What a day!

Beautiful weather and well behaved children have made today another fantastic day.  We visited the Model Village, followed by Amazon World and enjoyed an evening of ten pin bowling - what a great way to celebrate a birthday!

A very busy day on the Isle of Wight!

Another fantastic day with a trip to Osborne House to find out about Queen Victoria's family life. Rounded off with a sandcastle building competition! Lots of fun had by all.

Our first hello from the Isle of Wight...

We have arrived safely on the Isle of Wight and have enjoyed our first activity: Pirate Cove Crazy Golf. It's a bit rainy but all having a wonderful time.  Check out some of our favourite shots of the day...

Eisteddfod, Music and More...

What a wonderful week it has been watching some fantastic Eisteddfod performances by pupils across the school. It's so lovely to have the opportunity to see what the children get up to outside of the classroom. We have some very talented performers in year 6!


Aside from Eistedffod, the children have been working very hard in English, editing and improving their work and showing off all the skills they have learnt this year. We are very proud of the effort they have put in and what they have achieved.


If you want to further support your child at home, we would like them to learn the words to the following songs they will be singing in the music concert:

Bilbo’s Riddle

 

All that is gold does not glitter

Not all those who wander are lost

The old that is strong does not wither

Deep roots are not reached by the frost

From the ashes a fire shall be woken

A light from the shadows shall spring

Renewed shall be blade that has broken

The crownless again shall be king.

El cumbanchero

 

A cumba, cumba, cumba, cumbanchero,

A bongo, bongo, bongo, bongo sero.

When in Cuba you can do the cumbanchero, bongo sero

que seva

Bongo sero que seva

 

Hear all Havana bongos drum,

Bum bum ba.

See all Havana guitars strum,

Tum tum ta.

 

 

A cumba, cumba, cumba, cumbanchero,

A bongo, bongo, bongo, bongo sero.

When in Cuba you can do the cumbanchero, bongo sero

que seva

Bongo sero que seva

Cumba!

Riddles in the dark

 

What has roots as nobody sees?

Is taller than trees

Up, up it goes

And yet never returns?

 

Voiceless it cries

Wingless it flutters

Toothless bites

Mouthless mutters

 

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt

Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt

It lies behind stars and under hills

And empty holes it fills

It comes out first and follows after

Ends life, kills laughter.

 

Alive without breath

As cold as death

Never thirsty, ever drinking

All in mail, never clinking.

 

This thing all things devours

Birds, beasts, trees, flowers

Gnaws iron, bites steel

Grinds hard stones to meal

Slays king, ruins town

And beats mountain down.

 

We are the Young

 

We are the young, the children of the world

We hold tomorrow in our hands

We are the young, the promise of a brighter day

The future waits at our command.

 

Teach us well; teach us how to care,

Give us love, love that we can share

And we’ll walk hand in hand in the light of the rising sun

We are the young.

 

We are the young, and so we look to you

To show us how the world should be

We are the young: we trust in your experience

To help us shape our destiny.

 

 Teach us well; teach us how to care,

Give us love, love that we can share

And we’ll walk hand in hand in the light of the rising sun

We are the young.

 

That day is dawning when we will be grown

We will inherit this world for our own

 

We are the young, the children of the world

We hold tomorrow in our hands

We are the young, the promise of a brighter day

The future waits at our command.

 

Teach us well; teach us how to care,

Give us love, love that we can share

And we’ll walk hand in hand in the light of the rising sun

We are the young.

We are the young

We are the young.

 

We hope you have a wonderfully restful half term break and look forward to seeing the children bright and bubbly on Monday to depart for the Isle of Wight.

The year 6 team

You can do it year 6!

It’s hard to believe we are now well over half way through the year and year 6 will be doing their SATS tests next week- how time flies!

As we are sure your children will tell you, the last few weeks have been very busy with lots of revision in maths and English. We are really proud of all the children and the effort they have put in, especially the way they conducted themselves in school on Thursday. We have no doubt they are more than ready to go!

Apart from revision, we have nearly completed our Ancient Greek topic and the children are looking forward to making their Greek theatre masks in DT next week. In Science, the children have also been enjoying our new topic: Evolution and Adaptation.

No homework has been set this weekend to enable the children to rest and relax, ready for an enthusiastic start on Monday. The timetable for the week is as follows:

Monday: Reading Comprehension

Tuesday: SPAG

Wednesday: Arithmetic and Reasoning 1

Thursday: Reasoning 2

We hope you all have a lovely weekend; the children really deserve it. Pupils of Elm and Elder, we are so proud of all you have achieved so far this year!

The year 6 team