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Welcome to Year 6 - Chestnut & Silver Birch 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 Smith

Teacher: Silver Birch Class

I’m in my 10th 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.

TAs:

Mrs Holewell

TA:

Mrs Robertson

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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!

Terms 1&2

Kicking off Year 6, was our two-night residential to Blackland Farm. Here, we all got to know each other, create memories, overcome fears and most importantly, had lots of laughs together.

Over the first two terms, Year 6 looked at a brand new history topic, ‘Maafa’. We learnt all about the African Transatlantic Slave Trade and were able to read primary, first-hand accounts, of what it was like during this time.

In Science, we thoroughly enjoyed learning all about our bodies: paying particular attention to the circulatory system. In fact, we even made blood - which is made up of four different parts!

We also loved reading our first Year 6 class novel: The Explorer. We could all relate little parts of ourselves to the four characters in the story.

Let’s hope term 3 brings a flurry of more!

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: Porridge! We held auditions, which were amazing, and have been practicing our lines, lyrics and choreography, ready for our big performances!