Secondary searching

Which secondary school will you be attending?

What time does the school start and finish?

What is the uniform like?

How long will it take you to get to school?

How many subjects will you study?

How often will you be given homework?

Will you learn a language?

Which clubs might you join?

What are you most looking forward to about your new school?

Sixes speak Spanish!

This term we will be having spanish lessons!

What information do you know about the Spanish language and the places where it is spoken as a first language?
Why do you think it could be useful for you to learn Spanish?
What sorts of things would you like to learn how to say in Spanish?

Body banter

This term we shall be returning to science and our topic of the human body.

Look at the image below. Which parts of the human body can you identify? Do you know their functions? Which part of the image would you most like to explore?

Bugsy's back!

It's time for us to start preparing for this year's show, Bugsy Malone. 

Which part would you like to play  in our musical? Why do you think you would suit this part? 

This is your chance to try to persuade the Year 6 teachers to cast you in your favourite role!

Poetry, please!

This week we are looking at some different poems to help us think about the sorts of poems and questions which could appear in our SATs reading paper.

Have a look online at some different poetry and choose a poem you enjoy.

What is the name of the poem and poet? 

What do you like about the poem and why? 

Do you think the poet is giving a message to the reader? 

What literary techniques has the poet used in their poem? 

Cumbria Flood Relief

After seeing the news of the flooding in Cumbria we decided to hold a raffle to help raise money for a school in Cumbria called Flinby Primary.

Year 6 pupils held an assembly to introduce the fundraiser and encouraged pupils and staff to bring in any unwanted Christmas gifts to use in the raffle.

We showed some of the prizes that were up for grabs. The school community did such a great job with providing wonderful gifts such as: a chocolate fondue set, Jacqueline Wilson books and even a train set!

 For four days after school, the Year 6 group sold tickets with enthusiasm.

The day of the raffle arrived, with parents, children and staff gathered in the hall. Everybody wanted to win the chocolate fondue set, it was the star prize. Year 4 pupils seemed to win the most prizes, however the star prize went to a delighted pupil from Reception.

The grand total our school raised was £150, an amazing amount!

The money raised will be going towards flood relief at Flimby Primary school. In addition, it will be helping families of children who attend Flimby Primary to help rebuild their lives after such devastating weather.

Getting to the heart of the matter...

Is this a good representation of the human heart? Why/why not?

What do you know about the human heart?

What would you like to find out about it this week?

The title of this post is a saying. What does it mean? Can you think of any other sayings or proverbs which include the word 'heart'? 

Childhood Chat

We enjoyed our visit to the Museum of childhood last week. 

The special exhibition was all about child migration from England between 1869 and 1970. What did you learn about these children? How did it link to our topic? 

We also explored the rest of the museum and discovered lots of toys and games from the past. Some displays brought back memories for our Year 6 teachers! 

Which displays did you find most interesting and why? 

A post from Peter!

I have found  some images of children in Second World War. Have a look at the images. What do they tell us about what life was like for evacuees and other children?

School lunch menu

What do you think about the meals on our menu?

In to university!

This term 6 Red spent a week with IntoUniversity! They learnt all about what life is like at university and thought about what they might like to study themselves in the future. The week ended with the whole class graduating at King's College! 

What did you learn during the week?

What would you like to study at university?

Do you have a favourite memory from the week? 

Happy New Year, Year 6!

Have you made any new year's resolutions? 

What are your hopes for 2016? 

Brillant Baddies!

Last week we went to see "Baddies, the Musical" at the Unicorn Theatre.

What did you think of the show? How were the baddies different to their original characters in the fairy tales? Who was your favourite character and why? https://vimeo.com/140238584

Pondering Plants

This week Blue class are exploring plants with IntoUniversity and today we visited the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew to see some up close! 

Blue class, think about the things you have been learning about plants this week  and write some questions for red class to get them thinking about plants before their own IntoUniversity week!  

Red class, what would you like to find out about plants? Perhaps blue class have the answers! 

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Why should your story be included in the anthology?

Hill Mead Primary School's Anthology of Stories

Which stories must we include in the anthology? Why are they an important choice? What messages do they give younger children? What do they teach younger children?

Daylight robbery

A Maths teacher was an eye-witness to a robbery. Everything happened very quickly, but she was able to remember the number on the robber's T-shirt. When she got home, she wrote the number down. She also wrote down some clues about the number. She then gave the clues to her pupils to see if they could work out the number.

Can you work out the number from the clues?

• It is an odd number
• It has 4 digits
• It is divisible by both 3 and 9
• When it is divided by 21, there is no remainder
• All the digits are different
• The total of the first two digits is double the totals of the last two digits
• The number is between 2999 and 5000

Heritage Collage

After interviewing Miss Diss about aspects of her heritage, Ashraf (6 red) has made a fantastic start at designing a collage using the online editing tool 'Pixlr'.  How do you think each image represents an aspect of Miss Diss' heritage?

This week in ICT we will be designing our own heritage collages using 'Pixlr.' Which aspects of your heritage will you show through images?

Don't forget that we must be careful when we use online images in our own work. Why is this? How can we ensure we use the right images?

The Snow Queen

What do you like about the Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen?

What do you dislike about the story and characters so far?

What has puzzled you as we have been reading the story?

What connections can you make to other texts?