Year 6: The Tigers: Blog items
Takeover Day: Letter To Parents, by Mr Coxhead
Date: 5th Jul 2017 @ 11:38am
Below is a letter from Daniel and Matthew (our Year 6 pupils who have taken on the roles of Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher for the day):
Dear Parents,
Today Year 6 pupils have taken over teaching for the day as a reward they have earned. There are around 4 pupils teaching each class and have been given a timetable for the day.
Reception has been doing some amazing phonics work, music lessons too and all the teachers are doing a good job. Year 1 have enjoyed doing PE involving throwing and catching and for a treat, football. They also did guided reading work with the teachers helping each child. Year 2 have done some great science work finding out about bugs and have looked all over the bog garden to find some. Year 3 have started off today by doing some fantastic singing. They then did science, learning about flowers and purposes of them. Year 4 have been doing some math problem solving involving multiplication work, after that they work on GPS. Year 5 were doing spelling on suffixes and play rehearsal for their big performance night ahead of them.
Yours Sincerely, Mr Holmes (Deputy Head)
Mr Stillings (Head Teacher)
Deepdale Duck visited school, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 29th Jun 2017 @ 1:24pm
Graffiti art on Thursday , by Miss Leigh
Date: 25th May 2017 @ 1:19pm
We are in the process of creating some graffiti art. Here are a few photos from our morning.
Wednesday , by Miss Leigh
Date: 25th May 2017 @ 8:20am
On Wednesday we moved around different activities.
We had to produce a piece of artwork as a group. Can you guess what these are?
Tuesday , by Miss Leigh
Date: 23rd May 2017 @ 1:59pm
We worked together as a tribe to create our very own rainforest. Hope you love it as much as we do. Well done Bears.
Sports Day 2017, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 21st May 2017 @ 11:46am
Sports Day was a great success. The children had lots of fun and displayed amazing teamwork and behaviour throughout every activity.
Thank you to everyone who came along to support the afternoon.
Our Learning 24th April , by Miss Leigh
Date: 24th Apr 2017 @ 5:58pm
Our learning this week:
Math : Fractions- addition and subtraction of unlike fractions, equivalent fractions and fractions on a number line.
English: Using commas to correctly punctuate subordinate clauses, ei and ie words, and descriptive writing. We will even be doing a little drama to consider the feelings and experineces of characters and will be having a go at using this to improve our writing. We will be editing and improving our work each day.
Science: Plant Life cycles
Art: Drawing large scale leaves, enlarging sketches
RE/PHSE: Judasim. The 10 commandments. What would life be like without rules?
PE: Skill development and gymastics (Monday and Tuesday)
Geography: Layers of the rainforest. Why do animals and plants live in particular layers?
Homework this week will be an extended writing piece. It will be due in on 3rd May. We will use this writing in our work on Thursday 4th May.
Art, by Miss Leigh
Date: 21st Apr 2017 @ 2:04pm
The front of school is looking rather beautiful so instead of drawing flowers from a vase, we ventured out and sketched what we saw. We focused on drawing what we could see and trying to show depth in our sketches.
Wecome back to the Summer Term , by Miss Leigh
Date: 18th Apr 2017 @ 3:09pm
Welcome back and I hope you've had a chocolatly visit from the Easter Bunny and had plenty of great adventures in the 2 weeks off. Today has been a wonderful start to the Summer term with the sun welcoming us to a very exciting week ahead.
Our theme this term is Amazon Adventure
English - We will be writing descriptions of tropical rainforests and begining to read our class novel. Journey to the River Sea.
Guided Reading - this week will be slightly different with us focusing on whole class reading activities. We will be using Kensuke's Kingdom to do this.
Maths- Mean, Mode and Median followed by exploring decimals and application of decimals in context.
Art: We will be looking at and sketching different kinds of leaves
PE: Will be Gymnastics and we will be working on ABC with Dylan.
Science: We will begin our work on life cycles, starting with plants.
Geography : We will learn about the 2 different kinds of Rainforest as well as where they are located and how they are different.
I have also sent home thi terms curriculumn outline.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Miss Leigh
Speedy maths, by Miss Leigh
Date: 30th Mar 2017 @ 1:52pm
Sometimes you get that excited about maths you just have to grab the nearest thing you can so that you can solve the problem. Great work Bears! 
Next week , by Miss Leigh
Date: 25th Mar 2017 @ 12:12pm
Hope you are all enjoying the sunshine and don't forget to give those special cards to that special person tomorrow.
Next week is going to be busy but lots of fun.
In Maths: We'll be learning about Capacity, Volume and converting units of weight and length.
In English we will continue to read "The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm" and writing our own chapter about another wacky invention of his, which is bound to cause chaos.
In GPS: It will be Hypens, Brackets and Dashes, as well as a recap of prefixes and suffixes from this term.
Science: We will be exploring Air Resistance a little more and what happens if it is increased or decreased.
Art and ICT will focus on creating electronically pieces inspired by Islamic Art and the house of Wisdom.
PE: We will be working with Coach Dylan on ball skills
PHSE: Collaberation and working together.
Finally, we have something to prepare for our Easter assembly in Church on Friday afternoon and not forgetting the Easter bonnet and Egg show Thursday afternoon.
Homework for this week: English is due Tuesday, Maths- Wednesday.
Enjoy the sunshine. 
Finger painting , by Miss Leigh
Date: 23rd Mar 2017 @ 1:57pm
Spending an hour painting with our fingers....I wonder what we are making?
Hothersall lodge photographs, by Miss Leigh
Date: 22nd Mar 2017 @ 2:45pm
Here are just a few of the photographs from our residential. We hope you enjoy looking at them.
Vitruvian man , by Miss Leigh
Date: 13th Mar 2017 @ 3:03pm
With our topic being inventions and inventors we have started looking at famous inventors. In Science, we have looked at the work of Leonardo da Vinci, and have explored his work on the vitruvian man. We measured our height and then tested his ideas against ourselves. Most of the time we found he was correct, however, occasionally they didn't work. We discussed why this might be and think it is because we are still growing and not an adult yet.
Properties of shape, by Miss Leigh
Date: 13th Mar 2017 @ 10:51am
This morning we have been exploring the properties of 3D shapes. Some of the questions required us to think aoutside the box, but we managed it!
London 2017, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 4th Mar 2017 @ 1:02pm
Carla, Keira, Gracie , Sara and Molly went to London with 51 other children from local primary schools. The purpose of the visit was for members of school parliaments to visit the Palace of Westminster to find out more about how parliament works. The girls had a great time seeing the sights of London including Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. On our tour of Westminster the girls went into the queens robing room, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. They also took part in a workshop called Ypur Voice. They will be sharing more of their day in an assembly .
Forces in Action, by Miss Leigh
Date: 22nd Feb 2017 @ 12:00pm
We have been exploring friction today.
We were challenged to lift a bottle using only rice, a pencil and friction. We had to figure it out and then explain why it happened.
We also had to use chopsticks to move Jelly from one bowl to another. However, there was a problem! Oil in one bowl made this a challenge. Can you think why?
Parents Safer Internet, by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th Jan 2017 @ 8:52pm
Click here for the PowerPoint for the Parents Safer Intenet
Drawing the moon , by Miss Leigh
Date: 16th Jan 2017 @ 3:58pm
We've had a messy afternoon having a go at drawing the surface of the moon. We have used charcoal to try and produce a range of different shadows and textures.
Here is some of our work.
Christmas card challenge, by Miss Leigh
Date: 22nd Dec 2016 @ 11:21am
This morning we have been designing and building towers of Christmas cards. We tested them to find out how much weight they held.
Have a look at what we did!
ABC in PE , by Miss Leigh
Date: 12th Dec 2016 @ 9:29am
We've been loving our Monday sessions with Dylan from Elite Sports. We have been developing our Agility, Balance and coordination skills. It has been a lot of fun as well.
Have a look at us in action.
Count down to Christmas , by Miss Leigh
Date: 1st Dec 2016 @ 3:11pm
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas or Narnia now that Aslan has arrived.
We have been busy making posters for the winter warmer and have made some amazing decorations for the Christmas trees in the hall.
We have started our countdown to Christmas by taking a few photographs. Here are some of our favourites
By Molly and Sara
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe , by Miss Leigh
Date: 18th Nov 2016 @ 3:52pm
I'm sure you've all been hearing about the wonderful adventures of Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter. We've been reading the story and have begun to explore the mysterious world that is Narnia. What an interesting place it seems to be. Imagine living in a place where it's always winter and never Christmas!
The children have been working very hard looking at historical language and trying to use it. We've written diarys and letters. We've debated if Mr Tumnus can be trusted and if is his really a good Faun! We are glad that Lucy decided to go with him, although we know that going with strangers is not something we should ever do. We have found lots of evidence of the characters trusting each other and when their trust has been tested.
We've just met Mr and Mrs Beaver and have heard about Aslan. What will happen next?
Rota Kids , by Miss Leigh
Date: 27th Oct 2016 @ 4:32pm
A few weeks ago we had a visit from Tom to talk to us about Rota Kids and the charitable work which we can undertake. As a class we decided to become part of Rota Kids and today we held our elections. Many of the class put themselves forwards for election, making a short presentation about the qualities they could bring to the position. After listening carefully to the campaigns we held our very own election will ballot papers. It was a very close race!
The Results
President: Nathan
Secretary: Molly
Finance Officer: Nicholas
Congratulations to the successful candidates. We will update you on what we decide to do for our first charitable event.
