Year 6 - 2022/23 - Archived

Welcome to the Year 6 Page

ART WEEK 2022-2023

After a fabulous trip to the Tata Modern on Tuesday 8th November, Year 6 were inspired to create some artwork using new techniques. Our artist and inspiration for the week was an English textiles artist named Debbie Smyth. We used the same techniques that she does in order to create artwork that is important to us.

Please enjoy perusing the gallery of work.

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Dunstan Class have had great fun this term investigating forces. From Fizz Pop Rockets to Balloon Car Racers we have predicted the outcome of investigations and adapted our methods to make things more efficient.

Making car balloon racers

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Welcome to the Year 5 class page!

To bring to an end our fantastic English topic on Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, Year 5 had a great trip to Warner Bros Studio to visit the sets where they filmed the motion pictures. They got to see first hand the costumes, sets and props that were used in creating the films, as well as the special effects and 'movie magic' that helped bring this wonderful story to life. It was a brilliant day!

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In our computing lesson, we started looking at computational thinking! We looked at how computers use clear instructions to create the desired output. We learnt about decomposition, patterns, algorithms and abstraction!

The Battle of the Brutes!

This term, we are reading Michael Morpurgo's adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon tale of 'Beowulf'!

We have been looking at how to use various forms of figurative language to develop our description of the monster, Grendel.

We summarised the key events of the text and are currently writing newspaper reports to tell everyone about the momentous battle between Beowulf and Grendel... stay tuned to see who will win!

Egyptian Tombs Making

Following on from our learning on the Ancient Egyptians, we designed and created our own Egyptian tombs! We studied the format of the tombs and designed our own ones. We used a range of materials to create our tombs and include objects that represent the treasures that were stored with them!

Egyptian Tombs!

Welcome to the Year 4 Page

Meet the Teachers Welcome Video

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Welcome to our Year 3 page

Thames Barrier Trip

Year Three have been learning all about life in the Stone Age. We have looked at the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Nesolithic periods, Stone Age houses and tools. The children even made some Stone Age art using natural materials including sticks, mud, charcoal and berries to look like cave paintings.

Year Three have been talking about how we can think more positively. They didn't say things they couldn't do. Instead they wrote things down that they couldn't do...YET! Some children have even posted their target snowballs into our YETI's mouth to celebrate achieving them!

In Term 3, Year Three were learning about chemical reactions in Science. (No teachers were harmed in the making of this video!)

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Year Three loved reading the book 'Oliver and the Seawigs'. They made their own Seawig and wrote instructions for how to make one. They held a 'Night of the Seawig' competition. Daisy won and will be the judge of next years competition!

Year three enjoyed reading the book 'Oliver and the Seawigs' and even made their own Seawigs for the Night of the Seawig competition. They wrote instructions for how to make your own Seawig.

Year Three have been looking at the Artist Claude Monet. We found out all about his life and explored some of his paintings; especially ones with water in. The children experimented with pastels to recreate on of his paintings and then went on to mixing water colour paints to create different shades. They all had a go at creating their own version of his famous 'Japanese Bridge' over waterlilies and created some beautiful final pieces which are now up on display in the school.

Welcome to our Year 2 page!

Year 1 page

We enjoyed our Sports Day this morning. Everyone tried they’re best and supported their team mates. Bristol had quite a monopoly in the running races but it was York who triumphed overall, despite being plagued by the flies that always particularly like their yellow t-shirts!

We had a great day in Rochester. We did an I-Spy trail in the Cathedral and learned about Baptism. We had our lunch by the castle and then did some observational drawings.

Some photos from our visit to Morrison’s in Faversham. We tried cheeses from different countries, made our own knotted rolls in the bakery and looked at the products from the World Food aisles.

Out and about in our Science lesson, looking closely at leaves to help us identify different plants.

Can you recognise who is jumping into the foam pit at Faversham gym?

We have been really enjoying our work on “The Bog Baby” by Jeanne Willis. We made our own Bog Babies but they went missing but then we found them in the secret garden.

In Art we have been learning about hot and cold colours. Have a look at our fabulous Hot Dogs and Cool Cats!

Duckling Diary

Duckling Diary Day 1

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To start our Science Week, Michael from Creepy Claws brought some exciting animals for us to see and touch and learn about.

Look at our amazing castle models!

We have used them in Maths to describe the 3d shapes they are built from and we have used them in Science to discuss the different materials they are constructed from.

Thank you to all the parents who came in yesterday to help with our Castle building afternoon. The children have been enjoying learning about Castles and were rightly proud of their models which included some very sophisticated constructions. Some even had working drawbridges!

Some pictures from our Christingle making with Prayer Stations this morning.

Party time!!

Alisa and Lana did a super job of making a Nativity scene with silhouettes on a lightbox as part of our Infant Christmas Service. We used the same Nativity figures on the special hats we made to wear to church.

Here are some pictures from our fabulous Nativity Play. You were all brilliant!

Art Week!

We have had a very busy Art Week and have produced lots of work and tried lots of new techniques. The week took inspiration from a famous painting from the National Gallery called "Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" by Joseph Wright of Derby. Here we are making a "Freeze Frame" of the picture.

We noticed the moon in the painting and made our own pictures of moons and planets using stencils and chalk, carefully blending to make them look spherical. We also learned about the phases of the moon.

We also thought about air because of the air pump in the picture. We saw a bottle with a straw and decided to make paintings with straws.

In the painting is a jar with an object floating in it. Nobody is quite sure what it is. We had lots of different ideas such as a dead mole, a dinosaur bone and a lump of mud. When we looked at our blow paintings we could also see lots of different things and so we added lines and eyes to the shapes to show what we could see.

We were also interested in the shadows that the candle in the middle made all around. We explored the idea of shadows by making silhouette portraits.

We made shadow pictures using cellophane and sugar paper inside laminating pouches. We could shine a light through them and project the shapes onto the ceiling.

We finished the week by performing an exciting shadow dance around the maypole, projecting light through our cellophane pictures to make colours on the ceiling.

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Last week fun!

Our turn to do Godly Play in the Church.

7th July 2017

Congratulations to our latest badge winners!

Our Star Readers of the Week are Scarlett Rose and Harry this week. Well done to you both!

Infant Sports Day Monday 19th June 2017

We had the most wonderful time at Oare Gunpowder Works Country Park. In the morning we worked with Lyndsey to catch and identify mini beasts in the grass and under logs and also in the pond. We had a great picnic in the shade and then did some more exploring and playing.

Thank you for dropping us off and collecting us to make this trip possible.

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Information for our class trip on Tuesday 13th June 2017

Two Star Readers of the Week again! Well done to Siena and Archie.

Our Star Readers this week are Amelie and Maisie! Well done girls!

Well done to Chelsea for being awarded this term's Value Award of Friendship.

Alisa and Artur were our Star Readers. Congratulations!

Our Maths work has been on Data Handling this week. The first 3 pictures are Carroll Diagrams which we used to sort shapes by 2 properties. We sorted colour red/ not red and shape rectangles/ not rectangles at the same time into the 4 sections using the big board. We also collected data by counting vehicles and finding 'treasure' on the Big Field. We then made a tick chart and counted to find out how many of each vehicle. We also do this every Tuesday to find out how many people walked, drive and stride, biked or came by car. We then made 2 pictograms by sticking on our 'treasures' (the orange pictogram) and the vehicles we saw (the green pictogram).

Great to see the children learning and using so many Maths skills through everyday, practical experiences.

Two winners again! Well done to Tyler and Leonardo our Star Readers this week.

Hooray for us! This week we have two Star Readers of the Week and as a class we won the Class Readers Golden Book award and also the Yellow Boot award for Trot on Tuesday. Well done and thank you to all our children and very supportive families.

Congratulations to our latest Readers of the Week and The Jackson Award.

Some of the children brought in things to share from their Easter Holiday Takeaway Task. Talking about them was a good opportunity to practice speaking and listening skills and use new vocabulary.

Three Silver Badge winners who have kept all the rules all the time. Well done!

Fun celebrating Easter at school!

We hope you all have an enjoyable holiday.

Some of the children have requested this to be added to our Class Page on the website! We do Exercise 2 as it a good length to be still and control our breathing. It is very calming.

Sit Like A Frog Mindfulness activity Some of the children have requested this to be added to website! We do exercise 2 as it a good length to be still and control our breathing. It is very calming.

Our next batch of Silver Badge winners and Harry Star Reader of the Week. Well done!

Mr Maker visited our school today! This was our school prize for Year 6 being overall Kent winners on a Challenge Day. The prize was awarded by The Kent Messenger Charity Team who run the Buster's Book Club and Walk on Wednesday ( aka Trot on Tuesday!). Mr Maker reading the story was filmed and will appear on the KM website reaching an audience of 2.6 million apparently, so keep a look out!

We had a lot of fun on the field and had opportunities to work in the Areas of Learning of Physical Development, Understanding the World, Communication and Language and Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Heaps of excitement in Worship on Friday as we scooped up some major awards! Three more Silver Badge winners to be proud of plus Max was awarded this term's Value Award for showing wisdom through being sensible, motivating the team at tidy up time and consistently doing 'the right thing'.

As a class we received the Golden Book award for having proportionately the most extra minutes in Buster's Book Club ( bookmarks). Well done to children and adults at home!

Congratulations to four more Readers of the Week and also our Silver Badge winners. Keep up the good reading habits and good rule keeping.

Science Week- Friday

We went on a Spring treasure hunt. We found daisies, leaves and some wiggly worms!

All ten of our chicks have hatched now.

Our first yoga session where we did bending, stretching and relaxing. It was great fun!

Science Week- Wednesday

Our Science work was about life cycles today and we enjoyed having our parents come to learn with us. We did activities about the life cycles of frogs, hens and butterflies.

Science Week- Tuesday

Today we built structures in a fabulous workshop. We only used sticks and elastic bands. We made triangles, tripods, pyramids and even an octahedron! When we put all our structures together it made a huge rocket structure that we blasted off to the ceiling!

Science Week- Monday

Today we have planted cress seeds on cotton wool, French beans in plastic glasses and sunflower seeds in soil. We learnt that our seeds will need light, warmth and water to grow. We also went to look at our Living Eggs which are incubating in Year 1. We are now watching and waiting!

Jasper is the second winner of The Jackson Award for being a good citizen. This was for being a kind, polite and helpful friend.

World Book Day 2017

Celebrating Shrove Tuesday and the beginning of Lent.

Today in our Maths work we ordered non consecutive numbers from 1-10 and 1-20 using this tablet friendly website. Have a go at home. On Safari google ' caterpillar ordering' and choose the Topmarks one. Also choices for bigger numbers and sequences so may find something to support older siblings too!

Can you spot a triangular prism on Tyler's model or the cones on Olly's castle? How many cylinders on Theia's model?

Some more fabulous models made with 3D solids! How many cylinders can you spot this time?

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Wow! We think that your 3D solid models are fantastic! We managed to spot cuboids, cylinders, cones, cubes, spheres and a pyramid. Can you see all these shapes?

Today some of us visited our Pop-Up Prayer Station. We prayed for any where in the world. We prayed for penguins and children in Africa.

Our RE lesson this week was based on the Bible story of 'The loaves and fishes'. We reflected on the Values in the story especially Trust by drawing a picture of someone that we trust. We also made bread to illustrate the Value of Friendship through sharing. We shared mixing the dough as a team but then had our own piece to knead. After kneading we shared a baking tray so together our individual pieces made one flower ready for baking.

Well done Lillie for being our first Weekly Star Reader in the Buster Book Club! Next Wednesday is a Challenge Day so our class could also win additional prizes. So don't forget to do your reading minutes!

Wednesday 8^th February is the Leeds Castle Challenge Day! Whichever class wins, 2 students will be selected to go to Leeds Castle for a photo call, and bring home an RSPB family voucher for each pupil in their class.

As part of our Topic on Cold Places and the Arctic we have made polar bear faces by sticking collages and designed and built edible igloos from marshmallows and sugar cubes. This allowed us to practice our fine motor skills and gave us opportunities to problem solve, work together and think of new ways to do things.

Jasper and Imogen being the first from our class to be proudly parking their wheels in the new Pod!

Helicopter Stories

Today we have started our class book of Helicopter stories. This is a special book where the children are the authors. The children tell a story aloud and an adult writes it in the story book for them. We then sit around our new stage and children act out the story by being the characters and dramatising the action. Max's story had the character Mario and Alisa's had a princess, a nice dragon and a knight. The class story had a gingerbread man, a fox, a brown bear and a tiger.

These stories are great for improving the children's use and understanding of language, imaginations, love of stories and confidence.

Just in case you are wondering, we believe they are called Helicopter Stories because the first ever story of this type featured a helicopter!

Introducing a brand new award! Evie was presented with a certificate for this term's Christian Value of Forgiveness. Each term one pupil from each class will receive a certificate for demonstrating their understanding of each different Value. Our Christian Values are

Compassion Thankfulness Forgiveness Wisdom Friendship Trust

We were very pleased to present Riley with The Jackson Award. This is for good citizenship and contributions to the school community. Riley is always cheerful, bright, well mannered and uses fantastically kind words.

Daisy and Leonardo were given their Bronze Badges for good behaviour in Worship. Well done!

We celebrated the Feast of Epiphany with an act of Worship led by Mrs Homan and then follow up activities. These were based on gifts, the Three Kings and the star that the Kings followed as these are central to Epiphany.

Christmas 2016 in Ramsey Class

A very big well done to our Bronze Badge winners today! We can all wear a Bronze Badge with pride now as we are all such super rule keepers. Please remember to look after them and wear them in the New Year.

Some children received certificates for 100% attendance in Terms 1 and 2. Congratulations!

Our Christingle Service led by Years 3 and 4. The two youngest children in the class, and the school this year, were chosen to have their candles lit.

Making our Christingles.

Watching the Peter Pan panto.

Infant church service.

Infant Christmas party. Thank you for all the yummy party food.

Behind the scenes at 'Lights, Camel, Action' !

Well done to Amelie and Jasper who showed the pictures they had made on the Colour Magic computer programme in our Good Work Worship. They were awarded a Headteacher's Award sticker and the work will be displayed on our special board.

Some of us have visited the Pop Up Prayer Station in the library. We used playdough to create a model of something that we are thankful for. The Prayer Station will be here for a week and then our models will go to the Church. Pop along!!

A very busy Children In Need day! We played Oranges and Lemons and Hunt the Number on the field. Inside we have iced Pudsey Bear biscuits and enjoyed eating them too!

Thank you for your generous donations to CIN today.

Congratulations to all our bronze badge winners. These children have filled two Star Cards by collecting stars as rewards for good behaviour and excellent rule keeping. Well done!

Fonics App- highly recommended!

We have been busy, and creative, learning about the celebrations of Firework night and Diwali.

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Phonics Information from Parents' meeting 2nd November 2016

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Phonics Play Website Games

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Articulation of Phonemes

A useful video clip showing the correct 'pure' pronounciation of phonemes (units of sound).

Don't forget to come along to the Parents Meeting about Phonics and Handwriting at 3.30 pm on Wednesday 2nd November. School age children can play in the classroom.

Also this week are two additional Demo Phonics sessions (Thursday 3rd November at 2.30pm and Friday 4th November at 9.10am) in case you did not catch the Phonics Demo in Term 1.

Parents' Stay and Play Tuesday 18th October.

We had our Class Collective Worship outdoors in the 'Triangle House'. The children used sticks to make a cross shape to help us think about Jesus.

On Tuesday 4th October we had our very own Welcome Service at St Laurence's Church. We were joined by our families, Mrs Homan and Reverend Lesley. We sung beautifully with actions and listened to the story of Zacchaeus, whom Jesus loved even though he was small. We were all presented with our very own picture Bible to take home and share.