YEAR 5/6 (ORANGE)
Mrs J ReadshawWelcome to our Year 5/6 class blog.
Our class teacher is Mrs. Readshaw.
On this page, you’ll find lots of useful information and posts about what’s going on in Year 5/6 over the course of the year.
Check in regularly for photographs of our fantastic learning and achievements.
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Our Class Blog
Lights Alive!
During our DT this term the children have been creating a light box. They had to create a circuit including LEDs and resisitors. It was very tricky. They learned how to strip the wires and join them to create a circuit with the LEDs and resistors. Attaching the wires...
Where are we?
Who knew that orienteering could be so much fun! We have been learning about the main compass points and the children had a brilliant way to remember them. They all decided that they should Never Eat Soggy Waffles! It was fun and exciting to learn about keys on a map...
Pedestrian Training
Finding non-unit fractions of numbers
Performing Poems by Grace Nichols
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...
Raising Money for Ukraine
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...
Break the Rules Day!
7B’s Eggcellent Designs
What are coordinates?
In 4B, we've been exploring coordinates within the first quadrant. To really get to grips with how coordinates work, we created quadrants in the hall and described coordinates before plotting our own. By walking along the axes, we were able to get a great...
Christian Love
Do you know what Christian love is? We have been learning lots about it. Love is a wonderful feeling but we also learnt that love is also an action. We discussed how parents love their children and the sacrifices that parents sometimes have to make for them. We also...
What does Humanism look like?
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...
Grace Nichols Research
Today year 6 enjoyed a practical English lesson; listening, researching and discussing poems that were written by Grace Nichols. The children found out lots of facts using the iPad's and identified where Grace was born using the Atlas'. Year 6 had unique ideas about...
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