Thinking about the future

9th June 2021Daniel Harrison

This week, 6B have been thinking a bit about the future. We’ve read the story A Superhero Like You, which is all about different jobs some people do. The children have talked about the different jobs – which ones they would like to do and what they want from their jobs in the future. We’ve also had a visit from a police officer this week, for which the children wrote some interview questions, some of them practicing the use of question marks and testing their questions out on each other. The children got to ask the police officer all sorts of things about his job, and found out loads of information about being in the police – some of them even got to try on a police helmet and handcuffs!

6B have practiced their reading, writing and spelling in phonics activities as usual, and we’ve had some time to carry out sensory play and team-building activities. The children have also practiced their social skills in turn taking and speaking & listening games. The children have started thinking about our topic for next half term, homes and habitats, and by using Google and some information about the continents, 6B have made lists of countries that they would like to learn about when we return from the half term break.

We’ve recapped the healthy meal plate this week, and the children have made their own healthy sandwiches so that if they’re hungry over half term, they can make a snack for themselves! The children have all worked really hard this half term so hopefully they’ll have a nice and relaxing break and come back refreshed for our final term!

Week 6 – Teachers

26th May 2021Beth Thompson

This week we have looked at the work teachers do. We have been amazing teaching assistants this week, completing daily tasks such as taking the register and dinner order etc. We also loved playing teachers in our ‘school’ roleplay area.

In maths, we continued practicing our counting, adding and taking away. In Science, we explored rocks. We categorised rocks by size, shape and colour. We also tried to break rock, which was really hard. In literacy, we looked at letters, reading and writing some of our own.

We talked about good friends and what that means to us. We also touched on bullying and what is means to be kind. We began our new buddy system where we are in charge of looking out for friends.

Most importantly, we worked on our class rules. We talked about why we need rules and that staff should follow them. We used our ideas to make a ‘golden rules’ wall. Our new rules are:

  • kind hands
  • kind feet
  • kind words
  • good sitting
  • good looking
  • good listening
  • no shouting
  • no swearing
  • sharing toys
  • keep a tidy classroom

So far we have managed to follow these rules very well! Well done.

Next week we will conclude our topic by discussing what we want to be when we grow up. Have a lovely weekend and see you Monday.

Extra! Extra!

26th May 2021Daniel Harrison

This week 6B have finished off putting together their newspapers about Captain Sir Tom Moore. We have continued reading the story of his life, and the children used it to inspire some pieces of work to put into their papers.
They have created information maps of the world, using Google maps to identify where Captain Tom visited when he was in the army and learned a little more about his past life, writing sentences about the places he saw and visited. They’ve also created a model of a countryside scene with their own miniature Captain Toms riding a motorbike, and have taken photographs of this to use in their newspapers.
The children have continued practicing subtraction in maths, applying their knowledge of subtraction to solving word problems, and in phonics the children have continued working on reading, spelling and writing with their targeted sounds. The children have made a vegetable bolognese in cookery and we have had a big emphasis on speaking and listening activities this week, with the children taking part in lots of activities and games to practice their listening, turn-taking and interaction skills.

Read all about it! Read all about it!

20th May 2021Daniel Harrison

This week 6B have continued thinking about modern people we admire, and have started reading about the life of Captain Sir Tom Moore with a view to making their own newspaper over the next couple of weeks. The children have learned about his childhood growing up in Keighley, and thought about how his life as a child 90 years ago compared to their own nowadays. They have found key information from the text about Sir Tom, and used this to begin typing up a newspaper article about his life. The children will continue to research Sir Tom’s life next week, and will create various pieces to put together for their own newspaper.

In art this week 6B have looked at recycling newspaper and using it to create a picture of a natural scene that Sir Tom Moore might have seen as a child exploring the North York Moors, and in cookery they have used fresh British fruit to make a traditional fruit crumble pudding, showing excellent safety skills while using sharp knives and the oven. As well as this, the children have continued with phonics and handwriting as usual, and have spent time thinking about what makes good teamwork and practicing these skills in teambuilding activities.

Week 4 – Dentists

10th May 2021Beth Thompson

This week in Class 2, we have explored dentists and teeth. We discussed how we look after our teeth, including looking at how what we eat affects our health and teeth. We got our own toothbrushes and give instructions to each other to practice brushing. We read ‘Alan and his big, scary teeth’ and retold the story, ordering pictures. We also made lots a teeth art.

In maths, we used teeth and mouths to continue exploring halving and doubling, which we were all amazing at! Well done, everyone. For science, we’ve started looking at materials, sorting objects by adjectives like soft, hard, rough and smooth.

We loved exploring our dentist roleplay and scrubbing whiteboard teeth clean with toothbrushes. Thank you all for your hard work this week. Next week we will have fun looking at Vets and our pets!

Marvellous Marvel

10th May 2021Daniel Harrison

This week 6B have been focusing on the life of Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel Comics. Following a couple of weeks looking at different superheroes, this week the class have been creating designs for their own web pages about their creator, Stan Lee. The children have practiced their skills using timelines, ordering events in his life, and have written in their English books about some of their favourite superheroes created by him.

The children have used the school computers to type up some facts about Stan Lee’s life, as well as create a title for their design, using different sizes, fonts and colours to add interest. Taking inspiration from Andy Warhol’s pop-art style, they have also produced a piece of work using a template of their favourite Marvel character to add to their webpage design, before putting it all together and sharing their designs with their peers, and giving lots of positive feedback.

As well as all this, 6B have worked hard (as usual!) in their phonics sessions, and have practiced their subtraction skills using apparatus such as numicon and lego bricks to help them out. They’ve also been in the kitchen, chopping vegetables and cooking noodles to make healthy, but more importantly delicious, stir-fries!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s super-6B!

4th May 2021Daniel Harrison

Continuing with our theme of present day people and characters we admire, 6B have started thinking about Stan Lee, the creator of Marvel Comics. Thinking about what it takes to develop a new superhero, over the course of the week the children have designed and made superhero costumes for their own superhero. The children started with the masks, looking at various masks through history such as ancient Egyptian Pharaoh’s masks, WW2 gas masks and even the modern medical mask, creating a timeline of the different designs. Taking inspiration from this, they used paper mache and thick card to build up a 3D mask of their own and painted these as part of their costume.

Reading up to the part in ‘Traction Man is Here’ where Traction Man receives a woolly romper suit, 6B have considered what materials would be suitable for a superhero costume in science, testing the waterproofing abilities of a range of different materials. They have also considered how superheroes like batman have changed in the way they look from the 1960s to nowadays and discussed this with their peers. Finally they have been learning to use measurements in maths, measuring themselves up for a superhero suit before designing and making their own superhero costumes.

Alongside this the children have been practicing their handwriting and sentence structure, phonics, speaking & listening and have been practicing their independence skills cooking up healthy pizzas in the cookery room.

Week 3 – Medical Professional

4th May 2021Beth Thompson

This week we looked at medical professionals, focusing on doctors, nurses and paramedics. We looked at parts of the body and even made up a skeleton from bones we found around the classroom. We talked about how to keep happy and healthy, doing breathing exercises to relax and sorting healthy and unhealthy foods. We looked at x-rays and made art with cotton buds making up our hand bones.

In maths we looked at shapes, sorting circles, triangles, and squares, as well as identifying shapes in the real world, like clocks and books. In literacy we made poems about hospitals. We looked at pictures of hospitals and described what they could see. For science we played giant operation, using magnets to remove items from the body and using tweezers to remove items that did not move with magnets.

We loved playing doctors, wrapping each other in bandages in the role play area and using boogie boards as wheelchairs to direct our patients to different rooms.

Happy bank holiday weekend! We will see you on Tuesday where we will be looking at dentists.

Famous People

4th May 2021Alex Don

This week the children have been looking at People Who Help Us as part of our ‘Famous People’ topic. We have explored lots of different careers. Next week the children will be looking at Princesses and Superhero’s. Have a lovely bank holiday weekend 2B and enjoy the rest x