Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items

Castle and the Sun, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 25th Apr 2018 @ 5:48pm

We looked at Castle and the Sun by Paul Klee and made our own wax resist versions. Here’s the shapes that we began with.

Mondays assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 23rd Apr 2018 @ 8:09pm

Blog written by our year 6 PSHE leaders

Today's assembly was about what does loneliness feel like? Loneliness may be when you are homeless , alone and left out. The U.K., sadly, has loneliness problems. Many people assume that it is just elderly people who are lonely, but 1 in 20 Young people have actually said they are lonely, they are the heart of the problem. Some of the cause of being lonely are if you are starting a new school or if you are just naturally shy. We looked at some pictures with groups of children in them, we had to think, which child was feeling lonely, on one, one of the people were on there own, so we knew that that child was lonely. We then looked at a letter in which a mum had wrote about her daughter because she was shy, had no brother or sisters and the mum was asking for advice. Once we had read the letter we thought of ways we would include the little girl. We had lots of ideas like: invite her to parties, ask her to play a game with you in the playground and make the effort. We got set a challenge to look out for people who were a bit lonely in the playground and see if they would like to play a game with you. We also need to remember that sometimes people aren't lonely, they might just want some alone time.

Week Beginning Monday 23rd April 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 22nd Apr 2018 @ 4:48pm

Hello all :)

I hope you have enjoyed the weekend!

Here is the plan for the week ahead:

I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow,

Mrs Coxhead

Good Friends, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 20th Apr 2018 @ 5:29pm

In Jigsaw, we learned about friendships and thought about famous friends in books and on television. We decided what good friends should do in pairs.

Thursday assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 20th Apr 2018 @ 7:07am

In assembly today we started off thinking about the word devotion and what are we devoted to. We shared our thoughts about how we know someone I'd devoted to a football team or a pop band. We listened to a story from India. This story happened 300 years ago! In our reflection we thought about some famous words one of the gurus in our story said. We also thought about how we can be brave and little things we would do that we were, in the past, afraid to do.

Tuesday Assembly Blog, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 8:53pm

Written by our Year 6 PSHE leaders

Today in our jigsaw assembly we learnt about friendships and relationships. Our title in jigsaw this half term is about friendships. We were talking about how baking a chocolate cake is like making a new friend. We put in our suggestions about the ingredients of a friendship, we had: loyalty, kindness, fun, and a friend that is always our friend. We had some time to think about if we had been kind to our friends today. We always have to remember to listen to our friends, to share with our friends, be kind to our friends and of course have fun with our friends!

Monday Assembly Blog, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Apr 2018 @ 8:50pm

Written by our year 6 PSHE leaders

Today's assembly was about, how much of our lives should we share with others? In the news this week it said about how lots of people's private information was leaked all over Facebook. We learnt about how things in the past have now changed, like how in the past we would go to the travel agents if we wanted to go on holiday, but now we can go onto the internet and book there instead. We have also been thinking about how you would act in different situations like how you would act when arguing with your brother or sister. Facebook is now thinking about a messenger app for kids, as lots of adults use it. Parents will be able to look at what their child has been doing on this app. It will allow children to communicate even if they do not have a phone number. Our reflection today was about the rules of law and we had a lot of questions.

Picture News - British Values - w/c 16th April, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 16th Apr 2018 @ 8:05am

Please find attached a copy of the picture news resource we will be discussing in assembly this week.

Take some time to chat about it at home.

Week Beginning Monday 16th April 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:45pm

Hello all,

I hope that you are enjoying the sunshine this weekend.

Here is how the week ahead looks:

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,

Mrs Coxhead

Families, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:33pm

In our Jigsaw lesson, we were learning about what makes a family. We started by finding the rest of our animal family by only making animal noises (no words).

Castles Research, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:25pm

We researched some information about castles. We looked at photos, illustrations and books.

Easter Bonnets, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 14th Apr 2018 @ 12:11pm

Look at our wonderful bonnets. Apologies for the delay - it’s still seasonal though!

Picture News , by Mrs Catterall

Date: 13th Apr 2018 @ 11:07pm

Dear parents

Picture News is a resource we use in our assemblies to share and dicusss with the children.

This week our assembly was titled, 'Who does the World belong to?'  This also linked with our assembly about 'Earth Day'.

A Picture News - home resources is attached to this blog.  Please look out for a parent mail giving you more infomation and look back at the blog each week to find out more about the news topics we will be exploring in school. 

Mrs Catterall

Week Beginning Monday 9th April 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 7th Apr 2018 @ 5:05pm

Hello all,

I hope you had a happy Easter!

Here's the plan for next week:

Look out for topic letters in book bags this week. Also, I may send home lines for class assembly so look out for those too.

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Many thanks,

Mrs Coxhead

Mobile Farm, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 23rd Mar 2018 @ 8:27am

Here are some pictures from the mobile farm visit on Wednesday. The animals were very friendly and Ben and Marion taught us lots about them.

Animals, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 21st Mar 2018 @ 5:24pm

We have been learning about animals - their diets and groups. We made a meal for a pet and designed our own zoo where animals were organised according to whether they were a mammal, reptile, amphibian, bird or fish.

Birds’ nests, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 20th Mar 2018 @ 5:23pm

We made our own nests using clay and materials we could find outside. We tested the nests for sturdiness in the wind, using a hairdryer.

Week Beginning Monday 19th March 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 17th Mar 2018 @ 11:24am

Hello :)

I hope that you are enjoying your weekend. 

This week we are celebrating British Science Week. There are lots of exciting things happening in school. Our timetable will be a little different than usual so I have split it up according to each day's main events as opposed to subjects. Guided reading and phonics will happen everyday as usual so I have not added them to the timetable.

Reading books - we will not have all our reading teachers in on Thursday and Friday so books will be changed on Wednesday this week. Children will received four books for the holidays. Apologies for this change - things will be back to normal after the Easter break.

I look forward to seeing you all next week!

Many thanks,

Mrs Coxhead

Divison, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 17th Mar 2018 @ 11:13am

We practised divison as sharing on Wednesday. We used counters and whiteboards to help us. It looks like we are really concentrating!

Storyville Story Writing, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 17th Mar 2018 @ 11:12am

We chose a setting and characters that took our fancy to write our own story about.

Week Beginning Monday 12th March 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 10th Mar 2018 @ 1:34pm

Hello :)

I hope that you are all well.

Here is what we are doing this week:

I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Mrs Coxhead

Happy Mothers Day, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 7th Mar 2018 @ 6:31pm

Happy Mothers Day to all the lovely ladies of Longton.

World Book Day, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 3rd Mar 2018 @ 12:32pm

Here are some pictures of us reading in class.

Daffodils, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 3rd Mar 2018 @ 12:19pm

We looked closely at daffodils and drew what we could see. Next, we painted them!

Week Beginning Monday 5th March 2018, by Mrs Coxhead

Date: 3rd Mar 2018 @ 12:17pm

Hello :) 

I hope that you are enjoying your weekend! Here is what we are doing this week:

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday,

Mrs Coxhead