Year 6 Blog

Today we have celebrated World Book Day! We dressed up as our favourite book characters. We have been around all the classes in our school and have heard about different authors and books. We have enjoyed ourselves a lot!!

By Kaitlyn and Shelby

This week we have been very, very, very busy! On Monday we started practicing for our sats. Our first practice sats paper of the week was maths arithmetic. It was last years ACTUAL Y6 SATS Test.On Monday afternoon we started to look at the heart and circulatory system. We found out that your heart…

Today we have been joined by an elf from the North Pole. He came with no name so we have decided to call him Elfis, or to give hime his full name... Elfis Oliver Percy Presently.

We have heard that he can be extremely mischievous so we will have to wait and see...

by Kaitlyn.

This week, we have been learning about Alice in Wonderland. We have been reading the book and have only got a few chapters to go. It is full of interesting characters...

We have also been looking at two film versions of the story and we are beginning to study some of the characters from them.…

This week we have started to look at Classic Fiction, the book we are studying in class is 'Alice in Wonderland' We have read the first couple of chapters and we are really beginning to enjoy this story. We have had to read part of a chapter and use the Point, Evidence, Explain technique to answer…

Today we had a go at the Mannequin Challenge, You can see how we got on in this video.

The whole class got involved and we had great fun making the video!

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As part of our Literacy work this term we have been looking at poetry within song lyrics.

We have had a go at changing some of the words to 'Imagine' by John Lennon.

We hope you enjoy...Imagine There's No Chocolate.

Today we have been looking at how Jewish people celebrate Rosh Hashanah. During the celebration, Jews eat apples dipped in honey. They do this to symbolise hopes for a "sweet" new year.  The apple is dipped in honey, the blessing for eating tree fruits is said, the apple is tasted, and then the…

This week we have been looking at a variety of different stories/texts and even a film that all tell a story of being marooned on a desert island. We have been writing about ways in which we have had to learn how to survive on an island if we were stranded. 

We are starting to realise that it…

Yesterday, we used charcoal to create a picture of a boat lost at sea. As you can see some of us struggled to keep the charcoal onto the page!!

We enjoyed doing this artwork .But we didn`t  enjoy cleaning up!!!

By Kaitlyn McConnell 

We have been working hard for SATs coming up in May.We have been doing some practice papers on Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. Mr.Richardson has started a SATs club.SATs club is amazing. We have lots of fun and we also have a little snack.We also play games but it helps us learn a lot of stuff…

Year 6 and Mr.Richardson would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! We are all very determined to work hard and prepare for our SAT tests that will arrive soon after the Easter Holidays!

We know we must work hard, read, do our homework and listen carefully so we can succeed in 2016!

We…