A brilliant first term!

Year 6 have had a fantastic first term. Everyone has shown a good attitude to their learning and really enjoyed our Apollo 2011 topic.

Well done to Sam and Ryan for their success at the Ashton Park Cross Country event on Wednesday. They will go on to represent Bristol in November.

The photos this week show a range of activities from this term.

Looking forward to next term already!

A week of special guests

Year 6 have had another busy and unusual week!

Celso Paco - On Monday Celso came into school to tell our stories through music. It was brilliant to have him back in school again and we enjoyed hearing the stories he told and listening to the music.

Radio Bristol - On Thursday Ben Prater from Radio Bristol visited Year 6. He talked to us about being a journalist and answered our questions. This was later broadcast on the radio. If you missed it you can find it on BBC i-player.

Astronaut Day - Also on Thursday we had our Astronaut Day. Many of us came in space themed fancy dress. Our parents came in to see what we had been doing in the afternoon and everyone had a great time.
Thank you very much to the parents who joined us on Thursday, hope you enjoyed it.

See you next week

Day and Night

Literacy - we have been continuing to look at journalistic writing this week. We have written a newspaper report using headlines to think of a story. Max was star of the week for his. Next Week a journalist for Radio Bristol will be coming to work with us.

Numeracy - this week we have been doing multiplication and division. We completed an investigation into what happens when you multiply odd x odd, even x even and even x odd. We have also looked at prime numbers and factors.

Topic - We have been learning about how Day and Night happens and how seasons happen. We used a ball and a torch to explain this. If you are able to come to our Astronaut Day we will teach you.

Hope to see lots of you at Astronaut Day.

(Photos to follow - camera download lead has gone AWOL!)

Interviews

We have had another busy week in Year 6.

Numeracy - We have been looking at number patterns, square numbers and using multiplication facts to help us find related division facts. Some of the investigations we have done were very difficult. Well done to Kara who managed to get everything correct today!

Literacy - This week we have started learning about Journalistic writing. We have read news reports and looked for who, what, when, where and why in the reports we have read. Yesterday we planned an interview and today we filmed them. They will be available to view on our Astronaut day. The classroom has been buzzing with excitement during the planning and filming.

No Pens Wednesday - We had great fun on Wednesday using no pens. We all created an invitation to our Astronaut day for our parents using letters from newspapers and magazines.

Poetry Party - On Thursday we had a poetry party with Year 4. We read the poems we had written to each other. It was good fun and we are hoping to do it again soon.

The Solar System

Year 6 have made a great start to the school year and they are working very hard.

Numeracy -
We have been designing and costing our own lunar theme park. We have been practicing our multiplication, addition and subtraction.
Next week we will be learning about number patterns.

Literacy
We have been reading and writing poems. We have written some excellent poems using personification, similes and metaphors. Our anthology of poetry will be in the library soon for everyone to read. Today we read our poems to each other and we are hoping to read them to other classes next week.
Next week we will be beginning to learn about Journalistic writing.

TopicThis week we have continued to learn about Space and prepare for our Apollo Mission. We researched planets in groups and presented this to each other.
Next week we will be learning about how day and night happen.

Well done to everyone that handed in their homework this week.

Healthy Schools Week

Sorry for the lateness of the blog, we have had a very very busy and varied few weeks!

Last week was Healthy School Week and we did lots of activties about healthy eating and exercise. Every morning we did a workout with the rest of the school in the playground. We also enjoyed a mix up session where we created a healthy lunchbox working in mixed aged groups.

On Wednesday was our sports Day. Everyone was excellent in their races and congratulations to the Green Team who won the event with 60 points!

On Friday we went to The Festival of Sports at Merchants Academy where we participated in a variety of sports. It was a fantastic day and everyone was well behaved.

Photos to follow - the batteries are on charge!

Please look in Year 5 Blog this week!

Hello!

To see the Year 6 Blog please look in Year 5 as for some reason when logging in it went to the Year 5 page.

Sorry!!!

Mrs Noble