This afternoon in art, the class used coloured ink to paint onto their line self-portraits from a fortnight ago. Have a look at the resemblances below!

In music, the children tried their hand at conducting the rest of the class, focusing on bringing groups in and controlling the dynamics (loud or soft).

In this week’s PE lesson, the focus in football training was on communicating and problem solving together.

This morning, the Sports Captains assisted a local councillor in officially opening the brand new climbing frame; everyone’s looking forward to challenging themselves on it next week!

The House Captains this week had the important job of participating in the Walk-to-School Audit. They walked around the local area and made recommendations about how road safety could be improved.

The Healthy Living Team have been busy running obstacle courses for the KS1 children this week to encourage improving fitness; well done for organising this and for giving up your break times to run it.

Furthermore, the Liturgy Leaders have been leading the Rosary each lunchtime. It is fantastic to see the Year 6s so committed to their leadership roles.

Finally, the week ended with the Year 6s spending time with their learning partners:

 

This week’s home learning (due Tuesday 15^th October ) is as follows:

English	(in book) SPaG – sheet on semi-colons
Spellings	innocent innocence decent decency excellent excellence confident confidence non-existent existence
Maths Times tables	(online) Mathletics tasks on converting metric units of measurement   Continue to revise all times tables.
Reading	Daily reading and recording in Reading Records.   How to complete your reading record As you’re reading, take notice of the language used then. When you’ve finished reading, choose an aspect of language that you really liked, write it into your reading record, and then explain why you found it effective. Things you might comment on: ·         Effective use of personification; ·         An effective metaphor; ·         An example of ‘show don’t tell’ ; ·         Good use of the semi-colon; ·         Hyphenation; ·         Direct speech that develops the characterisation; ·         Formal language; ·         A new word whose meaning you worked out from the context.

Have an nice weekend and see you all on Monday.

Miss Donatantonio

Another week has flown by in Year 6 and the children have been producing fantastic learning.

This week’s RE focus has been on St Vincent de Paul, in recognition of his feast day today. We looked at how his example is being followed today, then discussed the big question:

“How can you be a friend to a God you can’t see if you’re not a friend to those you can see?”

They wrote some really deep and thoughtful answers, linking them to Bible stories such as the Last Judgement and Lazarus and the Rich Man.

In English, the children have been planning, drafting and editing newspaper reports based on our class text, Once, and have focused on trying to use formal language in their writing. I have been very impressed!

In our WW2 history learning, we have been finding out about what life was like as an evacuee. The children took on the roles of different evacuees, then shared their experiences with the rest of the class. We discussed why some children had great experiences whilst others hated their time as an evacuee. We will learn about this further on our trip next Thursday to the British Schools Museum.

In music, we took inspiration from Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and went out into the school grounds to listen to the sounds of our local area. Back in the classroom, the children worked in groups to recreate these sounds, and I was so impressed by their creativity in emulating woodpeckers, rustling leaves and even a helicopter! Have a look at the video below:

In PE, we continued our Arsenal Football Club training, this week focusing on finding space.

This afternoon was a sea of calm and tranquility in the Year 6 classroom as we watched Mrs Burgess how to draw a line self-portrait, then sat in deep concentration and drew our own. The results are fantastic and will be exhibited at some point!

The rest of the afternoon was spent reading with their Reception partners. It was a privilege to watch them sitting and reading with each other so beautifully.

This week’s home learning (due Tuesday 1^st October ) is as follows:

English	SPaG – sheet on formal language
Spellings	Come up with creative ideas (cartoons/rhymes/mnemonics…) to help you learn this week’s homophones. Remember: the words spelt with c are nouns, whereas the words spelt with s are verbs. Be ready to share your ideas with the class: advice advise device devise licence license practice practise prophecy prophesy
Maths Times tables	Mathletics tasks on multiplying/dividing by 10, 100, 1000   Continue to revise all times tables.
RE	Click here for Mrs Joyce’s letter about the RE home learning for this week.
Reading	Daily reading and recording in Reading Records.

I look forward to seeing some of you at the Mass tonight; otherwise, have a great weekend and see you Monday.

Miss Donatantonio

Welcome to Year 6! We have packed a lot into our first 3 days, and it’s been fantastic to see the children trying their best with their learning. Here’s what we’ve been up to:

In RE, we explored our Mission Prayer, looking at where the mission values are taught to us in the Bible.

In English, we have been reading our new class novel set in WWII – Once, by Morris Gleitzman – and have been exploring the main character, Felix. We’re all looking forward to chapter 4 on Monday when we find out if he manages to escape from the orphanage!

In maths, we have got stuck into place value and have looked at different pictorial representations of numbers.

In history, we began our topic on World War Two. We learnt about the Nazi party and who Adolf Hitler was, and we looked at what led to the war breaking out.

In PE, we played some team building games which was great fun to watch!

Well done to all those who spoke in front of their houses this afternoon to put themselves forward to be House Captains. Remember you have until Monday to write letters to Mrs Heymoz to apply for the other positions of responsibility.

Well done for working so hard this week. Have a lovely weekend and see you Monday.

Miss Donatantonio