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

Teachers:

Mrs Apps

Teacher: Chestnut 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 Wickenden

Teacher: Silver Birch Class

My name is Miss Wickenden. I have been teaching for 12 years and currently I teach in Year 6. I have been lucky enough to live in lots of different parts of England. I completed my degree at Loughborough University and then my Postgraduate qualification at UEA in Norwich. Around 5 years ago, I moved to Hastings from Hackney, where I previously taught, because I wanted to live by the sea. I am a vegetarian and a ‘dog person’! I live with my rescue greyhound named Tulip. I love sunshine and, when possible, love to travel to warm sunny parts of the world. History is my favourite subject so, when I travel, I like to visit museums and places of historical interest such as the Parthenon in Athens and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

Miss Smith

Teacher: Spindle Class

I’m in my 9th 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 be able to get away again.

TAs:

Mrs Holewell

TA: Chestnut Class

Mrs Bateman

TA: Spindle Class

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!

In September we were lucky enough to be able to return to Blacklands Farm for our residential trip.

As part of our careers-related learning, we were visited by Her Honour Judge Sarah Venn who shared with us her personal journey to becoming a judge at 35 and some fantastic stories about hers days in court.

We were lucky enough to receive a visit from author Thomas Taylor during Storytelling Week. He shared with us how beachcombing in and around Hastings helped inspire his brilliant stories.

We have enjoyed lots of opportunities to be creative.

In D.T. we designed and made automatons (cam toys) after reading ‘Clockwork’ by Philip Pullman. What an exciting read that was! Below you will see some pictures of the products we created:

In Science we learnt about light and some of us used our knowledge to create a shadow puppet show of part of ‘Clockwork’.

After reading ‘Clockwork’, we had the opportunity to write our own scary stories. Some of them were spine-chilling!

In Geography, we followed our learning about volcanoes by learning about the causes and impacts of earthquakes.

In R.E. we learnt about the three types of Islamic art, had a go at using the different forms and then created our own piece of art work to reflect what is important to us.

In English, we have been reading ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ by Emma Carroll which is set in WW2. We have written postcards from two of the main characters, Cliff and Olive, and we have been trying to decipher the code Olive has found in the story:

We have also sung and played songs on the theme of WW2 in our music lessons:

In R.E., we learnt about the Christian concept of the Trinity and we designed some beautiful stained glass windows on this theme:

We had a fantastic morning visiting the Careers Café. Here we were lucky enough to meet a huge range of people who work in different jobs and industries, including a midwife, baker, paramedic, construction worker, pilot, firefighter, graphic designer, tree surgeon, chef, engineer, mechanic and hairdresser!

We were also visited by HSBC who taught us about digital banking and how we can save money:

We enjoyed some Science Week activities on this year’s theme of ‘Growth’. We created our own creatures out of plasticine that would be adapted to grow and thrive in conditions on Mars!

We completed our final set of practice SATs papers this term and we were very proud of our results. Lots of us have grown in motivation and independence this term. We now have 33 Silver Jumpers in Year 6!

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

Teachers:

Mrs Apps

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Miss Wickenden

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Miss Smith

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TAs:

Mrs Holewell

Mrs Bateman

Term 1

Term 2

Wow, what a busy term 2 Year 6 have had!

Term 3

Term 4

Term 5