6 India

Welcome to India Class (6I)

Please remember your equipment each day: filled water bottle, pupil planner and reading book. Each day starts with conversation over breakfast and activities to support and promote well being.

Our PE days are Monday and Friday. Children should arrive at school in their PE kits comprising black shorts, white t-shirts and black trainers. For this term they will also need shin pads. No items should have any branded logos please. Please remember that earrings cannot be worn for PE and should be removed at home if your child is unable to do this themselves. All long hair should be tied back for PE. A dark/black tracksuit is also permitted. Thank you.

Homework - will be given out on a Monday to be returned the following Monday. There is an opportunity to complete homework at school on a Wednesday lunchtime at 12.30pm-1.00pm. Homework comprises: Times Table Rockstars (at least 3 minutes per day across the week); spelling on Ed Shed; reading aloud at least three times a week (please record in your planner); a retrieval or project task (this will vary week on week).

Year 6 Curriculum map Summer 24.pdf

Today we completed our ROSPA geography fieldwork

From audition to the final show - so much progress for each and every child. A big well done to you all; you were, and are, amazing!!

Year 6 Activities: race tracks - using bikes and scooters the children designed a course on the playground. Thank you to all staff who worked with the children this week 😁

Year 6 Activities: Ninja Warrior & Lunch - children had a great time challenging themselves in Ninja Warrior and on the inflatables. This was followed by lunch at The White Hart in Witham. A Big thank you to all staff who made these activities happen.

Year 6 Activities: STEM investigations - today saw the children investigate a range of STEM activities. Working in pairs or small groups they explored colour, light, nature patterns, aerodynamics, properties of materials and much more.

Year 6 Activities: Inflatables: it rained hard so the inflatables were very wet; the field had been cut too, so a combination of wet and grassy children threw themselves through the inflatables. Racing each other within their classes and then a race between the classes!

Year 6 Activities: Cooking - meanwhile those children enjoying activities week in school spent Monday completing computing and sports challenges. Today (Tuesday) they spent making smoothies, cheese scones and pizzas. Some were more palatable than others!! Thank you to Mrs Stoneham, Mrs Brown and Miss Shaikh.

Year 6 Activities: Tuesday Go Ape - despite the rain, drizzle, dampness and cold weather everyone seemed to enjoy the day. So many children showed the "Power of Yet" which was a delight to see and encourage. Many children doing things they hadn't done before but tried anyway. A Big Thank You must go to the centre staff who were brilliant with all the children.

Year 6 Activities: Monday - Mersea Boating Lake. Today saw many children overcome fears as they challenged themselves to a "It's knockout" escapade floating bouncy castles, kayaking and paddle boarding. There were splashes, thrills and spills - including those from Mr Beavis, Mr Shayler and Miss Elrick! The staff were amazing in supporting the children and a big well done to everyone - even the weather was perfect.

We finished this half term with a DT flow day where we investigated bridge builders and designs. Having learned a little bit about why we have bridges, their uses and a few famous bridges, we set about testing different designs. After evaluation, we came up with a group design to demonstrate stability. We were given a set of building materials and the bridge which held the most number of 2p coins was declared the winner.

We investigated how much light was reflected from different coloured paper using a light meter app. After, we answered questions and created a bar chart to show our results.

Some of the finished 3D sculptures to highlight the issue of plastics in our oceans

Sketching environmental sculptures to share a message about plastics, the ocean and climate change.

Testing out different methods of affixing materials together in preparation of constructing an environmental piece of art.

During our history lesson today children were able to handle a shell. Thank you to Willow for sharing this with us.

We used concrete resources today to help support the learning of our times tables.

Today was our first lesson on light theory. Children investigated how to "prove" that light travels in straight lines with a couple of quick investigations.

History - This project teaches children about the causes, events and consequences of the First and Second World Wars, the influence of new inventions on warfare, how life in Great Britain was affected and the legacy of the wars in the post-war period.

Art - This project teaches children about the genre of environmental art. They study how artists create artwork that addresses social and political issues related to the natural and urban environment. Children work collaboratively to create artwork with an environmental message.

Science - This project teaches children about the way that light behaves, travelling in straight lines from a source or reflector, into the eye. They explore how we see light and colours, and phenomena associated with light, including shadows, reflections and refraction.

DT - This project teaches children about remarkable engineers and significant bridges, learning to identify features, such as beams, arches and trusses. They complete a bridge-building engineering challenge to create a bridge prototype.

Geography - Children analyse data and carry out fieldwork to find out about local road safety. They study patterns of human settlements and carry out an enquiry to describe local settlement patterns.