Year 6
Thank you for taking the time to visit our year group page. This year, the Year 6 team is made up of Miss Tucker, Miss Graham and Mrs Roberts who will be teaching in Year 6 and will be supported by Mrs Ives-Owen.
We are all looking forward to the stimulating learning opportunities Year 6 brings: exciting lessons, fantastic topics and fabulous trips! We can’t wait to share photographs, commentaries and up-to-date news in our year group blog and to working in partnership with you, to make your child’s time in Y6 a very happy one.
The Year 6 team
Further information about your child's year group and their curriculum can be found by log in into our home learning platform, SeeSaw (https://web.seesaw.me/)
Fronted adverbials and an afternoon painting!
Date: 18/11/2015
Today in literacy,the children generated Macbeth-based sentences containing fronted adverbials - adverbials which are at the 'front' of a sentence which help to modify the verbs in the main clause.This…
Feature Spotting - Newspapers
Date: 16/11/2015
In literacy today we were able to take apart and analyse a newspaper report about Hurricane Thelma. The objective was to identify the different layout and language featured contained within a newspaper…
Double, double toil and trouble...
Date: 11/11/2015
In literacy today, we worked with our talk partners to analyse part of the witches' poem from Macbeth. Obviously, some of the language was really difficult to understand as it was written in old english,…
Finding Equivalent Fractions
Date: 10/11/2015
In Mr Yates' maths group, we used numicon to help us solve equivalent fractions problems.We also devised a useful little message/dance to remind us to do 'the same to the bottom as you do to the top!'…
King Duncan's Murder!
Date: 10/11/2015
Literacy was great today - we were able to kill King Duncan! Obviously, this was all linked to our Macbeth unit of work and helped the children gain a greater insight into the different characters'…
Strange looking Greek invaders
Date: 06/11/2015
This afternoon, we began to create our Greek masks which we designed earlier in the week.
Thursday - Mix-up day!
Date: 06/11/2015
Today we had a great opportunity to work as a 'mixed-up' year group as over 20 pupils took part in our Young Leader Training.The rest of the children worked in Mr Yates class for the day. In maths, we…
Visit from Young Shakespeare Company - Macbeth
Date: 03/11/2015
Today we had a visit and performance from the Young Shakespeare Company - performing Macbeth.The brilliant performance will really enhance our learnining over the next few weeks. Well done for engaging…
Introducing Macbeth!
Date: 03/11/2015
Welcome back Year 6. We hope you had a great break and that you are ready to tackle another challenging (but of course enjoyable) half term! We we really impressed with the attitude you showed during your…
Fairtrade Day 2015
Date: 21/10/2015
Today has been action packed and hugely rewarding. The day began with Some of the children being 'headhunted' and recruited to the Board Room of a huge retail company. Their goal was to drive down the…