Strong and Powerful start to the year with year 6!

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon11th September 2015

Wow!  What a week back-we’re exhausted already.  We have had a fantastic first week of the new school year.

Throughout the week, we have been working very hard on our redrafting and review – based on Ron Berger’s Austin’s Butterfly.  Here are two examples of the standard we have achieved in our redrafting so far:

On top of that, we’ve used a brilliant new learning tool called Padlet to excellent effect!  Padlet lets us write collaboratively on the smartboard using our iPads.  6a even showed 3b how it is done!

But the highlight of the week was definitely Science with Mrs Khatoon, who did Bubble-ology with us!  We made bubbles inside of bubbles:

Phew! What will we do next week?

Good luck and welcome back to year 6!

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon4th September 2015

I am sat doing lots of new learning today with the teachers and I am thinking fondly of old and new 6a.

I would like to wish my old 6a class all the very best at their new secondary school – do not forget how to be Strong and Powerful and make sure you come back to tell me how you are all doing.

New 6a- I am very excited to see you all on Monday 7th.  I imagine you have all grown over the summer and I can’t wait to see your smart new haircuts! Don’t forget your gotcha smiles!

Miss Snowdon

 

Summer holiday homework

By 22nd July 2015

Summer Holiday Homework

During our transition Project, we looked at the painting ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’ by Thomas Gainsborough. We will be continuing to link our learning to the painting in September, as part of the National Gallery’s ‘Take One Picture’ project.

Please choose at least one of these activities to do for your summer holiday homework:

  • Re-create the painting ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’ in your own style! You could paint it, collage it, do it as a mosaic, sketch it etc
  • Research Thomas Gainsborough – his life and his most famous pieces of artwork. Create a Powerpoint presentation or information leaflet about him.
  • Pretend you are Mr or Mrs Andrews and write your diary. You could share how you are feeling, your thoughts on your relationship etc.
  • Write a story with Mr and Mrs Andrews as your main characters and their farm as the setting.

Please bring your homework into school on the first day back, Monday 7th September, so that classes can share what they have done over the summer together.

 

If you are looking for a day out which will link to our ‘Take One Picture’ Project, then we recommend you visit the National Gallery in London and find Thomas Gainsborough’s painting ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’ to have a look at the real thing!

 

mr and mrs andrews

Year 6 sports day colours

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon19th June 2015

Hello year six!

Your colours for sports day are the same as the ones that you had for the brain day (when we came in with a coloured top to make a big brain on the playground!)

If you are still not sure, don’t worry, we’ll give out letters reminding you of your colour on Tuesday – remember please, no school on Monday.

Sports day for KS2 (years 3, 4, 5 and 6) is Friday 26th June from 4pm.  Bring your suncream!

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Miss Snowdon

Welcome back Year 6!

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon8th June 2015

Year 6 have been reunited today after the residential trip to New Barn in Dorset.  We had an absolutely fantastic time and wish we could do it all over again!

It is lovely to be all back together though and the children have enjoyed thinking about how we ‘belong’ with our Brooklands community and the ‘UN Rights of the Child’.  We are going to apply this thinking into a piece of persuasion where we advertise other people to join our Brooklands Farm family!

This afternoon, Matt, the project manager of the new building came in to tell us all about the different design stages of a new building.  We are looking forward to applying this learning later in our building project!

 

New Barn Day 5 Update

By Mrs c Hern5th June 2015

Yesterday, the children had a lovely day searching for fossils, eating lunch on the beach and paddling in the sea!

The BBQ in the evening was delicious and the shindig was fantastic.

Today, the children are on their way to Corfe castle to visit the ruin. They’ll be eating lunch in the sunshine and visiting the old fashioned sweet shop before heading home.

The coach will be leaving Corfe castle at approximately 1pm. Hopefully the traffic will be clear and the coach should arrive back at school between 4pm and 4:30pm.

We will try and keep you posted with possible delays via text.