Autumn 1

 

Autumn 1 Week 7:

As mathematicians, we have been adding and subtracting fractions this week. Thinking flexibly, we have practised our Year 6 spellings using a range of strategies. Always great 'Green Hat' thinkers in Year 6, we used joining techniques to complete our chairs in DT. Children have been learning about different countries in their Trailblazer Topic; we even had a special visitor to share what life was like living in South Africa.

Autumn 1 Week 7:

In DT, children have designed a product to link with our Crime and Punishment topic in History. Some children designed a throne for a member of the monarchy (past or present), whereas some children designed a torture punishment device. We then used tools, such as: saws, hammers, nails and a glue gun, to join our materials together to create our final products.   

Autumn 1 Week 6:

As writers, Year 6 have collectively showed our Habit of Mind: Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision by learning a setting description through a Talk Map.

Autumn 1 Week 5:

As gymnasts, we have been working interdependently to practise handstands. As musicians, we continued to practise compositions inspired by Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor by Bach. This week, we focused on playing a fast tempo with successive notes. As mathematicians, we have recapped strategies to help our automaticity in maths.

Autumn 1 Week 4:

As musicians, we have been using the xylophones to play a composition using the C major scale. We have included a wobble, a fall and a turnaround in our composition, after listening to a piece of music composed by Sebastian Bach. Listen to some of our compositions below:

 

As writers, we have written, learnt and performed a class 'Talk Map' of a setting description. We have been using subordinating conjunctions in order to write complex sentences, and using our 'Green Hat', we have been applying 'A touch of SPICE' to make our writing more exciting.

Autumn 1 Week 3:

As historians, Year 6 visited the Tower of London this week and travelled back in time to the Tudor period. The children experienced what a prison cell was during these times and heard stories about VIPs (Very Important Prisoners) who were imprisoned for their crimes of treason and heresy. Applying their flexible thinking and working collaboratively as scientists, Year 6 have been investigating how to make a bulb brighter in a circuit by changing variables. Working mathematically, children have been using their mental strategies in order to add and subtract large numbers, crossing the millions boundary. As writers, we have been exploring different word classes. Children have used the Woodland Lodge for their PSHE lesson this week, learning about different strategies to regulate their emotions. 

Autumn 1 Week 2:

Year 6 have settled well into the new academic year, applying our Habits of Mind within their learning. We have launched our topic, 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World', where children have used primary and secondary sources as historians. In science, children have used scientific components to create a circuit. As mathematicians, we have been learning about the composition of larger numbers, reading and writing numbers up to ten million. We have also been using place value counters to represent a given number.