Yorkshire’s Rio Heroes
Welcome back Yorkshire’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes with a special homecoming parade! On Wednesday 28 September, a carnival atmosphere will take hold of Leeds as the athletes are welcomed home in true Yorkshire style.
A host of athletes have confirmed their attendance, including triathletes Alistair and Jonny Brownlee; World, European and Paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft, MBE; diver and gold medallist Jack Laugher; and rowers Andy Triggs Hodge and Paul Bennett who both claimed gold.
There will be a lively parade, with samba bands, brass bands, colourful performers and of course open top buses and vehicles carrying the athletes. Parade celebrations will start at 5.15pm, and we would love to see the people of Yorkshire come out in force to line the city centre route and cheer on these inspiring men and women.
Date for the diary
Looking ahead to the end of this Class Novel topic, we would like to invite you to view our own art gallery on Tuesday 15 November, in the dining room, from 2.45pm – 3.30pm.
This will be an opportunity for the children to show you some examples of their own work and other learning from our Katie and… topic.
We hope to see you there.
Katie and…
Our first book, from the Katie and… series, to launch our Class Novel big topic was Katie and the Dinosaurs where we found out about Katie and her antics in the Natural History Museum.
Then, before we launched into creating some of our own art, the children suggested what to test when given the following paints. Lots of the suggestions were based around colour mixing so we tested them out.
Well done to Will who could tell us these were the primary colours.
After some mixing and experimenting with the three primary colours we focused on how to make secondary colours.
This video helped us to understand all about primary and secondary colours.
Our first week
Coffee morning
Don’t forget to join us in The Space tomorrow morning at 9am for coffee and an informal chat.
History linked to Topic
This week in topic, we were looking at World War 2 in comparison to other British history. First, we sorted pictures of artefacts into the age group we thought they fitted into – we were surprised by some of them. Here are some photos…
Then later, while we were looking at artefacts, we saw a video of Hitler on YouTube; lots of us found it super weird and he was very loud. We also saw a real gas mask.
In The Space, we made a timeline of age groups. We also learnt loads of interesting facts about World War 2: it was mainly in Europe, it started in 1939 and ended in 1945 and finally we learnt why it started. 
Overall, Y6 have learnt lots this week.
Published by Frankie and Emre.
23 September 2016
‘able’ and ‘ible’
This week’s spelling activity focuses on words ending in ‘able’ or ‘ible’ and recognising which suffix to use. This should be completed by Thursday 29 September.
Children should find words that end in either ‘able’ or ‘ible’ and begin to identify any patterns/rules they can see.
Children should present their findings in their homework books. We will discuss this in class and children will be given a word list to learn next week.
23 September 2016
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 29 September.
Some children are consolidating our learning about relative clauses:
I can use relative clauses.
Other children are recapping some previous learning:
I can spot squashed sentences.
23 September 2016
This week’s Mathletics homework should be completed by Thursday 29 September.
Score 1000 points on Mathletics.
Children could complete this on Live Mathletics or by completing other activities.
23 September 2016
The spellings to learn this week all have the prefix un or dis. The spelling test will be on Friday 30 September. Spelling tests will now be weekly along with the times table test.
disappear
disappointed
disagree
dishonest
disobey
unhappy
unusual
unlucky
unzip
undo
