Our Class Assembly

Last Wednesday, during our assembly, we presented some of the excellent work we have done this term. Well done to all the children in Y6OK who put on an excellent display of a variety of work. This included a gymnastics balance routine, a musical performance and demonstration of the multiplication grid method.
Thank you to those parents who came to watch. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Anti-Bullying Week

Last week was anti-bullying week. We discussed what bullying is and what steps we can take to prevent it from happening in our school.



We say 'NO' to bullying. Take a look at our posters.

Celebrating Diwali

We had a wonderful assembly today. It was all about Diwali; the festival of lights celebrated by Sikhs and Hindus. Some children in Y6OK shared their experieces of Diwali with the whole school. Amogh, Malaviga and Vanathy wore their special clothes and explained how they celebrate Diwali with their families.

Pupils of the Week

Congratulations to Renee Lewis and Matthew Morris for achieving Pupils of the Week in Y6OK. Look out for their photographs which will be published soon!

Making Cakes

As part of our science topic 'materials', we spent yesterday afternoon making cakes! We learned that besides changing between solid,liquid and gas,there are other changes that can happen to materials. Sometimes,once a change has happened, it can't be changed back.
Cake isn't just a mixture of ingredients. Cooking changes the molecules to make a new material.

Hanan Fekir

Team Building

To kick start our very first creative curriculum theme in Year 6 - 'New Beginnings', we took part in a team building exercise called the 'Tyre Game'. We were very fortunate to have two very experienced visitors come into school this morning and facilitate the activity. The 'Tyre Game' is used to teach participants how to work as a team. We had to imagine that the course marked out represented an acid swamp. Using tyres, we had to cross the swamp without touching the acid. It was harder than it looked, especially when the crocodiles arrived! We had to really co-operate and listen to each other. All three teams made it across eventually. We were hot and bothered but we really did enjoy taking part.

Welcome

Welcome to Y6 OK. We hope you have enjoyed your summer holidays and look forward to seeing you on Monday.

Y6 is an exciting and challenging year. Be prepared for a lot of fun and hard work!

Miss O'connor and Mrs Kaur

Bollywood Music

Y6G composed Bollywood music.

GREAT ASSEMBLY Y6G!

I would like to congratulate the class on the excellent assembly they put on last Wednesday. I think the children demonstrated that learning can be creative and great fun.
Special thanks to the children who took part in the following activities:

Take 10 aerobic dancing
Stacking cups
Homework projects
Slippers and hats
LGFL website page design
Towers and Carrier bag designs
Drama of the Pied Piper

and, of course, everyone for joining in the final song.

Well done class - I was really proud of you!

Mrs Gibb

'REACHING GREAT HEIGHTS!!'

The children produced some amazing towers in science, applying their understanding and knowledge to a practical task - 'Who can build the tallest free-standing tower, using only newspaper and sellotape?'
The children demonstrated excellent collaborative and problem-solving skills, resulting in some good models.

ST. GEORGE'S DAY CELEBRATION

Well done to Danielle and her working party for putting together a display of work for the 'Decorate the Door' competition. The class had researched St George and produced a range of material, which was creatively arranged on the classroom door.

THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN

Y6G, we are going to be using the Pied Piper during our Literacy Hour at the start of the summer term. Why not do some research by googling The Pied Piper, and see what you can find out about the famous story.
Here is a useful web link: http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/etext/piper/

BOOK WEEK

Last week people all around the world celebrated world book week.
Here at JB we had an excellent week and had lots of fun activities going on. As you may know, on Thursday the whole school dressed up as book characters and we can say they looked fabulous. We could tell a lot of effort and hard work went into making the costumes. Also, classes had an opportunity to listen to some excellent and funny story tellers. Every class took a book as their week theme and did something about it. Y6G had great fun being able to plan their own lessons on the book Kensuke’s Kingdom. Some children chose to do a map of the island; some wrote book reviews etc etc .Even the nursery children had fun learning about Elmer books and African elephants. We know that children around the school had a fabulous week. We hope you did. We know we did!!!!!!!!!


By Danielle Corrigan &
Alfie Plumb Y6G

STACKING CUPS!!

A new craze has hit the school - STACKING CUPS!!
Using the specially designed sets of cups, the children have an invigorating 10 minute fun activity, learning how to up-stack and down-stack the cups. This activity improves concentration, co-ordination and agility of thought.

INVESTIGATING 3D SHAPES

The children had great fun linking Maths with D.T. when working with the polydron to investigate nets of shapes.
Using the multi-link, the children looked for patterns in different sized cubes.

INVESTIGATING 3D SHAPES

SLIPPERS

Well done to all the children who managed to complete their pair of slippers. It was not an easy task and a great deal of perseverance was needed.

Supporting your child's learning.

Hi Parents,

Here is a useful link to help you play an 'active part' in your Y6 child's learning.

http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/downloader/7341e9f8719e2d06344d32df0302af79.pdf

How small are we?!

Many thanks to Mrs Jackson, our science subject leader, who directed us to some amazing photos of the heavenly bodies. The children were fascinated by them - quite a 'wow' factor!!