Year 6: The Meerkats: Blog items
Maths, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 8th May 2019 @ 4:53pm
What great problem solving and reasoning in maths today. We are great at partition.
Maths Fun, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 26th Apr 2019 @ 4:16pm
This week we have been learning about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. We have drawn them, played games and made them. I wonder how many shapes you can find in your homes...
Thank you to the parents who joined us for an afternoon of making shapes.
Art, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 3rd Apr 2019 @ 7:09pm
We have spent the afternoon colour mixing using water colours in preparation for painting a picture based on the story Jim and the Beanstalk. We have also been playing and designing our own time games.
Remember Easter Bonnets tomorrow and Easter service on Friday.
Fun at the park, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 29th Mar 2019 @ 4:46pm
A morning of playing. Class compliment accomplished.
We’re going on a there hunt..., by Mrs McLennan
Date: 28th Mar 2019 @ 4:24pm
We have been learning about homophones and the different meanings/spellings of there, their and they’re. We went on a there hunt but we weren’t scared.
Performance, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 20th Mar 2019 @ 4:09pm
Final rehearsals today went well and we are ready for out first performance tonight. If you child wears a green PE t-shirt they will be seated on the far left, yellow left, blue right and red far right of the stage.
Enjoy!
Termly Plan, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 20th Mar 2019 @ 4:04pm
Church visit, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 18th Mar 2019 @ 4:02pm
After visiting the Hindu Temple on Wednesday, we visited the St Andrew’s church. We spent half an hour quietly sitting, reflecting and sketching.
Play information, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 18th Mar 2019 @ 3:59pm
We have been working hard over the last week in our rehearsals and we’re nearly ready. The performances are on Wednesday and Thursday evening. Children will need to return to school between 5:30 and 5:40. We have costumes in school. If your child is unable to attend, please could you let me know. Many thanks.
Hindu temple visit, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 13th Mar 2019 @ 12:27pm
Namaste. We have been inspired by our trip to the Hindu temple. We were awed by the shrines, the paintings of Gods on the ceilings and the offerings being made. We even did some meditating.
Play songs, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Mar 2019 @ 9:31pm
We are busy practising for our play next week.
Here you should be able to click on the songs and practise singing them at home.
Charity Toy Sale, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 11th Mar 2019 @ 8:38pm
Thank you to everyone who supported our Toy sale over the last 2 weeks, whether you donated or bought.
The children voted on the charity they wished to support, with an overwhelming majority they chose Guide Dogs for the Blind.
We are contacting them to arrange for them to come into school so we can present them with the money and find out a little more about the work they do.
THANKYOU we raised £
Library visit, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 8th Mar 2019 @ 10:14am
A visit to see Tom at the library to celebrate the wonder of story. We listened to three stories and had the chance to make lots of sound effects...happy reading!
Seed observation , by Mrs McLennan
Date: 8th Mar 2019 @ 8:09am
We spent the afternoon observing a range of seeds. We used hand lenses to observe the detail more closely, drew pictures and measured carefully.
Pebbles, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 4th Mar 2019 @ 4:27pm
Today we have been using conjunctions in our writing to extend our ideas. We were writing sentences with happy and sad endings.
I wonder if your costume is sorted for World Book day yet...could you bring in your favourite book to share and a pebble too. The pebble needs to be a similar size to last time: not too big, not too small, just right!
Maths, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 1st Mar 2019 @ 5:27pm
Continuing with the theme of Jim and the beanstalk, today we used our maths skills to make a giant footprint. Firstly we drew round our foot then measured the length and width. We doubled these numbers using our addition skills to make a footprint twice as big as our own. We couldn’t believe how much bigger it looked. For some of us we doubled this again so that our new footprint really was gigantic in size.
Art, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 28th Feb 2019 @ 4:04pm
Our theme for the term is Diggin’ it and so we have started by reading the story Jim and the beanstalk written by Raymond Briggs. Following on from this we have improved our observational skills in drawing leaves and have pressed leaves on to clay to see the imprint and detail.
Musical mayhem, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 15th Feb 2019 @ 3:33pm
What a week! We have made our instruments and are really pleased with them. We thought about what materials we would use, how we would join each part and how we would decorate it so it didn’t look like a cardboard box! I wonder if this has made us want to be a designer or a musician.
Gymnastic and dance fun - Year 2, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th Feb 2019 @ 12:43pm
Year 2 enjoyed a morning at Priory yesterday, taking part in a gymnastic and dance festival along with lots of other schools. They thoroughly enjoyed it and received a special certificate -The spirit of the games - very well done!
A big thank you to Mrs Taylor for helping with the event.
RE and science, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 8th Feb 2019 @ 4:06pm
Another busy week has gone by with lots of learning. Mrs Cowburn and I are really pleased with how hard everyone is working. In maths we’ve had lots of fun playing clock games, this afternoon we have been creative in designing a page on Hindu Gods. Next week, we will make our musical instrument. We have designed a prototype and thought about the materials we might use based on our science learning. If you have any cardboard, tubs etc please bring in next week.
Projects, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 1st Feb 2019 @ 4:54pm
A few pictures of our projects. Mrs Cowburn and I have been really impressed with your creative designs and look forward to seeing more designing next week when we design our musical instruments. I wonder if all our science work will help us when we think what materials to use. On that note, next week, if you have any empty boxes or containers, please do bring them into school as we might use them as part of the instrument’s structure.
Clock design , by Mrs McLennan
Date: 29th Jan 2019 @ 3:44pm
This afternoon we have made clocks in preparation for telling the time. Luckily we already know from our fraction work what halves and quarters are. I wonder if this will help us?
Maths, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 24th Jan 2019 @ 4:31pm
This week we have been finding fractions of amounts. We are really confident now and have been sharing our learning with each other. In science, we have investigated materials that are stretchy. I wonder what the stretchiest material in the world is.
Science, by Mrs McLennan
Date: 17th Jan 2019 @ 4:14pm
As part of our topic ‘Design Away’ we started the afternoon listening to the story Rosie Revere, Engineer. She’s an inventor who makes gadgets from different materials. We then used our senses to try and guess objects that were hidden in a bag and then sort the objects into groups. Could the objects be squashed or not?
