Year 6 Foxes
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Miss Coleman
P.E days: Wednesday (dodgeball) & Friday (outdoor).
Please ensure P.E kit is worn on these days and watches and earrings are removed/tape is in school.
Open Classroom & Book Fair: Friday 16th October (after school - 4pm)
Home learning:
Reading: 20-30 minutes reading daily. Remember to complete a Blooms question when you finish the book; make sure it is different to the last and consists of more than one sentence!
Grammar: CGP: Set A: Grammar & Punctuation 3
Maths: CGP: Written adding and subtracting pg 10-11
Picture News:
Class Reader:
Blooms question: What do you think Ellie's plan is when she finds the diaries?
A taste of our learning
The Lost Words poems – English
This week we have been focusing on the Lost Words spell book to create our own free verse poems. We started by analysing the poem and then began practising skills we would need to include in our own writing. We learnt about assonance, consonance, an author's use of repetition for effect and personification. Then, we began to create our own poetry. The poems include the voice of both the bird we have chosen and listeners that want to find out where the bird has been, where it goes and the tales it has to share!
Fabulous French directions – French
In French this week, we continued to develop our directional knowledge of places around town by sending our partner around school using our French instructions. We were able to level up our writing and speaking practise even further with Madame Horner's support, using phrases such as 'passé a la porte' to guide us through the doors and help our friends get to the location we had chosen.
Terrific tempo finding – Music
This week in in music we used a metronome to count up to eight out loud and kept repeating this as though “on a loop”. Once the counting was established and steady we had different people call out instructions e.g. cymbal on the first (beat 1), clap on the last (beat 8), clicks two beats (beats 4 and 5). We then challenged ourselves to keep time whilst using a backing track. We much preferred Stevie Wonder to Happy by Pharrell Williams!
Fabulous form – Art
Our art unit this term is focussed on the artwork of Edward Hopper and the element of art: form. Last week, we researched Edward Hopper and what impressionism is and this week we have begun to explore how we can use form in our drawings to create 3D shapes on the page. We carefully drew our outlines, learning to use crosses and ellipses to structure our shapes and then careful shading to add depth and create that final illusion of form on the page.
Questions to ask at home:
Who was Edward Hopper?
What is impressionism?
How can I draw a 3D shape successfully?
Brilliant BikeAbility and football fun – P.E
It has been a very active week this week! Year 6 have been developing their cycling skills through Bikeability, building their confidence and learning how to stay safe on the roads. Congratulations to everyone who took part in achieving your Level 2 award. In PE, they have also been revisiting and refining their football skills, practising passing and dribbling.
How to be a successful learner and Rights Respecting displays
Our first few days have been incredibly busy deciding our class charters that we want to uphold and follow to ensure a successful year in Year 6! We created a class of foxes learning about our characteristics to be a successful learner. We chose: determined, positive, creative, respectful, thoughtful, collaborative and an active learner. Alongside this, we created our Rights Respecting charter. We chose key articles, like Article 31, the right to rest and play, and Article 29 that education should enable all of our talents, abilities and interests! Take a look below at how we are presenting these in our classroom.
