Week Commencing 10th March 2025
This week the class have been incredibly busy as it has been Science Week and we have also been on a trip. I feel that we have been showing our REACH values this week. We have had lots of aspirational people in, and we have had a high level of confidence whilst doing several activities such as programming micro:bits. Here, we also needed resilience, as some elements were tricky! We ended the week working with our Reception buddies to make wind turbines.
I asked the children on Friday morning for quotes about what they enjoyed…
Bertie – I personally enjoyed going to Skillzone because it taught lots of things about how to live and travel safely. I also enjoyed programming the micro:bots because we learnt how to make them do things. I enjoyed the talk about Renishaw and Airbus too.
Isla C – I loved it when we went to Skillzone because the village looked so real and it taught us skills for our future and our life.
Megan – I have enjoyed DT as we were practising making pulleys and wooden frames for our big project at the end of the term. We were allowed to safely use the saws, hot glue guns and electronics by ourselves. We had to work out how to create a working pulley with the materials we had.
Alice – I enjoyed learning Garage Band as I’m able to let my creativity flourish through music and deepen my appreciation for music and an understanding for how much effort is put into famous songs.
Oscar – I enjoyed the Skillzone trip because of all the special effects and the fire behind the door! It was extremely thrilling! I would do it again if I had the chance!
Grace – I enjoyed doing micro:bit because we did a rock-paper-scissors tournament with our robots. We got a random symbol (rock, paper or scissors) by shaking them.
Week commencing 3rd March 2025
It has been a great week in St David’s Class. We have started to look at our new DT topic and the children drew some great annotated drawings of gears and pulleys to enable them to develop their understanding of these. Our new topic links in well with our work that we did with the KNEX workshop last term and our previous DT project – we’re always building links in year 6!
The children have finished their artwork this week and many are very proud of their final ‘surreal’ pieces. We have some very confident painters in the room; many children showed real resilience when layering the paint to create the effect that they wanted.
Our skills and confidence have grow relating to hockey and this week we focused on our passing skills – short and long distance, as well as our ability to work in mini teams. Lots of the children are showing their skill and having high expectations of themselves.
Last but not least, World Book Day (one of my favourite days of the year!). The costumes were excellent; the reading for pleasure sessions longer; and and the poems created sensational – well done Year 6. They all showed empathy when considering the emotions that we were focused on (worry, embarrassment and zeal), as a result, the outcomes were thought provoking and honest.
Week commencing 24.2.25
Here is what the children had to say about our first week back…
Jed – "I enjoyed playing hockey because I discovered that I could defend."
Lyra – "It was great making a periscope in science as you could see the reflection in the mirrors and therefore see the object."
Tansy – "Art was great because our paintings didn’t need to make sense because they were surreal!"
Sidney – "I enjoyed finishing off our surreal art; my piece is linked to the earth – it has variety of objects sticking out into space."
Bertie – "PE was enjoyable because I learnt how to attack well and got tips from other players."
Annabel – "I have been really enjoying surreal art because we have been learning how even when you’re absolutely not knowing what to do it can be unusual and it works."
Theo – "It was great to interact with the Year 5 class during PE."
Arthur – "The periscopes in Science were fun to make as you were able to look around corners and over things to see objects."
What a great first week back! Roll on week 2!