Class 6 Blog

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  23

  Feb

  English - oracy

  Posted by Mrs N Lawday

  Welcome back to Term 4! Today in English we started a new unit on 'Suffragette: The Battle for Equality' As part of understanding how it felt not to be part of a democracy, half the class were tasked with making up some laws that would only benefit their group. The other half were explaining why this was unfair and using a banner they made to help them.
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  11

  Feb

  English - Macbeth Newspaper Report

  Posted by Mrs N Lawday

  Year 6 have been writing a newspaper report after the death of King Duncan at Macbeth's castle. To help with editing their work, we managed to dodge the rain and they read their work to each other and provided some constructive criticism.
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  09

  Feb

  Art - Banksy

  Posted by Mrs N Lawday

  Today year 6 found out about Banksy. Banksy is an extremely famous but anonymous British graffiti artist. He keeps his identity a secret and expresses his political opinions using street art. Although a lot of his art is produced in public places, he usually only reveals his after it has appeared on his social media. A lot of his art is done in a particular style which people can easily recognise. Year 6 will be producing Lino prints in the style of Banksy so watch this space!
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  04

  Feb

  English - oracy

  Posted by Mrs N Lawday

  In preparation for writing newspaper reports about the death of King Duncan in Shakespeare's Macbeth, year 6 took part in a news programme in small groups. They used the information about the incident to have a journalist in the studio and then a reporter on the scene at Macbeth's castle interviewing a witness at the scene. They were brilliant! Well done year 6 - some great interviewing techniques used.
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  04

  Feb

  Class visitors!

  Posted by Mrs N Lawday

  This week, year 6 have had some great visitors! (Although I could be a little biased!) My daughter Seren came in to see/help them before she went off on her travels to Australia, so lots of the children were giving her tips on the wildlife to avoid there! But more excitedly for the children Micah the Golden Retriever came in to visit too and the children loved seeing her and she helped a lot of them complete their work too! They are hoping for her to come in again soon.
• 23

  Jan

  PSHE

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  This week in PSHE we had a think about what our goals would be for the wider world. We thought about what we can do to help and the children came up with lots of good strategies. We then talked about who we might seek out for help if some of the wider global issues make us feel worried or anxious. Next week it is up to the children to pick a charity they would like to do a fundraiser for and convince the class that their chosen charity is the best option.
• 23

  Jan

  Author Visit - B. Ware

  Posted by Miss L Heward

  We were really lucky to have a visit from an author today in school! We started the day with an assembly where the author was able to introduce herself and read the first two chapters of her new book. We then had an hours workshop to develop our own stories inspired by some titles given by the author herself. The year 6's really got stuck in and once they started writing they found it hard to stop! Some of the children were even brave enough to read out their stories to the group. Well done team.
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  21

  Jan

  Art - Printing

  Posted by Mrs N Lawday

  Today, year 6 did a Tudor Rose print. They were great and its all in good preparation for the next stage of Lino printing and screen printing. Watch this space!
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  20

  Jan

  PE - Gymnastics

  Posted by Mrs N Lawday

  Today in gymnastics, year 6 did some great partner balances! Well done George and Jared who nailed theirs! Look how straight they are and with great body tension!
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  16

  Jan

  English - Macbeth

  Posted by Mrs N Lawday

  After writing our own synopsis of Macbeth on Wednesday, today year 6 found out the real story of Macbeth and worked in groups to act out the main points of the play. Well done to them all who, with only a short time given to them, managed to produce a clear demonstration of the section of the play that they were given. Over the next couple of weeks we will be looking at Macbeth in more detail and they will be doing lots of different writing from it so please ask them about it when they get home!