After we wrote our stories we shared them with a class in a different year group.
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As part of national writing day, we took inspiration from Steven Camden and planned our story using doodles and notes before writing them.
17/08/24
In English, we created a story map to show Odysseus’ journey.
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During DT lessons, we have designed a stuffed toy. We created a template, cut out the material and began to sew our stuffed toy.
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Year 6 enjoyed a webinar with Matt Goodfellow, the author of ‘The Final Year’, who shared his thoughts on his time working in Year 6 and children’s experiences within Year 6.
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During Reading sessions we are reading ‘The Adventures of Odysseus’ and learning more about his trials and tribulations.
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During Art, we used the computers to create some digital sarcophagi.
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Year 6 welcomed year 2 to their express event.
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After programming our micro:bit, we designed a casing to go into a museum exhibit.
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During Computing, we created a blog to share with Year 2 all about our learning on the Ancient Egyptians.
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After all of our hard work in our SATs, we received out Hoodies and certificates for our fabulous attitudes.
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In DT, we researched the history of the thermometer and then worked on programming a micro:bit to alert us when the temperature got too high or too low.
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Ennis 6 have enjoyed recapping the game of Tag Rugby with Mr Munro.
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The teachers at Valley are so incredibly proud of the resilience, perseverance and positive attitudes of the children during SATs week this year!
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This week, Year 6 have been discussing ways to healthily manage stress and worries. They created a dice to give a range of strategies they could use to help improve their stresses.
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We investigated how mould spores can help with bread decay.
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On Earth Day we learnt about saving electricity to keep the planet healthy. We created posters to remind people of what to do.
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We learnt about how fungi can be useful and then took part in an experiment, seeing the effect water temperature had on yeast.
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We had a discussion about different types of microorganism and their properties.
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In PE lessons, we have been playing the game of jump ball and developing the skills we need to play this game.
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During English we have been collecting vocabulary to develop and embellish our writing.
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We practised creating classification trees to sort aliens.
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We took part in the speed stacking competition.
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Before the Speed Stacking competition, we practised our skills so we can be the best.
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In RE, we debated if Christianity is still a strong religion, giving reasons for our decisions.
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As part of our Science topic of Classification, we sorted vertebrates into different groups based on their attributes.
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Year 6 took part in Science Day and we thought about how changes have happened to the Earth over time.
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As part of our World Book Day celebrations, we learnt about the author Abi Elphinstone and read extracts from her books as well as producing some work based on what we had read. We are looking forward to borrowing them from the library.
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During our PE lessons, we practise a skill as well as learning a game. Here we are practising our balancing.
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Year 6 have enjoyed dressing up as our favourite characters for World Book Day 2024.
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We discussed King Tutankhamun's tomb discovery and decided whether the statements were true or false based on our learning.
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Year 6 had a visit with David Baddiel who spoke to us about his books and his hobbies.
17/08/24
As part of our Engage day for our Topic, 'Kingdom on the Nile' we found out about King Tutankhamun and the lead up to the discovery of his tomb.
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We used databases to answer questions on a quiz, then made our own questions based on a database.
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We enjoyed a quiz as part of our NSPCC Number Day celebrations.
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As part of our Science lessons, we have been learning about light. We made shadow puppets and performed our creations.