Year 6 have used Scratch to complete some shared working this afternoon. The children had to use the remix button to edit and improve a project that had been made by somebody else.
Remixing – Exploring and Tinkering
English Conscience Alley
In English, we have been reading The Island by Armin Greder. In preparation for writing a formal letter, the children completed a conscience alley where they had to consider reasons for and against letting the stranger stay on the island. A few children took it in turns to be the Mayor who walked down the alley and heard everybody’s ideas before making their final decision.
Portraits
We have been working on drawing realistic facial features since the beginning of September.
Today we focused on finishing off our portraits by adding ears and hair.
The children all have something to be very proud of as their finished pieces ended up looking very realistic!
Defending
This week in PE
Year 6 have been focusing on defending when playing football.
Bar Models in Maths
We have been using bar models to represent addition and subtraction problems in Year 6. The children had to demonstrate great critical thinking and pride in this lesson to ensure the bar models represented the problems accurately.
Happy !
Year 6 have continued to learn how to sing Happy by Pharrell Williams in music. The children then had a go at playing the Glockenspiels to the song and did a very good job!
New Y6 Councillors
Meet our two new Y6 councillors: Autumn and Lorise!
They will be attending meetings with Miss Williams throughout the course of the year and will always be on hand to hear their peers thoughts and ideas.
Circle Time Pride
In class, we had a circle-time discussion all about our behaviour for learning this term. To start the year off, we are focusing on our pride.
This is what the children had to say about pride and what they think it means and looks like:
- Being proud of something you have done.
- Pride is when you do something good and you do it better than you have before.
- Having neat work is showing pride.
- Putting your best effort into your work is showing pride.
- Keeping your stationery pots tidy is showing pride.
Managing Information Online
In computing, we have looked at how to manage information online. We have discussed the difference between facts and opinions and looked at how to spot these when on the internet. Within this, we also considered what it means to ‘go viral’, how influencers might persuade us, and manipulation.
After this part of the lesson, we moved on to look at how data is transferred over the internet. The children completed an activity finding IP addresses for different well-known websites.
An exciting Autumn
This week you have been handed out your classroom newsletter and curriculum map.
