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)
📱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 😁🌈
