Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items
Mathematicians at work, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 24th Apr 2024 @ 10:24pm
Today the class have been busy classifying, measuring and calculating angles in maths as well as doing some arithmetic and reasoning. We also enjoyed some time outside in the sunshine this afternoon.
Busy Elephants, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 23rd Apr 2024 @ 8:48pm
It has been another busy day for Year 6. The day started with the morning task , a GPS quiz activity. Next was arithmetic, followed by maths where we consolidataed yesterday's learning about coordinates learning how to translate shapes. After play was reading response and spelling. The morning finished with revision of coordinating and subordinate conjunctions and noun phrases.
The afternoon was split into 2 sessions. The first session started with 3 maths reasoning questions followed by a lesson on reflections. At 2 o'clock the class ventured outside for a cricket lesson with Stuart a Lancashire coach.
Brilliant Start to the Term, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 22nd Apr 2024 @ 2:42pm
Year 6 have made a briiliant start to the summer term. As SATS approach they are working hard to make sure their knowledge and skills in reading, GPS and maths are where they want them to be.
Throughout last week they showed huge amounts of grit and determination to work hard and use previous learning to aid their work.
On Friday GPS revision was done through a mystery solving game and maths through playing board games. Great fun was then had as the children planned and began to make their own games. When the games are finished the children will play each others creations.
Alice in Wonderland Production, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 2:49pm
What a show! Longton children had the pleasure of enjoying a fantastic production of Alice in Wonderland on Monday.
Wonderful Elephants, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 8:30pm
Elephants you have reached the en of another term and what a busy one it has been. An amazing residential, World Book Day, Science Week, your leavers hoodies and your well earned Year 6 role model shield.
As well as all of the above you have continued to work hard and strive to be the best versions of yourselves.
This afternoon was fantastic, watching you carry out the science investigations you had planned using the new Electro Snaps kits , the tests were all fair and some excellent conclusions have been reached.
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Scientists at Work!, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 17th Mar 2024 @ 4:49pm
Science week saw the Elephants taking part in a whole school investigation where each class looked at the different factors that affect how many times a biscuit can be dunked. Our question was does the amount of sugar in a biscuit affect how many times it can be dunked before it breaks. Each child wrote a prediction, joined in the investigation which was great fun. They recorded their results on carefully drawn tables, calculated averages, created scatter graph and then wrote conclusions.
We shared this work with Year 6 at New Longton via Zoom.
On Thursday lots of investigations were carried out using Electro Snaps kits to craeate a range of different circuits. The circuits then had to be drawn using the correct symbols.
New Longton Year 6 shared some of their science work with us on Thursday afternoon.
Y6 Rock Stars, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 8:29pm
Year 6 have had a lovely day celebrating their last World Book Day at Longton.
The day began with an assembly where the class listened to a wonderful story called Multiplying Menace, The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin. This was a maths themed story involving multiplication of integers and fractions.
Following the assembly half of the class went to the library with their Year 1 buddies. They had a great time and came back with beautiful handmade bookmarks. The children who staued in school worked as a team to write the opening to the whole school story The Battle of the Odd and Even Numbers. They then began to write their own books. The children chose to write stories about rockstars or a maths theme. In the afternoon the children swapped what they were doing meaning that the remainder of the class were able to visit the library with their buddies. As well as writing their stories and making the most amazing book covers the children had the opportunity to complete a book themed code busting puzzle.
As the children worked they listened to and sang along to a range of pop and rock music.
The day finished with another assembly to share the finshed wholes school assesmbly which was fabulous.
Thank you for all your efforts with the costumes, the children all looked fantastic.
Library visit, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 11:10am
Year 1 enjoyed their story session at the library with their buddies, they took part in a scavenger hunt and made a book mark. A great start to world book day,
Another Busy Week !, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 10:45am
Year 6 have had another very busy week of learning and fun. The children did an amazing job this week researching and presenting the route they may take into future careers. We backed this activity up watching children with physical and learning differences talk about thier aspirations.
The Elephants have been flying in maths this week showing a real enjoyment and understanding of algebra.
Our learning about famous scientisist and innovators has come to an end and to finish the unit I challenged the children to become innovators and they have come up with some stunning ideas.
In DT I was very impressed with the way in which every single member of the class has cut out their pattern then attached it to fabric of their choice and then cut the pieces out. The sewing process has started and the finished garments are fantastic.
We have now reached the end of this half term and as a team we are so proud of the progress the children have made.
Thank you to the families who attended last night's SATs meeting, I have uploaded the PowerPoint and a copy of the Year 6 SATs word document to the class page of the website.
I will also put a copy of the activities we are doing at High Adventure on the class page , the document has another copy of the suggested kit list at the bottom. Please remember the children will need a packed lunch in a reusable contatiner and a drinks bottle for the first day.
Wishing you all a great half term
Mrs Fletcher
Elephant Update, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 2:11pm
The Elephants have had a very busy week, as usual. Lots of great work in English and maths. The children impressed Mrs Brown so much on Tuesday with their learning when she visited our English lesson that she awarded them 2 class compliments.
In Geography this week the class have been learning about Greenwich Meant time and how this relates to lines of longitude particularly the Prime Meridian.
We have had 2 science lessons this wee, one a live BBC lesson the adaptation of sharks which was great and the other continuing our learning about famous scientists. This week the children did amazing jobs reseraching the life and work of Dr Daniel Hale Williams which they have presented in the form of biographies.
In RE our learning was around Hajj the pilgrimage that Muslims aim to take part in once in a life time.
Well done for being so wonderful Elephants , be ready to sew next week youve got waistcoats to make!
The Rest of The Week, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 27th Jan 2024 @ 9:45am
Wednesday
Phonics
Spelling
Reading Response - Brian Cox
Maths check up - arithmetic and reasoning paper 1
Geography - investigating if there are links between latitude and longtitude and biomes/climate
Singing assembly
Thursday
Phonics
Spelling
Reading Response - Marcus Rashford
Maths check up - reasoning paper 2
English - modal verbs
Science - Learning about Marie Maynard Daly and her work on the affects of sugar and cholestorol on the body .
Friday
Music
Drama
Computing
Cricket
Art
Busy Elephants, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 8:46pm
Monday 22nd January
Morning task - phonics activity
Spelling - Look Say Cover Write Check for this week's new words
Reading Response - Biography of Bear Grylls
GPS and spelling check up
DT - design a waistcoat for a soft toy
PE - dribbling, passing and shooting skills in hockey
Maths - introduction to the ratio sign :
Tuesday 23rd January
Morning task - phonics activity
RE -What is Ummah and why is it important to Muslims?
Reading Check up
Maths - fractions and ratio
In the afternoon we completed our maths , did a relaxation Yoga session in the hall and completed our RE
Friday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 11:47am
This morning the children have fun playing a variety of instruments in music. This was followed by more work on Macbeth in drama. Computing has been a successful lesson with a clas compliment being awarded by Miss Sanders.
This afternoon the children are looking forward to cricket and art.
Wednesday and Thursday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 7:57am
Wednesday
Morning task - phonics
Spelling - a class favourite today- pyramid words.
Reading - last session developing our summarising skills
Maths - fluent in five, reasoning and we started our new unit, ratio looking at additive and multiplicative aspects to help us know when we need to add or multiply.
English - a writing focus today using our learning about formal and informal language to write a formal letter in the role of Percy Jackson's headteacher and then an informal letter in the role of Percy to his best friend Grover.
Afternoon - personal development activities with Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Doherry in LPS+
Thursday
Morning task finishing our letters / reading own books
Spelling - check up
Reading - a full VIPERS session today reading about Tim Berners Lee a British man who was pivotal in the development of the world wide web
Science - researching the life and work of Libbie Hyman who specialised in the classification of invertebrates
Maths - fluent in five - a double lot of questions this afternoon followed by a lesson looking at the language of ratio
English - we started to revise modal verbs which we will continue next week.
Well done Elephants you have worked hard this week and it shows in your the quality of the work you have produced. I am very proud of you all.
Monday and Tuesday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 9:13pm
Monday
Phonics
Spelling - feeling the shape of this week's words
Reading - this week we are focusing on developing our summarising skills.
Geography - finding longtitude and latitude coordinates of given captial cities
Maths - learnning about imperial measures
PE - passing, dribblind and tackling in hockey
English - rewriting informal sentences in a more formal manner.
Tuesday
Phonics
Spelling - using each of our spellings in a sentence to show that we understand their meaning.
Reading - more summarising skills this time using a poenm as our text
Fluent in Five
First Aid - one and a half hours learning first aid skills. Everyone did brilliantly.
Maths - making sure that we really undersatnd imperial measures.
English - revising word classes by picking words from a given list , identifying their word class and then writing a definition of the word to show what it measns as part of that class.
Update, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 11:49am
WOW this week has gone so quickly.
Thursday
Phonics
Spelling check on this week's spellings.
Reading - learning about the discovery of DNA.
Science researching the life and work of Stephen Hawking and making our own black holes.
English - choosing our own area of focus - complete sentences, correcting punctuation errors or identifying the subject, verb , object within sentences.
Maths - fluent in five, reasoning and then converting miles into kilometers and vice versa.
Friday
Music
Drama
Computing
Sport
Art
The class have settled back into learning really well and have had an amazing week. They have loved the new timetable so we have started 2024 in the best way possible.
Have a great weekend everyone
Mrs Fletcher
Welcome Back, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 10th Jan 2024 @ 2:35pm
Happy New Year .
On behalf of myself, Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Doherty I would like to thank you for all of the lovely gifts we received at Christmas.
Our week so far :
MONDAY
Morning task - phonics
Spelling adding cial and tial
Reading response - Alan Turing
Geography - learning about longtitude and latitude
English - writing new endings for The Highwayman poem
PE - passing skills in hockey
Maths - metric measures
TUESDAY
Morning task
Spelling - look, say, cover, write, check
Reading - Alexander Fleming
RE- The Five Pillars of Islam
Jigsaw - dreams and goals
Maths - converting metric measures
English - research facts about a given Greek god or goddess
WEDNESDAY
sale
Morning Task
Spelling - speedy spell
Reading response - Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace
Maths - calculating wit mteric measures
English - discussing our new text
DT - preparing for our enterprise
Elephant Catch Up, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 9:42am
Thursday
The morning was spent researching interesting facts about 6 major world religions - the class loved this - and creating amazing mind maps to showcase all of their knowledge from the autumn terms learnong.
The afternoon was spent partying at the Year 5 and 6 Christmas party. Theo, Poppy and Sienna did an amazing job as DJs/
Friday
Christmas cards and carols in French
Computing
Dodgeball
Thank you to you all for your support this term it is very much appreciated. Thank you also for the gifts and cards myself, Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Doherty have received. It is very kind of you to think of us at this time of year.
We hope that you all have a very lovely Christmas and we will see you in January.
Best wishes
Mrs Fletcher, Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Doherty.
Christmas part Y5&6, by Mr Pearson
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 2:36pm
The annual Christmas party was enjoyed by all.
Wonderful Wednesday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 2:39pm
Today started with a whole school rehearsal for the Carol Service on Friday, the class did a fantastic job of reciting their poem and earned themselves a class compliment from Mrs Brown.
After a slightly later than usual playtime the rest of the morning was spent doing DT, finishing off the amazing playground structures they have been building.
This afternoon has been a Christmas themed LPS+ session with Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Doherty.
Don't forget tomorrow is Christmas Party day so come dressed ready for a fun filled afternoon.
Elephant Catch Up, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 9:03pm
Monday
Morning task - remove the last e before adding the suufix er or ed
Spelling - splitting this week's words into two lists: cious or tious
Reading - The Yule Lads - Spoon Licker , a story from Iceland
Maths - fluent in five, reasoning, mixed questions with fractions
English - present perfect and past perfect verb tenses
Science - lots of Christmas fun completing our investigations into how mirrors work.
Tuesday
Phonics - correcting misspelt words
Spelling - using this week's spellings in sentences
Maths - fluent in five, reasoning, finding fractions of amounts
English - planning a new ending to The Highwayman
DT - working hard to finish our amazing playgrounds.
Thursday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 9:34pm
Today has been very busy and lots of fun too.
Morning Task - grammar task
Spelling - check up of this week's spellings.
Maths - double fluent in five followed by more dividing fractions.
Fun videos with sining and dancing to help us remember grammar and punctuation
Christmas dinner followed by a long playtime and a movie afternoon.
Wednesday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 13th Dec 2023 @ 2:24pm
Here's what we have been up to today :
Morning task - phonics activity to correct spellings
Spelling - using this week's spellings in sentences to improve our vocabulary.
Guided Reading - The final chapter of The Night Before The Night Before Christmas.
Maths - Fluent in Five, reasoning and then we learnt to divide any fraction by an integer 4/6 x 2 = 4/12
English - developing our understaning of adverbs and adverbials, how they are used in sentences, whar they modify and how we punctuate sentences containing them.
This afternoon LPS+ - working on our poem to perform at the Carol Service in church and making calendars.
Tomorrow is Christmas Lunch day so Christmas jumpers can be worn along with the usual uniform skirts and trousers.
Tuesday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 8:33pm
Our day
Morning task - phonics changing the y to i and adding er and est to words such as happy.
Spelling - box dictation which is where we write the words by writing letters in the correctly shaped boxes.
Guided Reading - today we read The Night Before The Night Before Christmas Chaoter 2. Today was a vocabulary focus.
Maths - Fluent in Five and Reasoning followed by divison of fractions by integers.
English - we identified literary features in a narrative poem .
DT - we continued to work on building the structures for our playground projects. They are beginning to look really good.
Homework Help, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 11:19pm
There are a number of documents and a powerpoint on the class website page to assist with maths and grammar homework