The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse
Following on from World Mental Health day on the 10th October, we have been considering what it means to be mentally healthy. We talked about how not only keeping our…
Following on from World Mental Health day on the 10th October, we have been considering what it means to be mentally healthy. We talked about how not only keeping our…
To complete our Science topic about light, today we thought about shadows. We experimented creating different shadow shapes with our hands and thought about the effect of distance on the…
It is with great joy that I can write that we were finally able to play in a Year 5 and 6 football fixture! It’s been such a long time…
Today we had another session looking at A Comedy of Errors with Leigh. The focus was on physical comedy and was also about how to remain in character when we…
Today, our Mandarin teacher, Li, talked to us about the Chinese art of paper cutting and explained when paper cuts were used to decorate the house, how they were made…
As part of our art topic, we are making some fabric poppies. On Thursday, we met our first challenge…threading a needle! This proved to be quite tricky, but we all…
This morning we took time out to reflect on how we are feeling and how reading can improve our wellbeing as well as allow us to develop empathy for those…
As part of our topic, the children have been researching their family history and learning about the roles that family members and friends played during WW2. The children have been…
To practise our long multiplication, we went outside and did a treasure hunt. Each pair was given a clue for where to find their first challenge card; these had been…
Over the last few weeks, the children have been learning how to say the different colours. Today we played ‘colour ninja’ with our Chinese teacher – Teacher Li. Today’s session…
Today we spent time looking at a couple of the children’s favourite scenes from the play. They discovered just how much of comedic acting actually comes from the reactions of…
We used this drama technique to help us consider both sides of a difficult decision as part of our work based on ‘Friend or foe’ by Michael Morporgo. This will…
We had so much fun exploring two scenes from ‘A Comedy of Errors’ with Leigh today. The children impressed us with their expressiveness, creativity and bravery as they explored how…
Today, Year 6 enjoyed a wonderful trip to Stratford to watch a live performance of ‘A Comedy of Errors’ in the outdoor Theatre at the RSC. After enjoying a leisurely…
Today, it was the turn of 6NM to take part in the same workshop as 6CC did yesterday. We now all have a much clearer understanding of the complex story…
In Mrs Cox’s maths groups this morning, we looked at adding and subtracting decimals. We were tasked with designing three new bridges. The children were given several possible bridge segments…
On Tuesday afternoon, 6CC had a special workshop to help them to really understand the story of ‘The Comedy of Errors’ ahead of our trip on Thursday. It is an…
As part of our ‘Wars of the world’ topic, Year 6 have been learning about the different styles of music that were popular during WW2 and considering why music was…
To help the children to expatriate with the characters in the book we are focusing on in English, we gave the children the opportunity to experience evacuation through the use…