Year 6 Newsletter

 Another busy and productive fortnight in year 6 - the children have continued to work hard, with their trademark enthusiasm and positivity. 

In our English lessons, we have donned our lawyer caps, and constructed balanced arguments on the most controversial of tales...Jack and the Beanstalk. We reviewed case files (including video evidence!) and wrote very thoughtful pieces examining whether Jack was the hero we know and love or whether he was, indeed, a villainous criminal. The children have been very impressive lawyers, and wrote clear, compelling and non-biased accounts....only revealing their true opinions right at the very end!

Science lessons have been fascinating, as we have immersed ourselves in the Classification system. We are now proficient at classifying everything from marsupials to mammals...fish to reptiles. We were all bemused to learn about the duck-billed platypus - who would have thought this species could try and creep into so many parts of classification?!

DT has seen the successful completion of our Ancient Greek sculptures - we are all very pleased with how successful they are. With everything from pankration to discus throwing, the children took great care not only with the skills in the process - but also with the history behind these pieces of art. We have a new generation of classical art experts!

Our Religion and World View lessons have been interesting - and full of lively debate - as we discussed the impact of Christianity worldwide. These lessons are rich learning experiences, with all class members sharing thoughts, theology - and their own religious viewpoints.

We are all very excited about Ancient Greek Day next week - stay tuned for a gallery of gods, monsters, Spartans, and Athenians!

Year 6 Newsletter

What an egg-stra-ordinary start to the new term in Year 6!  Inspired by a dragon's egg that was sited on our own school field, we have been honing our reporter skills in English to produce newspaper reports on this egg-u-cational event. It has also been a great opportunity to learn about reported speech and passive voice. Watch out for some pun-tastic articles that will be coming your way! 

In Science, we have been absolutely fascinated to learn about Charles Darwin and the concept of Evolution.  We have been bursting with many questions whilst reading 'On The Origin of Species' by Sabina Radeva, though not all of use approve of the idea of 'Survival of the Fittest' which seems slightly counter intuitive to our desire for equality! Our minds were blown further to think of the ground acting as a time capsule for fossils, capturing the evolution of life since the beginning of life on Earth!

In maths, we have been collecting and analysing data, learning how to calculate averages in the form of 'mean'.  Did you know that the mean shoe size in Year 6 is 4.8?  In reading, we have been diving deep into our dystopian novel, "Boy in the Tower' by Polly Ho Yen.  There are some fascinating parallels with the current pandemic which has helped us to empathise with characters and to spark our interest in reading on. 

We have also found time to get stuck into this term's topic, Ancient Greece.  As well as learning about the location and chronogy of Ancient Greece, we have started on a DT project linked to Ancient Greece in the form of creating sculptures inspired by the Ancient Greek Olympics, as depicted on pottery at the time. In our first lesson, we used mannequins to understand the proportions of the human form and explored various poses that we might wish to use for our models.  Make sure you dip into the blog to see our progress over the coming weeks!