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Class 6

Welcome to Class 6

Astor Dance Performance

Today twenty children from James’ Dance Club went to Astor School in Dover to participate in a multi school dance festival. Every one of our girls performed confidently with great stage presence. Thank you to all the parents for providing costumes and for offering help with transport. The children behaved extremely well and were a credit to the school. They should all be very proud of themselves. Thanks James for all your hard work.

WBD Hat Competition

Last week, to celebrate World Book Day, sixty of our children took part in our Hat Competition. It was wonderful to see how much care, time and creativity had gone into each and every hat. The entries showed fantastic effort from the children, with each one designing a unique hat inspired by a favourite story or book character. Today we announced the winners and took time during our celebration worship to recognise and celebrate every single hat. The display was truly breath-

Book Day Costumes

A big thank you to everyone who provided costumes and props for your children on World Book Day.

World Book Day in Year 6

What a super World Book Day it has been! The imagination and creativity with all the costumes has been outstanding so a huge thank you to the grown ups who have helped. We had a range of words including: rapper, sleepy, buckle, discombobulated wizard and many more! We created book tokens as part of a competition, took a trip to the bookshop with our wonderful buddies and had lots of fun at an escape room in the school hall. A huge thank you again for providing your child with

World Book Day Buddies!

What a fantastic World Book Day we have had! We walked up to WH Smith with our buddies and carefully selected a book. The variety was very good and they each chose something that they are very excited to read. We came back to school and shared our new books. It was so nice to be able to spend time with our buddies again!

Reading Escape Room

On World Book Day we were so lucky to take part in a Reading Escape Room! Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 pupils had to escape Crow Castle by working in teams and taking a journey through the rooms via the magic of books. From MacBeth to Charles Dickens, Frankenstein and Sherlock Holmes, the children had to turn detective and search for clues. They had to read, infer, comprehend, spell, scan, skim and riddle their way to freedom, or face the Crow Queen and be trapped in Crow Castle. Duck

Eucharist Service

Our Eucharist service in church this week was led by our worship leaders carrying the cross, with Years 4, 5, and 6 taking part. Pupils who have been confirmed were able to receive Holy Communion. Throughout the service, all pupils showed good behaviour and respect, reflecting our school values. The service began with a hymn, then prayers, an opportunity to say sorry to God for any wrongdoings, an offer of peace to each other, and then remembering the Last Supper as Father Ch

Boogie on down to better health!

We started our assembly with a quiet check-in, thinking about how we were feeling. Lots of us were a little tired as it is our first week back after half-term...mostly the teachers! As we chatted, the hall felt calm and still. So then, it was time to wake up and shake up! The music started, our bodies began moving, and soon we were dancing our hearts out, with some brilliant cheerleaders leading the way at the front. After all that jumping, dancing, and smiling, we checked in

Glendale Reading Buddies

Once again this term many of our children have enjoyed taking a trip to Glendale to read with our group of reading buddies. Depending on the age and ability of our children, each child reads their levelled book and then shares a picture book with the buddy or if a free reader, then the children take their chosen book to read aloud to a Glendale reading buddy. We are very grateful that they give up their spare time to listen to the children read and sometimes read to them, enc

Safer Internet Day

This week, Year 6 took part in a live online lesson for 'Safer Internet Day'. The theme for this year was AI and how children can be aware of it and use it safely. They explored how to use certain tools safely, respectfully and responsibly. They then had a challenge to compare two images: one AI and one which was real. Some were very obvious and others not so much! Year 6 listened well and were able to take part in the class discussion well.

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Class 6 latest blogs

Dear Parent/Carers

Welcome back to term 4, I hope you have had a restful break, despite the weather! This term we will be continuing to prepare for SAT’s which are in May. We will be looking at previous papers and working from them occasionally, as well as our usual lessons. We have completed a couple of papers already and the overall feedback from the children was good and they are working extremely hard. I am very proud of them! My main aim now is for them to go into these assessments without the worry and stress of not knowing how to approach them. It will become second nature to them!

Geography:
‘Our big question is Farm and Factories: Where does our food come from?’ We begin by looking at the geography of food and the sources of food. We will also look at the distance food travels and the effect of climate change on our food.

Science:

Our focus for the term is “Why we group and classify things” We will be comparing characteristics of living things, how and why we group animals and plants, Carl Linnaeus and classification and discovering new species.

Maths:

We will be focussing on Fractions, Decimals and Percentages, Area, Perimeter and Volume and Statistics, alongside practise papers for upcoming SAT’s.

Class Novel:

We will be reading Wonder by R. J. Palacio.

English:

We will be working from a class novel for English this term producing lots of extended writing. First, we will be writing to persuade. We will then move on to letters, diary entries as well as practicing our creative writing skills.

RE:

Our focus this term is Judaism. The Big Question being: ‘What does it mean to be Jewish in Britain today?’

PSHE:

Our topic of conversation will be Positive Mental Health and discussing stress and emotions alongside positive body image. We will also be looking at legal and illegal choices, which we have ventured in to in the first term by talking about understanding right from wrong.

Art:

We will be looking at Paint Surface Texture and Exploring Identity.

Computing:
We will be looking at Text Adventures and Networks: Understand computer networks, including the Internet; how they can provide multiple services, such as the World Wide Web; and the opportunities they offer for communication and collaboration.

PE:

This term we are playing badminton, tennis and basketball. Lessons will take place on a Thursday and Friday so please ensure your child has a full PE kit in school.

Homework as follows:

Reading will be expected to be at least 20 minutes daily and will be recorded in their reading journals with a parent signature when possible please. Maths will usually be concentrated on times tables, but when needed for reinforcing learning, other work will be sent out either individually or as a class. Grids will be sent home termly. These contain a range of activities that your child may complete.

REMINDERS:

If there are any questions or queries please do not hesitate to ask.

Additional information:

SATs support for parents:

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ks2-sats-support/

https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/sats-tips-and-help/

https://www.sats-papers.co.uk/