Year 6: Class 14 and Class 15

  • Mr Simon Beatty
Mrs. Lisa Base
WELCOME TO YEAR 6
Year 6 is a year full of exciting challenges and we are sure that our children will embrace these opportunities and benefit from the responsibilities that Year 6 offers.
 
Important Year 6 dates
 
1st October - Garden day
16th October - The Box - trip TBC
11th November - Remembrance day - Family assembly9:30 start
 
SKILL FOR SUCCESS
This term, our skill for success is RESILIENCE.
Starting in Year 6 requires a lot of resilience as we raise the expectations for the children to be independent in preparation for secondary school.
 
 
 
 
 
 
PE DAYS ARE TUESDAY AND THURSDAY
Please come into school wearing correct school PE kit.
Year 6 Residential
The details are yet to be confirmed but Y6 do a week long residential towards the end of the academic year. This is usually based at an Outdoor Education Centre such as Porthpean, in Cornwall.
AUTUMN 1  GARDEN DAY
The themes for our first garden day were Autumn and Orienteering.
The children ran from country to country...without even leaving the playground!
Then we collected Knopper Wasp galls for an art activity in the afternoon. There is further information on these fascinating insects below.
 
Next, the children were set a challenge. Mr. Beatty had taken close up photos of places around the school. The children had to find them and mark them on a map. Their reward was a punctuation mark or a letter from a scrambled message. We were very impressed with the children's commitment and RESILIENCE.
 
The scrambled message is below if you want to challenge someone at home to unscramble it!
!SYOTSIHSEVOLABMIS
 
We also created a fabulous leaf colour wheel, working as a whole year group, which was inspired by Andy Goldsworthy.
In the afternoon, the galls from the Knopper Wasps were put to good use. We made ink by following an old recipe; we crushed them and mixed them with rain water and iron-sulphite and used the resulting jet-black ink to paint trees which we then adorned with autumn leaves by using the galls as stamps.
 
Here is a link to one recipe (there are many) if you wished to make some at home.
https://blog.amandabatesart.co.uk/2017/11/iron-gall-ink-recipe-using-knopper-galls.html 
 
 
 
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE KNOPPER WASP here...
 
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/galls/knopper-gall-wasp
 
BEWARE THE JABBERWOCK
 
At the beginning of the year, Year 6 children had fun playing with language and learning their Book for Life poem off by heart.
Have a go at learning it together!
 
Reading in Year 6
Learning to read doesn't stop once a child can decode. In Year6, we are still teaching the skills of reading.
Part of our Reading Curriculum is to ensure that children have a wide experience of reading a range of texts. They regularly have a chance to browse the books available to help them to make informed decisions and to look forward to their next read.