Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items
Yoga, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 12th May 2018 @ 11:28am
We tried yoga with Emma. We followed a story as we learned different yoga positions.
Week Beginning Monday 14th May 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 12th May 2018 @ 11:26am
Hello
Here is what we are doing next week:
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English |
We are writing information booklets about banquets - comparing medieval banquets in the past to royal banquets today. |
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Maths |
We are reviewing telling the time to the half hour and learning about position and direction. |
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Reading |
We are choosing the correct pronounciation for graphemes and using clues to answer inference questions. |
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Phonics |
We are reviewing everything we have learned to practise for our phonics check. |
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DT |
We are completing our castle models from last week. |
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Science/Geography |
We are studying the weather at this time of year and learning about weather forecasts. |
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Jigsaw |
We are learning to recognise our qualities as a person and a friend. |
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PE |
We are practising ball skills. |
I look forward to seeing you next week!
Mrs Coxhead
Week Beginning Monday 7th May 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 7th May 2018 @ 1:57pm
Hello,
I hope you have been able to make the most the all the sunny weather this weekend.
This week is a little different than usual as it is our termly check-up week. Children will complete check-ups in Reading, Maths and Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling and Phonics.
Aside from check-ups, we will be making model castles in Design and Technology and learning about materials in Science. In PE we will have a practise of our races for sports day and practise our ball skills.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Many thanks,
Mrs Coxhead
Castle Paintings, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 4th May 2018 @ 5:50pm
We experimented with different colours and brushes in order to create castles pictures.
Scratch Junior, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 4th May 2018 @ 5:49pm
We tinkered on Scratch Junior. We made algorithms that made our characters move.
All stars Cricket, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 4th May 2018 @ 5:47pm
We enjoyed trying cricket with Mark from New Longton.
Week Beginning Monday 30th April 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 28th Apr 2018 @ 1:03pm
Hello :)
I hope that you are enjoying your weekend. Here is what we are doing this week:
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English |
We are learning traditional rhymes, looking for rhyming words, sharing our preferences and writing our own version of a traditional rhyme. |
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Maths |
We are continuing our learning about number and place value. Specifically, we are comparing groups of objects and numbers and ordering groups of objects and numbers. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group are learning about silent letters and Mrs Coxhead's group are learning unusual graphemes for vowel sounds. |
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PE |
On Thursday morning the Cricket Roadshow is coming to Year One so we will learn about and try a little cricket. We are also practising some of our ball skills. |
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Jigsaw |
We are continuing our topic about relationships by learning about people who help us. |
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Computing |
We are using ICT to design castle pictures. |
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Reading |
Books are changed on Friday this week. |
I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,
Mrs Coxhead
Greetings, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 5:46pm
In Jigsaw we were learning about greeting people. We made our own greetings in pairs.
Planning a story about The Three Wishes, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 8:15am
We made story maps to help us plan our stories about The Three Wishes.
Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 7:32am
Friendship was the theme in today's assembly. When we walked into the hall there was a question, that question was what does being a good friend mean to you ? We had a challenge where we had to finish a sentence with a different thing about our friends. One of the sentence starters was my friend is different to me because... we came up with because we are all unique! We then had some time to think about the qualities of our best friend. Good friends listen, so we looked at, the rules of listening. The rules of listening are: be still, look at the speaker, nod and look interested and ask questions that relate on what the speaker is saying. We were talking about how a good friend says nice things to us and how it makes us feel happy. We said that you can give your friends a positive stroke. We don't physically stroke them, but we give them a compliment or say well done. This makes the person you said it to feel happy, just like when you stroke a cat, it feels good and makes them happy and purr.
by Gracie and Abigail
Picture News - British Values - w/c 23rd April, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 27th Apr 2018 @ 7:27am
Sorry for the dealy, I didnt make it go live!
If you have Gracie and Abigail's Assembly Blog from Monday you will have discovered our topic for discussion this week was Loneliness.
Castle and the Sun, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 25th Apr 2018 @ 5:48pm
We looked at Castle and the Sun by Paul Klee and made our own wax resist versions. Here’s the shapes that we began with.
Mondays assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 23rd Apr 2018 @ 8:09pm
Blog written by our year 6 PSHE leaders
Today's assembly was about what does loneliness feel like? Loneliness may be when you are homeless , alone and left out. The U.K., sadly, has loneliness problems. Many people assume that it is just elderly people who are lonely, but 1 in 20 Young people have actually said they are lonely, they are the heart of the problem. Some of the cause of being lonely are if you are starting a new school or if you are just naturally shy. We looked at some pictures with groups of children in them, we had to think, which child was feeling lonely, on one, one of the people were on there own, so we knew that that child was lonely. We then looked at a letter in which a mum had wrote about her daughter because she was shy, had no brother or sisters and the mum was asking for advice. Once we had read the letter we thought of ways we would include the little girl. We had lots of ideas like: invite her to parties, ask her to play a game with you in the playground and make the effort. We got set a challenge to look out for people who were a bit lonely in the playground and see if they would like to play a game with you. We also need to remember that sometimes people aren't lonely, they might just want some alone time.
Week Beginning Monday 23rd April 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 22nd Apr 2018 @ 4:48pm
Hello all :)
I hope you have enjoyed the weekend!
Here is the plan for the week ahead:
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English |
We are reading The Three Wishes by David Melling. We are using exclamation marks and question marks in our writing. |
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Maths |
We are learning about numbers and place value. We are representing numbers using pictures and equipment. We are recognising tens and ones. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group is working on silent letters. Mrs Coxhead's group is working on alternative pronounciations for graphemes. |
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Art |
We are learning about Castle and Sun by Paul Klee (as we didn't manage to in week one!). |
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PE |
We are learning ball skills in our games lessons. |
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Jigsaw |
We are learning about relationships and friendships. |
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Class Assembly |
We are preparing for our class assembly on Wednesday. Thank you for your support in learning lines! The assembly should begin just after 0900. Just go round to the hall and take a seat after you have dropped off your children. |
I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow,
Mrs Coxhead
Good Friends, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 20th Apr 2018 @ 5:29pm
In Jigsaw, we learned about friendships and thought about famous friends in books and on television. We decided what good friends should do in pairs.
Thursday assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Apr 2018 @ 7:07am
In assembly today we started off thinking about the word devotion and what are we devoted to. We shared our thoughts about how we know someone I'd devoted to a football team or a pop band. We listened to a story from India. This story happened 300 years ago! In our reflection we thought about some famous words one of the gurus in our story said. We also thought about how we can be brave and little things we would do that we were, in the past, afraid to do.
Tuesday Assembly Blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 8:53pm
Written by our Year 6 PSHE leaders
Today in our jigsaw assembly we learnt about friendships and relationships. Our title in jigsaw this half term is about friendships. We were talking about how baking a chocolate cake is like making a new friend. We put in our suggestions about the ingredients of a friendship, we had: loyalty, kindness, fun, and a friend that is always our friend. We had some time to think about if we had been kind to our friends today. We always have to remember to listen to our friends, to share with our friends, be kind to our friends and of course have fun with our friends!
Monday Assembly Blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 8:50pm
Written by our year 6 PSHE leaders
Today's assembly was about, how much of our lives should we share with others? In the news this week it said about how lots of people's private information was leaked all over Facebook. We learnt about how things in the past have now changed, like how in the past we would go to the travel agents if we wanted to go on holiday, but now we can go onto the internet and book there instead. We have also been thinking about how you would act in different situations like how you would act when arguing with your brother or sister. Facebook is now thinking about a messenger app for kids, as lots of adults use it. Parents will be able to look at what their child has been doing on this app. It will allow children to communicate even if they do not have a phone number. Our reflection today was about the rules of law and we had a lot of questions.
Picture News - British Values - w/c 16th April, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 16th Apr 2018 @ 8:05am
Please find attached a copy of the picture news resource we will be discussing in assembly this week.
Take some time to chat about it at home.
Week Beginning Monday 16th April 2018, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:45pm
Hello all,
I hope that you are enjoying the sunshine this weekend.
Here is how the week ahead looks:
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Maths |
We are learning about subtraction within twenty and fact families. |
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English |
We are reading The Kiss that Missed by David Melling. We are using joining words in our writing about it. |
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Phonics |
Mrs Thomson's group are learning about silent letters in words. Mrs Coxhead's group are reviewing graphemes that we have found tricky in Phase 5 phonics so far. |
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Guided Reading |
We are working on our inference skills this week. Books will be changed on Friday as normal. |
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PE |
We are continuing to work on our throwing and catching skills and developing bouncing skills. |
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Jigsaw |
We are continuing our relationships topic. |
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Class Assembly |
Thank you for beginning to learn lines for our class assembly. We will be practising this ahead of the performance on Wednesday 25th April (apologies for the confusion with this). |
I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,
Mrs Coxhead
Families, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:33pm
In our Jigsaw lesson, we were learning about what makes a family. We started by finding the rest of our animal family by only making animal noises (no words).
Castles Research, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:25pm
We researched some information about castles. We looked at photos, illustrations and books.
Easter Bonnets, by Mrs Coxhead
Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:11pm
Look at our wonderful bonnets. Apologies for the delay - it’s still seasonal though!
Picture News , by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 11:07pm
Dear parents
Picture News is a resource we use in our assemblies to share and dicusss with the children.
This week our assembly was titled, 'Who does the World belong to?' This also linked with our assembly about 'Earth Day'.
A Picture News - home resources is attached to this blog. Please look out for a parent mail giving you more infomation and look back at the blog each week to find out more about the news topics we will be exploring in school.
Mrs Catterall