WELCOME TO YEAR 6 EAGLES
Eagles are high flyers, tenacious hunters and have excellent vision. Once they have a goal in mind they strive to obtain it and never let it slip through their talons. As King of Skies, they soar high with ambition and innovation.
THIS TERM'S THEME
"Be Curious"
Please scroll down to our Curriculum map where you will see all our learning for the term.
P.E AND DANCE DAYS
Please ensure that a PE kit is brought into school on a Monday and taken home on a Friday. All items of PE kit (and school uniform) should be labelled with the child's name and class. We will ensure that they are sent home at the end of every half term.
PE - Wednesday
Dance - Friday
HOME LEARNING DAYS
All home learning is to be completed in your Home Learning books and will be given on a Friday to be completed for the following Wednesday. All pupils in Year 6 are expected to complete their Home Learning to a high standard and be handed in on the due date. Those pupils who have not completed the task will be expected to stay in during the first twenty minutes of Thursday lunchtime.
UPCOMING
Monday 25th April 2022 - First day of Summer Term
Monday 9th May - SATS testing begins
Tuesday 17th May - Skills Build at South Devon College
Friday 27th May - Last day of Summer 1
Monday 6th June 2022 - Non pupil Day
Tuesday 7th June 2022 - First day of Summer 2
Tuesday 26th July 2022 - Last day of the Summer Term
MEET THE TEAM
If you have any questions, or would like to get in touch with the class teacher, please email:
sclayton@white-rock-primary.torbay.sch.uk
lfoster@white-rock-primary.torbay.sch.uk
Summer Term Curriculum Map: Be Curious
Leaver's Assembly Songs
For your homework for the next 3 weeks, we would like you to learn songs for the leavers assembly. We will be practising these in school as well but it would be great if you could learn the words as thoroughly as possible. Happy singing!
Wednesday 20th July - Cricket trip to Somerset
Today, 30 children in Year 5 and 6 visited Somerset Cricket Club to watch a match between Somerset and Yorkshire. All the children enjoyed watching the cricket, completing the activity book and getting autographs from some of the players. Have a look at some of our photos below!
Friday 10th June - Climate Change Speeches
In Year 6, we prepared persuasive speeches to discuss how Torbay could positively impact climate change. We selected our favourite speeches from each class who then took part in a final debate. We spoke confidently, factually and persuasively to deliver our speeches.
Children's Parliament Resources
Below are some resources for you to use over the next week to help you with your research.
Jubilee celebration song - updated
Monday 23rd May - History Visitor
This Monday, we were lucky to have a visit from the chairman of the Torbay Civic Society. He came in to speak to us about the key historical local figure of Agatha Christie. We learned lots about her life and the key physical sites around Torbay and South Devon!
Thursday 19th May - South Devon College Skills Build Day.
Year 6 were invited to join a skills build day at South Devon College. We took part in masonry, painting and decorating, carpentry and many more hands-on activities!
Science - 27.04.22
In Science today, we witnessed how water can act like a lense. We carried out an experiment to see that the direction of an arrow (which we had drawn on a whiteboard) switches and we could make the arrow larger or smaller based on how far away the glass was from the whiteboard.
Music - cornet playing 04th April 2022
In our music this half term, we have been learning to play the cornet! Check out our use of rhythm to play and march in formation like our own Eagles brass band!
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Friday 18th March 2022 - Red Nose Day!
Have a look at the fun activities we took part in to help raise money for Comic Relief!
Friday 11th March 2022
In our Science this week, we investigated how light only travels in straight lines from a light source. When a light source hits an opaque object, a shadow is formed. Here we are recording data to show how a shadow's size changes in relation to how far away the light source is and the distance between the opaque object and the surface the shadow is cast upon.
Fun with shadows
Thursday 3rd March - World Book Day
As part of our World Book Day learning, children dressed up as their favourite book characters. We were lucky enough to spend some time with Year 3 and Year 2 children to share our books together. We really enjoyed it!
World Book Day 2022
31.01.21 - Science
Continuing with our Science learning this term about inheritance and evolution, we investigated how DNA is found within living things. DNA is essentially a code which informs how a living this is made up. It can determine inherited characteristics from a living thing's parents including eye colour, hair colour, height or skin colour to name a few. In this lesson, we were able to extract DNA from bananas!
24.01.22 - art
In our art lesson today, we reproduced pictures of flowering plants in the style of Matisse. We used primary colours and our knowledge of watercolours to reproduce some beautiful artwork!
11.01.2022 - Harry Potter Day
As part of our writing journey, we immersed ourselves in all things Harry Potter. We made drinkable potions, deciphered hidden messages, sculpted mythical creatures, made witches hats and got stuck in with exploring our inspiration text! Take a look at some pictures of our day!
05.01.2022 - Science
In Science this week, we began to look at adaptations in desert animals, such as camels. We thought carefully about how different adaptations help camels survive, such as wide feet to help it from sinking in the sand. We also learned that camels have a fat store in their humps and they can convert this to energy when they are hungry! What amazing creatures!
Autumn Term Learning - Free to be me.
W/C: 06.12.21 Computing
In computing this week, Mrs Broderick taught us how to read and write numbers in binary code. Binary code is how computers talk and represent information. It may seem random to us but binary code is based on a base-two number system which means binary code uses only two numbers, “0” and “1”. Here we are having a go at solving codes using binary to represent numbers!
W/C 29.11.21 - PSHE
In PSHE this week, we discussed our understanding of legal and illegal drugs. We learned about the short term and long term affects of different drugs, including caffeine, alcohol and medicines. We also explored the different laws in place to help keep people safe.
W/C 22.11.21 - RE
In RE this week, we took some virtual tours of different types of Synagogue. We looked carefully to spot similarities and differences between reform and orthodox Synagogues. If you wanted to explore more of the virtual tours, please follow the link below!
Take a tour of Synagogues from around the world!
W/C: 15th November
This week, Year 6 were incredibly fortunate to attend the Dartmouth Academy Fun day! We took part in some really fun activities in Art and Science to experience life in secondary school! Take a look at the photos to see what we got up to!
W/C 01/11/21 - RE
In RE this week, we experienced some of the traditions within the Jewish Festival of Passover. We were able to try grape juice, matzoh, parsley and a mix of sweet fruits and honey. Each food on the Seder plate is symbolic to the Exodus from Ancient Egypt.
W/C 18.10.21 - Spanish
In Spanish this week, we learned to speak and write about our morning routine. We were able to use conjunctions to join our sentences. Check out some of our amazing writing!
W/C 11.10.21 - RE (The 10 plagues of Egypt) - Judaism
In our RE learning this week, we looked at a story from the Torah. We learned how the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh held Jewish people prisoners and treated them as slaves. Moses delivered the message that God commanded the Pharaoh let the slaves free. The Pharaoh did not listen until God sent 10 deadly plagues upon the land until finally, the Pharaoh allowed the Jews to be free...
W/C - 04.10.21 - Science - Asexual reproduction in plants, microorganisms and fungi.
Today in our Science learning, we explored how some living things reproduce asexually. This means that only parent is needed to create offspring and they create a perfect clone of themselves too keep their lifecycle going! We planned our own scientific enquiry to see asexual reproduction in action. We took cuttings of basil plants, used rooting powder to encourage root growth and potted them in nutrient-rich soil. Hopefully, we will soon see if they would grow smaller plants - proving that basil plants can reproduce asexually!
W/C 27.10.21 - Art - Armin Greder
As part of our Art learning this term, we have read the book 'The Island' by Armin Greder. Armin makes used of pastels, charcoal and coloured pencils to create distorted images of landscapes and portraits. After studying the artist and learning about his techniques, we tried to replicate his style by continuing a piece of his artwork.
W/C - 20/09/21 - Recycling Week
As part of our learning around recycling week, we were visited by Paignton Zoo who spoke to us about plastic pollution and its impact on sealife. We explored types of rubbish collected from the Bay and identified how this may have reached the sea. We looked at micro-plastics and completed some activities to help us truly appreciate the disastrous implications we will have on nature if we do not do more to fight plastic pollution!
W/C 20/09/21 - Recycling Week
W/C 27/09/21 - Coasteering
What a fantastic day we had at Fishcombe cove this week! Children pushed themselves to face new heights (literally) but scrambling up rock faces and jumping in to the Bay's beautiful waters! It was a great time had by all.
Reach Outdoors - coasteering
W/C Monday 6th September - PSHE
In our PSHE learning this week, we explored different types of leadership. We were able to describe the difference between democracy and dictatorship and identify different countries around the world which have these leaders. We value the importance of our democracy within The UK and even within our own school.
W/C Monday 6th September
