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Welcome to Year 6 - Chestnut, Silver Birch & Spindle Classes

Teachers:

Miss Smith

Teacher: Silver Birch Class

I’m in my 11th year of teaching at Sandown and I love it. Before teaching, I worked for the DWP for many years and made lifelong friends but teaching has always been my passion…ever since I was young. I have lived in Hastings all my life but moved away to Brighton when I went to university for 4 years. In my own time, I enjoy keeping fit and healthy and regularly go to the gym. I’ve recently started kickboxing and I’m hooked! I love socialising with friends and family and heading out for dinner. I love love love painting nails…that’s my chill out hobby. I enjoy holidays in the sun and can’t wait to get away again.

Mrs Apps

Teacher: Spindle Class

• In my spare time I love to cook. Food gives me great joy. • I love having adventures with family and friends, especially ones that push me out of my comfort zone.• I have an irrational fear of cows. • I like to say fit by taking part in running and combat.

Miss Puttick

Teacher: Chestnut Class

TAs:

Mrs Robertson

TA:

Miss Felstead

TA:

Throughout the year, we will be going on exciting trips, parental engagement activities and visitors to our school. Here are a few of these exciting events:

Google Expeditions
Blacklands Farm residential trip
Brighton University visit and taster day
Bohemia Road Fire Station- Safety in Action
It’s your move- preparing for secondary school
SATs reward
Blacklands Farm Scrap Book Event
Maths Workshop
SpaG Workshop
SATs Workshop
Year 6 Production

Communication between home and school is crucial throughout your child’s time at school. You can do this easily by contacting us through Class Dojo.

Our door is always open!

Year 6 started the year with hard work and demonstrated the determined and diligent learners they were going to be when they completed a week of SATs. This was quickly followed by 3 days of fun, excitement and laughter with our residential to Blackland Farm. In the glorious sunshine, the children learnt to be expert canoers on the lake, scrambled through rocks and abseiled down towers! The children created forever memories with their friends and teachers as they stepped outside their comfort zone.

The residential was a great way to start proving our independence as we prepare for secondary school, therefore providing lots of us with opportunities to work towards earning our silver jumpers! Term 1 and 2 saw lots of children earning and wearing their silver jumpers with pride!

We kicked off Year 6 writing with a balanced argument about xenotransplantation. A boy named Cameron needed a heart transplant; but is it ethically plausible to have a pig’s heart in a human body? The children took part in a passionate debate as to whether xenotransplantation should be allowed. We extended our knowledge about the heart as we studied the Circulatory System in science. To investigate the heart, we carried out fair tests and comparative experiments surrounding different types of exercises to evaluate which has the greatest effect on heart rate.

In History, we discovered that during the Triangular Slave Trade, there were three passages and slaves endured a painful and excruciating journey to the West Indies and Americas along the Middle Passage.

We ended Term 2 with another round of SATs tests and were extremely proud of our progress and learning across the term. With lots of learning still to complete, Year 6 were looking forward to a new term of challenges to face and knowledge to gain.

Terms 3&4

We got a little chill down our spines in these two terms as we explored the Frozen Kingdoms and read Clockwork.

We researched all about the explorer, Shackleton and learnt about the historical topic: Titanic. Some of us even became broadcasters and newspaper writers, researching and writing our own article, reporting on this tragedy.

In art, we explored Inuit artists and their art. Each piece has an animal focus as these are an important part of Inuit culture. The bright colours in their prints and intricate carving inspired our work.

Throughout these terms, we became engineers! Not only did we get to construct and test out bridges, we also coded light and sound sequences using crumble kits.

What will term 5 have in store……….!!

Terms 5&6

At the beginning of this term, we tackled our SATs. We were very well prepared and actually enjoyed this experience!

We were all very excited for our driver topic: Britain at War! We learnt all about WW1 and WW2. Looking at causes, warring nations, weaponry and the impact on everyday life. There was a variety of primary sources for us to look at - even letters from soldiers writing to their families from the front line.

This term our music focus has been linked to our end of year production. We held auditions, which were amazing, and have been practicing our lines, lyrics and choreography, ready for our big performances!