Team 6: The Mighty Minions

Welcome to the start of a brand new year which will be filled with fun, laughter, hard work and challenge.

Homework is set on:

• Friday and to be returned the following Wednesday
• Spellings are given on Monday and are to be practised throughout the week
• Homework can be emailed to Miss Neal at l.neal@smat.org.uk

Other important information:

• PE kits will be required on Wednesdays and Thursdays
• Y6 Actual Residential Visit Dates are: 23.10.17 – 27.10.17

Twitter

Please continues to watch for updates about our class activities on twitter @ASALeavers18.

If you were following the year 5 page then you will already be a Team 6 – Mighty Minion follower.

If you would like to discuss any of these aspects further feel free to make an appointment.

Thank You,

Miss Neal      Mrs Arnold     Mrs Buffon

Homework

Autumn 1 Homework can be found by following the link below:

Year 6 Autumn 1 Homework

Lot’s of creative homework is happening and we want to provide you with an easy way to share it. Have you just finished making a model? Is your homework a creative project like a science experiment? Any homework that is not in homework books can now be evidenced with a few snaps and emailed to your class teacher! Be as creative as possible and evidence your homework the easy way.

Year 6 Homework Email: l.neal@smat.org.uk

Our Spellings

Every half term your child will be expected to learn around 15 common exception words.

Find these in the links below:

Autumn 1 Y6 Common Exception Words

Weekly spellings for Autumn 1

Our Topics covered this year will be:

Mighty Minions parent curriculum Autumn Term

Y6. Theme. Learning Objectives

The elements we will be covering are:

A Taste of Britain

• Using maps to locate the different regions within Britain
• Discussing and sharing your view on what Britain was like for you in the past

Enterprise Project

• Using skills to plan and make Autumn themed crafts
• Encouraging children to think of creative business ideas

A Piece of History – The Roman Empire

• Reading and discussing modern history using the website link provided
• Researching key historical figures that have influenced the past

Digital Design

• Thinking about what would make an effective iPad game
• Watching the given tutorial links above

The War Room – Words War II

• Reading and discussing modern history using the website link provided
• Prompting children to ask questions about the past

Video Star

• Reflecting on your child’s time at school
• Discussing the things they would like to look back on

In Literacy the genres we will be covering are:

• Modern stories / stories with modern settings
• Short stories with flashbacks
• Author studies – Rosemary Sutcliffe, Kate DiCamillo, JKRowling
• Classical texts
• Descriptive writing
• Metaphors and personification Poetry
• Classical Poetry
• Humorous and nonsense poems
• Persuasive – speeches, advertisements and formal letters
• Recounts – Biography and autobiography, news reports (radio/television) and contrasting diaries
• Journalistic writing
• Balanced arguments – speeches and newspaper/magazine articles
• Information texts/report – Consumer product reports/product reviews

You can help your child by:

• Encourage your child to read and discuss reading at home (minimum 3 times per week)
• Support completion of Grammar and Punctuation Homework
• Encourage and support your child to learn their weekly spelling rule

In Maths we will be covering the objectives for year  6:

These can be found at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-mathematics-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-mathematics-programmes-of-study

You can help your child by:

• Encourage your child to practise times tables and number facts at home.
• Support the completion of Mathematics Homework

Below is the archive events for Year 6 Leavers 2017:

13/6/17 The Doll Drama

A few of the children were inspired by the Alma animation to write a play script. Here they are performing of for the rest of the class. Can you spot who is playing the part of the dolls? Superb acting skills.

13/6/17 Maths – The crime solving way!

A hungry dog stole all the burgers for the BBQ – using their mathematical skills, year 6 needed to eliminate the suspects one-by-one to find the culprit.

24/5/17 Den Building

We love a spot of den building. Look how busy we’ve been exploring the woodland around our field.

12/5/17 Celebrating the end of SATs week 

Year 6 have worked incredibly hard this week, giving their SATs everything they have got – everyone is extremely proud of them all.

8/5/17 Revision Runaround

Keeping active whilst being a human grammar glossary.

Am I a…verb…adverb…preposition…noun…pronoun…adjective?

Summer Term Curriculum, Homework and Spellings

Diamonds Curriculum Summer Term

sats_spellings_list

Word-list-5-and-6

Year 6 Summer 1 Homework

27.3.17 Mother’s Day

Many personal touches and heart-felt messages were added to our cards this year – there may have been a few tears and hugs on Sunday.

24.3.17 Mother’s Day Service

Class 6 read personal messages to the Mum’s expressing their love and gratitude.

A flower was given to every mum, nan, aunt and special lady who attended the service.

20.3.17 Practical maths

We have been learning about scale factor in maths.

16.3.17 Light Models

Making models to demonstrate the direction in which light travels. Here we are with our models, demonstrating how they work.

14.3.17 As one science topic closes, another begins! 

Task One: Sort the images! How we asked? Here are pictures showing how we organised our ideas.

This is how we made the self-discovery that our new topic was to be – Light!

13.3.17 Front page news!

The Chronicle was so impressed with the community spirit behind our theme day, along with all the learning about the 1940’s and evacuation, that they made it their front page news. What an acknowledgement!

13.3.17 The Great Exhibit

Here are each of the robots with their group of human friends.

Everyone say hello with Child-bot.

Showing our designs and sharing our science/technology project with children from other classes. We all got to see each others and they were all very impressive.

During our science fair (The Great Exhibit), we told our parents about the purpose of our robot designs. They were really impressed and it was nice to be given such positive feedback. Everyone’s robot was a success.

10.3.17 Rise of the Robots

In 4 groups, we have been busy for the past three afternoons making models of our designed robots. The Bots are on the increase with flashy eyes, buzzing mouths, twisting ears and spinning arms. Putting our science and technology skills to good use, we are ready to share our work at the Great Exhibition.

Here we are putting the finishing touches to our models.

8.3.17 Pop art explosion

Our final pieces of art work, which were inspired by Andy Warhol’s pop art techniques, are complete and on display in our room. We used a range of influences to theme our images on including modern ones such as social media forums, YouTube and computer consoles.

2.3.17 Evacuate!

To learn first hand the experiences of children from the 1940s, the Dazzling Diamonds were evacuated – but only for the day! Arriving at school in their themed clothing, the children prepared to be evacuated alongside their teacher and two volunteer land girls, who were escorting the children from the city of London to their new home in the village of Darfield.

Upon arrival at the village hall the local reverend welcomed us all. We were given soup to warm us up after our long journey by ‘train’ before being allocated to our new foster families.

A HUGE thank you to members of the All Saints Church community who were involved in role playing all these parts and making the morning memorable.

Playing 1940s games including marbles, jacks and a donkey race board game.

After a change of venue, the afternoon was spent at the Maurice Dobson museum, which included an early lunch consisting of sandwiches typical of the 1940s and treats such as biscuits and apples.

What would you expect to find in a 1940’s home? The style and size of radios and televisions were a surprise! Listening to a gramophone record was another treat. Also experiencing the two-person hoover and a carpet sweeper were popular devices to try out. Elsie was the perfect house host giving lots of advice about how to use the items and explain what some of the most unusual were.

Discovering the gas masks used by babies, toddlers, children and soldiers.

Touching shrapnel and a hand-grenade (deactivated) to understand the power and devastation these items were capable of causing. Trying on the unbelievably heavy WVS helmets.

Exploring more about toys and discovering how they were often homemade by children and dads. Geoff was on hand to give lots of advice.

One of our land girls was given special permission to have a break from her afternoon’s farm work, to help the children make peg dollies.

Our afternoon culminated with sampling fresh bread and mackerel paste – a lovely 1940’s lunch – along with a special treat that we had been promised all afternoon – which turned out to be a carrot!

To finish, we had a game of ‘Guess the unusual historical item’ before returning back to school, via steam train.

(Some children did the sound effects and the actions the whole way back).

A big shout out to Geoff and Elsie who taught us about so many things during our afternoon at the museum. Here they are with two of our groups.

1.3.17  Circuit Training for the Great Exhibition

Class 6 are keeping busy learning how to make parallel and series circuits in preparation of creating and designing their own robot ready for the Great Exhibition. More news to follow about this.

28.1.17 Maths Reasoning

In our maths lessons, we have been learning lots of skills with measures (and decimals). Today we were using our knowledge of volume to explore problems and reason our answers.

 Quiz: What is the volume of the cube when a side is measured as 6cm?

Spring 2 Homework and Spellings

Year 6 Spring 2 Homework

Spring 2 Y6 Common Exception Words

February Extra challenge for the Dazzling Diamonds

Before we know it the time will be upon us to change our clocks – can you find out why we do this?

What does war have to do with this practice?

17.2.17 Preparing for our KS2 SATs

We have had a busy week practising for our SATs papers; it has been hard work but we were super impressed with our efforts.

15.2.17 Model pupils

Star has been busy turning a card board box into a shelter complete with bunk beds.

14.2.17 Homework

Ruby and Aiden have been busy at home making models of Andersen shelters. Aiden used his own lego to construct the shape of a shelter and Ruby was busy with paint and tissue paper. Take a look on the insides too!

9.2.17 Pop Art in the style of Andy Warhol

Over the past few weeks, we have been learning about the artist, Andy Warhol, with Mrs Bamforth. We have studied his style of work and how he is well known for creating symmetry through repeated images with different colours. Exploring a range of art mediums, we decided on our own individual preference to use for our final edit. Take a look at how we’ve been getting on.

3.2.17 The Blitz

We have explored what this event involved and how it affected the people of Britain. Using different sources we working on building up our research techniques by seeking answers to specific questions.

30.1.17 The War Room

We have begun our new topic learning about the events of World War 2. Some of our homework options have begun to help us learn more about this period in time.

Corey took inspiration to made a fabulous model of an Anderson Shelter with both interior and exterior details.

18.1.17 Evolution

In our topic about animal antics we explored evolution through learning about the theories of Charles Darwin. We studied how crocodiles had adapted over the centuries and imagined  how they would continue to evolve in the future. Even popping on our David Attenborough hats to record a voice over.

13.1.17 Deci-mazing!

After a few days of learning in maths about converting decimals to fractions and vice versa, we had a fun session in the afternoon completing a loop card challenge. To make the complete loop we had to find the equivalents between the two, using our knowledge and divisions methods. It was a bit like dominoes – but with calculations!

9.1.17 Making our last appearance at Young Voices

Five of our class members, and of course Miss Neal, were part of this years 5000 strong children’s choir at Sheffield Arena. This occasion was even more special for us as it was our last performance with All Saints – four of us have done this event for 3 consecutive years now! Again, we had a blast – made all the better with our fantastic seats that gave us front view of the stage to watch the celebrity singers and dancers. Five thumbs up!

5.1.17 Jelly bear genetics

What makes me me – with the help of jelly bears! We used gummy bears to teach us how our genes are combined from our parents. The visual colours of the bears helped us to see how this happens. We used our knowledge to explore hair genes to discover how genes become dominant and recessive, meaning a trait of ours could be inherited from a grandparent or even a great grandparent!

Homework for Spring Term 1  – Year 6 Spring 1 Homework

Spring 1 Y6 Common Exception Words

14.12.16  Year 5 and 6 Christmas Showcase

It has been a very busy time for the children in years 5 and 6 on the run up to Christmas. As part of the children’s joint enterprise project venture, the classes have worked together to design and create Christmas decorations, create (and perform) a musical production showcase, make and sell buns and act in a music video production. The final day of the project saw lots of parents attending the showcase to support their children along with a rush to purchase the music video the children created. Thank-you to all the parents and adults who were involved and supported their children. Pictures of the magical event are posted below.

Performing our yoga dances and songs including When Children rule the World and I’m a Little Christmas Cracker

Special performance and our music video premiere!

Happy helpers, selling our crafts – and a little glimpse of our audience.

15.11.16 Brain Doctors

For our new topic the ‘Complete Athlete’, we are learning about the brain and its functions. We explored and dissected a ‘brain’ to explore its different parts.

11.11.16 Crucial Crew

We participated in a day of activities around personal safety. Our activity sessions covered issues such as arson, hoax calls, road safety, fire safety, travel safety, Internet safety, and antisocial behaviour.

31.10.16-4.11.16  Condover Hall

Some of the Dazzling Diamonds have been dazzling at Condover Hall this week. We have had a wonderful time doing a range of exciting activities at this wonderful centre.

Follow this link to see some of the activities we got up to:

http://www.jca-adventure.co.uk/activity-centres/condover-hall/activities

23rd September 2016

The children loved our Roald Dahl day and dressing up as characters from his books. They did lots of activities throughout the day to support reading, had a scrumdiddlyumptious dinner and loved welcoming their parents into class at the end of the day.

Homework Email:

Lot’s of creative homework is happening and we want to provide you with an easy way to share it. Have you just finished making a model? Is your homework a creative project like a science experiment? Any homework that is not in homework books can now be evidenced with a few snaps and emailed to your class teacher! Be as creative as possible and evidence your homework the easy way.

Year 6 Homework Email: l.neal@smat.org.uk

Autumn 1 Homework can be found by following the link below:

year-6-autumn-1-homework-1

year-6-autumn-2-homework-2

Spring 1 Homework can be found by following the link below:

Year 6 Spring 1 Homework

Year 6 Spring 2 Homework

Our Spellings

Every half term your child will be expected to learn around 15 common exception words.

Find these in the links below:

Autumn 1 Y6 Common Exception Words

Autumn 2 Y6 Common Exception Words

Spring 1 Y6 Common Exception Words

Spring 2 Y6 Common Exception Words

Our Topics covered this year will be:

Y6 Topics and useful websites

The elements we will be covering are:

Y6. Theme. Learning Objectives

http://www.primarycurriculum.me.uk/year5

You can help your child by:

A Taste of Britain

• Using maps to locate the different regions within Britain
• Discussing and sharing your view on what Britain was like for you in the past

Enterprise Project

• Using craft skills to plan and make Christmas decorations
• Encouraging children to think of creative business ideas

A Piece of History

• Reading and discussing modern history using the website link provided
• Researching key historical figures that have influenced the past

Digital Design

• Thinking about what would make an effective iPad game
• Watching the given tutorial links above

The War Room

• Reading and discussing modern history using the website link provided
• Prompting children to ask questions about the past

Video Star

• Reflecting on your child’s time at school
• Discussing the things they would like to look back on

In Literacy the genres we will be covering are:

• Descriptive writing
• Information- consumer reports/product reviews
• Recounts – Biography and autobiography
• Persuasive – speeches
• Persuasive – advertisements
• Modern stories
• Classic texts
• Recounts – News reports
• Short stories with flashbacks
• Humorous and nonsense poems
• Descriptive writing
• Journaslitic writing – newspapers
• Journaslitic writing – Balanced arguments
• Persuasive – formal letters

You can help your child by:

• Encourage your child to read and discuss reading at home (minimum 3 times per week)
• Support completion of Grammar and Punctuation Homework
• Encourage and support your child to learn their weekly spelling rule

In Maths we will be covering the objectives for year  6

These can be found at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-mathematics-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-mathematics-programmes-of-study

You can help your child by:

• Encourage your child to practise times tables and number facts at home.
• Support the completion of Mathematics Homework

Homework is set on:

• Friday and to be returned the following Wednesday
• Spellings are given on Monday and are to be practised throughout the week

Other important information:

• PE kits will be required on Mondays and Tuesdays
• Y6 Actual Residential Visit Dates are: 31.10.16 – 04.11.16

If you would like to discuss any of these aspects further feel free to make an appointment.

Thank You,

Miss Neal      Mrs Arnold     Mrs Buffon

New content is coming soon – but you can scroll down to get some idea of what the children will be doing this year.

The Delightful Dragons      

Everyone at All Saints Academy would like to wish Year 6 the very best for their big move to secondary school. Every child has worked incredibly hard and their many years at school have provided us with some fantastic memories that will last forever! Year 6 will be missed but they went out with a bang. Below are photographs from their leavers service. Church was full of laughter, smiles and tears. The children said a farewell, read memories and received a Bible to light their way in life. The tears did not stop there! Year 6 also gave a fabulous leavers assembly performance and entertained everyone portraying themselves in the Year 2100 looking back at life.

All the Best Year Six!

To discover what the Delightful Dragons will be learning about this term, please click on the link below:

Y6 Summer Term Website

Y6 Parent Curriculum sheet.SPRING16

Please support your children in their learning at home by encouraging them to complete their homework. Please follow the link below to discover this term’s homework.

Y6. Summer Term Homework

Y6 Spring Term Homework

Our Topics covered this year will be:

Y6 Topics and useful websites

The elements we will be covering are:

Y6. Theme. Learning Objectives

http://www.primarycurriculum.me.uk/year5

You can help your child by:

A Taste of Britain

• Using maps to locate the different regions within Britain
• Discussing and sharing your view on what Britain was like for you in the past

Enterprise Project

• Using craft skills to plan and make Christmas decorations
• Encouraging children to think of creative business ideas

A Piece of History

• Reading and discussing modern history using the website link provided
• Researching key historical figures that have influenced the past

Digital Design

• Thinking about what would make an effective iPad game
• Watching the given tutorial links above

The War Room

• Reading and discussing modern history using the website link provided
• Prompting children to ask questions about the past

Video Star

• Reflecting on your child’s time at school
• Discussing the things they would like to look back on

In Literacy the genres we will be covering are:

• Descriptive writing
• Information- consumer reports/product reviews
• Recounts – Biography and autobiography
• Persuasive – speeches
• Persuasive – advertisements
• Modern stories
• Classic texts
• Recounts – News reports
• Short stories with flashbacks
• Humorous and nonsense poems
• Descriptive writing
• Journaslitic writing – newspapers
• Journaslitic writing – Balanced arguments
• Persuasive – formal letters

You can help your child by:

• Encourage your child to read and discuss reading at home (minimum 3 times per week)
• Support completion of Grammar and Punctuation Homework
• Encourage and support your child to learn their weekly spelling rule

In Maths we will be covering the objectives for year  6

These can be found at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-mathematics-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-mathematics-programmes-of-study

You can help your child by:

• Encourage your child to practise times tables and number facts at home.
• Support the completion of Mathematics Homework

Homework is set on:

• Friday and to be returned the following Monday
• Spellings are given on Monday and are to be practised throughout the week

Other important information:

• PE kits will be required on Mondays and Thursdays
• Y6 Pre- Residential Visit Meeting will be held on Tues 13^th October
• Y6 Actual Residential Visit Dates are: 02.11.15 – 06.11.15

If you would like to discuss any of these aspects further feel free to make an appointment.

Thank You,

Mr Butterwood           Mrs Clark          Mrs Buffon

Year 6 had a fantastic time on their trip to the South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum.

Below are some photographs of the children exploring what the museum had to offer.

The Library transformation is now complete and Year 6 could not wait to access its new resources and see what it had to offer.

Year 6 have been studying World War II.

As part of their topic, they role played the events of the Cabinet War Rooms using costumes they had put together at home. The children had a great time pretending to be the leaders of Great Britain while feeling the pressure that they would have faced while making world changing decisions!

Children from Year 6 have really been enjoying their creative homework tasks. Below are a section of unique and creative Anderson Shelters that the children have designed and constructed at home.

Year 6 (along with Year 5) have been busy designing and making Christmas decorations as part of  their Enterprise Project. For further details, follow the link below:

http://allsaints.stmarysacademytrust.co.uk/event/year-5-6-santas-workshop/

Condover Hall