Our observations were very accurate and precise. By Zahra

Maths Revision – especially for Wiktoria!

Wiktoria wanted a way of doing some revision, so she is going to use the BBC Bitesize website.

Practising our mental skills

We will be playing some games to practise some mental skills today:

Negative numbers – ordering

Calculating change

Place value

Mental Addition

Calculation Balance – Multiplication and Division

Advent

We learnt about what advent is and how Christians celebrate. We also learnt about the advent wreath and what the candles symbolise.

French!

In French we have been learning to talk about what we did at the weekend. Today we played a speaking and listening game! We had to do the actions while speaking in French!

Multiplying and Dividing by 10 and 100

Have a go at this game for some practice:

http://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/31/multiply_and_divide_by_10_100_and_1000_2_

The Battle of Britain

This afternoon we researched the events of the Battle of Britain. Some of us then pretended to be pilots that were in the battle and were interviewed by children pretending to be interviewers.

Hamburger Paragraphs!

This morning we have been thinking a bout how to organise and expand our ideas in a paragraph. We used the idea of a hamburger paragraph to help us. Can you write a hamburger paragraph about how dogs were used during the war?

Bletchley Park

Find out a little more about Bletchley Park, which was where a lot of the messages created by Enigma were decoded during World War 2.

http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/visit/ 

Dogs at war

Today we learnt in literacy that dogs in world war were really clever and helped soldiers. Later in the week we will be writing a letter to tell people that dogs can be clever and can be used in wars.

By Atiyyah

Text Santa volunteering

On Friday, some year 6 children went to Morrisons to pack some bags. We encouraged the customers to donate to the Text Santa charity, in exchange for neatly packed bags of food and drink.

Blackout Projects!

We are looking forward to having finished Blackout projects in next week. Here is a good example of some pieces of work towards it – well done Bilal!

Anne Frank

This morning, we had a little look at the inside of Anne Frank’s house.

If you would like to look further, here is the link:

http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/ 

Analysing Persuasive Texts

Today we analysed persuasive texts to find the features we want to use in our letters.

We used notability on the ipads to do this.

Mandalas – some finished products!

Mandalas in progress!

We have been learning about Buddhists beliefs and today we looked Mandalas, a Buddhist art form. Circles are particularly important in Mandalas, so we used a compass to make accurate circles. We found this tricky but tried and BEST and produced some amazing patterns.