Year 6: The Elephants: Blog items
Update, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 11:49am
WOW this week has gone so quickly.
Thursday
Phonics
Spelling check on this week's spellings.
Reading - learning about the discovery of DNA.
Science researching the life and work of Stephen Hawking and making our own black holes.
English - choosing our own area of focus - complete sentences, correcting punctuation errors or identifying the subject, verb , object within sentences.
Maths - fluent in five, reasoning and then converting miles into kilometers and vice versa.
Friday
Music
Drama
Computing
Sport
Art
The class have settled back into learning really well and have had an amazing week. They have loved the new timetable so we have started 2024 in the best way possible.
Have a great weekend everyone
Mrs Fletcher
Welcome Back, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 10th Jan 2024 @ 2:35pm
Happy New Year .
On behalf of myself, Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Doherty I would like to thank you for all of the lovely gifts we received at Christmas.
Our week so far :
MONDAY
Morning task - phonics
Spelling adding cial and tial
Reading response - Alan Turing
Geography - learning about longtitude and latitude
English - writing new endings for The Highwayman poem
PE - passing skills in hockey
Maths - metric measures
TUESDAY
Morning task
Spelling - look, say, cover, write, check
Reading - Alexander Fleming
RE- The Five Pillars of Islam
Jigsaw - dreams and goals
Maths - converting metric measures
English - research facts about a given Greek god or goddess
WEDNESDAY
sale
Morning Task
Spelling - speedy spell
Reading response - Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace
Maths - calculating wit mteric measures
English - discussing our new text
DT - preparing for our enterprise
Elephant Catch Up, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 9:42am
Thursday
The morning was spent researching interesting facts about 6 major world religions - the class loved this - and creating amazing mind maps to showcase all of their knowledge from the autumn terms learnong.
The afternoon was spent partying at the Year 5 and 6 Christmas party. Theo, Poppy and Sienna did an amazing job as DJs/
Friday
Christmas cards and carols in French
Computing
Dodgeball
Thank you to you all for your support this term it is very much appreciated. Thank you also for the gifts and cards myself, Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Doherty have received. It is very kind of you to think of us at this time of year.
We hope that you all have a very lovely Christmas and we will see you in January.
Best wishes
Mrs Fletcher, Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Doherty.
Christmas part Y5&6, by Mr Pearson
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 2:36pm
The annual Christmas party was enjoyed by all.
Wonderful Wednesday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 2:39pm
Today started with a whole school rehearsal for the Carol Service on Friday, the class did a fantastic job of reciting their poem and earned themselves a class compliment from Mrs Brown.
After a slightly later than usual playtime the rest of the morning was spent doing DT, finishing off the amazing playground structures they have been building.
This afternoon has been a Christmas themed LPS+ session with Mrs Atkinson and Mrs Doherty.
Don't forget tomorrow is Christmas Party day so come dressed ready for a fun filled afternoon.
Elephant Catch Up, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 9:03pm
Monday
Morning task - remove the last e before adding the suufix er or ed
Spelling - splitting this week's words into two lists: cious or tious
Reading - The Yule Lads - Spoon Licker , a story from Iceland
Maths - fluent in five, reasoning, mixed questions with fractions
English - present perfect and past perfect verb tenses
Science - lots of Christmas fun completing our investigations into how mirrors work.
Tuesday
Phonics - correcting misspelt words
Spelling - using this week's spellings in sentences
Maths - fluent in five, reasoning, finding fractions of amounts
English - planning a new ending to The Highwayman
DT - working hard to finish our amazing playgrounds.
Thursday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 9:34pm
Today has been very busy and lots of fun too.
Morning Task - grammar task
Spelling - check up of this week's spellings.
Maths - double fluent in five followed by more dividing fractions.
Fun videos with sining and dancing to help us remember grammar and punctuation
Christmas dinner followed by a long playtime and a movie afternoon.
Wednesday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 13th Dec 2023 @ 2:24pm
Here's what we have been up to today :
Morning task - phonics activity to correct spellings
Spelling - using this week's spellings in sentences to improve our vocabulary.
Guided Reading - The final chapter of The Night Before The Night Before Christmas.
Maths - Fluent in Five, reasoning and then we learnt to divide any fraction by an integer 4/6 x 2 = 4/12
English - developing our understaning of adverbs and adverbials, how they are used in sentences, whar they modify and how we punctuate sentences containing them.
This afternoon LPS+ - working on our poem to perform at the Carol Service in church and making calendars.
Tomorrow is Christmas Lunch day so Christmas jumpers can be worn along with the usual uniform skirts and trousers.
Tuesday, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 8:33pm
Our day
Morning task - phonics changing the y to i and adding er and est to words such as happy.
Spelling - box dictation which is where we write the words by writing letters in the correctly shaped boxes.
Guided Reading - today we read The Night Before The Night Before Christmas Chaoter 2. Today was a vocabulary focus.
Maths - Fluent in Five and Reasoning followed by divison of fractions by integers.
English - we identified literary features in a narrative poem .
DT - we continued to work on building the structures for our playground projects. They are beginning to look really good.
Homework Help, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 11:19pm
There are a number of documents and a powerpoint on the class website page to assist with maths and grammar homework
What have we done today?, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 10:13pm
Monday
Today we have ....
Morning task - revised adding the suffix es to words ending in y. Someties it makes an i sound as in complies and sometimes it makes an ee sound as in babies.
Spelling - we discussed the meaning of the suffix ful and then identified it in this week's spellings.
Reading - we enjoyed reading the text The night before the night before Christmas together and the did an awesome job answering our VIPERS questions.
Maths started with Fluent in Five ( 5 arithmetic questions) and a reasoning task. Most of us then worked on multiplying fractions by fractions. Some children did some work with Mrs Atkinson on mixed numbers.
English - started by listening to the poem The Highwayman - lots of the class were joining in . Today's English task was working with a partner to do a vocabulary task. Having chosen 5 words from a vocab list the children wrote what they thought the word meant in the poem before looking it up in dictionaries- book and online.
PE - it was evidence day today in Gymnastics. The class did an amazing job creating gymnastics sequences using counterbalance and countertension. The sequences were videoed for assessment evidence.
During RE some children went with Mrs Brown to chrch to deliver the Christmas art boards, some were sewing with Mrs Atkinson and some were getting more points for the class on the Times Tables Rock Stars Tournament. We will look at confirmation later in the week when we are all together.
Tomorrow afternoon we will be finishing our geography unit and doing some more work on our playground structures in DT.
Busy Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 9:08pm
The Elephants have had a really busy day .
The day started with a visit to Longton Library where Helen shared lots of really interesting facts about Christmas. She then read us some Christmas poems and chose some of the children to read poems aloud.
Next the cildren all got to make gorgeous Christmas cards.
Back in school the children worked hard in English to bring scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and The Tempest to life with actions and dialogue. The rsults ww=ere amazing.
Congratulations, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 26th Nov 2023 @ 5:34pm
The Elephnats have been shining and have earned themseleves a number of class compliments for displaying Longton behaviour. They have now achieved 20 compliments and which means they can choose a class treat.
Well done Elephants- I am super proud of you .
Eco Halloween, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 8:19am
A big thank you to some of the Eco team who helped Kelly create some funky Halloween decorations out of milk cartons They looked fab..and the team enjoyed helping out!
Busy Elephants, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 7:39pm
Year 6 have been busy this week showing what amazing learners they are. There has been a real imrovemnet in the presentation of work this week and the class are rising to every challenge they are are faced with.
In LPS+ the children looked at the new Blue Peter Badge for reading and discussed how important reading ie, reaching the conclusion that it really is the key that opens doors of opportunity.
In maths we are getting ready to tackle long division, it would be great if over the coming weeks the children could spend some time on Times Tables Rockstars refreshing their knowledge - it will really help !
Don't forget that projects are in soon - we can't wait to see them.
Fun in Science, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 17th Sep 2023 @ 6:33pm
The children enjoyed learning about Charles Darwin in science and had great fun playing The Game of Survival.
Excellent Start, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 7th Sep 2023 @ 7:36pm
Well done everyone, you have made an excellent start to Year 6. You have all settled into your new class really well and it wonderful to see such focussed learning.
The class have now had a taste of every lesson on thier timetable, making a great start to their work in History and Science.
This is going to be an amazing year Elephants!
Hickory's Brunch for lucky readers!, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 26th May 2023 @ 2:44pm
Big well done to all the children who attended Hickory's brunch today! The children won this lovely rewards from being in the lucky draw for reading every day. A big thank you to Hickorys Hutton for looking after us.
Art week Elephants, by Mr Pearson
Date: 25th May 2023 @ 11:06am
An enjoyable week of creative in the Elephant Tribe
Amazing actors, by Mr Pearson
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 9:37pm
Congratulations to the children who performed brilliantly in the class play.
Science festival UCAL, by Mr Pearson
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 2:52pm
The Elephant tribe had a wonderful experience at UCAL enjoying science workshops and science experiments and experiences.
Football Tournament, by Mr Pearson
Date: 17th May 2023 @ 3:07pm
A group of Y4 & Y5 children took part in a football tournament organised by Blackburn Football Club.
Mad Science Assembly, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 13th May 2023 @ 1:32pm
We enjoyed a visit from Mad Science. The assembly was full of excitement, fascinating facts and lots of wow moments.
The week Written by Elizabeth and Poppy Mc, by Mr Pearson
Date: 28th Apr 2023 @ 2:38pm
Monday
Maths
In maths we have been learning statistics. We have learnt how to read, draw and interpret line graphs.
English
Recently we have just finished a book called cloud tea monkey.
Tuesday
Maths
In maths we have been classifying angles and drawing angles. Also estimating degrees.
English
In English we have been writing sentences using adverbs. Here is one of them. Below the ground there are bones that have not been discovered and they could have zero arms.
After lunch we practised some of our play which is coming along very well. Also it was parents in class where we learnt about the history of the cotton mills in Preston.
Wednesday
Maths
On Wednesday we were estimating angles. It was very fun trying to guess [estimated guess] the right answer.
English
We were learning about a poem called Sir Autumn It was very interesting. Here is one of them, Lady winter who spreads her cold frost on to the dried leaves as she glides around the garden.
After lunch
After lunch we did history which we enjoyed very much.It was all about mills and if we were in the mills at the time. Here is one of them.
Dear Diary
Wednesday 26th April 1824 6am
Off to the cotton mill again. Sloppy old porridge again. I have the worst job in the world. Every day I get up and nearly chopping my hands off, rubbing my hands together with sores everywhere, bleeding constantly. It’s just pain after pain after pain.
Thursday
Maths
Today we learnt about regular and Irregular
Polygons we were very surprised to find out the rules of them. They are: all angles need to be the same and the sides have to be straight and the same length.
English
In English we watched Eye of the storm. It was very good and we all enjoyed it very much. It was also very interesting and a bit puzzling as well. We did some writing in out books about who ,which,what,where and when
After lunch
After lunch we practised for our play. They are coming along very well.Then we did some of our lines.
Friday
On Friday our special teachers come in.
Drama
In drama we are doing our play and Mr Sumner-who is our drama- teacher has really brought it to life .
Art
In art we are making sculptures out of playground toys and cardboard boxes. It is really fun and everyone is enjoying it very much.
After lunch
After lunch we do PE and computing
Computing
We really like computing because we used micro bits which are mini computers and we have loved programming them to show different things.
