Year 6

Autumn 1 2017

A Child's War and Fallen Fields

Imagine leaving home for an unknown period of time, packing your belongings in a small box, no bigger than a shoe box. The children will need to think carefully what they would need and to bring their box of belongings into school.

The children will think carefully about which part of the United Kingdom they might have been evacuated to. They will think how it might have felt to have evacuated and separated from their families. 

They will use the Diary of Anne Frank to write from a child's perspective of war and of the persecution of the Jews. 

They will read Goodnight Mr Tom and use this as a basis for their own writing. 

The children will research the impact the war had on Coventry and find out about the symbolism of the poppy from World War 1. 

spring 2 2017

Darwin's Delights

Today Gogle Expeditions came into school to show off their new education app 'Expedition.' By using virtual reality technology, the children were transported to various places around the world including underwater reefs, volcanoes and the Galápagos Islands. All of this through a simple free app from the App Stare and the Play Store.

Year 6 explored the Galápagos Islands ready to write persuasive texts in English where the children will try to persuade people to go and visit the Islands. 

Autumn 2

The whole school joined together for a special assembly on Friday. The children shared all the different ways they could be good friend, making a paper chain altogether with special messages on each link.

The children also thought about Children in Need around the world, coming dressed up in spots or as Pudsey Bear.  

Year 6 had some visitors into school today. They spent the afternoon learning all about sonar and radar, light and sound waves. They looked at how light travels and how sound is made. They discovered how the Navy and Airforce use radar and sonar.

Autumn 1 2016

Diwali

Some of the children entered a competition to design a poster for Diwali, sponsored by Tesco's. 

Tesco sent one of their van's into school today decorated with the winning Diwali design. Year Six came out to support their friend. 

Summer 2 

Rio Week

The whole school will be celebrating the Rio Olympics this week. They will be baking, competing in various Olympic games and sports, completing maths and English themed challenges and celebrating in style with a mini carnival. The week started off with the whole school beginning to learn a salsa dance. The children have already started their sponsored walk to raise money for a climbing wall and netball posts. 

Salsa dancing ready for the carnival.

Olympic games in the classroom.

Plas Dol-Y-Moch 2016

Spring 2

Imaginative Learning Project: Darwin's Delights

During this project, the children have been learning all about Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution.

Paleontologist

Year Six were lucky enough to have an exciting visitor into school to launch their new learning project, where they have thinking about Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. A paleontologist came in to help them investigate fossils and bones. The children thought about how life on Earth has changed over millions of years. 

The children then carried out an experiment to decide why birds' beaks may have changed over time.

Here are some photos of their special day..

Maths

The children in year six have been learning about the properties of shapes. They have drawn 2D shapes on and added the angles, vertices and lines of symmetry, they also marked in the perpendicular lines and have made their own revision cards to help them remember their learning. 

They having been finding the area and perimeter of triangles, rectangles and parallelograms after drawing giant shapes on the playground.

World Book Day

The children and staff all had a great day dressing up as their favourite book characters for world book day. How many characters can you recognise?

Spring 1

Imaginative Learning Project: Frozen Kingdom

During this project, the children will be learning all about the Polar regions, they will begin their learning project by learning about the Titanic and icebergs!

Writing

Autumn 2

Imaginative Learning Project: Hola Mexico!

During this project, the children will be learning all about the Ancient Mayan Civilisation.

Autumn 1

Imaginative Learning Project: A Child's War

During this project, the children have been learning all about World War II, the Coventry Blitz and what life would have been like as an evacuee.

Year 6 Photo Gallery

Learning Experiences 2014 - 2015