YEAR 6 (SILVER)
Mrs Lightley (Covering for Mr G Dempsey)Welcome to Class 6D’s Blog!
I am Mr Dempsey and I am the class teacher for class 6D.
On this page you’ll find lots of useful information and posts about what’s going on in Year 6 over the course of the year,
Visit our blog Check in regularly for photographs, homework and revision links, sport’s scores, diary dates and many other fun features.
Please feel free to make comments on photographs and interact with our blog. The class would love to hear what you think about their fantastic work and achievements.
Happy blogging!
Mr Dempsey
Our Class Blog
Big Bear Funk Music….
During our music session, Reception children really enjoyed leaning a new song called ‘Big Bear Funk’. They then had to show different ways of finding the pulse to this song. as well as clapping out the rhythm. The children agreed that the best part was adding dance...
Investigating sources in History
The children have been learning about the different passengers aboard the Titanic and they have been super sleuths analysing sources from the Titanic. They were able to identify which picture gave us the best evidence for different statements about the Titanic.
Fruit Salad
The children in 1.2M put all their culinary skills to good use to make a delicious fruit salad. The children have very brave tastebuds. They were very happy to try the most exotic of fruits. Well done kids.
Programming in Year 4!
In Year 4, we're learning how to program a screen turtle to make repeated patterns and shapes - we're still learning how to do it but check out our early work. You can see the algorithms (that's computer speak for instructions!) next to the letters we've drawn !
The Island by Armin Greder
Hurt No Living Thing (Using New Animals)
We followed the structure of the poem we've been learning about, Hurt No Living Thing, but instead of writing about minibeasts, we wrote about different animals (in the same style as the original poem). Our job was to use adjectives, verbs and adverbs to describe the...
Counting coins
The Early Years Vets is now open!
As part of our 'People who help us' theme, the children have been playing at being a vet. They have helped the animals to get better in many ways. They have been carefully injecting the animals with life-saving medicines. Also, they have been checking the poorly...
Hurt No Living Thing- Our Own Versions
Today, we used ideas from the poem 'Hurt No Living Thing' to create our own version. I was so impressed with them!
Drawing different textures
Today, in our art lesson, we experimented with the shading pencils. We chose the pencil according to the shade and we practised creating different textures, in preparation of our Titanic drawings over the next few weeks.
Hurt No Living Thing- Ordering and Retelling
We are looking at a new poem this half term in english: Hurt No Living Thing. Today we drew poem maps and then ordered the poem. We were all able to use our poem maps and our widgits to retell the poem fluently to our friends!
Which solution will decay the apple first?
Today, we took part in an experiment. We covered a piece of apple in a range of solutions (lemon juice, vinegar, sugar and salt) and we are going to observe the apple to see which solution decays the apple the most. We made predictions and we will conclude our...