WELCOME TO YEAR 6 HAWKS
Hawks are highly intelligent creatures, who strive to be committed and enthusiastic in all that they do. Their outstanding vision allows them to seek out opportunities and remain focused. They fly to great heights with speed, diving with great accuracy and precision to achieve their goals, even when facing difficulties.
THIS TERM'S THEME
'#ExploreMore'
This Term, Year 6 children will be asking questions to challenge their understanding. They will do this through design, making and evaluating projects in different Curriculum areas.
P.E AND DANCE DAYS
PE for Hawks will be on Monday and Dance will be on a Friday. Please ensure your child comes to school with the correct kit, which is clearly labelled. For more information about kit requirements, please visit our 'Physical Education & School Sport' Page.
We will ensure that PE kits are sent home at the end of every half term.
HOME LEARNING DAYS
Home learning will be sent home on Fridays and should be returned to school on Wednesday. Home learning should be completed to the best standard possible and Mathletics and Times Table Rock Stars should also be completed weekly. We celebrate the efforts of Mathletics and Times Table Rock Stars in our assemblies with special class shout outs and certificates.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday 21st April - Bank Holiday
Tuesday 22nd April - Non-pupil day
Wednesday 23rd April - First day of Summer 1
Tuesday 29th April - Assembly visitor
Monday 12th May- Friday 16th May - SATs Breakfast @8.30am
Monday 12th May - English Grammar, Puntuation and Spelling SATs Test: Paper 1 (SPAG) and 2 (Spelling)
Tuesday 13th May - English Reading SATs Test
Wednesday 14th May - Maths SATs Test: Paper 1 (Arithmetic) and Paper 2 (Reasoning)
Thursday 15th May - Maths SATs Test: Paper 3 (Reasoning)
Monday 19th May-Thursday 22nd May - Bikeability
Tuesday 20th May - Paignton Teachers in to visit pupils who will attend there in September @2pm
Friday 23rd May - Last day of Summer 1
Monday 26th May-Friday 30th May - Half Term
Monday 2nd June - First day of Summer 2
Tuesday 3rd June - Churston Teachers in to visit pupils who will attend there in September @9.30am
Friday 6th June - World Ocean Day
Tuesday 24th June - Sports Day
Monday 30th June - RSHE Week
Thursday 3rd June - Transition Day
Friday 4th July - Summer Fayre
Wednesday 16th July - Money Sense Day
Thursday 24th July - Leavers Assembly @2pm
Thursday 24th July - Leavers Disco @6pm-7pm
Friday 25th July - Woodlands Trip
Friday 25th July - Last day of Summer 2
MEET THE TEAM
(Image coming soon)
If there are any issues or concerns, please feel free to come in and see your teacher Miss Noble or alternatively please contact a team leader (Mrs Gidley).
pnoble@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk
rgidley@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025
SUMMER TERM
Summer Term Curriculum Map
Friday 2nd May 2025 - Gymnastics
We have been enjoying Gymnastics this half term. This week we have been learning how to do a counter balance and use counter tension when working with a partner. We then used these in a sequence, along with different rolls (teddy bear and forward rolls etc...) that we went over last week. We were focusing on using strong body tension in order to hold the counter balance or counter tension for 5 seconds.
Tuesday 29th April 2025 - Priest Visit
Today we were lucky to host Matt and Mollie from Bay Church, who led assemblies for all the children. They taught us about the true meaning of Easter, Jesus's death and resurrection, and his Ascension into Heaven. They also discussed the Good News that Jesus and his disciples spread about how to live and talked about the word of God being like a light that shines to light the way for all, and we shouldn't hide the light. The children enjoyed sharing their 'good news' with Matt and Mollie, listening to their stories and watching the video and we look forward to them joining us again soon.
SPRING TERM
Spring Term Curriculum Map
Monday 31st March - Taekwondo
Today we were really lucky to have Richard Kelly in from MF martial arts, teaching the children some basic taekwondo skills. They all joined and really enjoyed the session! Look out for the flyer that will be sent home with your child today with more information.
March 2025 - Computing
As part of our Online Safety learning, we have been looking at Online Reputation and Online Bullying. We have learnt the importance of having a positive online reputation as this may effect our future lives and employment. We know that we need to treat everyone online as we would face to face - we know that any comments or uploads made stay online for a very long time and that anyone can see them if our privacy settings are not set to friends and family only, If we have any worries about anything we put online, we know that we need to tell our trusted adults straight away.
Tuesday 18th March 2025 - Let's Dance Showcase
Our Year 5 and 6 Dance Club performed outstandingly at the Let's Dance Showcase at South Dartmoor Community College this afternoon and evening. It was a long day involving an afternoon of watching other schools perform, as well as having a rehearsal ourselves on the stage. We then performed in two shows over the course of the evening (and managed to practise in one of the classrooms as well). As a group, we decided on the Addams Family theme tune and so were dressed as Wednesday and Pugsley Addams. We all really enjoyed practising and performing this dance and hope everyone who came to watch us enjoyed it too.
Rehearsal in a classroom
Friday 14th March 2025- Spanish (Espanol)
Year 6 have been working really hard on their Spanish PowerPoint presentations about their VACACIONES (HOLIDAYS) iQué fantastico!
They have been learning the verb "ir" in Spanish and we have learnt a short rap to try to remember it!
voy= I am going
vas= You are going
va= He/she is going
vamos=we are going
vais= you (adult) are going
van=They are going
They have included places in the town, items you take on holiday (en mi maleta) and countries in their PowerPoint presentations.
Year 6 are looking forward to showing their presentations in class.
iMaravilloso!
Tuesday 11th March 2025 – Science Week - Visit to the EPIC Centre
This week has been Science week, so today we went to the EPIC science centre. Some of the people who work there spoke to us about the kind of things they do. They have a catchphrase, which is 'Solving the world's most complex problems'. We found out about some of the business that are in the building, such as, Nanusens, Queensgate Prior, OLM, Bay Photonics and Superb Media.
We were split into three groups to complete our tasks.
One of the tasks was about Mapping intelligence. We look at how maps had changed over time. Also, that satellite maps, use planes to fly over and collect the images. Next, we were asked if anyone had heard of intelligent maps. This is when information about the area is put onto a map. We looked at our local area and you could see how noisy your house is and how many people live in the area. We were told that some of this information comes from the census. We knew from the map that 14.9% of the local area are in education.
Another task was answering scientific questions about space, what the air is made up of and the chemical symbols for oxygen and other elements. There was a prize for the most correct.
For the third task we were able to go into the studios where they stream the TikTok shop live streams. We all had a go at sitting in the chair and trying to sell something and were shown some of the very expensive equipment they used. We were also shown a podcast studio, a lab (with some extremely expensive machines and microscopes) and the work pods.
Friday 7th March 2025 - Dance
This half term, we are learning a dance inspired by the song 'Getcha Head in the Game' from High School Musical. In the film, the characters dance with basketballs, but we are just imagining we have basketballs in our dance. Mrs Tyson has taught us the first part of the dance and then this week, we have created a duet to the next 16 beats. We had to listen carefully to the music to ensure that our steps fit with those 16 beats. Next week, we will be joining another pair to make a quartet to choreograph the next 16 beats.
Thursday 13th March 2024 - Caving - Reach Outdoors
Hawks had an amazing time exploring the caves at Pridhamsleigh Cavern, Ashburton with Reach Outdoors. They showed great teamwork and resilience as they crawled, climbed and slid their way through the cave whilst getting extremely muddy!
Thursday 6th March 2025 – World Book Day
Today has been World Book Day. We had a World Book Day recorded assembly and when this finished, we teamed up with a Year 2 class to share books with them. Later in the morning we took part in the BBC Live lesson, where they got us thinking about how and why we read. Next, we created designs for the ‘design a nation book token competition’.
Friday 28th February 2025 - PE
This half term Year 6 are focusing on fitness. Children will be learning about the importance of warming up and the effects of exercise on the body. We will explore the components of fitness through a range of activities and challenges, linking these to the different sports the children participate in. Children will be completing a 2 minute skipping challenge and get practicing ready for National skipping day on the 28th March!
Monday 24th February 2025 - Music
Today, Sonopera’s Kip Pratt and Elfyn Jones visited White Rock to perform some music. Their performance showcased a diverse range of instruments - piano, violin, ukulele, and drums - and musical styles from Ireland and Eastern Europe. We started by singing a song about the months to warm up our voices, followed by learning a song called “Step Back Baby!”. We had lots of fun putting some actions to the words and working together to find the beat of the music.
Friday 7th February 2025 - Home Learning - Safer Internet Day
For Safer Internet day, which is on Tuesday 11th February this year, we would like you to learn the song ‘Who do you share your details with?’. The whole school will sing this together in the Safter Internet Day assembly on this day. The video and a copy of the lyrics are below. You have also been given a paper copy of the lyrics.
'Who do you share your details with'.mp4
February 2025 - Computing
In Computing, we have been looking at how we can design our own website. We are making our websites all about animals which links to our Writing where we are producing a non-chronological report about our favourite animal. We have explored a variety of websites to see how they are effective and have started to design the home page of our website. We will soon be adding web pages through the use of hyperlinks.
Tuesday 4th February 2025 – Reading Roundabout
We took part in a reading roundabout. Jade, who works at the Devon Library service, brought in some books to share with us. She picked six different genres: Imaginary worlds, Animals, Realistic stories, Funny, Fascinating Facts, plus Adventure and Mystery. We got a chance to look through the books and see which ones we would like to add to our library.
Jade asked us some questions about how we pick books and how we might find new books to read. We discussed flicking through the book, reading the blurb, reading the first page - where the author is trying to bring you into the story. We also thought that being familiar with the author also helps when picking a text.
Here we are looking at our books and filling in the ‘Reading Roundabout’. leaflets.
Friday 31st January 2025 – Art
This term we are looking at the artist Henry Moore. As part of our learning, we are looking at his sculptures. We have noticed how he is inspired by people and a lot of his artwork was inspired by the way we move and emotions. We have completed some sketched in our learning books and thought about the shapes and movements our bodies make during different activities.
Friday 24th January 2025-Spanish
This week in Spanish Year 6 were re-capping places in the town in Spanish. We finished off our Spanish PowerPoint presentations which we are really excited to show case over the next few weeks in class. iQué fantástico!
Senorita Head also taught us the vocabulary for different shops. This will be so useful for finding our way around a Spanish town in the future. iQué bien!
Here are the words we learnt:
zapaterìa = show shop
libreria= book shop
carnicerÌa= butchers
farmacia = chemist
fruteria= fruit shop/green grocers
la tienda de ropa= clothes shop
la oficina de correos= post office
pescaderia= fishmongers
We played lots of interactive games to practise the new vocabulary and even made sentences using the key structures hay= there is and no hay= there is not.
Year 6 Spanish Learning iQue maravilloso!
Thursday 23rd January 2025 - Handball Sports Festival
This afternoon, Hawks took part in a Handball and Tchoukball festival at Paignton Academy. They completed a variety of activities, such as Rebound Reactions, Beat the Ball and Death Star, where they practised the skills of throwing, catching, creating space, dynamic balance and developing tactics. Pupils worked brilliantly as a whole class team, and in small groups, and put into practise their teamwork and leadership skills. It was a fantastic afternoon!
Friday 15th January 2025 - Dance
This term in Dance, we are looking at the Mayans as we are learning about them in our other lessons. We have started by looking at their architecture and have created our own Mayan temples in human form. We looked at the intricate patterns and detail on their temples and tried to recreate these using our bodies, legs, arms and hands. We have really enjoyed doing this.
Tuesday 14th January 2025 – Writing
In Writing, this term, we have been read ‘Earth Verse’. This is a book that is full of Haiku poems. For our lesson today, we have been learning some of the poems and thinking about how we can perform them. We worked really well together and then showed our final performance to the rest of the class.
Wednesday 8th January 2025 - Physical Education
Year 6 have a very exciting start to the Autumn term as we have Lloyd Blackler a basketball coach from Torbay Tigers teaching all PE lessons this half term. Children will be developing their attacking and defending basketball skills, as well as learning the rules and umpiring their own games.
AUTUMN TERM
Autumn Term Curriculum Map
December 2024 - Computing
In Computing, we have been coding using Scratch. We have created some excellent pieces including a game where you got points if the star landed on a board, a penguin bouncing a ball and a snowman being chased by a polar! Well done Yr6 - you are amazing!
Monday 2nd December 2024 – Year 6 Learning Celebration.
Thank you to all the parents, carers and adults who came to our Learning Celebration. We enjoyed sharing a snapshot of the learning we have being doing during the Autumn Term, in Year 6. Well done to everyone who joined in with our science investigation. We also noticed that some of our adults are budding artists. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
Friday 29th November 2024-Spanish
Year 6 enjoyed learning how to formulate the verb "vivir"= to live in Spanish.
We talked about different endings and how they change!
Take a look at this verb! iVamos!
vivo= I live
vives= you live (informal)
vive= he/she lives
vivimos= we live
viveis= you live (formal)
viven= they live
We played lots of interactive games and also coloured in a Spanish verb flower with the different endings. iQué maravilloso!
iQue estupendo!
Friday 22nd November 2024 - Dance
In Year 6, we have been exploring different weather types and natural disasters in our dances this half term and this week we created dances to express the destruction of tornadoes. In our groups, our dance had to include four different actions to express the movements of a tornado, including lots of twists and turns.
Thursday 21st November 2024 – Science
In Science, we have been learning about osmosis. This is when water molecules move from a high concentration to a low concentration. We completed an experiment, with jelly babies, to show osmosis in action. We used tap water, salt water and lemonade to see how they jelly sweet would change. We measured its original size and then it’s size after 24 hours and made observations about what it looked like.
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First click on ‘Sign in with Office 365’.
Next enter your computer login followed by:
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Finally put in your computer password.
You should now be logged in, complete any of the reading tasks set, don’t forget to watch the teaching videos if there are any!
Friday 15th November - Children in Need
Today all of year 6 completed a live dance session with Dame Darcey Bussell and the DDMIX team, in the school hall for children in need. Everyone joined in and it was wonderful to see all three classes together practising their dance moves and having lots of fun! Well done everyone!
Tuesday 12th November 2024 - Anti-Bullying Week
This week is Anti-Bullying Week. This morning, we listened to Mrs Tomkinson's assembly and watched Andy and The Odd Socks singing this years new song, 'Choose Respect'. Lots of us wore our odd socks to encourage people to express themselves and to celebrate individuality.
Wednesday 6th November - PE
Our first impact day with our Dartmoor School Sports Partnership was fantastic! The year 6 sports captains led a games festival for year 1 where children got to complete a circuit of activities including: rugby, football, handball and batting. Everyone had a great afternoon practising and developing their skills.
Week beginning 4th November - Computing
This weeks Computing learning saw Hawks class investigating IP addresses. We talked about computers communicate with each other through the use of IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. We discussed how a Domain Name Server translates web addresses into IP addresses and this is how we can send messages, watch videos and access websites etc. The children were then tasked with investigating this by using a programme which acts as a domain name server.
Friday 18th October 2024 - PE
Today in PE, year 6 took part in an inter house tag rugby tournament. The sports captains did a fantastic job or organising and running the event, allowing the children to play some competitive games and put their excellent tag rugby skills into practice. It was a great morning - well done year 6!
Friday 11th October 2024- Spanish
Year 6 had lots of fun in their Spanish lesson this week. We re-capped daily routine phrases and also learnt how to add a time to our phrases! iQué fantástico!
We played blockbusters to practise the vocabulary. Señorita Head was so impressed with the complex sentences! iQué maravilloso!
We started to write a story about Lamine Yamal's daily routine. We can't wait to finish this next Spanish lesson.
Click on the link below to practise La rutina por la mañana.
iTrabajo estupendo!
Thursday 10th October 2024 - Coasteering
On Thursday afternoon, we went coasteering with Reach Outdoors. We put on our wetsuits, buoyancy aids and helmets and headed down to the picturesque Churston Cove. Hawks were brilliant at showing their bravery and water-confidence skills. We then swam around to Fishcombe Cove and carried out some activities. We were all incredible, showing how supportive we can be and our positive attitudes.
Tuesday 8th October 2024 - African Dance Assembly
Today we have been lucky enough to have some African dancers in our assembly. They explained to us that they come from West Africa - a place called The Ivy Coast. They played their drum and danced as we clapped along. They also did some call and response, where we did some calling back and added actions.
Friday 4th October 2024 - Dance
We have been enjoying our traditional Greek dancing this term and this week we were learning a new Greek dance step called the Hasapiko. We have created a group dance over the last two weeks, which needed to include 4 of the traditional steps and different formations. Today we added the Hasapiko to our dance as well. Next week, we will be filming our group dances and evaluating them to improve them.
Friday 27th September - PE
Year 6 have had a fantastic start to tag rugby this half term. They have been focusing on passing successfully as a team, along with the principles of attack and defence. Some students have been demonstrating their knowledge of rugby outside of school as well which is brilliant!
Friday 27th September 2024 – Science
During our Science sessions we have be exploring the impact of exercise on our hearts. We completed an investigation to answer the questions:
Laura says:
'I can control my heart rate.'
Is she correct?
We designed our own experiment, in groups. We took our resting pulse and compared this to when we had completed a range of tasks.
Thursday 26th September 2024 – Art
During our Art session, we started our new topic on portraiture. We have begun by using different pencil grades. In our sketchbooks, we experimented with creating grey shades – thinking about how much pressure we were putting on our pencil. We also looked at a range of sketching techniques for shading. We used wiggling, hatching and cross-hatching to shade and discussed, as a class, how these techniques gave a different effect.
Tuesday 24th September 2024 - European Day of Languages
Today we have celebrated European Day of Languages. We started the day with an exciting assembly with Senorita Head, where we learned how to say hello in different languages including Spanish, French, Polish and Russian. We sang some of our favourite songs that we sing in our Language lessons followed by some exciting games in class.
Thursday 19th September 2024 – Music
In Music today, we began to learn how to play the ukulele. We learnt how to hold the instrument correctly so that we weren’t pressing on any of the strings, which would have changed the sound. We labelled parts of the ukulele and found out what job they do. Next, we then learnt how to strum and pluck the strings and joined in with a song, ‘My Dog has fleas’ from the Charanga website.
Wednesday 18th September 2024 - Computing
Over the past two weeks, Year 6 have been learning how to keep themselves safe online. The children have been shown a video which you are able to view with your child by clicking on the link below. The key messages which have been discussed are:
- all people online are strangers and cannot be trusted as you do not know who they are
- when you are talking to someone online, we must remember to be polite, kind and courteous.
- NEVER share any personal details (details that are personal to you and only those people who you trust know them) online in any capacity e.g. gaming, mobile phones, emails, iPads etc.
- Only post photos of yourself which you would like people who you trust to see and only those where you feel comfortable.
- NEVER share photos or information belonging to anyone else without their permission.
- If you feel uncomfortable or in danger at any time then tell a trusted adult, including the police on 999 or Childline on 0800 1111.
Wednesday 11th September – Writing
This week we have started our new writing journey. This is based on the book, ‘101 things to do to become a superhero… or and evil genius.’ We have given our first impressions, after looking at the front cover and reading the introduction and blurb. When looking a some of the pages, from the book, we discussed as a class the features we could see. We’ll be using this information to write our own ‘How to …’ guide at the end of the journey.
Accelerated Reader – Bookfinder
This link will help you find out what the reading range of your book is. This is really helpful if you want to read a book from home.
Year 6 Class Reader – Autumn Term
This is the class reader for Year 6.
The blurb on the back of the book says:
When mysterious letters start arriving on his doorstep, Harry Potter has never heard of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
They are swiftly confiscated by his aunt and uncle.
Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a strange man bursts in with some important news: Harry Potter is a wizard and has been awarded a place to study at Hogwarts.
And so the first of the Harry Potter adventures is set to begin.