We have had a great time igniting our Nelson Mandela project. We’ve started our journey by researching about Mandela’s life and communicating this learning within our own comic strips.
This is what we’ve done so far…
Calling all year six!
There has been a typing error on the home learning.
The writing task and school leader application letters are due in on Wednesday, not Monday!
The art task is due in on Monday; however, as it is required for the ignite day! If there are any printing issues, do not hesitate to email it in to school to be printed here.
Please also be reminded that we provide a Tuesday lunch time home learning club every week. If for any reason, you would prefer to do your home learning in school with a teacher nearby to assist then do come along.
Please find a copy of the home learning task in the link below:
Note – the formatting corrects itself once you download it.
Have a lovely weekend!
Phew!
This week we have been really busy finding the gaps that have crept into our learning journeys over the summer. We have enjoyed seeing the other year six teachers in the morning for ‘close the gap’ maths groups and are really getting back into the swing of writing! We have aching hands now.
Our ‘Take One Picture’ project learning has been a great opportunity to be creative and collaborative. We are so excited to communicate this learning with our parents next Thursday (remember it is first come, first serve!).
Preparation for the Lantern Festival has already begun. Today, we began learning the choreography to the dance that we’ll be performing.
Here is a sneaky preview of our groovy moves:
Roll on November!
We have had a fantastic start to the year. At the start of the week we had a class discussion about what makes a strong and powerful year 6 learner. The expectations were very clear and everyone has been displaying them throughout the week.
Some of us then demonsted strong and powerful learning by presenting what behaviours they would show.
Maths this week has been amazing! From countdown to problem solving we have been extremely challenged but our strong and powerful behaviours have shone through!
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?
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!
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
We had another visit from Matt again today, who spoke to us about the redrafting process. We are looking forward to applying this to the writing that we have been working on this week!
Thank you, Matt!
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!
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.
