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

What an exciting start to Year 6 we have had!

We have learnt lots across the Curriculum, including learning about Mexico in Geography, micro-organisms in Science, the Mayans in History, the 5 Pillars of Islam in R.E. and coding in Computing.

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.

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

We’ve covered everything from Mayans to Evolution and been spending more time together as a whole Year 6 cohort to develop and strengthen those new friendships further.

In Geography, we have loved learning all about volcanoes and in particular, the active volcano in Mexico: Popocatepetl. We’ve used our skills to sequence events, explain, conclude and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of living near one.

We were so excited to finally start learning about our significant artist for Year 6: Frida Kahlo. We’ve learnt about her and her life and started to understand the symbolism of her paintings. We finished our topic by creating our own symbolic piece of art using watercolour paints in the background.

We were so excited and sad to finally finish our class novel: The Explorer. We have all fallen in love with this story and have written some great instructions for catching tarantulas. Had in-depth book talk conversations about characters, their motives and the deeper meaning behind their actions. We’ve also written letters to supermarkets trying to persuade them to stop using JBS as a supplier by outlining the severe effects of deforestation (we’re still waiting for our replies!).

In addition to all our great learning in school, a lot of Year 6 have been working hard at home in their Silver Jumper books. We’ve been full of pride in rewarding several jumpers so far.

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

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Although this has been a short term, it has been a busy one!

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.

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It has been another busy term in Year 6.

This term, we have really enjoyed learning about WW2 and The Battle of Britain.

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!

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It has been our busiest term yet in Year 6.

This term, we had our SATs tests and all our teachers are extremely proud of how hard we worked. We all did our best and know we will have results to be proud of.

Well done year 6!

To celebrate our hard work and success, we went on a trip to Chessington. It may have rained and we may have had a long coach journey home, but we had a fabulous time!

In Science, we learned about the circulatory system. As part of our learning, we made ‘blood’, which was lots of fun. We also produced some beautiful double page non-chronological reports all about the circulatory system. We have all been fascinated by this topic!

As we are moving towards our last term in Primary School, many of us have earned our Silver Jumpers, showing we are ready for the transition to secondary school: how exciting!