The pace of work and success in year 6 continues unabated.

In our topic work we have been looking at the start of World War II and how it began to impact on the daily lives of the people of Britain.
Our art work has been linked in with our topic and the corridor outside the office area has become a gallery for the work of some very talented artists- scenes after the Blitz at sunset being the theme.

In our literacy work we are coming to the end of our unit on biographies and the children should be using their homework time this week to research questions brought home from school about someone either in their family, or who they know, or using the internet some famous name who was alive during World War II.

This information will then be planned into the form of a biography and written up in school during big writing time. Children should ensure that all the necessary information is in school for Thursday morning.

Wednesday of this week sees our annual day of Modern Foreign Languages. This year each class is looking at a particular region of France. In year 6 we are studying Normandy as a whole region and linking it again to our World war II topic and the D Day Landings.

This weekend sees Mrs Doran's preliminary visit to Marchants Hill, the PGL site that we are looking into in Surrey. Once we know more, a letter regarding the year 6 trip will be sent out.

Next week we begin a new literacy unit on fiction, the childre will need to write a book review during the first week. In order for this to be successful we will be asking the children to decide upon a recently read book and discuss it with an adult at home.

Thank you for your continued support.

The Year 6 Team

French Homework for the weekend. Due in on Monday ready for French on Tuesday:

Your homework this weekend is to create a cover for your French book using the computer.

You can either print this out at home or save it to the learning platform and then print it out in school.

There are some words that you must include in your cover and they appear below.

You will need to search, using Google or such, Second World War posters in French, type in

2ème Guerre Mondiale Posters en francais- some examples are on the sheet you were given in school.

In order to get the letters with the accents you need to insert symbol and select appropriately.

Make sure that you save your cover, either at home or to the learning platform so that if you need a new book you will be able to print out a new cover.

Wording for your front cover should include

CM1 et CM2

2012- 2013

Cours Moyen Deuxième Année

Madame Baikie

Then add your name and any relevant picture from the above web site.

Hello to everyone

What a fantastic start to the new school year culminating last week in a really great day out at Hendon. Many thanks to you all for dressing up and taking the time to make our evacuation day such a success. We look forward this week to beginning our World War II topic in the classroom.

This week sees the start of the real routine in year 6. Children have already brought home their first written literacy homework of the year, due in on Wednesday. Whilst homework will be set on Monday, due on Wednesday, set on Wednesday, due on Friday and set on Friday, due on Monday the specific nights for each of the subjects will vary to begin with.

Spellings will be set on a Friday to be learnt and tested the following Friday.

As the majority of homework will be done on paper it is important that the children make sure that the folders they have been given for transporting their homework back and forth to school are used in order to keep things neat and tidy. The folders are expensive and if lost it will be down to the children to replace with a similar one. Please ensure that your children fully understand this.

We look forward to meeting many of you on Friday afternoon at the year 6 Meet The Teacher.
At this meeting we will be giving out the termly topic webs and explaining our expectations for the term and year ahead.
Please sign your class list upon arrival as this will allow us to e mail topic webs to those people unable to attend.

The Year 6 Team

Welcome to Year 6

Dear Parents and Year 6 children,

First and foremost, we would like to welcome you in Year 6. Your first few days back are going to be jam packed! We will be starting our curriculum straight away and celebrate our first topic’s Big Bang with our visit to Hendon. Don’t forget that we will be leaving around 9am on Friday and coming back around 4 – 4.30 pm. Any traffic delays should be communicated to you by text on the day. And please don’t forget a packed lunch. You will have the opportunity to visit the shop at Hendon and may bring a maximum of £5.00 in a named purse or wallet. Hopefully, you’ve started gathering your evacuee's costume! J

We would also like to kindly remind all children that their first piece of homework set last term is due on Wednesday. We’ve already been told that some of you have been doing lots of research and interviewing over the summer! We can’t wait to see the end result.

Below is Year 6’s first piece of homework. Although we will have a “Meet the Teacher” meeting on Friday 15^th, when aspects of academic life in Year 6 will be explained in details, please note that homework in the 1^st couple of weeks may not strictly follow the usual Year 6 time table.

Year 6’s first homework due on Tuesday 11^th September:

As part of our Literacy work, in the next two week you will be writing your ‘autobiography’. We want you to gather together items that are significant in describing your life so far e.g. first blanket, photographs of you walking for the first time, medals (achievements), something you have collected that is important to you, things from when you were a baby etc.

Use a shoe box to put these items in.

You will need your box in school next week on Tuesday 11^th September.

In preparation for writing your autobiography, you will be asked to describe your collection to others. Your items (a maximum of 8) MUST be carefully chosen and help you make a helpful time line of your life. Again, the reason why you are given an extended period of time to complete this is because you are required to take a lot of time over selecting these objects. You will need to use them in order to plan your auto-biography.

Thank you and look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday,

The Year 6 team

THANK YOU

A very big thank you from Mrs Doran and Miss Renier for our very generous gifts received during the course of this final week of term.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish the children all the very best for their summer holidays and for their new schools.

As teachers, we have had a great year and looking back there are many precious memories which we hope the children will take away with them.

It is a time to say thank you and we want to thank you, the parents, for all the support you have given us and your children during the year as well as the school as a whole throughout the time your children have been at Crabtree. For many of you it is the end of an era as the last of your children move on to pastures new.

Children, please come back and visit us occasionally; we do like to hear what you are up to and see how much you have grown!

Have a great summer, let's hope the rain gives us a miss for a few weeks.

Thank you again from the Year 6 Team.

The end approaches...

Again another very busy week has come to an end with many of the children taking and passing both levels of their cycling proficiency during the week. This was especially difficult this year as the course had to be reduced into 4 days due to the secondary transfer day on Thursday. Well done to all who took part despite the weather that did its best on some days to rain you off!

Speaking to the children today we are convinced, as if we weren't before, of how much they enjoyed their transfer day and are eagerly awaiting that move on to pastures new. However they have one last week as primary school children and as usual in year 6 the week ahead is another busy one. So a few reminders to both parents and children:

Please make sure your costumes for the concert are all in school ready for our dress rehearsal on Monday.
Also, please can the children bring a spare carrier bag into school so we can continue with the clearing up of trays and work from around the classrooms.

For parents, your attendance at our Leavers Concert on the evening of Tuesday 17th July would be much appreciated. We kick off with an auction of your children's art work- those fantastic canvasses they created in groups as part of their Harry Potter work are up for grabs- bring your bidding hand and cheque book!
The concert will follow the auction.

On Wednesday we depart for London, children should have brought home a letter with final details today.
After an early lunch we leave school at 12:00p.m. in order to arrive in plenty of time for the matinee at 2:30p.m. Children will need a bottle of water to take with them. Traffic being what it is in London we aim to be back at school by 7:00p.m. but if there are any major changes to this you will receive a text.

On Thursday, we would hate to let up on our aim to keep our children busy up until the end so we have planned a Smarties Investigation Day. Something we hope all the children will look forward to.

Friday will be an easy day when non electrical games may be brought into school. If children would like to get a shirt signed as a memento of their time at Crabtree please make sure they are wearing one shirt and bring an alternative one for signing.

We look forward to an exciting and busy final week of term.

The Year 6 Team.

Dear Year 6 children,

Below you will find all the lyrics to the songs you will be singing in your leavers' concert. Could you please make sure you learn the words (although you know most of them well already) by Friday. Could you also make sure you bring your costume by Friday as we will have a dress rehearsal in groups then.

The Year 6 Leavers’ Musical…

We believe you can fly:

Rebecca: I used to think that I could not belong

Jovian: Year 3 was nothing but a scary song
Rebecca: But I should learn to accept that maybe
Jovian: There is a great life for me at Crabtree

Rebecca: If I can see it then I can do it

Jovian: If I believe it, there's nothing to it

Whole year

We believe You can fly

We believe You can touch the sky
Think about it every night and day
Spread your wings and fly away
We believe you can soar
We  see you running through that open door
WE believe you can fly, we believe you can fly
we believe you can fly

Rebbeca: You guys are right life could be so much worse!

Imagine, in my sister’s class, I’d burst!
Jovian: Plus now I get to have brilliant PE lessons
I really can’t wait to start Year 3 at Crabtree!

Rebecca: If I can see it then I can do it

Jovian: If I believe it, there's nothing to it

 Whole year

We believe you can fly

We believe you can touch the sky
we think about it every night and day
Spread you wings and fly away
We believe you can soar
We  see you running through that open door
WE believe you can fly, we believe you can fly
we believe we can fly

Another Year bites the dust:

Macy: We both walked down the corridor
Hugh: The last day of Year 4

Macy:  Ain't no way of describing this
Hugh: All we do is grow

Lauren: Were you ready,
Lauren: Were you ready for this?
Elliot: Were you hanging on the edge of your seat?
Did you realise that  this year would go
As fast as the sound of this beat?

Whole Year group:

Another year bites the dust
Another year bites the dust
And another year gone, and another year gone
Another year bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another year bites the dust

Macy:

First it was the very big clothes  the veryvery big playground
Very big scary year 6s,  gigantic Mr Pattrick

Hugh:

Do you remember how tiddly I was

And how mighty I’ve become
That’s right Year 4 is over
And Year 5 has begun!

Whole Year Group:

Another year bites the dust
Another year bites the dust
And another year gone, and another year gone
Another year bites the dust
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another year bites the dust

Don’t stop me now:

This year I’ve really enjoyed myself as a Year 5

I feel alive…
And the year has nearly burnt itself out
I’ve still got all that youthful energy
So don’t stop me now don’t stop me
cause I’m having a good time, having a good time

I’m a shooting star leaping through the sky

And absorbing every fact and every happening
I’m a racing car passing by like thunder and lightning
Watch it, watch it Year Six
There’s no stopping me

I’m burning through the sky, see!

With hundreds of days
Of more learning opportunities
I’m travelling at the speed of light
School really makes a supersonic kid out of you

Don’t stop me now I’m having such a good time

I’m having a ball don’t stop me now
If you wanna have a good time, like me, just stay on
Don’t stop me now
Don’t stop me now
I don’t want to stop at all

I’m a rocket ship with left-over fuel

I’m raring to go, so let’s get Ready Steady Go
Are we ready for those dreaded SATs, oh yeah!
I’m going, going, going, going to explode!

I’m burning through the sky, see!

With hundreds of days
Of more learning opportunities
I’m traveling at the speed of light
School really makes a supersonic kid out of you!

Don’t stop me don’t stop me

Don’t stop me hey hey !
Don’t stop me don’t stop me ooh ooh ooh (I like it)
Don’t stop me don’t stop me
Have a good time good time
Don’t stop me don’t stop me ah

Fade in….

Moves like Miss T

Just aim for the stars

That’s what you say
And you won our hearts
So we’ll obey

Year after year

Day after day
We’ve caught your fair play

You gave us control

And inspired us
You put on a show

And surprised us

Of what we could do
Always something new
We are your crew
And it goes like this

[Chorus:]

Miss Thomas
We want to thank you
Miss Thomas
We want to thank you

We can move like Miss T

We can run like Miss T
We can jump like Miss T and We love sports like Miss T

Miss Thomas

We want to thank you
Miss Thomas
We want to thank you

We can move like Miss T

We can run like Miss T
We can jump like Miss T and We love sports like Miss T

[Verse 2:]

We’re caught off guard

When we feel like we’re working too  hard
Nothing feels right
When we’ve got PE
I'll make us agree
That we've got the key

You gave us control
And inspired us
You put on a show
And surprised us

Of what we could do

Always something new
We are your crew
And it goes like this (Uh)

[Chorus:]

Miss Thomas
We want to thank you
Miss Thomas
We want to thank you

We can move like Miss T

We can run like Miss T
We can jump like Miss T and We love sports like Miss T

Miss Thomas

We want to thank you
Miss Thomas
We want to thank you

We can move like Miss T

We can run like Miss T
We can jump like Miss T and We love sports like Miss T

[Bridge:]

You always know how to make us smile
You always teach us with a great style
And you include us all
So we always give our all
Everybody can see this

So we watch and learn

You dont show us twice
Head to toe, we do it right
And if you share your secret
You're gonna have to keep it
Nobody else can see this (Ay! Ay! Ay! Aaay!)

 And it goes like this

[Chorus:]

Miss Thomas

We want to thank you
Miss Thomas
We want to thank you

We can move like Miss T

We can run like Miss T
We can jump like Miss T and We love sports like Miss T

Miss Thomas

We want to thank you
Miss Thomas
We want to thank you

We can move like Miss T

We can run like Miss T
We can jump like Miss T and We love sports like Miss T

Tiny Tiddlers:

We used to be tiny tiddlers in the Nursery

Little tiny, tender tiddlers, only three
“I was very hard to spot”
“I was such a tiny tot!
Tiddlers in the Nursery, that’s what we used to be!

We used to be tiny tiddlers in the Nursery

Little tiny, tender tiddlers, only three
“Little tables, little chair”
“Little puddles every where….
Tiddlers in the Nursery, that’s what we used to be!
 
We used to be tiny tiddlers in the Nursery
Little tiny, tender tiddlers, only three
“Couldn’t read and couldn’t write”
“Couldn’t do our laces tight”
Tiddlers in the Nursery, that’s what we used to be!

We used to be tiny tiddlers in the Nursery

Little tiny, tender tiddlers, only three
“Couldn’t swim, and couldn’t sing”
“Couldn’t do most anything”
Tiddlers in the Nursery, that’s what we used to be!

We used to be tiny tiddlers in the Nursery

Little tiny, tender tiddlers, only three
“Didn’t know my two times two”
“Had to use a little loo”
Tiddlers in the Nursery, that’s what we used to be!

No longer are we tiddlers in the Nursery!

Seven years later, oh how cool it is to be, at the
Top of the school and nearly eleven
Soon we’re gonna be in Year Seven
And little tiddlers once again is what we’re going to be!!!