Remembrance Week....

In Year 6 this week we honoured the 2 minutes silence at 11 o'clock on Tuesday 11th November. This was a time for us to reflect and pray from all those affected by wars past and present. In class we also made paper poppies and wrote a remembrance prayer on the stem, which we used as part of our Remembrance liturgy on Thursday. We also made some poppy art using acrylic paint. We watched a tutorial on how to paint these poppies and the artwork the class produced was truly beautiful! On Thursday, Year 5 & 6 led a Remembrance liturgy for parents in the hall. They delivered this so respectfully. Thank you to all of you who could join us. Please take a look at the pictures below to see Remembrance week for yourself...

This Week's Learning

In Maths this week we have continued with converting metric units of measurements to solve reasoning questions. We then looked at how to convert between a metric and an imperial unit of measurement: miles and kilometres. We used the fact that 8km is roughly 5 miles to help us solve problems.

In English we watched the video clip of the cyclone from the opening clip of The Wizard of Oz. We then used our descriptosaurus to identify any words/phrases/sentences that described the cylone before picking our our favourites. We used this to help us plan and draft a cyclone poem in free verse. We personified the cyclone by writing in first person and the outcome of this was impressive! Once we have finished writing up our final drafts, I will send a copy home for you to have a read yourselves!

In RE we focused on some of the key women from the Bible. We gathered information on some of these women and put this into a booklet all about these women and what they did.

In PE with me this week we started our gymnastics unit. We started the lesson by familiarising ourselves with the different types of balances, rolls and jumps. We then used this to create individual gymnatstic sequences that included at least one of each.

In Science this week we started a new unit on 'Classification'. We used Haribo sweets to help us to better understand how to classify (sort) things into groups. Each pair was given an assortment of sweets and they had to use yes or no questions to get each sweet on their own. Next week, we will apply this skill to creating an animal classification key.

In HRSE we had a lesson on anti-bullying. We watched a live lesson on anti-bullying from the BBC Bitesize. We then were given different scenarios and had to write down what we thing 'bystanders' should do in each of these to stand up to bullying.

AWARD WINNERS!

Golden Award: this week’s Golden Award went to Conleth for being a caring and considerate friend.

Writing Award: this week’s Writing Award went to Shakeela for using her phonics skill to wirte down responses to her reading comprehension questions.

Maths Award: this week’s Maths Award went to Elsie for her improved confidence with her arithmetic. 

 

Dates For Your Diary

  • Friday 14th November - PTFA Family bingo night (5pm - 7pm)
  • Parent Meetings 24th November- you should have all received an email to book a parent meeting with myself on the afternoon of Monday 24th Nov. If you have not already, please do book an appointment. I look forward to meeting you all officially. 
  • Friday 5th December - Christmas movie nights for KS2 (5pm - 6.30pm)
  • Thursday 11th December - Caterlink Christmas Dinner Day and Christmas Jumper Day
  • Friday 12th December (after school) - Christmas Fair
  • Monday 15th December - Peter Pan Pantomime at Lowther Pavilion. Payment can be paid on ParentPay.
  • Thursday 18th December - KS2 Carol Service 2pm in Church
  • Friday 19th December - School Closes for Christmas at an earlier time of 2pm (no After School Club). School reopens on Tuesday 6th January 2026

Notices

  • Change in PE days!! Due to the hall being unavailable on Friday mornings, I have changed our other PE day to Thursdays instead of Friday. Apologies for the change. Just to confirm, PE days from next week will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

  • Water bottles-these need to be filled and brought in each day and taken home to be cleaned at the end of each day. Each child in the class was provided with a school water bottle-please can you ensure these are the bottles that are brought in daily and not their own water bottle from home.

  • Reading books - Year 6 took their STAR Reading test last week. On Monday, they received their new ZPD. We do want the children to challenge themselves with their home readers, so please do let me know if you ever think the book they are reading at home is perhaps not challenging enough. 

  • Homework- Please find details on this week’s homework here. If your child very finds any of the homework challenging, please remind them to mention it to me in school and we can go over it together.

  • Contact information- We no longer access the year group email (year6@…) If you need to contact me for any reason, and cannot catch me at the door, feel free to either pop an email to the admin address (with Year 6 in the subject box) or give the school a ring.

 

✝Wednesday Word and TenTen Newsletter✝

Please have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worships…

TenTen Parent Newsletter

WEDNESDAY WORD Please follow this link below to access the Gospel Readings for the forthcoming week, there are also some fun activities to complete, this is a fantastic family resource to share and celebrate with your child at home.

Wednesday Word

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Murphy, Mrs Owen & Miss Andrew