Year 6 Class 2

Year 6

Welcome back to the new year. Here you will find events celebrated, excellent learning highlighted and children's passion shared throughout the year.

Keep an eye out for the concentration, perseverance and enthusiasm for learning across the year.

Miss Madden

Spring Newsletter

Spring newsletter 2020 Yr 6.pdf

The 6.2 Minion Challenge

Updated weekly

In Year 6.2, we like to encourage reading
Each week, the children will have the opportunity to be in the reading draw.
They need to be using their homework diary effectively, recording all reading at school and at home, writing down their homework tasks and important messages and also have their diary checked and signed by an adult.

Keep an eye on the lucky winners and the even luckier Minions that get to go home and take part in the weekend reading.

Christmas Party day

The children designed their own experiments today to see how the distance of the light source affects the size of the shadow. There was a lot of discussions about their predictions and then if their answers supported their original prediction or not.

Experimenting with shadows

Geometrocity

The children had the opportunity to apply their knowledge of shape to our Building City Geometrocity.

The children had to complete permits to pass the building regulations, develop their knowledge of shapes and the appropriate terminology and then build a city from scratch using various nets.

Periscopes

The boggarts have visited Year 6 causing mischief and havoc

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Discovering that light travels in straight lines

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Snakes and Ladders using algebra

Mini Police workshops looking at fitness and drug awareness

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Explore Learning workshop

Shreshta said, " I was really impressed with the teamwork that we used. It was very exciting to find out different ways of finding the lowest and the highest possible number."

Grace said, "It was really fun working with Emma and Erin. They were really kind to use and I hope we can do this activity again."

Maddison said, "I enjoyed this because it was very exciting. We got to try and use different techniques and it made me feel confident."

Live Learning October 2019 - Tackling arithmetic problems using different strategies.

Library visit

Year 6 have completed the first 4 weeks of their Mini Police workshops. They have looked at road safety, crime in the community, anti-social behaviour and what it takes to be a Police Officer working in Hatfield. The children have really enjoyed their workshops so far and have been really enthusiastic when taking part in the activities.

Mini Police workshops- weeks 1-4

Year 6.2's opinions about Global Explorer Week and the Mini Marines

Global Explorers Week

For our Global Explorers themed week, we have been studying the perilous journey of Ernest Shackleton and how he attempted to be the first to cross Antarctica in 1914.

We listened to his opinion through our conscience alley and decided if we would join the team on it's journey. By the end of the week, we will be writing letters to Ernest himself as to why he should allow us to become a key member of his team and join him on Endurance.

During our STEM activities, we have looked at the different equipment, food and clothing that we would need and have an informed decision as to how we would keep ourselves safe should we visit the Halley VI research station on Antarctica. This had led to budget setting and lots of discussion and team work.

Maths, Maths and more Maths.

Science News Broadcasts

Resilience Work- For when things get tricky

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During the first week of school, we looked at the story of 'The Dot' by Peter Reynolds. Vashti, the character from the book, overcomes the challenges of not feeling like her work is good enough.
In Year 6, we created our own dot masterpieces, wrote words of encouragement with dots and we wrote ourselves an encouraging letter for when things get tricky in our learning.

Year 6 Autumn Newsletter

Year 6 Autumn Newsletter 2019.pdf

Live Learning July 2019 - Making memories

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Sports Day 2019

And then June happened...

June has been an extremely busy month with us out taking part in Crucial Crew 2019 at Hertfordshire University. We have had workshops with Explore learning, carried out Maths activities such as learning how to distort data and finally we have planned and taught a lesson to the Year 3 pupils.
What will July bring?

Hear My Story Themed Week

A wonderful week was had by all: we visited the Oooh La La cafe and got to practise our french vocabulary; we had our own class story swap with our story boxes and then shared them with Year 3.2; we completed some beautiful replica art work in the style of Joan Miro; and we also go to write our own stories using his art work for inspiration.

What a busy week it was!

Prison Me No Way workshops

We were fortunate enough to attend the Prison Me No Way workshops this week. In both of the sessions, the children engaged well with the speakers and asked thought-provoking questions to further their learning and understanding.

Here are some of the comments from the children today:

"I learned that education is the key to success. Also, prison is boring and dull and that you still have responsibilities even in prison." Aniq.

"No matter where you in life, it can always be changed around." Kyree

"I found it amazing when Anthony told us that he went to prison 3 times but still managed to changed his life." Zia.

"To believe in myself!" Jan

"I learned to not hang out with the wrong people and that i can achieve anything I put my mind to." Matthew.

"I think the workshop has built up my confidence and made me believe that I am special." Daisy

" I enjoyed being in the prison cell because I have always wondered what one would look like. I also learnt to make good decisions and help inspire others to do so." Bethany.

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In the lead up to the SATs, Year 6 have been extremely busy. We have completed some graffiti to consolidate our Maths knowledge, taken up some Stone Age Weaving, had items in our classroom quit on us because we have not been treating them kindly, and finally built some Roundhouses to show our understanding of our Stone Age to Iron Age topic.

Tackling volume

Room 13- Dracula Experience leaflets

Spring Live Learning- The Weird and Wonderful Octopus in action

For our Live Learning session this week, we spent the afternoon looking at test techniques in a more fun and engaging way. Our parents were able to see the types of test questions that we complete during our reading tests, but they also got to see how we go about answering the questions by using evidence from the text.

Thank you to everyone who came and joined us, we had a lovely afternoon learning alongside you.