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Class 6

Welcome to Class 6

Friendship Ties!

In Year Six this week, we have been exploring the importance of friendships and healthy relationships. We thought carefully about what makes a good friend and how we can support and care for one another. We used actual string as a visual representation to show the positive friendship links between us all, helping us see how everyone is connected through kindness and support. The strings certainly helped us to 'tie up' our knowledge in a fun and creative way!

The Wise and Foolish Builders

This week in RE, Year 6 have thought carefully about some of the stories in the gospels and the important meanings behind them. We looked at the parable of the wise and foolish builders. This text explains how the foolish builder, built his house on sand, taking the easy and quickest route and the wise builder, built his house on a strong and sturdy rock with strong and solid foundations. The children then thought about the meaning behind this parable and applied it to their

Year 5 and 6 attend The Book Festival!

This week, Year 5 and 6 took a trip down to The Quarterhouse for an author workshop. The book was Dragonborn written by Struan Murray. He explained how a lot of his ideas for his novels come from small doodles and a big imagination! The session ended with the children taking part in a 'What type of dragon are you?' quiz and they created a dragon to reflect their results. It was a very inspiring session and the children participated and listened beautifully.

Chocolate Maths in Year 6

Year 6 have worked extremely hard this week on their first unit of fractions. We have been adding and subtracting mixed numbers, converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and finding the common denominator. They can also confidently find fractions of amounts. To demonstrate this knowledge, they were given chocolate! They successfully found 1/2, 1/4 and 1/3 of a given amount and naturally, the chocolate was devoured during and after the lesson. Thank you for all your hard

Relationships that shape us!

Today in our whole school assembly, we explored the special relationships that make our time in school so positive and meaningful. We talked about the friends who make us laugh, the teachers who support and guide us, and all the people who are there for us no matter what. Together, we created a huge collage filled with names and drawings of our special people, celebrating the connections that remind us that we are loved and valued every day.

Year 6 Eye-Catching Packaging

This term, Year 6 have been busy designing and creating their own food packaging. This project allowed the children to explore the close connection between drawing and making within the creative process, and exploring how a two-dimensional surface can be transformed and manipulated to create a three-dimensional object. Students learned to use elements such as line, mark making, value, shape, colour, pattern, and composition to bring their artwork to life. Finally, they recogn

Glendale Reading

During this first term, we have been back to reading with our reading buddies at Glendale. Some of the residents are very generous with their time on a Thursday afternoon and listen to our pupils read. The children enjoy reading and discussing their books and are always very well behaved. Thank you Glendale buddies.

Black History Month

This week we celebrated Black History Month. It was an opportunity to share, celebrate and understand the impact of black heritage and culture. The day began with a live zoom between us and Nouvel Community School in Ghana during whole school worship where the two schools had the opportunity to speak to each ot her. We also enjoyed a brilliant storytelling session with Caleb and Chloe’s dad, William, who told us a folklore tale about Anansi the spider. Kevin, who is in the

Year 6 WW1 Workshop

Year 6 attended a workshop this week at Folkestone Museum which focussed on different people involved in WW1. These people ranged from...

Harvest

This week we held our Harvest Festival in Church. During the service we sang Harvest Samba together while all the children created the...

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Dear Parent/Carer

Welcome to Term 2! I hope you have had a restful break and are ready to return for lots of Christmas fun!

Here is a brief outline of what we will be doing this term in each subject. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to ask.

Geography:

Our geography topic this term is Earthquakes. We will be looking at the causes of earthquakes, measuring earthquakes and earthquakes and tsunamis.

Science:

The science topic for this term is ‘Changing Circuits’. Our focus will be on components and simple circuits, variables in electric circuits and the position of switches in circuits.

Maths:

We will be focusing this term on fractions using the White Rose Maths scheme. We will also be working hard on our arithmetic skills.

English:

In English we will be focussing on writing a non-chronological report using Talk 4 Writing.

Class Novel: This term we will be reading ‘Pig Heart Boy’ written by Malorie Blackman.

RE:

Our focus this term is Gospel. We will be looking at and discussing the big question of ‘What would Jesus do?’

PSHE:

Our topic of conversation will be ‘Families and Different Families’ Within this unit, we will be looking at different types of families and relationships.

Art:

This term will be looking at print, collage, colour and activism.

French:

This term, our topic is ‘All About Ourselves’

PE:

This term our PE lessons will be concentrating on team building skills in Dodgeball.

Computing:

We will be looking at Data and Blogging throughout this term.

Homework:

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: Grids will be sent home termly. These contain a range of activities that your child may complete.

REMINDERS:

PE this term will be on Thursday and Friday (children to wear their PE kit on Fridays) but children must have a named PE kit in school at all times please as we also have workshops/events going on throughout the term.

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

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Buchanan