This week we got creative! For the beginning of our new module on ‘Fashion’ students attempted to create different outfits on miniature mannequins. At the end of the lesson, certain students decided to show off their designs! A special shout out this week to our Learners of the Week – Scarlett and Lio! Well done!

This week, we began our exciting new Mayan history unit; completed and performed our suspense creative writing; began our area work on parallelograms and triangles, and continued to refine our reading comprehension answers. Students wrote fantastic responses to a question focusing on Shakespeare’s language choices in a Macbeth extract – zooming in on new key vocabulary. A special shout out this week has to go to Tom P for producing a lengthy and interesting hot write and gaining Learner of the Week. Special shout outs also for Benjamin for gaining Learner of the Week for helping our new student to feel so welcome!

Happy birthday to Harleen today!
I hope you all have a fantastic weekend,

Miss Davies

This week, we had our final of three visits to Allerton High School. We continued our discussion on lab safety and then created ‘rockets’ using the gas produced by the reaction between Vitamin C and water.

Later in the week, the majority of our class participated in the colour run. What a special day to remember!

I hope you all have a fantastic break over the holiday. All the best, Miss Davies

This week in Maths, we carried out a practical lesson where we compared the capacity of different containers.

After collecting data on our whiteboards, we had a go at collating the data on a bar chart – there was some fantastic work produced after our discussions on different axis and how we would scale our graphs.

This week for World Poetry Day, students wrote and performed their poems entitled ‘Kingdom of Justice’. We then created paper birds on Friday on which we wrote our poems. At the end of the day, we created a class ‘sculpture’ using these birds – making links back to our work on ‘What is Art?’

This week, a representative of Leeds Rhinos delivered a fantastic, interactive assembly on living a healthy lifestyle – tying nicely in with our PSHE and science foci this week. In science, we explored the circulatory system in more detail: learning about arteries and veins, carrying out a practical, whole-class demonstration and designing a circulatory system board game!

This week in Maths, we begun our unit on converting measures and explored the concepts of area and volume. In our early bird time, we had two opportunities for creative writing this week and wow! Each student transported us to a different time and genre from the same inspiration image!

We also had plently to celebrate this week. Special shout outs to our learners of the week (Harrison and Zidan), to Harleen for gaining a Bronze award in the Primary Maths Challenge and, finally, to Luca for winning the World Book Day competition!

This week, we celebrated World Book Day (7th March). There were some absolutely fantastic costumes – special shout outs to Romanie and Oliver! To celebrate the day, we hosted our ‘wooden spoon characters’ competition and participated in a World Book Day quiz. To end the day, we also created our own fantasy maps.

This week, we got to practice Samba in the hall. What a fantastic lesson and opportunity to learn about different rhythms in Samba.

This week, Year 6 have to study ratios in Maths, samba in Music and staying safe and accountable in PSHE. In writing, we begun studying our new non-fiction module on Rattlesnakes. To learn the text, we included a lesson using plasticine. We modelled the main events in the text using this unusual medium!

This term in computing, students have begun designing a computer game using Scratch. This will be used to generate coding which corresponds with particular variables. The students have already shown their creativity in their fantastic range of ideas in this early stage!

This week, we also hosted Harry Potter Night at ACE. Students got the opportunity to hold owls, follow a treasure-trail and try “butterbeer” ice cream!

In science, we attempted an experiment to see the effect of exercise on heart rate (bpm). There were certainly some surprising results!

This week was certainly a busy one – rounding off our work with decimals and percentages and beginning our non-fiction booklet work on lizards. We continued to read our class novel ‘Holes’ and finally, we know what Mr Sir and the Warden are searching for! Kissin’ Kate Barlow’s treasure!

In RE we explored different Jewish festivals and the reasons that each are celebrated. In music, we perfected our digital mixes with some absolutely fantastic results. Mrs Cosavella was especially impressed with 6D’s creative take on the task – she could certainly see that we have many artists in our class!

Talking about artists… This week I have been amazed by the artistic contributions that students in 6D have made towards our RE display. A special shout out has to go to Jeffery for handing in multiple contributions and to Benjamin for an ambitious, colourful piece.

Maths has seen us bringing together our knowledge on fractions, decimals and percentages. A big congratulations to all the students for their hard work this half term. A special shout out to Macy, Zein, Luca, Amber and Harleen for completing all three of the ‘pepper’ worksheets this week!

We also had the pleasure of visiting Allerton High this week for the first of three Science lessons. We discussed lab safety, noting all the safety issues across a series of cartoons. We then carried out an experiment using small plastic ‘popper’ monsters and had great fun. There were some fantastic questions asked by Majd, Lucas and Romanie. Well done.

I hope that you have a fantastic break over the half term and many thanks for all your continued hard work 6D!

Miss Davies 🙂

This week, 6D went to work with Miss Coope on constructing air raid shelters out of dowel, cardboard, tape and glue. We also learned about triangle structures and why these are the the strongest forms to work with.

The structures will be tested next week by dropping weights from the same height. Inside the structures will be an egg! This could get messy!

In Maths, we explored decimals and percentages in more detail and went around the class in groups solving a variety of word-based problems. Although there was no Maths homework worksheet set on Monday this week, there are videos and a quiz to be completed over the weekend.

We enjoyed our visit to the library today. Special shout out to Alex and Zein for being our Learners of the Week!