Last Wednesday, on a fine Spring day, Year 6 were taught skills in riding a bike safely. They all achieved their certificate and received a badge.
Year 6
NSPCC Assembly and Activity
Recently we worked in our Key Stages to learn what the NSPCC do and how we can talk to trusted adults in our lives to help us ‘Speak Out’ when we need to. We then explored the NSPCC website, and KS1 thought of their ‘happy places’ and KS2 made fortune tellers containing information about the NSPCC and Childline.
Year 6 Bake Sale
Some Year 6 girls were so moved by the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria that they decided they wanted to run a bake sale to raise money to help the victims. We were so impressed by their enthusiasm, initiative and organisation. They designed posters to advertise the sale, wrote letters to parents asking for donations and arrived on the day with plastic gloves, clingfilm and take away bags. With so many cakes and biscuits to sell, the sale was repeated the next day! The final count is not finished but, so far they have raised over £300. Thank you to our parents and children for baking cakes and supporting this event and a big well done to the children who ran it.
Year 6 Crucial Crew Trip
Year 6 went to beautiful Letton Hall today for Crucial Crew, an interactive and fun learning afternoon around the emergency services. Children learned about water safety in seas and rivers; road, fire and online safety and CPR. The children were well behaved and fully engaged in all the activities. They were a pleasure to take out. Well done Year 6!
Year 6 World Book Day
Year 6 dressed up for World Book Day today. Some came as characters, some came as words like ‘green’ and ‘Mother Nature’.
World Book Day Assembly
Year 6 led a World Book Day assembly as they shared their thoughts on reading. They talked about their favourite genres, that they borrow books from the public library or they buy books online and how they read to escape into different worlds and to ‘grow their mind’. Having lwritten their persuasive speeches last week, they used their powers of persuasion to encourage the younger children to read. Well done to Riley who confidently played his Grade 1 piano pieces for classes to come in to. All in all Year 6 did really well. I was proud of them.
Year 6 Persuasive Speeches
As the culmination of our work on plastic pollution last half term, Year 6 wrote persuasive speeches last week to Ms McConnell encouraging her to lead the school into becoming single-use plastic free. To inform their speeches, we have looked at the importance of reducing our use of single-use plastic, recycling and reusing plastic. In guided reading we found out about Greta Thunberg and her campaign to raise awareness of climate change and learned about the damaging effects of deforestation and the shocking Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The end result has been lots of persuasive and emotive speeches. Good job Year 6!
Year 6 Poetry on Pollution
Year 6 wrote poetry about our polluted planet. These children did really well with their rhyming, metaphor, word choice and persuasive tone. Well done!
Year 6 Playground Games
On Thursday last week John came in to teach playground games with the school. Year 6 did skipping games. We managed four children skipping at once using the long rope. His other game was a bounce and catch game using hoops which the children enjoyed.
Year 6 Budding Bakers
Year 6 have begun cooking this term – Iraqi Sumoon bread using yeast.
The first group cooked today. The other three groups were on a carousel of activities: one group researching bread around the world, one researching different types of flour and the last group investigating the history of bread making. The first group of bakers certainly enjoyed evaluating their bread. A sumptuous smell wafted down the corridor.