This week, we have been spending time discussing the background of our new class text, Pegasus. Looking at the front cover, we think that Pegasus is a mythical creature. This links back to our History topic from last term,...
This week we have been listening to and reading poems by Grace Nichols. Our favourites were: Cat-Rap, Cosmic Disco and Lady Winter's Rap. Today we have been rehearsing the skills needed in order to make our performances entertaining. 'I have learned that when...
Here we have one of our fantastic year 6 pupils. She has been making bracelets at home and selling them to her peers in order to raise money for people in Ukraine. We are so proud of her hard work and thought for others. 'I wanted to help people in Ukraine buy...
What an interesting topic Humanism has been. We started out looking at our views of the world and how worldviews can be split into religious and non-religious or can contain elements of both. We created our own personal jigsaws with our ideas and also completed a...
Year 6 PE unit for the last few weeks has been orienteering. During these lessons, the children have made obstacle courses and plotted them on maps, made their own symbols for a map key, used compasses to give directions and followed maps to locate beanbags hidden in...
Today we have been making ‘paragraph tables’ in order to learn how we form an effective paragraph. The idea was to make our tables stand up by adding enough relevant information. We wrote the topic of our paragraph on the ‘table top’ and then added our information as...
Year 6 have been learning about what the Ancient Greek philosophers were famous for. We discussed Greek statues and questions philosophy considered. Year 6 then had their own philosophical debate and discussed questions such as; 'can kindness change the world?' and...
Last week, we celebrated World Book Day at Rowlands Gill Primary School. The theme for this year was We Are Readers. So we spent lots of time exploring books by different authors and talking about when and how we can find the time to read. Across the week, we had two...
Year 6 had a lovely World Book Day with a range of activities based around the chosen book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. After reading the book, each class worked in groups to make a 'mood board' of their thoughts and ideas around the text which brought...
