Week beginning 16th May 2022

‘Hello everyone, this week has been fun!’ Luca Fr

‘This week we found out that we won Beat The Street, so we got 2 trophies and a £600 prize.’ Euan

‘Today we were organising our Blue Planet display to share with the school. Me, Hollie and Ben added coral to the display.’ Lexi

‘At P.E. on Monday, we took part in an athletics relay. I was running for my team, the other parts were skipping, speed bounce and hurdles.’ Heather

‘In P.E. on Friday, we used tennis skills in different activities.’ Luca Fi

‘I found P.E. really fun because we played the game Laps vs Jailers.’ Evan

‘In Outdoor Learning this week, we collected logs and brought them to the playground so that we could clean them up and sand them down. We also planted Cara’s plants.’ Lauren

‘The plants were chives, parsley and wild flowers. I really enjoyed this!’ Cara

 

‘In writing we created limerick poems, I enjoyed this and I liked my poem too.’ Harry

‘A limerick has 5 lines, the 1st, 2nd and 5th lines rhyme and the 3rd and 4th lines rhyme. This is called aabba structure.’ Eleanor

‘I really enjoyed writing these because it was a wee bit different to our normal writing.’ Lauren

 

‘This week in Maths we were learning about time and angles, I enjoyed this!’ Luca Fr

‘We also played a game were we lined up in pairs and the teacher asked us quick maths questions. Whoever got it correct would line up and continue. The winner was Luca Fi.’  Lexi

‘On Thursday, in Art we sketched a lion’s head, learning about proportions. I really liked doing this!’ Ananya

‘We were also learning about warm and cold colours. On the light side of the lion’s head we coloured red, orange and yellow. On the darker side we coloured it blues, purples and greens.’ Bella

‘For Topic, we finished off our block printing. We cut borders and mounted our art onto these. I found this fun.’ Ayyan

‘This week we were creating new school values posters and the overall winner will have their poster displayed as the new school poster for many years to come!’ Luca Fr

‘Hope you enjoyed our week, see you next time!’ Warren

Week beginning 9th May 2022

‘Welcome back to the P6a blog, we had lots of fun this week!’ Beth

‘On Thursday, we had a whole day of music, art and drama. In music we were learning to play the glockenspiel. In art we learned about texture and we drew animal patterns. In drama, we played a fun game in which we had to swap places if we had the same thing as someone else e.g. 2 brothers.’ Bella

‘I liked drama the most because we also played a fun improv game.’ Molly

‘Today in HWB we were making  models of brains because we were learning about different parts of the brain.’ Leaah

‘We used different materials, such as lego or crafting materials.’ Luca Fr

‘I learned that the right hemisphere of your brain controls the left side of your body.’ Molly

‘The frontal lobe is in charge of actions and emotions. The cerebellum controls balance, movement and coordination. The parietal lobe helps with senses. The temporal lobe controls memory.’ Eleanor

‘On Wednesday we learned about cinquain poetry. It has 5 lines. The first line is 1 word about what it is, the 2nd 2 adjectives, 3rd is 3 verbs, the 4th is a phrase and the 5th something related to the first. I really enjoyed this.’ Emilia

‘I enjoyed listening to these poems.’ Beth

‘On Monday when we were doing Maths, we learned about time and I found this fun.’ Euan

‘In outdoor learning we planted flowers in the planter boxes. First we turned the old soil over and added new compost. I really enjoyed planting the flowers.’ Lauren

‘We found out the birds have eaten most of our bird feeders from last week, they were very successful.’ James

‘We also picked up any litter and tried to find logs to make a new seating area.’ Cara

‘In P.E. we were doing badminton, again I really enjoyed this.’ Sophia

‘I liked the game shuttle bucket because it was very intense and very close!’ Evan

‘P.E. was fun, I got to be a glamorous assistant and write down names for the star player list as I had injured my leg.’ Tia

‘This week 2 JRSOs (me and Charlotte) got to go to Eastwood Hall for a meeting. Loads of others JRSOs, police, NHS workers and fire officers were there teaching us about road safety.  We also got a goody bag.’ Ayyan

‘P6 were prefects for the entire week as the P7s were away, I’d really like to do this next year!’ Bruce

‘Thank you for reading this week’s blog. Come back and read our blog next week!’ Jess

Week beginning 2nd May 2022

‘Welcome to P6a’s blog, read on to find out what we’ve been doing!’ Hollie

‘In Literacy this week, we got to find out our new books by ripping a tiny piece of wrapping paper of the books one at a time. The book I’m reading is called Shadow and it looks like a good book because it looks different to other books I’ve read.’ Harry

‘I think this book looks exciting!’ James

‘This week in outdoor learning, we made bird feeders. We scooped out the inside of an apple and put mixed seed, vege – gelatin and mixed fruit inside them. I really enjoyed this!’ Jess

‘I found this fun because my filling fell out but I managed to put it back in and hang it on a tree for the birds.’ Ayyan

 

 

‘In Maths, we have been learning about 3d shapes and we answered questions about them. We had to guess the shape from different nets.’ Lexi

   

‘On Wednesday, Ayyan spoke to us about Eid and he answered lots of questions we had about it and Ramadan. I found this interesting.’ Euan

‘I don’t celebrate Eid but it sounds like a fun holiday.’ Molly

‘Today, we were working on our Blue Planet dioramas,. In them we have to include at least 4 facts about the ocean, marine animals and a background with seaweed or coral. I found this enlightening!’ Bella

‘For my background, I covered the shoebox in blue tissue paper and started curling green circular paper for seaweed.’ Eleanor

‘This week in P.E. we did racket skills. We played some fun badminton games. I really enjoyed this.’ Luca Fr

‘I found hitting the shuttle back over the net tricky but I also found it fun at the same time.’ Lauren

‘Last but not least recently two new students (Crystal and Ananya) very excitingly joined our class! We are happy to have these new people in P6a!’ Jess