Class 6's Blog

Stars of the Week: Astrid and Ethan

This week in Maths we have been looking at ratio and proportion. In order to get our teeth into proportion, we had our own Great British ‘Proportion’ Bake Off! Each baking week, we had to change the ratios of the ingredients to make specific. For example, if a recipe made 8 servings and we only needed 4 servings, we would halve each of the ingredients. If a recipe made 5 servings and we needed 15 servings, we would multiply each ingredient by 3.

Each team made it to the final week, and the winning ‘star bakers’ were… EVERYONE!

 

 

Stars of the Week: Jacob and Chiugo

This week in English, we began planning out a diary entry about Harry Potter’s journey to Diagon Alley. We discussed the different shops that Harry visited with Hagrid and began to create some rhetorical questions that Harry might have towards his life.

Well done to all of Class 6 for their fantastic stories that I had set for their homework – they made some brilliant reading and I loved the imagination! House points have been awarded to the stories that really blew me away.

In DT, we have continued our Bee-Bot track project and began creating some rules for the game, thinking carefully to make sure we included every sub-rule. We continued to colour in each of the squares and next week we are going to have a full trial run of the game to see if it works.

Stars of the Week: Cruz and Krislyn

This week, Class 6 have been continuing their DT projects – designing bee-bot tracks! They considered the colours they would use for each grid square and some of the rules that would go alongside their games. So far they are looking great and I cannot wait to see the finished projects!

In RE this week, we started to look at the meaning behind Christmas and how the values are presented through Christmas adverts. Next week, we will look at the gospel’s stories of Christmas and reflect upon how we can ensure we are showing the correct values around Christmas time.

Stars of the Week: Belén and Cameron

This week in English we have started our new class text – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. We began the unit by defining some unusual terms that only appear in the Harry Potter books and created our own HP dictionary.

In Maths this week, we have continued our work on fractions and began to look at how we can multiply fractions and mixed numbers and also dividing fractions by whole numbers.

Stars of the Week: Thea and Sean

This week in Class 6 we have been filming some TV news reports about the Battle of the Somme. We wrote a script detailing the shocking event such as how many lives were lost in the first hour and how propaganda was used to lie to the media back home.. We began editing the footage on iMovie which we will finish today and the new reports will be uploaded to this blog post.

In English, we have been building on our reading comprehension skills and practicing how to skim read and scan the text for important information. Well done for working so hard on this and gaining a better understanding of how to segment different parts of the text.

Stars of the Week: Javon and Gabrielle

This week we had a great virtual science workshop from the UCL. They spoke to Class 6 about the Arctic, the ever-changing environment which is being impacted by climate change, and the things we can do to slow it down. We even got to wear some 3D glasses to bring the pictures to life! Well done for being so well behaved throughout, and asking such well-considered questions – Rebecca (the host) commended you all on just how great you were!

 

 

 

Stars of the Week: All of Class 6.

Well done Class 6 for a fantastic collective worship. You managed to show off so much great learning across the 4/5 weeks you have been in Year 6; from the single event which caused WW1, to the ‘daemon’ work on the Northern Lights. Well done!

Please find the recording of the collective worship below:

https://vimeo.com/1018610525?share=copy#t=0

 

Stars of the Week: Rosa and Mason

This week in Class 6, we have been writing suspense stories! We looked at the main features of building suspense in story writing and how to drop little clues throughout to keep the reader ahead of the character. Well done for some great writing sessions – we are going to publish these next week and put them into a book to go in our book corner!