This week we have been very busy! We’ve had lots of fun participating in Home Circles, Discovery Dens and beginning our athletics. We have begun to explore angles in maths, learning the names of various angles and how to measure them. We also began reading our new novel study – The Wreck of the Zanzibar.
Our homework focus for week 1 is to begin working on our Big Talks. For this Big Talk, pupils have been given the following topic –
You can choose any famous person to spend an entire day with. Who would you choose and why? You are in charge of planning the entire day, what will you plan to do?
Below is a list of some prompts pupils can use to support their Big Talk preparation:
Big Talk Expectations –
Big Talk Dates –
This week P6 have had a good start to Term 4. We have began to explore our new novel study – The Wreck of The Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo. We have not yet read any of our book, but we worked in small groups to design our own covers based on the title. We then looked at all of the covers that exist for the book and wrote our predictions as to what the book will be about. We are excited to start! We have also been working on some art focused on the theme ‘On The Farm’. We also completed an Easter mystery maths activity and have carried out some revision on Fractions.
We have had an exciting final week for Term 3.
We completed our stories that we were writing for our buddies, and finished them off with our own illustrations and front covers. We completed our novel study of Holes by Louis Sachar. We loved this book! We also watched the movie on Tuesday. We also created our own electrical circuits. We spent some time outside in the sun and have finished off our week by designing our eggs for our competition.
Have a lovely holiday!
This week we participated in our Euroquiz Heat. All pupils who participated were in teams of 4 and worked together to answer 60 questions all about Europe. These questions centered on topics such as Culture, Geography, Language, History, Art and Sport amongst others. We certainly enjoyed our time participating and learning all about Europe!
On Wednesday, we made Chicken Stir Fry with Mrs Cook. We prepared all of the ingredients and got to use a range of equipment. It was very tasty.
We also arranged and completed the set up for a literacy afternoon with our Buddies.
We have almost reached the end of our novel study, Holes, and cannot wait to finish this off next week. We completed a metalinguistics task and also some other jobs from the task map. We also began our final drafts of our stories, writing them up, illustrating them and designing front covers. We are excited to finish these next week. In numeracy we were learning about percentages and relating our new learning to what we know about fractions.
We have been learning to join our letters in handwriting. We have been using Metalinguistics to help us understand our novel study. We began writing our resolutions and conclusions to our stories. We have continued to develop our knowledge of equivalent fractions and improper fractions in maths.
On Tuesday we went down to the nursery for our Teddy Bears Picnic. This week we have also participated in Earth Hour, we designed posters to promote our in-school Earth Hour which took place today. While we Powered Down for Earth Hour this afternoon, we practiced for Euroquiz which is next Thursday!
A huge well done goes to Alfie who was titled the ‘Climate Change Champion’ on Wednesday night!
We began to use tissue to create spring butterflies in Art. We are scrunching up the tissue paper and gluing it on to create texture.
We practiced for Euroquiz alongside a previous years recording. We worked in pairs to create a whole class timeline about events in Europe’s history.
We continued to work on our handwriting with Mrs Cook. We worked on task maps for our novel study ‘Holes’. Today, we continued our narrative writing by adding a problem into our stories which we will resolve next week.
In maths we learned about improper fractions and we completed a stations lesson which had various activities to help us learn how to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers.
We also played a hockey tournament in PE with Mrs Cook.
This week was World Book Day. On Thursday we designed our own front covers for books, we played ‘Who Am I?’ with book characters, completed a character quiz, we did an alphabet challenge for our novel study ‘Holes’, and wrote book reviews for our favourite books.
In PE with Mrs Cook we played some Hockey games. We also had our final Leadership session until after Easter, during this we had a chance to lead different sport stations to our groups. We continued to work on our Handwriting with Mrs Cook which we are loving doing. We have continued to work on our Task-maps and engaged in some really interesting discussions about the themes within our book. We also continued to work on our fractions with Miss Higgins and kilograms and grams with Mrs Cook. Finally, we made some Spring themed art.
This week we have read more of our novel study, Holes by Louis Sachar, and we cannot wait to find out what will happen next! We also completed our introductions for our stories for our Buddies. We have continued to explore fractions of a quantity using a variety of methods. We began to explore buoyancy in science and planned experiments which we will conduct next week. And we took inspiration from our emotions to create pieces of art work. We had our second Leadership session with Barry today which everyone loved.
This week we have learned how to find a fraction of an amount using our division strategies. In literacy we have continued to work on our novel study, Holes. We completed tasks based on chapters 17-21, exploring themes such as friendship and blame. Today, we began writing out stories for our buddies. We cannot wait to keep working on these.
We worked in pairs/indivually to create entries for our Pocket Garden competition which are based on the themes of ‘Our Heritage’, ‘One Planet Picnic’, and ‘Wildlife Gardening’.
We also began researching each country in Europe. We found out their capital cities, populations, currency, and facts about them. Today we also began our Leadership sessions with Barry in PE. During these sessions we will learn how to lead games and activities for younger children. Finally, some of our pupils took part in the P7 slime making experience.
