Year 6 2021-22
Here you can find: updates on our learning, curriculum information, letters, weekly spellings, homework, reminders and much more.
Keep checking regularly for updates.
Mr Dancer, Miss Ridge and Mrs Owen
Weekly Reminders:
| Monday | PE Day |
| Tuesday | |
| Wednesday | PE Day |
| Thursday | |
| Friday | Reading Diaries Collected In Change Library Books |
Important Dates:
| W/C 9th May | SATs Week |
| W/C 20th 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)
SPAG Revision Spy Game
If you want to play the game at home, follow this link:
and use the pincode MG7910
A day to remember!
Science - Using symbols to represent circuits
The Pirates of The Curry Bean!
BYE HERD FARM!! ♥️
Assault course for group 2 and a few extras!
All children in Puzzle Palace! 😄
FINAL NIGHT FILM 🍿
FINAL NIGHT PARTY! 💕💕 🎉
Roast dinner for tea and apple crumble! ☀️ 🥵
Group 2 on the crate stack
Group 3 on the high ropes!
High ropes group 2
Group 1 on the moonwalk, nightline and low ropes!
Ice Lollies in the sun ☀️
Lunch time. Selection of sandwiches today 🥪
Group 3 on the moonwalk, nightline and low ropes!
Group 1 - Great team work on the Crate Stack.
We had to wake a few of them up this morning and one’s still asleep!
Hot Chocolate Before Bed
Wednesday Night Fun!
An Epic Water Fight!
Miss Welsh and Miss Furnell arrived for tea - Chicken Casserole and Ice-cream!
Group 3 - Crate Stack
Group 2 - Zip Wire
Group 1 and The Leap of Faith!
Delicious Pasta for Lunch!
Great team work and resilience during orienteering!
A fab cleaning up team this morning!
A much quieter breakfast table this morning - they must be tired!
Songs round the campfire!
A perfect evening for a campfire and s’mores!
The next set of chores and a visit from Mrs Harrison!
The class gave David the Chef 10/10 for Tea - Sausage and Mash for Mains and Treacle Sponge for Dessert
Group 3 - Giant Swing
Group 3 - Giant Swing
Group 2 - Archery
Group 2 - Giant Swing
Group 1 - Zip Line
After Lunch Chores - “Maybe this isn’t so bad after all!”
Clear plates - jacket potatoes and a selection of toppings for lunch!
Group 3 - Giant Swing
Group 2 - Fun on the Zip Line!
Group 1 - Archery: Mangoes vs Arteries
Morning Chores and Room Inspections
Cereal and Toast for Breakfast after a night without a peep!
Over and out for today - Settling down with a biscuit and Horrible Histories before bed!
Group 1 - Giant Swing!
A sing-along in the woods!
Night Walk - A visit to the Emmerdale set and the woods!
Herd Farm - Chores
DT - We had great fun making and programming lego fairground rides!
Jubilee Celebration - Year 6 Rock the 1980s
Hot Dogs, Wagon Wheels, Bikes and Scooters - End of SATs Party 🌈🚲🌭😁
Exploring Chords
A fantastic trip to Lotherton Hall - photography by Max 👍📷
Science - Investigating the most common invertebrates within the school grounds!
Science - Researching how microorganisms and plants are classified into broad groups
Our PE session with Kidz Fit!
Music: Busy high street mimes to the ostinato in Bolero!
Science: Evolution and inheritance - investigating which beak is most likely to be inherited on an island where the main food source is plant seed!
Our performance of Something Inside So Strong
Art - making our sculptures
Our fantastic performance of Refuge
Tom Palmer visited us last week to talk about his new piece of writing, 'The Barnbow Lasses' which linked to the war topic that we studied in Year 5. We were lucky enough to be 1 of 3 schools to win this visit by Tom!
Our performance of Voices Calling!
Take a read of our fantastic newspaper reports based on Macbeth!
Art - We have begun our new topic of landscapes by getting out in the school grounds and using viewfinders to sketch our local landscape.
Art - Our final portraits based on the works of Barclay Hendricks, Freida Kahol, Picasso, Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Andy Warhol.
Music - Our final performances of World Unite!
Art - Recreating Hans Holbein portraits
Macbeth - Group 1
Macbeth - Group 2
Macbeth - Group 3
Macbeth - Group 4
Macbeth - Group 5
Art - Creating colour palettes based on the work of Hans Holbein
Science - Explaining how shadows are formed using models
Music - Understanding pitch through notation
Science - Controlling variables and recording our results!
PE - Improving our dribbling skills
Music - Developing co-ordination and rhythm skills
Science - creating models of how we see things
Music - exploring beat and syncopation through body percussion
Science: Investigating how light appears to travel
A preview of our classroom!
