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End of Week 3

We are at the end of three weeks which has flown by and myself and Mrs O’Neill continue to be overwhelmed by the children and their attitudes. All week they have been absolutely fantastic.

This week we have started our new space topic called ‘Out of this World’ where we have…

Poetry

We have been looking at seaside poems all week. Today we looked closely at the poem ‘Sea Animals’ by Meish Goldish.

We noticed that it is a rhyming poem all about animals under the sea. We decided to change the poem to write our own version.

Here are some of the…

In what ways did the Titanic change history?

The disaster of the Titanic creates outcry from people for more to be done to protect people's lives at sea. Both British and American inquiries called for laws and regulations around safety at sea to be changed and over the next few years,…

Home Learning

We are so pleased to see so many of you joining in with our seaside topic at home! Here are some of the fantastic pictures that we have received of home learning so far: 

Who was on board the Titanic?

This afternoon we investigated the people on board the Titanic.

• How could you find out if a person was aboard the Titanic?
• What kind of sources could you use?
• Can you remember some of the reasons why someone would have been travelling on the…

English

After reading and learning some seaside poems yesterday, we decided to write our own poem today. We took inspiration from Celia Warren and her poem called ‘Seaside Fun’. She uses her senses to describe the things that she has seen, heard, tasted, smelt and felt at the seaside. Here are…

Newspaper Report

Our news reporters have been busy typing up their reports, ready for print! 

Read the latest news below!! 

Fossil Artwork

After learning all about fossils and Mary Anning yesterday, we decided to do some fossil artwork today. We used white crayons and chalk and copied some real life fossils and pictures. After drawing the fossils, we tried to find out the names of them.

Here is some of our…

Newspaper Article

The classroom has turned into a newsroom today, the Year 6's have channelled their journalistic style to report the news of the sinking of the Titanic.

What are all the different ways you can think of that people access the news? - do you keep up with the news? What are…

Seaside poetry

In English we have been looking at some different seaside poems. We read some poems and talked about if we liked them or not. In groups, we learnt some of the poems off by heart and performed them to each other.

We are going to be writing our own seaside poems this week.…

Fossils

We have learnt all about fossils today as part of our seaside topic. We learnt what they are, how they are created and some of their names. We used magnifying glasses to look closely at them and used the ‘Natural History Museum’ website to help us to find out more information.…

Titanic Recount

Year 6 have been working incredibly hard in English over the past two weeks, writing a recount of the events that unfolded between 10th April 1912 and the 15th April 1912. They wrote their recounts in the role of a passenger - first, second or third class. Can you work out from…