‘Welcome back to another P6a blog!’ Emilia

‘In P.E. today, we were doing rolls to travel across the floor. My favourite was the teddy bear roll.’ Jessica

‘My favourite roll in P.E. was the tuck roll.’ Harry

‘I found the teddy bear rolls quite hard.’ Sophia

‘My favourite was a front roll on a decline. It is easier to roll down a wedge and it is faster and fun.’ Ayyan

 

‘In writing, we were learning about setting. My setting was a beach and the paragraph was written from my perspective.’ Lexi

‘I found writing fun this week, writing about someone who plays pranks on other people!’ Warren

‘This is going to build up to planning and writing a full story. My character that I have planned is a girl called Luna.’ Eleanor

‘During P.E. on Monday we were focusing on fitness in circuits. There were 5 stations. My favourite station was the rest station and my least favourite was the squat zone!’ Molly

‘In drama we were doing a mime called Burglar Bill. Eleanor was the old neighbour, Molly was the miser, Nathan was Burglar Bill and I was P.C. Plod. I really enjoyed this because it was very fun!’ Bella

‘I enjoyed watching this mime because they were all exaggerating!’ Beth

‘In music, Mrs Hutchison taught us lots of new notes for example, te tiri.’ Evan

‘We also had a special visitor this week. His name was Kevin and he taught us all about young carers.’ Cara

‘On Thursday, we also presented games with Tony in our Playground Leadership lesson. My table presented number dodgeball to the class.’ Emilia

‘In topic, we got to pick an ocean or sea and research facts about it.’ Heather

‘Evan, Euan and I researched information about the Indian Ocean. It is 8,047m deep!’ Hamiz

‘Sam and I wrote about the Mediterranean Sea and it flows past Italy and France.’ Harry

 

‘In Health and Wellbeing we were learning all about Incy Wincy spider and how he never gives up! We wrote examples of challenges we have in life and ways we can try to overcome these challenges.’ Jessica

‘I had an idea for 2 people to stand at the front of the classroom and hear each others thoughts and opinions on whether or not we should always try or should we just give up! Mrs Hobson agreed and we had some volunteers for this!’ Evan

 

‘I made a diorama of the ocean as Blue Planet is our new topic. My brother and I made it last weekend and I showed it to the class.’ Molly

‘Unfortunately, this was the last week that Serena will be at our school and it is really sad because we’ll miss her. We wish her good luck at her new school!’ Molly

 

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‘In writing this week, we were learning to create characters for stories and we had to write about their speech, their thoughts, their emotions, their actions and their looks. This stands for STEAL.’ Heather

‘I created a character called Penny who is a £5 note! My story will be a voyage and return plot from her perspective.’ Molly

‘I enjoyed this because we could make our character anyone we liked.’ Hamiz

 

‘In P.E. we learned to do a straddle position to make us more flexible. It was hard.’ Sam

‘We were also using hula hoops to travel across the hall and we were spinning them as well.’ Sophia

‘In gymnastic we were also learning different kinds of jumps like tuck and star jumps.’ Luca Fi

‘I liked playing a new game called Letter Run invented by Molly, Sophia, Jessica and Eleanor.’ Leaah

‘On Monday I enjoyed number football because it was so fun!’ Isla

‘In Topic, we made notes to help us create a poster on the layers of the ocean.’ Lauren

‘The 5 layers are the sunlight zone, the twilight zone, the midnight zone, lower midnight zone and the trenches.’ Hamiz

‘In music with Mrs Hutchison, we were learning how to write musical notes.’ Jessica

‘In drama, we were creating mime where we had to get someone off a bench, Mrs Hutchison tried to get me off the bench then I tried to persuade Lauren to get off the bench, it was really fun!’ Bella

‘In maths we were learning to multiply decimals. We were hopping our digits to the left into the next column.’ Heather

‘My group were completing problem solving using Nrich Maths. We had to solve problems with a partner. I found this tricky but it was fun.’ Ayyan

‘We also had a lesson with Tony from Active Schools about Playground Leadership. We were talking about good qualities of a leader for example, kindness and being helpful.’ Eleanor

‘In groups, we also had to create a game and present it to the class.’ Molly

‘Today was Free Choice Friday for starter task time and I enjoyed drawing a picture.’ Tia

‘Thanks for reading this week’s blog. Come back next week to find out what else we’ve been doing!’ Emilia

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‘On Monday in P.E. we played a game,  you were given a number 1-15 and whoever was called from both teams had to run to the ball and try and score a goal. Whoever scored got a point.’ Ayyan

‘We also played football tig, where you had to hold the ball and tig as many people as possible. If you were caught someone had to crawl through your legs to set you free.’ James

‘In P.E. on Friday, we were doing gymnastics. We learned how to do different leaps and travel across the mats in different ways.’ Emilia

‘We also played this game were Mrs Hobson gave us a word and we had to make it with our bodies in groups.’ Sophia

‘I liked that we did gymnastics this week!’ Tia

‘In Maths we were measuring this week. You had to go around the room and estimate the length of things and then measure them to see if you were close.’ Cara

 

‘Sam and I tried to estimate the perimeter of the classroom and we were really close! We guessed 32m and it was 32m 55cm!’ Harry

‘This week in drama we were working on mimes. We had to pretend to get into our car, we had to make our movements exaggerated and not make a sound.’ Bella

‘We also played a fun game with Mrs Hutchison, when she said your name you had to act out something you’d find in a park. I was a bench and Beth sat on me!’ Molly

 

‘In music we were practicing different types of beats and musical notes and we learned how long they last for.’ Jessica

‘Today we found out the results of our class vote for our new topic with Miss Bruce. The topic chosen was Blue Planet. We wrote down what we know already and what we want to know.’ Bella

‘The other options were Frozen Planet and the Rainforest.  Blue Planet was the topic I voted for and I am very excited to learn more!’ Lauren

 

‘We did a getting to know you lesson with Miss Bruce as well. We had to make our own Guess Who card. We passed these around the class and had to guess who owned which one!’ Sam

‘The person who got my card guessed me straight away! It was Harry and he knows me very well!’ Ayyan

‘In writing, we had to pick our favourite book or film and we had to write about the beginning, the middle, the problem and how this was resolved. This is called plot structure.’ Leaah

‘We also found about the 7 story plots they were Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, Comedy, Tragedy, Quest, Voyage and Return and Rebirth!’ Eleanor

 

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‘Welcome back to P6a’s blog. We hope you had a merry Christmas. Happy New Year to you all!’ Warren

 

In writing this week, we created a Christmas recount describing what we did over the holidays.’ Sophia

‘In our recount, we had to add interesting openers and write it in chronological order.’ Bella

‘I peer assessed Bruce’s writing and I though it was very funny because he said he turned into Gordon Ramsey when he cooked breakfast!’ Euan

‘I peer assessed Eleanor’s writing, I thought it was written very neatly and I enjoyed reading it.’ Lexi

‘Unfortunately, I didn’t have much to write about as I had Covid over Christmas but I got lots of lovely presents to describe in my writing.’ James

 

 

‘In Health and Wellbeing we are working on fixed and growth mindsets. We made learning passports to describe our feelings about learning.’ Harry

 

‘On Thursday, we did drama with Mrs Hutchison and we learned about the benefits of taking part in drama. It builds your confidence and you can make more friends!’ Bella

‘We also did music and were learning to read musical notes and we played on the glockenspiels! It was really fun!’ Heather

 

‘On Friday, luckily it snowed for the first time in ages! We were very lucky because we got to go outside to play in the snow. I had lots of fun!’ Molly

‘When we were playing in the snow, Sophia and I tried to build Olaf the snowman and Lauren gave him a hug because Olaf likes warm hugs.’ Jessica

‘I did lots of different things in the snow! I made a giant snowball and smoothed it out to make it look perfectly round. I also liked hugging Olaf!’ Lauren

‘In P.E. we played a game called Scorpion Tig. You had to crawl around on your hands and feet like a scorpion, which I found quite hard.’ Lexi

‘We also played Fox in the hole, I found this easy because I like running.’ Nathan

‘Our new focus for P.E. is gymnastics. We practised balances to improve our strength. These are called the dish, arch and back support.’ Molly

 

‘Thank you for joining us in the first week of school in 2022. See you next week!’ Luca Fr