Year 6 - Elder & Sycamore

Year 6 Camp- Wednesday 23rd October

The children have arrived safely at camp and have had a wonderful first afternoon! They have been doing a selection of activities including archery, crate climbing and abseiling.

Year 6 Term 1

We are so excited to kick off a new academic year with this lovely cohort in our newly renovated Y6 block! Come and have a peep if you haven't already...

In English, we started the year with a visitor from the Child of Hope school, where we received letters from the children. It was really exciting to meet our new pen pals, so we kicked off the year by writing letters back. We are now starting our new text: The Crossover graphic novel by Kwame Alexander. We immersed in the text by answering riddles, predicting what we think the book might be about, and getting the basketballs out. In addition, we designed our own basketball shoe for a Bristol team and used descriptive language to describe it.

In maths, we began the year with a shape topic, improving our protractor skills and refreshing our memories on the different angles. We will be moving on to place value for our next topic.

In spelling, we are revising the Y5 key spellings.

Our topic this term is a new one where we are learning all about the history of the civil right movement in Britain. We started off last week defining civil rights vs human rights and this week we looked at the abolition of slavery.

We are swimming on a Monday afternoon and have Bristol Sport teaching us basketball on a Friday afternoon.

Miss Cameron and Miss Price's PPA is covered by Miss Fletcher, who teaches science (we are looking at the circulatory system this term), and Mrs H who teaches Art.

What a great week we have had!

In English we delved into the characters in the Crossover. In Maths we completed assessments and learnt the 7 x tables. In Guided Reading we started our new scheme learning all about WWII. In Spelling we revised homophones. In Art we worked on our Art on the Hill project and in Science we continued to explore the circulatory system. In PE we all went swimming on Monday and continued small games on Friday with Bristol Sport. In Topic we learnt about the suffragette movements and the women’s right to vote. In PHSE we delved deeper into the zones of regulations and created our own interpretations of the zones using a volcano. In RE we learnt about cosmology and evolution and we were lucky enough to have a Spanish LSA to help us learn the names of different places in town.

What a cracking week!

Can't wait for the next one!!!