Staffordshire during the Medieval times!
This week in our History lesson we learnt all about what Staffordshire was like during the Medieval times. Y6 engaged really well in this lesson and were shocked to discover that 20 skeletons were unearthed from the Medieval times in our local area! It has been great to get an in sight into the…
Exploring figurative language!
In our reading lessons, we learnt about different types of figurative language and how to spot them in reading texts. Some of these can be tricky to spot however with greater practice I’m sure Y6 will soon be able to spot them with ease!
A Maths Mountain!
This week in Maths, we have been learning how to compare and order numbers up to 10,000,000. To help us order numbers, we used this diagram of a mountain to understand the difference between ascending and descending order. Comparing and ordering numbers can be a tricky skill however Y6 showed…
Amazing Art
Take a look at some of the amazing artwork produced by Year 6 Whales this week! We learnt about the importance of typography in packaging design and then experimented with typography using our first names!
Fantastic flexible partitioning
In maths we used the base ten to help us flexibly partition numbers to 100. We created two groups and wrote the number sentences. This helped us see that numbers can be made up in different ways.
E safety
In computing today we used the I pads to help us search safely online. We used purple mash to search different topics and apply filters.
Super setting descriptions
Sharks class identified features of setting descriptions by text marking and annotating many WAGOLLs before creating our own checklist of an effective setting description.
Superb Science!
This half term we have started our new topic in Science entitled ‘Animals including Humans’. In one of our lessons, we made model hearts using balloons, plastic cups, red food dye and straws! Although it got a little messy we had great fun learning all about the human heart!
Snail trails!
Today we have been investigating the artist Molly Haslund, we created our amazing works of art in her style using chalks and black sugar paper. Molly Haslunds art often contain spirals and circles, we started by using a white chalk to make a snail trail on our paper then we filled the spiral in…
Pre-Writing Shapes ✏
Today we showed Miss Mayer how we hold our pencils and how many of the pre-writing shapes we can complete. This is something we will be working on over the year as it will help us in so many ways. When colouring we will learn new types of lines to represent objects. people and animals and it will…
Staying safe online
Sharks proved their understanding of staying safe online by playing and creating games where we collected safe online content such as firewalls and avoided dangerous items such as PEGI 18.
Gymnastics
Today we’ve had our first gymnastics lesson. We learnt all different gymnastic shapes including the pike, squat and dish. We had great fun practising our new skills!