Starting the Year off with a Bang!

Monday 6th - Thursday 9th

To kick start our new Science topic, we focused on the way we classify living things by focusing on the life and work of Carl Linnaeus - a Swedish Scientist. We discussed how features and characteristics of animals made them stand out from one another, especially those from the same families! We created branching databases focusing on these differences!

In our Literacy, we focused on what skills we have by creating a story from nothing but a visual prompt in our Cold Write! We had 1 hour to create a story using all of the skills we already have and were given no help whatsoever! We created some amazing short stories and were then able to use a criteria to see what we had done well, and what we needed to focus on moving forward.

Finally, we began our Branch 3 topic of RE - From Galilee to Jerusalem by looking at the map where these events took place! As an entire Progression Step 3 - Year 4, 5 AND 6 all worked together to create the map of the region. We all had a different tile of the map to work on, and when they get pieced together, will create an amazing, interactive wall display! We had so much fun completing this and it shows what teamwork can achieve!

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Skills, More Skills and even more Skills!

Monday 13th - Friday 17th 

To start our week, our First Ministers joined a meeting for our Year 6 Expedition with Cardinal Newman. Each school within our feeder group met to discuss ideas centred around our topic of Diversity. It was a huge success and Miss Hughes was very impressed!

We started our streaming groups for Literacy and Numeracy and already they have been a huge success! In our Literacy, we focused on our description skills for story writing using AI to create weird, wonderful and whimsical worlds! We then focused on character development and how our level of description is super important!

In our ICT, we are focusing on video editing and creating informative content! We are using Adobe Spark to help bring our ideas to life. Today, we explored the tool, using pre-made videos and music to make a video all about ourselves!

To finish off the week, we got ourselves ready to celebrate our class Saint's feast day - which for us is St. John Bosco and his day is 31st January!

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