Year 6 Real Friends performance
The Real Friends performance by Leap One and Bright Sparks Theatre Arts was a fantastic opportunity for Year 6 to learn about hate crimes and mate crimes.
During the performance, the actors asked children what manipulation means:
‘Manipulation is where someone is being controlled beyond their own will.’ – Seth
At home, you might want to follow up this performance by asking your children some questions:
- Which part was the most powerful / emotional?
- What do you know about the word ‘vulnerable’?
- What are protected characteristics?
Living and learning: Brexit
After watching a newsround report, children in 56M had a discussion about Brexit. Many children contributed their views on Britain’s current relationship with the EU and what they thought might happen after the Brexit deadline. They also asked many questions. At home, you might want to discuss these questions and share your own views.
Living and learning: Pay and receive compliments
Year 5/6M discussed what a compliment is and what it feels like to receive compliments. We wrote compliments to other people in our class and talked about which compliments were unexpected.
Sharing stories with Year 6 children for World Book Day
We had great fun dressing up as our favourite book characters on Thursday for World Book Day. Thank you for providing your child with a costume; they looked great!
It was lovely to see some parents staying for our ‘Stay and Read’ session in Nursery too. Thank you for joining us; children love it when you join in.
During the day, we enjoyed reading stories with the older children who came to visit us in Nursery. We talked about all of the characters that children were dressed as and read lots of their favourite books. It was evident that we love Julia Donaldson stories, especially The Gruffalo!
Guilty!
Yesterday, 3 little pigs attended Scholes Primary School Court charged with the murder of Mr B.B Wolf.
The three pigs defend themselves.
After days of speculation, the accused were finally forced to defend themselves in a ‘court of law’. The room, usually a classroom, was changed into a court where many people (including lawyers, witnesses, jurors, media representatives) crammed in to see the 3 pigs defend themselves.
After a heated courtroom debate, and a short deliberation from the jury, two of the pigs were found guilty. Interestingly, the youngest pig was deemed to have been coerced into killing the wolf and was left to walk free. One of the jurors declared: “It was clear for all to see that the oldest pig was the scheming mastermind behind this terrible chain of events. I hope he learns from his time at her majesty’s pleasure!”
More news to follow.
Ask your child what their role in court was.
Challenge your child by asking them what features of a news report they can spot in this post.
For an extra challenge, ask them to identify where the passive voice has been used in this post.
Bikeability
Year 5 have been braving the elements to take part in Bikeability. They have been learning how to safely cycle on the road and at junctions. We have seen a lot of resilience and determination over the past few days.
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Living and Learning
Year 5 and 6 have been discussing the things they are good at. They had to identify how they were a good friend, their special talents and how they are a good citizen. They came up with some great qualities.
“I have worked hard to improve my self-confidence.”
” I am a good citizen because I recycle.”
“I am really good at feeling empathy for others.”
Year 5 game-makers
In our reading sessions this week, Y5 have practised their skills by creating there own board game.
Each day, we practised a different reading skill.
Before creating our own questions for our board game.
Today, we enjoyed playing our games (and practising our reading skills, too).
Here’s our reviews…
I really liked playing out board game especially the fact finding questions.
I enjoyed creating our board game because I’ve never done it before.
I really enjoyed playing this board game because it helps with our social skills and our teamwork as well as our reading.
I liked this week because we got to make our own questions.
Den Day
As part of our class novel topic, year 5/6 have been designing and building their own shelters.
Den building
Year 5 and 6 have had a thrilling morning creating wonderful shelters and dens. They had to work hard in their teams to build strong structures using only piping and canes. They had to ensure their dens were waterproof. The adults thoroughly enjoyed testing this with buckets of icy cold water!
