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
Newsletter – 12th Feb 21
Please click on the link below to read our latest school newsletter. Newsletter 12 Feb 21
Moving any mountain with our home learning.
In our Geography work we have loved finding out about how different types of mountains were formed. We learned about how the surface of the Earth changes and how mountains appear over a very long time. We did some research at home and we hunted out photographs of any...
Keeping Active Over Half Term
Hello! Just a quick message from Miss Latto about the global mission and keeping active over half term. We have reached just over 100 miles as a school, keep it up! Watch the Video below by clicking on the google drive link, you may have to copy and paste it....
Stargazing igloo!
This week in school, our KS2 bubble have used their playtimes and PE sessions to build a stargazing igloo (that's an igloo without a roof!) They have worked very hard collecting snow in tubs to make ice bricks, setting up a 'relay' of builders to transport the snow...
Winter Shape Poems (using verbs)
Today, in english, we have written winter poems in the shape of either a snowman or a snowflake. We have used exciting verbs to start each line of our poems and we have used commas to list:
Story Time
Writing at home is tricky for children- without Miss Winskill prodding them! We have worked incredibly hard over the past two weeks to create our own story to go with our digital literacy clip Lilly and the Snowman. We wrote a section every other day to make it more...
Total Recall – Phonics Style
The children have been recapping their set 2 and set 3. You can't beat this speed. Speed demons!
Don’t believe everything you see! Safer Internet Day 1.2M
For Internet Safety Day this year, I wanted to show the children to not always believe what they see on the internet. I tried to fool with a new hairdo and glasses (and a facelift) but they were too clever for me, Throughout the day they came up...
Wonderful Weather Watchers
We used our very own weather diary from school to create a pictogram. Not only did they make their pictogram but they also devised questions and answered them using the data. It feels like we are doing pictograms from all angles at the moment- in Maths, in Computing...
Instruction intros to blow your socks off 1.2M writing
These kids are using their alliteration skills and applying it to their instruction writing and adding in some rhetorical questions to get the reader thinking. Well done kids! We collaborated all our work to make a class set of instruction on how to make a bird...
Instruct away children; you’re in charge!
For the last 2 weeks, the children have been writing instructions to make bird feeders and then in the second week instructions for DIY bubble wands and mixtures. They have worked so hard. I for one am going to follow these instructions and make my own DIY bubble wand...
Town, Village or City? 1.2M Geography
This week in Geography the children have been learning about where we live and where that is. They have made some epic pictures to show the difference between villages, towns and cities and they have thrown in countries, their houses and (some of them even themselves)...