Hooray - we're finished the SATs and everyone is delighted! We spent the afternoon playing outside or watching a film. Tomorrow, remember we're in mufti clothes and we're heading to the village green. Miss Clark is jealous!!
It ain't over until...
OK, ok, I'll start singing later! (refer to title!)
Badger Class coped fantastically with enduring two maths tests yesterday so we celebrated in the sun and very slowly ate a chocolate biscuit each! One more test to go this morning and then we can pat ourselves on the back, celebrate how well we have done and start to properly enjoy the lovely sunshine. We are off to the village green tomorrow for ice creams and rounders/football etc. We have almost no plans for this afternoon other than simply enjoying spending time together as a class in a relaxed atmosphere! Well done, Badger Class - you are nearly there!
Another one bites the dust...
SPaG is finished and we're eating chocolate biscuits and having an extra playtime in the sun... because we deserve it!
It's nearly the weekend...
Cor, Badger Class have been working their little (or not so little in the case of Ethan's size 7 feet!) socks off this week. We have gone over words like determiner, passive, active, pronouns, relative clauses, dashes, hyphens, prepositions etc and will start dreaming of them at this rate! We have, however, also had lots of fun whilst learning which is vital at this time of year.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend. I'm looking forward to watching this fabulous class demonstrate how fantastic they are next week. They have tried so very hard (which is what matters). Keep going, Badgers. I'm incredibly proud of you. Mrs P x
Puzzletastic
You might think that all we're doing in Year 6 is practice tests but, oh no! We're doing puzzles.
Please see the picture for two of the brain teasers that we had to tackle today.
Year 6 writing
SATs are soon upon us in Year 6 and, with lots of maths and SPaG to revise, it could be easy to forget the art of writing. However, one of our lovely pupils brought in this wonderful poem which she had written at home and I just felt it was too good not to share. Well done, Walt!
Get it right, Mrs P !
OK, so it's been a long week and even teachers sometimes make mistakes! I couldn't quite understand why Badger Class had thoroughly confused faces when I set them this problem. I then realised I'd missed out a vital part of the question!
Units of Measure DO matter!!
In the words of 80's rock band, Europe, 'It's the final countdown'... to SATs.
In Year 6, we have had fun and games making sure we are fabulous at converting units of measure. One particular member of the class was especially delighted to have a revision session on this fun mathematical topic! Indeed, it went down so well with the troops that we're continuing with it tomorrow!!
Singing and SATs!
In Badger Class, we had our first go at sitting a practice paper in the hall today... it felt a bit more serious but we all thought it was useful. We are going to have another go next Tuesday. One important thing we have realised is that lots of us need to remember to put our hands up and ask for questions to be read if we are at all stuck.
We then spent the rest of the morning singing in the classroom - firstly, having an early practice of our Leavers' Assembly songs (tissues at the ready - you have been warned!) and then some of the songs from Alice The Musical. It's going to be fabulous!
A morning of writing, editing and pie charts!
Year 6 are busy drafting information guides to our school. We aim to finalise these over the next week or so. We are hoping to produce documents which could help parents of children starting at our lovely school; we're using some persuasive language and including information on all the fabulous facilities and clubs that we have available to us. We have also done some statistics revision this morning and now consider ourselves to be (pork) pie chart experts!
Year 6 have sunny (s)miles !
Every day since we came back from Easter, Year 6 have been running or jogging or fast-walking at least a mile in 15 minutes, no matter what the weather. We are allowed to chat to our friends, run a bit, walk a bit, jog a bit, but the one thing we MUST do is have fun whilst increasing our heart rates and getting some lovely fresh air. Mrs Powell joins us too! It's really enjoyable and it is lovely to have a bit of a break from all the hard work we are having to do at the moment. Here are some photos of today's walk(jog/run etc!!).
Year 6 have been working really hard today and have realised we seem to have forgotten some important SPaG terms. In particular, we need to ensure we remember how to write a full sentence, including all the necessary punctuation! We also tried a really tricky maths reasoning paper and the children have taken these home to try to improve them as part of their homework (due back on Friday).
Technology training
This is a picture of the teachers learning about blogging
