Year 6 Class Page

On Saturday some of the year 6 boys took to the pitch at St. Albans City football ground in a penalty shoot out competition. There are several pictures on the sports pages but look at the ones I found ! All I can say is that it must have been very hungry work out there. Thanks to Mr Rose for giving up his time, well done boys…

On Monday the talented Mrs Dowling visited Year 6 to teach us about the art of felt making. We have been creating seascape inspired pieces. It was physical work, with plenty of people demonstrating the skills needed to roll and prepare the material to achieve the true effect. We are now embellishing the pieces with embroidery and other adornments before displaying them in the school hall. In a few weeks time Mrs Dowling will be visiting again to work on some more techniques, giving Mrs Clark the opportunity to learn new things  too !

This afternoon Year 6 visited the cinema as their Golden Time treat to see the new film, War Horse, based on the book by Michael Morpurgo.It is fair to say that the film was very emotional and there were many of us who shed a tear or two but then rejoiced at the ending ! We took over two rows of the cinema and settled down to see the film, in a busy auditorium. At the end of the film several members of the audience commented to Mr Rose and I how beautifully behaved the children were. This makes me very proud of you all Year 6. I hope you enjoyed the film as much as I did, it is great behaviour like that which enables me to take you out for such special treats !

The end of term has arrived, and it is holiday time for us all. Homework for the holiday is to read at least two books, one of which must be by Michael Morpurgo. I know that many of you are already Morpurgo fans – Daniel and Adam K seem to be devouring his books at the moment – and Christmas is always a good time to curl up and read ( and turn off the electronic entertainment and go outside, as Mr Rose said in assembly).

You have worked hard this term, I can see improvements in everyone’s learning and you have raised approximately £390 towards the Credit Trip already. Now it is time to relax at home with family and loved ones, look after one another and come back in January for a truly Olympic year !

I am really looking forward to opening  the presents that you gave me, thank you all

Happy Christmas,

Love Mrs C x

As ever, we are busy in Year 6. Here are some pictures of what we have been doing in the last week. We are making Victorian gift bags to hang on the tree, helping our Reception buddies post their letters to Santa and leading the Carol Service at St. Mark’s Church.

In the final week before the holiday we will be (hopefully ! ) thwarting the plans of the Evil Elf to ruin Christmas by solving maths problems every day. We are also preparing newspaper articles on Victorian Christmas inventions – watch out for our witty  (or should that be “cracking”)  headlines later in the week. These will develop the ideas we made into radio broadcasts, which will be available on this page for you to listen to, soon.

Of course, there is also the Talent Show, Class Party and Carol Singing on Thursday morning at 9.30 as well ! Phew, another action packed week on the way Year 6.

Next week we are holding a carol concert for Year 1,2 and 6 parents . This will be on Thursday 15th December at 9.30 am. We will be performing on the stage in the Infant Playground.  We hope you will be able to attend.

Year 6′s fundraising efforts continued this weekend at the Craft Fair. The Best Banz stall raised £66 thanks to the joint effort of a huge team of workers who had helped prepare a dazzling array of Friendship Bands for sale. Crafty entrepreneurs in the company also realised a further profit could be made by demonstrating the technique as an activity at the fair, enticing customers with the promise of making their own bands. Meanwhile, a further band of Year 6 took it in turns to sell chocolates and sweets that we had made. This also made a profit of over £50.  Well done to everyone who helped or supported over the weekend.

There are some talented artists in Year 6, although many of the children need convincing that they “can do it”. Recently, we have been looking at the work of Thomas Barnardo, using photographs he took in the nineteenth century of street children. We used pencil, watercolour and ink to create our own versions of the haunting black and white images. Having looked at the photos, we studied some similar portraits submitted by Year 5 children for an exhibition at the National Gallery, in London.

Click here to see the ones from the National Gallery

On first viewing these, Year 6 were doubtful of their ability to produce such high quality work ! Some of the comments heard ranged from disbelief to total denial that they too could do it. Now, a few weeks later, we are finishing our paintings and reviewing what we have learnt about ourselves as well as our ability in art !

This shows what happens when you believe you can achieve something great.

Please pop into class to see our paintings and read why we are so proud of what we have learnt.

Year 6 have been busy scientists recently. We have been learning about light with Mr Hinton on a Wednesday, and as you can see we have created lasers using mirrors and torches.

We have also been learning about changing the state of a material, which involves melting chocolate. We have also been learning about separating materials by dissolving, filtering, evaporating and sieving. Here you can also see we have been putting our dissolving knowledge to practical use as we prepare fudge for our Victorian Sweet Stall.

Come along to the Craft Fair on Saturday to sample our delicious Science !