Year 6: Blog items
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 2:26pm
Year 6 have worked really hard in our French sessions this half term. They have learned the personal pronouns in French and how to conjugate a verb. We have improved our dictionary skills by finding infinitve verbs and their meanings and finished our journey by learning about the four common irregular verbs.
Year 6 - Forest School (Indoors!)
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 2:01pm
The awful weather conditions did not stop Year 6 enjoying their Forest School sessions this week. Instead of using our Forest School area, we brought the activities inside. The children started the session by foraging for resources to make Christmas crafts and decorations. They learned skills including splitting wood and bending willow to make their own creations.
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 7:49am
In dance this half term we have been looking at the ceremonial war dance 'The Haka'. We have discussed the significance of the dance and how it is used by the All Blacks New Zealand rugby team to challenge their opponents. We then took the steps of the dance and learned them over the past couple of weeks. We have performed the dance in unison and cannon - our final lesson will be to challenge the other Year 6 class.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 4:02pm
Today we had our first of three Forest School sessions. In this session we spent our time lighting fires, making hot chocolate and using thinsg found in nature to create headbands/wreaths. The weather was cold but the sun was shining and we had a great time.
Year 6 - Oak's Reading Champions Library Choices
Date: 28th Nov 2023 @ 11:15am
Here are the books Oak's Reading Champions chose today in the library. We will give feedback on the books once we have finished them. Stay tuned...
Date: 28th Nov 2023 @ 9:22am
This morning, Year 6 were the first to visit our new library and were able to pick a brand new book to read in class. There were lots of discussions about the books that we chose and why we chose them. We are looking forward to reading these books and hopefully it will encourage more of pupils to become reading champions.
Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 10:09am
This week in PE, we continued with our Net and Wall Skills unit. We learned the basics of volleyball and the different ways in which to get the ball over the net. We also learned how to serve and then played some mini games.
Year 6 - Visit with PCSO Debbie
Date: 22nd Nov 2023 @ 3:03pm
This afternoon we welcomed PCSO Debbie Savage to Year 6 to give our children a safety talk around drugs,smoking, vaping as well as knife crime and peer pressure. We discussed different drugs, such as nicotine, alcohol and a range of others that Debbie told us more about. Debbie showed us a range of replica drugs and the side effects of these drugs. We learned valuable lessons this afternoon that we hope will stay with us as we transition to high school.
*NO SUBSTANCES WERE BROUGHT INTO THE CLASSROOM. EVERYTHING WAS A REPLICA
Date: 15th Nov 2023 @ 8:56pm
Our key quesiton this half term for Hunduism is 'Is there one journey in our life or many?' Our shared human experience lesson today focussed on the key milestones humans have throughout the lives. We discussed which ,ilestones we have already had and what we might go through as we get older. We also looked at the definitions of rights, responsibilites and relationships and how these change and adapt as grow older.
Date: 15th Nov 2023 @ 8:50pm
Today we began our dance unit - The Haka. We watched different performances of the Haka and discussed the history behind it. We learned that The Haka is a ceremonial Māori war dance or challenge. Haka are usually performed in a group and represent a display of a tribe's pride, strength and unity. We performed the first 15 seconds of the dance in unison and made sure that we could all follow the movements in time and synchronised. Over the weeks we will add parts to the dance until we have learnt the entire routine.
Date: 9th Nov 2023 @ 4:03pm
Today, pupils in Year 6 were given the oportunity of taking part in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) workshop. Working in small groups, they had to build a lego robot, which incorporated a small computer, lights and motors. Pupils then coded algorithms to guide their robot around a circuit.
Date: 9th Nov 2023 @ 1:14pm
This week, we have been creating our art work linked to Remembrance Day. Our challenge was to create water colour poppies to add to old photos of Blackpool during WWII. Before we did this, we had to be confident with using water colour paints and how to use them effectively. We practised using correct techinques in our sketchbooks and then used this to create our own poppies.
Date: 6th Nov 2023 @ 5:23pm
In today's lesson, we recapped on our learning from last week including the four countries of the UK, their capitals and the seas surrounding the British Isles. We then went on to discuss where people in the UK live. We learned about cities, towns, villages and hamlets before using maps and online atlases to locate major towns and cities in our local area and the UK.
Year 6 - Meet the House Captains and Prefects
Date: 5th Nov 2023 @ 5:03pm
Our House Captains and Prefects have been doing a great job since their selection. They have a number of roles to carry out throughout the week, including reading with younger children, organsing Friday assemblies and helping in other classes on a Friday afternoon. There will be many other roles and responsibilites for them to be involved with over the year. They are proving to be great role models for the rest of the school.
Year 6 - Sketching and Water Colour
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:45pm
In preparation for our Poppy Art next week, we practised drawing, sketching and shading techniques using a variety of pencils. We also experimented with water colours.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:38pm
Year 6 - Composing with Computers
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 3:50pm
For the last two lessons we have used Charanga YUMU to compose and electronically transcribe our own composition using a 5-note set treble clef stave.
We reviewed our knowledge of note values and durations and created our own compositions using a mixture of crotchets, minims, dotted minims and semibreves. Some of us were able to create an ostinato (a repeating musical phrase).
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 2:54pm
We've had a great morning in Year 6 with our first 'No Pen' morning of the year. We began with some grammar and punctuation work, where in pairs we picked different cards with tasks on and discussed them together. We then fed back to the class our answers and checked that we were right. Then we moved on to lots of oracy work - this began with asking 'would you rather...' questions to our partners. We had to give reasons for our own choices and listen carefully to our partner's resposnes. If we were picked, we had to give the response our partner gave. We finished the first session with some agree, build on, challenge statements. Again, this gave us lots of opportunities to talk to other children and give justifications for our answers. In Maths, we carried out different activities in the 2 groups, including loops card games, tarsias and orally explaining mistakes in calculations.
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 12:16pm
Our unit for RE this half term has been Christianity - The Church. Through our sessions we have looked at the concept of forgiveness and why we say sorry. We have also looked at the christian belief of purpose and what is meant be a 'good life'. We have discussec christian beliefs of life after death and that leading a good life will help them to get to heaven when they die.
Year 6 - Formulas in Speadsheets
Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 3:25pm
We continued our computing journey through spreadsheets byt learning about formulas. We learned how to use formulas to multiply, add and subtract the values in different cells.
Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 2:51pm
Today in Science we learned that light is actually made up of the 7 colours of the rainbow. In order to actually see this, we used prisms to separate white light into the 7 colours. We also used DVDs as it is clear on their surface that light is made up of the colours of the rainbow.
Date: 11th Oct 2023 @ 11:49am
We have held our first Spelling Bee of the year and what a wonderful event it was! 4 children in each year group represented their house and were given three words to spell from over a list of 30 possible words. Every child showed courage and determination when it came to spelling their words. It was a very close contest, with Chepstow winning overall with 15 out of 15. We are very proud of all the children who represented their house and are looking forward to the next one.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 12:52pm
In today's history lesson we were given a mystery to solve. We were told the story of an archaeologist called Alberto Ruz, who spent time searching through Maya temples in the 1940s. In one of the temples he found evidence of a secret area under the base of the temple. After a long time trying to get into the space, he eventually opened up the hatch to reveal the resting place of the great Maya king Pacal. The children had to work out who this person could have been based on evidence from the tomb.
Date: 4th Oct 2023 @ 6:15pm
In this week's French lesson, we continued learning about French grammar. We looked in more depth at the gender of nouns. We used French dictionaries to find the correct gender and then added the appropriate definate article (le, la, les or l'). Some children completed a challenge where they had to add the correct ending to make the noun plural.
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 6:31pm
In this week's PE lesson, we swapped tennis for badminton - utilising the skills we have already learned. We focused on the serve and learned the most effective technique to perform a consistent serve. We practised effectively hitting the shuttlecock at a target before using forehand and backhand to take part in a rally.
