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Year 6

To contact Miss Jordan please email mjordan@cashesgreen-pri.gloucs.sch.uk 

Reminders:

P.E. - Our P.E. lessons are every Wednesday this term (term 1). If they are in school, children need to come to school dressed in their P.E. kit with suitable footwear on this day.

Reading Records - signatures will be counted each Thursday.  Children can read to themselves but the record must be signed by an adult. 

Homework - Homework will be set on a Friday after school and needs to be submitted online (SeeSaw) by the following Thursday at 9am.

Forest School - Forest School will start again for Year 6 in the second term of the year and will be on Tuesdays.

Term 2 - The Last Bear - Hannah Gold

Our second topic for this year is based around the book The Last Bear by Hannah Gold.  Please see below for a synopsis of the story and an overview of what we will be learning in each subject this term. 

The Last Bear Synopsis

There are no polar bears left on Bear Island.  At least that's what April's father tells her when his scientific research takes them to this remote Arctic outpost for six months.  But one endless Summer night, April meets one.  He is starving, lonely and a long way from home.  Determined to save him, April begins the most important journey of her life...

Class News

Monday 25th November 2024

In Maths lessons we have been continuing to work incredibly hard on our fractions unit of work.  We are getting more and more confident with being about to add and subtract with fractions and will continue to go over this often.  Next we will be moving on to multiplying and dividing with fractions (which is much easier than adding and subtracting!)  In English we have completed a fantastic piece of work on conveying character through dialogue and creating atmosphere.  We wrote an interaction between April and Bear from our story but had to think carefully about how we would do this when only one of the characters can talk.  We had to portray Bear's side of the conversation through his reactions to April after she spoke.  Everyone produced fantastic work and presented it beautifully in our English books.  In our History and Geography lessons we have been learning all about the explorer Ernest Shackleton.  We have started off by finding out about his famous Trans-Antarctic expedition (1914 - 1917) aboard his ship Endurance.  We were amazed to find that despite everything they went through, Shackleton and his 28-strong crew all survived the epic 'adventure'.  Last Monday we went on a trip to Cotswold Wildlife Park to kickstart our Science unit of Living Things and Their Habitats.  Whilst there we had a talk from two of the Park's Keepers about classification and had a go at classifying some of the animals that we saw.  Check out the photographs from our trip below.  Since returning to school we have learnt about the Linnaean system of classification and have recapped our prior learning on the criteria for each of the groups (mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians).  Next we are going to be moving on to exploring classification keys and having a go at making a few of our own. 

Monday 11th November 2024

We have had a good first week back which has been packed full of learning!  We started off by exploring our new book, The Last Bear.  We are really enjoying it so far and are already over 100 pages in, by the end of the first week!  In English we wrote a logbook entry in role as April (the main character from the story) detailing the adventure she was about to go on with her father.  In Maths we have started our fractions unit of work.  Fractions can be tricky but we are working hard in our lessons.  In Computing we carried out an online safety lesson which focused on self image and identify.  On Thursday we were very lucky to be visited by the London Sinfonietta Orchestra who we did a fantastic workshop with.  As a class, we composed a piece of music which told the story of The Last Bear up to where we've read so far.  We even got to perform this to the whole school in an assembly in the afternoon.  It was a fantastic experience to be able to work with professional musicians.  In D.T. this term we are going to be creating our own hand-sewn Christmas tree decorations.  In our first lesson we selected an existing decoration and described the features of them.  Next week we will be designing our own decorations which will be ready in time to go on our trees or up for decoration. 

Last term we made drawstring bags in D.T. which have now all been sent home.  Check out the photographs of us with our bags below.   

Term 1 - Who Let the God's Out - Maz Evans

We have had a super start to the year with our new Year 6s.  They've started the year off really well and are ready to learning.  They are already being good role models as they are now the oldest children in the school.  

Our first topic this term is based around the book Who Let the God's Out by Maz Evans and our primary focus is Ancient Greece.  Please see below for a synopsis of the story and an overview of what we will be learning in each subject this term. 

 Who Let the God's Out Synopsis

When a shooting star crashes to earth, it lands Elliot smack bang in the path of Virgo - a young Zodiac goddess on a mission. But when the pair accidentally release Thanatos, a wicked death daemon imprisoned beneath Stonehenge, they’ve got nowhere to turn for help but to the old Olympian gods.

These gods are used to getting their own way and they’re more than capable of creating a little chaos themselves. After centuries of cushy retirement on earth, are Zeus and his crew up to the task of saving the world - and solving Elliot's problems too?

Class News

Monday 21st October 2024

Over the past two weeks in English lessons, we have written instructions on how to kill the mythical creatures from our stories and have written a past tense report all about some of the Ancient Greek City States.  We drew upon our knowledge from previous History lessons to help us with this.  Our writing was split up into three sections about different City States - Athens, Sparta and Corinth.  In Maths we have been working incredibly hard over these past few weeks developing our ability to carry out long multiplication and have learnt several different written methods for division.  We have learnt how to use short division, division using factors and long division.  Lots of us found long division tricky but we gave it a really good go!  In Science we have learnt about adaptation and how living things have changed over time.  To help explore this concept we read a book called How the Borks Became and looked at how these imaginary creatures changed over time due to their ever changing environment.  In D.T. we have been busy using a sewing machine to create our drawstring bags.  We have been taking it in turns to work with Miss Stanley and Mrs Taylor to work on these.  We're hoping to have them all finished this side of half term so we can bring them home.  In Computing we have designed our own 'falling' games and are in the process of adding the code to them so that they are fully-working games.  

Monday 6th October 2024

We have had a busy couple of weeks in Year 6.  In our English lessons we've been working very hard on writing our own Greek Myths based on the structure of Theseus and the Minotaur.  We developed our own heroes, mythical monsters and quests that needed to be fulfilled within our stories.  Next week we are going to be moving on to writing instructions on how to kill the monsters from our story.  In Maths we have been working really hard this past week on the standard written method for multiplication with a particular focus on long multiplication.  We are getting there and will continue to practise in class.  In Science, following on from our workshop with the Natural History Museum, we have been learning all about inheritance.  We used Mr Men and Little Miss characters for this.  We picked a mother and a father and drew what their offspring might look like based on inherited characteristics.  Before completing our work on our book, we had a go on whiteboards - check out photographs of what we did below.  In Computing we have been learning all about variables within games.  We know what a variable is and what types of different variables can be added to a game (score, lives, time) and have had a go at putting these into some pre-made games.  This week we will be starting to design our own games in which we will need to add variables.  In D.T. we have continued to learn a range of different hand stitches - running stitch, back stitch, blanket stitch, cross stitch, zig-zag stitch and had a go at sewing on a button.  We will be moving onto having a go at using a sewing machine soon.  

Wednesday 18th September 2024

What a fantastic few weeks we have had to kickstart our first topic of our year.  We spent our first couple of days exploring our new book and did our first piece of writing for the year.  We wrote diary entries in role as one of the main characters from Who Let the Gods Out.  Over the last week we have begun exploring Greek myths in our English lessons.  We have read a few different myths and discussed the common themes of them (a hero, an evil King, a quest, a ferocious beast to overcome, etc).  We will then use what we've read to write our own myths next week.  In Maths we've been off to a flying start with our place value unit of work which we are almost at the end of.  In History lessons we started off by looking at the chronology of Ancient Greece and where it fits in amongst other periods of history we have studied at school.  We have then gone on to learn about democracy and how the Ancient Greeks were the first to develop a democratic society.  We compared democracy in Ancient Greek times to democracy in our country today.  In D.T. we are exploring textiles this term.  In our first lesson we spent time exploring a range of different textiles, focusing on the different stitches used to join the pieces of fabric together.  In last weeks lesson we spent time practising threading needles and tying knots before moving on to completing a running stitch.  We will continue to have a go at a range of hand stitches over the coming weeks before moving onto our final project.  Finally, our Science unit on 'Evolution and Inheritance' kicks off this week with a virtual visit from the Natural History Museum in London.