Japanese school and Hogwarts.

Firstly apologies for lack of blog the last few weeks, I have had problems logging on.

It has been a busy, unusual and exciting week in Year 6. On Monday we visited the Japanese School in London. The children had great fun with their Japanese friends and joined in with lots of activities including cleaning the school after lunch. They were very well behaved and performed the Butter Peas dance really enthusiastically.

On Thursday we had a First Aid Workshop with the Red Cross and learnt about treating burns, the recovery position and how to apply a bandage.

Today Luckwell School become Hogwarts! We made some disgusting potions and did some good writing about travelling on the Hogwarts Express. Professor Snape visited the school and was very impressed with the potions.

Next week is a more normal week.

Poetry and Problem Solving

Numeracy - This week we have been problem solving. Some of the problems we were solving were very difficult but everyone showed great 'stickability'. We have learnt that we need to read the questions properly to avoid making simple mistakes.

Literacy - We have been writing more poems this week. We have written poems using similes, metaphors and imagery. We wrote a whole class poem called Fantastic Facts which is at the bottom of the Blog. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it.

Topic - this week we learnt how day and night happen and have created information pages about this. We have also started looking at motivating and the Learning Stances we use in school.

Our stopping and listening to instructions has been much much better this week.

Fantastic Facts

In the Bahamas
They grow bananas
In pyjamas

No one eats Vindaloo
In Peru
Because there is no loo

The fish in France
Go to dance
In their spotty pants

In Peru
They go to the loo
In a two

A man in Japan
Was making Spam
And spanked a man with a frying pan
In Mexico
If you hit your toe
It is one mighty blow

In Japan
The kangaroos
Go Bang

In America
They don’t wear shoes
I don’t know why

People in France
Always stare at people
Not wearing pants

People in Greece
Always have Peace
Because there is no police


The turtle in Turkey
Does not like
Cheese jerky

In Paraguay
The frogs always die
Don’t ask me why

People in Spain
Wash their clothes
With the fireman’s hose

The fish in France
Have ants
In their pants

On the red giant
They have lots of Clients
That have studied science


On a rocket
There is a sprocket
Don’t try to block it

An Asteroid Belt
Would never melt
Unless it got hit by a flying Celt

In the Black Hole
There lives a mole
That spins in a bowl

The Milky Way
Likes to sway
And lives with a stingray

Uranus
Is courageous
And is quite humungous


Comets sit on
Bonnets watching
Wallace and Gromit

Aliens
Eat onions
And have bunions

Jupiter
Is super
Cool as a cucumber

In a rocket
On Halleys Comet
Live Wallace and Gromit


By Year 6

Senora Tirivangano

Numeracy - this week we have done some more data handling and been getting to grips with mean, median, mode and range. We have also been estimating and measuring.

Literacy - We have started looking at poetry this week. We have read poems with examples of personification, similes and metaphors. We have written some of our own poems and written some poems in groups.

Topic - We started the week with our WOW! by setting off a rocket and eating astronaut food. This week we learnt about the Solar System and what it is made up of. We made factfiles about The Sun, completed a quiz about the planets and learnt the phases of the Moon.

Visitors - we have been very lucky this week to have a German student and a teacher from Mozambique working with us. We learnt some German and Portguese. Senora Tirivangano showed us some of the jewellery she made with the children in Mozambique and talked to us about Matacuane School.

Art week

Literacy - this week we have written biogrpahies about famous people. Some of the people we have written about are William Shakespeare, Florence Nightingale, Anne Frank, Wayne Rooney and Martin Luther King. They are very good and hopefully our parents can read them soon.

Numeracy - we have been doing work on Data Handling this week. We looked at pie charts and drew some. The questions we had to answer were tricky but we managed to do them. We have also done some work on Mean, Median, Mode and Range.

Topic - This week in our topic we have been doing Art. We listened to The Planets by Gustav Holst and used the images we imagined to draw pictures. We also drew pastel pictures of Planet Landscapes and worked in groups to make collages of the planets.

Next week we will be doing Poetry in literacy, more data handling and learning more about the planets in our topic.

RE and Lifeskills

Literacy - This week we have been continuing our work on biographies. We have done more research on the biography of Neil Armstrong. Next week we will be writing biographies about famous people.

Numeracy - We have completed a challenge about setting up our own Theme Parks on the moon. This has involved lots of calculaions which everyone has done very well with.

Topic - This week Year 6 have been learning about religious Heroes and Leaders. They worked very well in teams to produce posters and presentations about the The Life of Muhammad.

Lifeskills - Year 6 learnt a lot at Lifeskills about keepig safe. Next week we will be doing an Assembly to the school about the things we learnt.

plasticine madness!

In Literacy we have been focusing on narrative and using VCOP in our writing. We have been focusing on planning stories and writing them in 45 minutes.

In Numeracy we been learning about using formula and looking for patterns. Some of it has been quite difficult!

This week we have made a start on our Plasticine garden. We learnt about the parts of the flower and the lifecycle of a plant. This helped us to make detailed flowers.

Our science challenge was - Water travels up the stem of a plant - Prove it! We have put carnations in coloured water to see if the petals change.

On Wednesday we did our class assembly.

Patrick was star of the week, Ruby was singer of the week and Jamie was man of the match at Football.