As part of English Book Week, children in year 6 have read 'The Day the Crayons Quit' by Drew Daywalt.  In the story all on Duncan's crayons quit for various reasons and Year 6 wrote persuasive speeches to encourage them to come back!  Dressed up as the rainbow crayon, they discussed the importance of every colour of the rainbow and related this to their own experiences.

As part of their Topic learning, Year 6 have visited The Natural History Museum to learn about evolution and study fossils. 

Using terracotta clay, Year 6 have designed and sculpted their own ancient Greek pots. 

This week, Year 6 visited many different countries for multi cultural week. They visited Japan with Mrs Hopper and painted blossom trees, which looked beautiful. We also wrote our names in Japanese. We also visited Spain with Miss Preston and learnt about different Spanish festivals. Finally, we visited Britain with Miss Irwin and learnt about our native trees.

In Science, Year 6 made circuits with various wires and a light bulb! The aim was to put the wires in the correct order around the circuit to ensure the bulb would light up! It was so much fun as we enjoyed testing different methods before we found the one which was correct.

Year 6 wrote their own stories based on different fairytales, once we were happy with our stories, we shared them with Key Stage 1 classes. We really enjoyed sharing our stories with them as they were interested in our writing and asked us lots of questions.  

Year 6 wrote about Greek mythology, we began by researching a God on our Chromebooks to find their name, their family and how they died. After that, we drew a picture of our Greek God by copying an online image. We found this so interesting as it was something we had not learnt about before. Nathan found out that Hercules had to do 12 hard labours to make him look guilty.

As part of multi cultural week, Year 6 took part in a Chinese dance workshop with Mrs Jones from Reception. We made dragon masks to use in the dance and played drums along to the music. Afterwards, we learnt a dance with Mrs Jones which we really enjoyed.

This week year 6 have written biographies after learning about Roald Dahl. During mathematics the children have strengtherned their understanding of decimals and applied this throught decimal addition. In science we began our learning on classification and we explored Wassily Kandinsky in art.

Welcome back! Year 6 have settled back into life at Poverest and their teachers are already very proud of the effort they are all making with their learning. We have been consolodating our place value understanding in mathematics, have written application letters for the monitor posts the children would like to have this year and have started learning about the different types of mountains. The staff loved the presentations by the children on their summer holiday projects.