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
Forest School
We have thoroughly enjoyed our first forest school sessions of the year! We enjoyed making dens, crafting, hunting for bugs, helping with the fire and more. We can’t wait to go back after half term!
Super start to our Reception year
As we head off for our half term break we reflected on the start we have made in our first half term in Reception. On top of welcome, phonics and maths time we impress our school grown ups with our knowledge and understanding in our child led learning environments, we...
Music and movement
Each day we enjoy singing and story time where we develop our listening, attention and recall skills. We also listen to and talk in ‘Fred Talk’. This week we learnt a new song with lots of different ways of travelling.
Music Mark Members
We are proud to be Music Mark members and promote a love of music within our school. Our year 5 children are currently learning how to play the steel drums, during weekly, whole class music tuition. This will be extended to year 6 children next term.
Thank you for all of your Harvest donations!
Thank you to everybody who has donated as part of our Harvest Festival celebrations. We have collected lots of food which will be donated to the Pickle Palace at Strathmore Road Church. The Pickle Palace is a ‘Pay as you Feel’ market and local people can visit the...
Duplication and Layering
We’ve been learning how to use duplicated shapes to produce more complex pictures and have made some brilliant images! We’re really skilled at using Google Drawings now and are even using shortcuts like ‘Ctrl D’, ‘Ctrl X’ and ‘Ctrl Z’ to help us work more quickly, as...
Stencil Fun
Last week, we made a giant background on a banner using water-colours. We learned how to blend our colours into each other. This week, we used the stencil we had designed and made to decorate this class banner. We used sponges to stipple and dab paint onto the...
Take a look at our Stone Age tiles…
Creating Patterns
In Nursery we have been looking at repeating patterns and used our autumn objects to recreate different patterns.
Amazing Duplication in Year 5 and 6!
We've been learning how to use duplicated shapes to produce more complex pictures and have made some brilliant images! We're really skilled at using Google Drawings now and are even using shortcuts like 'Ctrl D', 'Ctrl X' and 'Ctrl Z' to help us work more quickly, as...
6B Secret Reader!
Thank you so much for today's visit from our Secret Reader! The children loved hearing the chapter from Billionaire Boy and our secret reader also handled a wide range of questions, including about Lithuanian literature and the tales of Hans Christian Anderson! ...
