Year 6
Our Gospel value for this half term is: Compassion
What is compassion?
How can we show compassion in our day to day lives? We will be looking in to this, this half term.
History
Using our knowledge of the Maya and other historical periods, we tried to guess what the replica sources were and how they were used in the Maya time. The responses were fantastic and the children came up with some fantastic ideas of what each object showed…
We also made our own Maya Masks. We researched the 3 main reasons the Maya people wore masks and then created our own using the ancient technique of mosaic. They are superb.
R.E – Our Saint’s Day!
Each Year group has a different Saint to learn about. On the Feast day we come in in our own clothes and spend the whole day completing activities about our Saint. Here’s what we did…
Science
We kicked off our new science topic, ‘Evolution and Inheritance,’ by investigating some scientific sources. In groups we answered questions on what we thought was happening in the pictures of families, the peppered moth and the birds penguin and magpie. We came up with some excellent explanations and some very interesting questions that we want to answer throughout the topic.
English
In English we have been looking at Narrative Poetry. We have analysed Michael Rosen’s style and compare some of his poems – listening to him perform them on YouTube. Then we moved on to classic poetry, reading The Highwayman and William Wordsworth’s poems: Lucy Gray and Daffodils. We looked at the historical setting and old English words that have changed over time or that are not used anymore. We also learnt about figurative language – similes, metaphors, personification and hyperboles.
R.E
We have created our very own Prayer Journals – these are a place where we can individually write to God, reflecting on many different things that can occur during the week. We will use them to thank God, to ask questions, to ask for help, to pray for others and to reflect on current news. We want them to be a place where we can be truthful and let our worries out.
R.E
The start of a new year has made us think about new beginnings… the start of creation! We thought about God’s creation and how we can create our own version with God leading the way. You have the whole world in your hands with the start of a new year… what will you do with it. From this this we thought about our hopes and fears for the journey, our last year in Primary School, ahead!