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
Castles
The children have shown a keen interest in castles this week. There has been a lot of construction work going on and the children have made castles using a range of media and materials including junk modelling and building blocks. Some children decided they needed...
Life Skills- Hand Washing
In this afternoon's life skills lesson, we have been learning the importance of hand washing and when we have to wash our hands. We followed the germs from Ms Wood's hands around the classroom, through the use of post-it notes and we realised how far germs can travel...
Smoothie making (following a recipe)
In this morning's english lesson, we have started to learn about recipes. We had to follow each step in a recipe carefully to make our own smoothies. We had to measure the berries, yoghurt and orange juice, wash the berries, chop the fruit and blend the fruit. We...
Thank you Mr Boddy for our pea seeds!
As part of our learning about 'The Princess and the Pea', Mr Boddy kindly brought us in some pea seeds to plant in class. We soaked some of the pea seeds in water and we kept some of the pea seeds dry. We have planted both the wet and dry seeds in wet paper towels in...
Slicing fruit.
As part of our DT lesson this afternoon, we were learning how to sensibly and safely slice different fruits. We then drew the inside of each fruit. This was a vital step in thinking about designing our own fruit kebabs next week.
Party People
To celebrate being back together, the classes have been having parties this afternoon. We enjoyed our party food, games, dancing and mask making. As you can see we are all ready for a break at the weekend! What a fantastic week we have had 2W- I am so happy to be back...
The Invisible String
In KS1 we have been reading on a book called the Invisible String. This story was perfect for coming back to school after so long at home because it talked about an invisible string of love which connected us to people we might not actually be with. We thought about...
Wish Envelope Origami
As part of a school project, we made origami envelopes. We are very good at them even although they were a little tricky! We discussed our wishes for the future now lockdown is coming to an end, thinking about the things we were looking forward to most. We put these...
Water Colour Feathers
What a week it has been being back together again! We have had so much fun with water colours. Of course we had to add a little bit of glitter in 2W! I am sure you will be just as impressed as I am with the results.
Our Fieldwork Investigations of our Local Area
We have had such a great geography lesson this afternoon! We used Google Maps to look at a satellite view of our local area and we spent some time exploring the map and we were able to find the muga, the field, the main road, the bus stop and many other physical and...
Dreamcatchers (linked to the Invisible String story)
This week, we have been reading the story of 'The Invisible String' and we have been thinking about the people who we are connected to by our invisible strings. As part of our learning around this story, we spent this afternoon making intricate dream catchers using...
Problems with the telephone today 11/3/21
We are experiencing technical problems with our main line today, Thursday 11th March 21, which we hope to have recitified as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding.