Year 6 2022-23
Here you can find: updates on our learning, curriculum information, letters, weekly spellings, homework, reminders and much more.
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Mr Dancer, Mrs Smith and Mrs Watts
Weekly Reminders:
| Monday | Mr Dancer Teaching PE Day |
| Tuesday | Mr Dancer Teaching |
| Wednesday | Mrs Smith Teaching PE Day |
| Thursday | Mrs Smith Teaching Spelling Test and New Spellings Issued |
| Friday | Mrs Smith Teaching am/ Mr Dancer Teaching pm Reading Diaries Collected In Change Library Books |
Important Dates:
| W/C 8th May | SATs Week |
| W/C 19th June | Herd Farm Residential |
Weekly Homework:
Daily Reading (Diaries should be in school each day)
Times Tables Rock Stars/ Maths Shed (At least 3 times a week)
Spelling Shed (At least 3 times a week)
Topic Based Learning Log Activities (See suggestions bellow)
Year 6 (and Mrs Owen’s) last ever lunchtime whistle!
Making the best memories 🔫
Our final sports day!! Well done Brimham 💛 Topped off with a visit from the ice cream van 🍦
Our Fairground Rides in action 🎡😄
Our Fantastic Fairground Rides which can be connected to and controlled by a computer 💻
Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits 🐪
Summer 2
DT and Computing - Learning to control lights using crumble 🚨
HOME TIME ♥️
Group 2 - Final Activities
Group 1 - Final Activities
Group 3 - Final activities. Moonwalk, Puzzle Palace and Assault Coursr.
Final breakfast! Exhausted 😅
All packed and ready for our final activity 🏡
Ending our final night with a film 🎥
And to finish the night ... ♥️
We had to play 3 times they enjoyed it so much! Thank you Mrs Thompson and Miss Welsh for the party.
Own it 💃🕺
Continued
And a little bit more
Our epic leaving party 🎉🥳🎈
High Ropes Group 3
Chores Galore 🧹
Group 2 - Crate stack 🪜
Group 1 - Giant Swing
Cooked breakfast for lunch 🥓🍳🍞
Group 2 - High ropes
Group 1 - Crate Stack
Group 3 Bushcraff with Miss Welsh and Mrs Gibson
Breakfast! Lots of smiles this morning and excitement for our last full day 😊
Evening fun! Inflatables!
Meatballs and pasta for tea 🍝 followed by cheese cake 🥮
Group 2 - Bushcraft 🪵🔥
Group 1 - High Ropes 🪢
Group 3 - Crate Stack 👭
Empty plates again - pizza for lunch 🍕
Orienteering 🚩
Chores, chores, chores 🧺🧹
We definitely had to wake a few up this morning 😴😴😴
S'mores time 🔥
I feel like chicken tonight 🐓
Group 2 - Archery
Group 3 drying off after a very soggy zip wire ☔
Group 1 - Zip Wire
Group 1 - zip wire 🤩
Group 3- Zipwire 😀
Group 3- Zipwire 😀
Group 2- Archery 🏹
Tidying up- Breakfast and Lunch 🧹
Group 2- Giant Swing 😬
Group 2- Giant Swing 😬
Group 3- Giant Swing 😬
Group 3- Giant Swing 😬
Tuesday Lunch - Jacket potatoes and a choice of toppings 🥔🧀🐟🥗
Group 1 - Archery
Last night - tidying up 🍽
Breakfast - toast and cereal (They’re definitely quiet this morning) 😴
Night walk and visit to the Emmerdale set 🏡🏘️
Sausage, chips and peas/beans for tea - look at the empty plates 🍽️🌭🍟
Relaxing before tea time 🛋️
Group 2- Zipwire
Group 2- Zipwire 🤩
Group 3 - Archery 🏹
Group 1 - Bush Craft 🔥
First round of chores 🧹
Perimeter walk and lunch...”Is it lunch time yet? We’re starving!”
Bed Making - varying levels of success 🛌
We’ve arrived!
And we’re off - Herd Farm 2023 😁✌️
Reading notation 🎼🎶🎵
Our End of SATs Party - 🚲🛴🌭🍫
📱Computing - Sharing our interactive text adventure stories with Reception and Year 1 📱📖👩🏫👨🏫
A fantastic trip to Lotherton Hall - photography by Year 6 themselves 📷👍
Science: Investigating the most common invertebrates within the school grounds 🦋🐝🐞🦟🕷🦗🪰🐜🪲🪳
Music - performing an ostinato 🎶
Science - Researching how microorganisms and plants are classified into broad groups 🌱🌲🥀
Music - Busy high street mimes to the ostinato in Bolero! 🥁🎻
PE - Gymnastics and Ball Skills 🤸♀️🏀
Art - Our final landscape sculptures based on David Hockey
Science: Evolution and inheritance - investigating which beak is most likely to be inherited on an island where the main food source is plant seed! 🐧📊
Art - Take a look at how our landscape sculptures are coming on 🌄🏞
Science - Learning about, and then finding evidence to support, the idea of inherited characteristics 👨👩👧👦
Art - developing our skills with perspective, shadows, reflections and interesting details 🖌
Geography - our amazing sketch maps of the local area 🗺
RE - A sample of our work on the Sikh rite of passage - taking Amrit 🎊
Geography - A sample of our fantastic reports following on from our fieldwork on the land use in Wetherby 🏭🏬🏠🌳
Art - collecting ideas and inspiration for our new landscapes topic 🖼
Music - Voices Calling 🐘🐠🦅
English - Our Macbeth Inspired News Reports 📰🗞
Art - Our final Portraits 👨🎨
Geography - A sample of our gathered data on land use 📊
Geography - Fieldwork - Investigating the land use of the local area 🚶♂️🚶♀️
Art: Working on our final portraits - we’ll share our final pieces next week 🎨
RE - Deciding which values are important to us ❤️
Music - Our final performance of World Unite 🌎🎵
English - Opening scenes of Macbeth - Group 1️⃣
English - Opening scenes of Macbeth - Group 2️⃣
English - Opening scenes of Macbeth - Group 3️⃣
English - Opening scenes of Macbeth - Group 4️⃣
History - We used the iPads to research crime and punishment during the Victorian period 👮♀️
Computing - Designing and coding our own function buttons 🐢
Art : Applying our skills to recreate a Hans Holbein portrait 👨🎨
History - A sample of our work on using different sources to deduce information about crime and punishment in the past.🔍
Science - creating models and explanations about the formation of shadows on the new iPads 📱
Computing - Follow the link below to see some of the games that we've designed and programmed from scratch! ⌨️
English - 1️⃣ A sample of our writing (read aloud) based on our class text Matilda 🗣
English - 2️⃣ A sample of our writing (read aloud) based on our class text Matilda 🗣
English - 3️⃣ A sample of our writing (read aloud) based on our class text Matilda 🗣
Music - Reading notation 🎵👏
School Councillor Selection - A big well done to all of the candidates that put themselves forward and presented their ideas to the class! We ended up with a tie and three Year 6 representatives were selected 📮
Art - experimenting with tints and tones to create colour palettes based on the works of Hans Holbein 🎨
Art - Using a variety of techniques to add effect ✏️
Science - Taking accurate and repeated measurements 📊
Music - Developing co-ordination and rhythm skills 👏
PE - Developing our own drills and applying skills in games of slam ball🏀
Science - Creating models of how we see things and creating secret messages 👁
Music - Exploring beat and syncopation through a song and body percussion🎼
Maths - Understanding place value up to 10,000,000 🤓
Science - Investigating how light appears to travel 🔦
A Preview of Our Classroom 😁🌈
