Wow, what a week!
Year 6 you blew us away with your assembly. A huge thank you must go to all our talented children who pulled off what was an amazing performance last week. Another huge thank you has to go to our supportive parents. So many of you came to support your children and even joined in with the theme, dressing for the occasion. We hope you all enjoyed the fantastic finish to our topic as much as we did.
Many of the children have been really inspired by the work done on World War II and we hope that they will remember their first term in year 6 for many years to come.
We are currently evaluating what the children have learnt as well as what they have enjoyed. Some of their ideas will now feed into our topics for next term chosen, we might add, in response to their highly persuasive letters written earlier in the term. Across the two classes there was a 50/ 50 split in favour of both Harry Potter and Reach for the Moon, so we have decided to split our term into two topics.
We shall be starting with Harry Potter and finishing with Reach for the Moon.
Friday saw our trip down to Grove Junior School where the children were entertained by the Onatti Theatre Company and the play ‘Shipwrecked en France’
Two talented young actors told us a convoluted tale of young boy’s adventures when he became shipwrecked while on holiday in France. A mixture of French and English ensured that everyone could understand the play and the children were totally enthralled as they barely moved for 50 minutes!
As this term draws to a close work continues apace with the children rehearsing their next performances, this time of the gymnastic variety, ready for Friday’s performance to the rest of the school- sorry, no room for parents on this occasion.
This will be swiftly followed in the last week of term by our Christmas Celebration when some of our Year 6 children will be telling the story of the Nativity.
Thursday 15th December, as well as being the day of our annual Christmas dinner, is also the date for the year 6 Christmas party so remember to ring your party finery for the afternoon’s activities.
We’ll finish with a tantalising taste of 2012 when you should be prepared to be whisked into the magical world of Hogwarts at Crabtree upon your return in the New Year.
Wishing you a very happy Christmas and all the best for the New Year
The Year 6 Team.
P.S. Don’t forget to check the learning platform for your holiday homework.
Monday, 5 December 2011
Monday, 28 November 2011
Homework, reminders and update!
Hello everyone,
It is finally starting to feel like November with the freezing temperatures hitting our windscreens this morning! Won't feel odd buying a Christmas tree in the next couple of weeks!
Until then, Year 6 still has lots to get through, enjoy and achieve! Don't forget that this Thursday is our Year Group assembly. If you can, it would be lovely if you could join the rest of the Year in a short VE Day party which will take place in the classrooms after assembly. This will last 20-30 mins, enough time for you to have a look at what the children have been up to for the last term, eat some War time cakes and enjoy WW2 music? The children will be dressed up, so if you can, come along dressed up too!
In the last couple of weeks, the children have been working very hard as usual, particularly in literacy where they are been writing powerful poems on th Blitz as well as reading and drafting newspaper reports on the events of the WW2 period.They will be cooking in the next few days, producing some cakes using authentic WW2 recipes...
Below are the spellings for this week. Your homework is to use the following words in sentences (one sentence for each word), or to write a sensible but imaginative paragraph including the words. Don't forget the use of VCOP! Try and stretch yourself by using higher level vocabulary and accurate speech punctuation!
mansion
decision
impression
admission
television
conclusion
revision
expression
decision
progression
explosion
persuasion
invasion
discussion
division
exclusion
Elm - please carry out the work in your spelling books.
Another kind reminder regarding pencil cases: lots of children have been asking for pens and pencils. Could you please ensure your child has a replenished pencil case as we have limited resources.
Thank you and see you on Thursday,
The Year 6 team
It is finally starting to feel like November with the freezing temperatures hitting our windscreens this morning! Won't feel odd buying a Christmas tree in the next couple of weeks!
Until then, Year 6 still has lots to get through, enjoy and achieve! Don't forget that this Thursday is our Year Group assembly. If you can, it would be lovely if you could join the rest of the Year in a short VE Day party which will take place in the classrooms after assembly. This will last 20-30 mins, enough time for you to have a look at what the children have been up to for the last term, eat some War time cakes and enjoy WW2 music? The children will be dressed up, so if you can, come along dressed up too!
In the last couple of weeks, the children have been working very hard as usual, particularly in literacy where they are been writing powerful poems on th Blitz as well as reading and drafting newspaper reports on the events of the WW2 period.They will be cooking in the next few days, producing some cakes using authentic WW2 recipes...
Below are the spellings for this week. Your homework is to use the following words in sentences (one sentence for each word), or to write a sensible but imaginative paragraph including the words. Don't forget the use of VCOP! Try and stretch yourself by using higher level vocabulary and accurate speech punctuation!
mansion
decision
impression
admission
television
conclusion
revision
expression
decision
progression
explosion
persuasion
invasion
discussion
division
exclusion
Elm - please carry out the work in your spelling books.
Another kind reminder regarding pencil cases: lots of children have been asking for pens and pencils. Could you please ensure your child has a replenished pencil case as we have limited resources.
Thank you and see you on Thursday,
The Year 6 team
Friday, 18 November 2011
Maths Homework for Monday
Apologies to both children and parents. This is a message for Elm children. Your Maths homework is on Sam Learning. The children who can not access Sam learning at home have been given paper copies.
Many thanks and have a great weekend.
Miss Renier
Many thanks and have a great weekend.
Miss Renier
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Our forthcoming Assembly!
We are approaching the end of our topic and with that the children’s penultimate assembly at Crabtree Junior School.
They have all been working really hard this week with a literacy focus on personification- they have done some amazing descriptive work which will be on display in our classrooms.
We wanted to let you know what the format of our assembly will be. Once the assembly is finished we would like to invite all the parents back to the classrooms with the children where we will have a mini VE Day Party. There will be some war time recipes to sample that the children will be cooking in our school kitchen that week, 1940’s music and you will have the opportunity to look at the children’s topic books and displays around the rooms.
Any war time food contributions to add to the ones that the children will be making will be very welcome.
Feel free to come dressed in 1940’s style and really get into the mood of our celebration.
As we begin to rehearse our assembly, the children will be considering the outfits that they need to wear, many of them will be asking to resurrect their outfits from our evacuation to Hendon.
In our science work we have come to the end of our topic on forces and we will shortly be looking to begin our work on electricity. Lets hope that by Christmas the children will be capable of lighting up the festive season by constructing their own circuits!
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our assembly on Thursday 1st December.
Enjoy your weekend.
The Year 6 Team
They have all been working really hard this week with a literacy focus on personification- they have done some amazing descriptive work which will be on display in our classrooms.
We wanted to let you know what the format of our assembly will be. Once the assembly is finished we would like to invite all the parents back to the classrooms with the children where we will have a mini VE Day Party. There will be some war time recipes to sample that the children will be cooking in our school kitchen that week, 1940’s music and you will have the opportunity to look at the children’s topic books and displays around the rooms.
Any war time food contributions to add to the ones that the children will be making will be very welcome.
Feel free to come dressed in 1940’s style and really get into the mood of our celebration.
As we begin to rehearse our assembly, the children will be considering the outfits that they need to wear, many of them will be asking to resurrect their outfits from our evacuation to Hendon.
In our science work we have come to the end of our topic on forces and we will shortly be looking to begin our work on electricity. Lets hope that by Christmas the children will be capable of lighting up the festive season by constructing their own circuits!
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our assembly on Thursday 1st December.
Enjoy your weekend.
The Year 6 Team
Monday, 14 November 2011
Homework due in on 16th November
Your homework tonight:
On Thursday you will be writing a poem in Big Writing.
It will be about the idea of the Blitz and the bombing of Britain. Take the idea of fire and the devastation and make a collection of ideas that you could include in your poem. Think particularly about ideas for personification.
e.g. The fire devoured everything in its path.
The flames roared upwards pointing skywards with flickering fingers.
Create a mind map, a spidergram a list of ideas or any plan that helps you!
Use your senses to help you with your ideas.
We will update you with some real Year 6 news later in the week.
The Year 6 Team.
On Thursday you will be writing a poem in Big Writing.
It will be about the idea of the Blitz and the bombing of Britain. Take the idea of fire and the devastation and make a collection of ideas that you could include in your poem. Think particularly about ideas for personification.
e.g. The fire devoured everything in its path.
The flames roared upwards pointing skywards with flickering fingers.
Create a mind map, a spidergram a list of ideas or any plan that helps you!
Use your senses to help you with your ideas.
We will update you with some real Year 6 news later in the week.
The Year 6 Team.
Monday, 7 November 2011
Homework due in on 9th November
This week’s homework for literacy is to decide upon a topic that you can write your speech about later in the week. You need to chat with an adult to help you consider your ideas and whether you have enough arguments or points to put forward for your speech. Make sure the topic you choose is appropriate or you will be asked to change it on Wednesday.
In your home work book you need to record the topic you have chosen and 4 or 5 bullet points of ideas that you can develop further in school when you do your plan on Wednesday- we are NOT asking you to plan your speech at home.
You could add some persuasive phrases or really emotive words or maybe come up with a rhetorical question.
We look forward to some emotive and persuasive topics.
The Year 6 Team
In your home work book you need to record the topic you have chosen and 4 or 5 bullet points of ideas that you can develop further in school when you do your plan on Wednesday- we are NOT asking you to plan your speech at home.
You could add some persuasive phrases or really emotive words or maybe come up with a rhetorical question.
We look forward to some emotive and persuasive topics.
The Year 6 Team
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Autumn has definitely started...
Welcome back to the second half of our autumn term. We hope that you all spent a restful holiday and are full of energy and enthusiasm for the challenges we have planned to take us up to Christmas.
During this half term we will be completing our topic on World War II with a fantastic finish in the form of our year group assembly to be held on Thursday 1st December. We hope to follow our assembly up with a victory tea party including ration time snacks. It would be great if you could resurrect your 40’s costumes for this event. Parents too, feel free to dress in 1940’s style to come to our assembly!
On to a more important point; today’s homework.
As you are aware we have had some recent problems with accessing the Sam Learning site so whilst these issues are being resolved we have set you a science activity on the BBC Bitesize website which has recently been updated.
Our recent assessments indicated that this science area is a weak one. As we do not cover this topic during year 6 we want to encourage the children to revise it in as many different ways as possible.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things/
If you use the above link and then go into the ‘Plant’ section to experiment with growing conditions and the plant life cycle section to explore how plants grow and reproduce.
Once you have completed the activities then go to the quiz. Complete and check your answers and then please print out the quiz sheets to bring into school as the evidence that you have completed your homework. This homework is due in on Friday.
Have fun!
PS As promised, here are some photos of the children making their Anderson shelters...
During this half term we will be completing our topic on World War II with a fantastic finish in the form of our year group assembly to be held on Thursday 1st December. We hope to follow our assembly up with a victory tea party including ration time snacks. It would be great if you could resurrect your 40’s costumes for this event. Parents too, feel free to dress in 1940’s style to come to our assembly!
On to a more important point; today’s homework.
As you are aware we have had some recent problems with accessing the Sam Learning site so whilst these issues are being resolved we have set you a science activity on the BBC Bitesize website which has recently been updated.
Our recent assessments indicated that this science area is a weak one. As we do not cover this topic during year 6 we want to encourage the children to revise it in as many different ways as possible.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things/
If you use the above link and then go into the ‘Plant’ section to experiment with growing conditions and the plant life cycle section to explore how plants grow and reproduce.
Once you have completed the activities then go to the quiz. Complete and check your answers and then please print out the quiz sheets to bring into school as the evidence that you have completed your homework. This homework is due in on Friday.
Have fun!
PS As promised, here are some photos of the children making their Anderson shelters...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)