Today, we were practising our quick retrieval skills by answering questions on our new text, The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll. Rather than writing our answers in our books, we wanted to practise our speed and comprehension…
As part of the second unit in our Teach Computing scheme, Year 6 undertook the challenge of creating websites which would appeal to younger users. They decided upon creating websites that would teacher children in Year 3 about contrasting climates. …
Today, Year 5 and 6 were excited to invite their parents into the school to share in a workshop, focussed around different aspects of the writing curriculum: spelling exception words, using fronted adverbials, effective descriptive writing, and using the Kagan…
As we come to the end of our Earth as an Island topic, Year 6 have been thinking about one of the greatest threats to our world and our islands - plastic pollution. With this in mind, we set about…
After the success of last year’s reading role models, the latest Year 6 volunteers have taken on the role! They had some expert guidance from Mrs Ward before launching themselves into the thick of it with their first batch of…
After last time (when we created the design and then drew it onto a press-print tile, this week it was time to learn how to apply ink and create a print! We learned how to use a combination of dry…
As the next part of our "Collaboration and Communication" unit, Year 6 worked on a fact file today. That's not so difficult, is it? Well, so they thought. The challenge became harder when they discovered that they couldn't speak to…
Last week, we used our observational skills to draw an island with as much detail as possible. But this week, we were asked to do something completely different - to draw the simplest version of it we could! We had…
Earlier this week, Year 6 went to the Sea Life Centre. The next day, we used Google Docs to write up out own blog post/recounts of the visit. We hope you enjoy reading them! Click on the links below to…
This term, we are working on the unit "Communication and Collaboration". Last time, we found out what IP addresses mean and their function, and this week we moved on to Data Packages. We explored what this means and how they…