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March 20, 2015

Class 6 Newsletter 20.03.15

Have an egg-pic weekend! 20.03.15 newsletter
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March 20, 2015

Goodbye chicks!

Sadly the chicks are leaving today but they are growing bigger and stronger and they need a new home. They they will get treated into a farm which will take the chicks and not look after them,but do not worry  about them they are growing healthy and happy in their cage.   by Freddie and...
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March 20, 2015

Chick Alert! By Curiosity Club Day 12

The chicks have gone ! Everyone really miss the chicks. It is sad that they have gone but the good news is they might be coming back next year 🙂 By Alexander and Callie.
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March 19, 2015

Chick Alert! By Curiosity Club Day 11

The chicks are very good but sadly they are they are leaving tommorow we don’t know where they are going. But they are leaving. The chicks are fine which is good. By Tia.
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March 18, 2015

Chick Alert! By Curiosity Club Day 10

The chicks are all happy and healthy.  They are going in 2 days and we are devestated. They are now a member of park groves family. by Reuben and Olivia
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March 17, 2015

Chick Alert! By Curiosity Club Day 9

All of the chicks have hatched but three of them have failed to hatch. One of the grey ones with a black stripe down the middle is class 5’s. We had a vote for the name in class and in the end we called him Iggy . By George and Junior
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March 16, 2015

Chick Alert! By Curiosity Club Day 8

Unfortunately 3 chicks haven’t hatched  so we decided that the last 3 weren’t going to hatch 🙁 so they went away. Luckily the  other 6 are very healthy .They  have been given some lovely names. They are very puffy and adoreable !!! By Ellen and Jasmine
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March 13, 2015

Mystery Maths Week 12

A hen lays 28 eggs in a month. 1/4 of the eggs are light brown. How many eggs are light brown?
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March 13, 2015

Class 6 Newsletter 13.03.15

9 Newsletter 13.03.15 Have a lovely weekend
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March 13, 2015

Chick Alert! By Curiosity Club Day 5

The 6th chick  has hatched! How exciting! But it still needs naming. Hopefully class five will take the chance to name it.Now all the 6 chicks are safe and happy in the chick pen. Curiosity Club have done a great job of looking after the chicks. There are still 5 more days for the Curiosity Club to...
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March 12, 2015

Top Chick News : )

The 5th baby chick has almost hatched with help from the 4th chick. The 3 other chicks are healthy and happy in the large pen : ) We wonder what Class 2 will call their chick? Ours is called Gary (Class 6) Class 1 called theirs Daffodil which suits its colour! By Logan and Isobel.
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March 12, 2015

Chick Alert! By Curiosity Club Day 4

4 of the baby chicks have HATCHED !!! 2 yellow, 1 brown and 1 black. The black one is a bit of a tweeterbox as it was just born in the morning! The yellow ones like to snooze and eat but the brown gets to the food before them. 5 are still in the incubator...
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March 11, 2015

Theatre Royal trip

Children in Year 3 and 4 have had a wonderful experience at the Theatre Royal for their ‘Play in a Day’. The children performed ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak. The children learnt techniques to be successful performers, rehersed and then excitedly performed their mini production to members of their families. Many children said...
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March 11, 2015

Chicks

The first chick has been named Gary! This is after our lovely school caretaker Gary. Make sure that you go and say “hello” to him in the morning! Each class should think of a name for the remaining chicks, starting with Class 1. What will your class call its chick? – Miss Land
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March 11, 2015

Chick Alert! By Curiosity Club Day 3

We have our first chick! We noticed a small crack early this morning and when we arrived back from the theatre trip we had our first hatchling! A few of the KS2 teachers have decided to call the first chick Gary, after our helpful school caretaker Gary. We hope to see more chicks hatched in...
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March 10, 2015

Chick Alert! By Curiosity Club Day 2

We are going on a trip tomorrow and we do not want to miss anything while we are away! We hope they are going to hatch today in school time so we can see.Otherwise they will probably hatch tommorow! By Junior and Tia.  
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March 9, 2015

Chick Alert! By Curiosity Club Day 1

Yeah! The eggs have arrived but nothing has happened yet. We have seen lots of people looking at the eggs though. By Molly & Jade  
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March 6, 2015

Class 6 Newsletter 06.03.15

Class 5 and 6 Newsletter 06.03.15
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March 6, 2015

Curiosity Club Week 7

Clock Work Challenge We worked in pairs to create a wind up toy. We used a cotton reel ,blue tack ,elastic bands , matchsticks and sellotape to make our toy. First we put an elastic band through the centre of a cotton reel. We then put half a matchstick through one end of the elastic...
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March 6, 2015

World Book Day

Did you enjoy World Book Day Class 6? What was your favourite part? – Miss Land.
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March 5, 2015

Mystery Maths Week 11

I need to buy a stamp at 34p, a carrot at 8p, a bottle of vinegar for 35p and a cabbage for 22p. How much change will I get from £1.00?
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February 28, 2015

Happy Handwriting

Congratulations to our Happy Handwriting winners – Ella and Bailey! You both produced beautiful handwriting during the last week of last half term and thoroughly deserved your handwriting prizes yesterday. – Miss Land.
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February 27, 2015

Class 6 Newsletter 27.02.15

7 newsletter 27.02.15 Have a lovely weekend!
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February 27, 2015

Mystery Maths Week 10

The temperature on Monday was -4°C. On Tuesday the temperature had dropped by 8°C. What was the temperature on Tuesday? Find the answer and blog its location in either Class 5 or Class 6 by Friday 6th March.
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February 27, 2015

Curiosity Club Week 6

The children started to work on a bridge building task this week. Their aim is to build a bridge using paper and sticky tape that will be as strong as possible, not sway and will look attractive. The children have put a lot of effort into the task so far and we have decided to...
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February 25, 2015

500 Words competition

Well done to the children who managed to finish and give me their entry for the Radio 2 500 Words short story competition. I have submitted them all now and I wish you good luck!   – Miss Land.
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February 12, 2015

Happy Holidays!

Wishing you all a great and relaxing holiday Class 6! Good luck with writing your 500 words entries! – Miss Land.
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February 12, 2015

Music Enrichment Day

Well done Class 6. The students really enjoyed working with you on Tuesday and asked me to say so. You covered a huge range of music…Mozart, Handel and modern composer Anna Meredith. Wow! I hope you enjoyed the day and feel inspired to make more music. Ms Lamb
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February 6, 2015

Class 6 Newsletter 06.02.15

06.02.15 Newsletter
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February 6, 2015

Curiosity Club Week 5

This week science club worked on a magic trick! We can’t reveal all of our secrets but Charlie will tell you a little bit about what the children did: We got a match box and a magnet and taped it to the back of the box. We put different coins into the box and they...
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February 5, 2015

Being safe on trains and baking biscuits!

Yesterday children in Class 6 had their third train or biscuit session. The Year 3 children talked about train safety and then created colourful safety posters. Are you looking forward to your train trip on Monday Year 3? The Year 4 children made their biscuits, carefully following the recipe and their creative designs. I think everyone...
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February 1, 2015

My Maths

Many apologies for the delay with the My Maths homework tasks going on to the website. Hopefully your tasks have all now been set. Please contact me if you have any issues. Hope you’re all having a lovely weekend Mr Baines
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January 30, 2015

Class 6 Newsletter 30.01.15

4 newsletter 30.01.15   Have a great weekend!
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January 30, 2015

Mystery Maths Week 9

I am a product of the factors 7 and 3. What number am I? Find the answer and blog the location!
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January 30, 2015

Curiosity Club Week 4

Yesterday afternoon, the Curiosity Clubbers made film canister rockets! Our hearts were in our mouths! Tia and Callie will tell you what the children did: We put headache tablets for adults and water  in a film canister. The room in the the film canister was so small that the gasses from the water and the...
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January 23, 2015

Mystery Maths Week 8

Tom had £200.00 saved in the bank. One Saturday he was very lucky and had 5 winning numbers on the Lottery! Tom’s prize money was 100 times what he saved up in his bank account. What was Tom’s Lottery prize money?    
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January 23, 2015

Class 6 Newsletter 23.01.15

3 newsletter 23.01.15 Have a lovely weekend!
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January 23, 2015

Curiosity Club Week 3

The Curiosity Club talked about the three states of matter in the session this week. They are liquids, solids and gases. However, Jasmine and Molly will tell you what the children did and found out: There is a matter that is not a liquid, solid or gas and it  is called a non-Newtonian material. It is made...
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January 21, 2015

Trains and biscuits!

Class 6 had a fun and rather different from usual afternoon today! The Year 3 children went to Class 5 and spent the afternoon with students from York University as part of the Children’s University project. The Year 3 children started to learn about transport and the history of trains. All of the children were...
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January 16, 2015

Class 6 Newsletter 16.01.15

16.01.15 newsletter
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January 16, 2015

Curiosity Club Week 2

Yesterday the Curiosity Club investigated fantastic fingerprints with a simple investigation. They wanted to check whether everyone’s fingerprints in the club are different. Reuben and Olivia will now explain what the children did: We discuss whether everyone has different fingerprints.  We got our equipment which was… Coco powder , self raising flower , sellotape , ink...
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January 16, 2015

Mystery Maths Week 7

If you find the sum of 64 and 14, then multiply that answer by 10, what is the final answer? Work out the answer and blog its location in either Class 5 or 6!
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January 14, 2015

What does it mean to be British?

Today’s KS2 assembly was about what it means to be British. We talked about what people here in Britain itself think it means and where different people come from. We also looked at the values that British people uphold: Tolerance, rule of law, respect, democracy and liberty. It is pretty tricky to pinpoint what ‘Britishness’ is!...
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January 9, 2015

Class 6 Newsletter 09.01.15

1 newsletter 09.01.15 Have a lovely weekend!
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January 9, 2015

Mystery Maths Week 6

I am an odd number. I am a multiple of 11. I am the product of 9 and 11. I am the sum of 66 and 33. What number am I? Find the answer in Class 5 or Class 6 and blog its location!
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January 9, 2015

Curiosity Club Week 1

The latest budding Year 4 scientists at Park Grove started working towards their Super Star science award this afternoon! The first investigation that the children carried out was called ‘Tumbling Toast’. Alexander and Ellen will explain what the Curiosity Clubbers had to do: We had to find out if toast really does always land butter-side down if...
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January 7, 2015

Unpredictable science…!

Class 6 started their new science unit about forces this afternoon. The children set up a whole-class investigation, testing how fast a plastic tub would travel along different surfaces. Class 6 are experts at making their investigations fair. We were all quite excited when we started to carry out the investigation! However, we had poor...
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January 4, 2015

Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone in Class 6 a very happy 2015! I hope that you are all ready to come back to school after an enjoyable holiday. See you all on Tuesday, Miss Land.
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December 20, 2014

Happy Christmas

Class 6 wish everyone a very happy Christmas!
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December 12, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 12.12.14

15 newsletter 12.12.14 Have a lovely weekend!
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December 8, 2014

A busy term!

Hi Class 6! You have had a really busy first term in class! Do you think you have improved anything particular so far this year at school? Maybe your writing, reading skills or mental maths perhaps? What would you like to work on next term? – Miss Land.
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December 6, 2014

Mystery Maths Week 5

The temperature two days ago was 10 degrees Celsius and it dropped by 6 degrees Celsius yesterday. Today it has dropped a further 6 degrees. What is the temperature today?
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December 6, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 05.12.14

05.12.14 newsletter
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December 3, 2014

Scary Stories

Class 6 have discussed and looked at how writers successfully create suspense in scary stories. Today the children started to write their scary stories, set in a tomb in Egypt. I am really looking forward to reading your writing Class 6… Miss Land.
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November 28, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 28.11.14

13 newsletter 28.11.14 Have a great weekend!
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November 28, 2014

Mystery Maths Week 4

There were 1202 bricks needed to build a pyramid. Half were used by the slaves, how many were left?
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November 21, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 21.11.14

12 newsletter 21.11.14 Have a lovely weekend!
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November 20, 2014

Mystery Maths Week 3

30 ÷ 5 = ?
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November 19, 2014

Mummification!

Classes 5 and 6 joined forces this morning to mummify Shannon! We learnt so much about the process and what the ancient Egyptians believed. 6 children took on the roles of Chief Embalmer, Second in Command, Scribe, Ripper, Priest and Bandager. What did you enjoy most about our lesson? – Miss Land.
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November 14, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 14.11.14

14.11.14 newsletter
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November 13, 2014

Mystery Maths Week 2

I think of a number. I times it by 5 and I subtract 11. Finally I add on 100. My answer is 134. What was my original number?
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November 11, 2014

Howard Carter and Tutankhamun

Class 6 were archaeologists yesterday and apprehensively entered the tomb of Tutankhamun to discover the treasures that awaited them inside! The children really enjoyed learning about Howard Carter’s fascinating story of discovery and re-enacting part of it in the school gym! Today the children wrote diary entries about what happened in the first person and...
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November 7, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 07.11.14

07.11.14 newsletter
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November 7, 2014

Mystery Maths Week 1

Miss Sawyer needs to buy 190 pencils to give out in Good Work Assemblies. The pencils are sold in packs of 10. When Miss Sawyer goes to the store to buy them, there are only 14 packs of pencils on the shelf. How many more pencils does she still need to buy to reach her...
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November 5, 2014

Bonfire Day/Night

Class 6 had an explosive day, bursting with Bonfire-related activities! First we had our Key Stage 2 assembly. Well done to the four confident poets who performed their excellent poems about this exciting time of year! Then we learnt all about the famous plotters, including Guido Fawkes who hailed from York, in guided reading. We practised...
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November 1, 2014

?? Mystery Maths ??

Coming soon…
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October 25, 2014

Have a happy holiday

I hope everyone in Class 6 gets a well deserved rest and enjoys the half term holiday. Look forward to learning about the Ancient Egyptians on your return to Park Grove! If you get up to anything exciting next week, please let us all know on this blog! – Miss Land.
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October 23, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 23.10.14

8 newsletter 23.10.14 Have a lovely holiday! Well done for all your hard work this half term.
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October 23, 2014

Dinosaur Raps! T-T-T-Rex…

Class 6 had a lyrical Wednesday, writing rhyming Dinosaur Raps in the style of Andy from ‘Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures’. The children then performed their raps to the rest of the class which was great fun! We recorded the performances and watched them back. Then finally each group gave each of the other groups positive praise...
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October 17, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 17.10.14

We hope you enjoyed the Halloween disco! 17.10.14 newsletter
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October 17, 2014

Ancient Egypt Enrichment Day

I hope all of the children in Key Stage 2 had an enjoyable day today! I thought that you all put so much effort into your Frontalism drawings and can’t wait to see them painted and finished! A lot of you managed to get the proportions of your God just right! Here are a few examples from...
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October 16, 2014

‘Mars, the Bringer of War’ by Gustav Holst

Class 6 listened to ‘Mars, the Bringer of War’ by Gustav Holst again this week as part of the BBC ’10 Pieces’ project. We thought about how the piece made us feel and the children considered an image that sprang to their minds when they listened to the music. We are all looking forward to listening...
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October 10, 2014

The Yorkshire Museum

Class 6 had an exciting morning at the Yorkshire Museum today. We absolutely loved the ‘Extinct’ exhibition and worked hard as spotters and clue finders to locate the answers to the questions on our activity sheet. I was really impressed with the giant fossilised Ichthyosaur skeleton – I couldn’t believe just how big it was! I read...
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October 10, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 10.10.14

6 newsletter 10.10.14 Apologies, as we realise one group has ‘reappear’ on their spelling list twice. We will only test you on the four spellings this week. Have a lovely weekend! Miss Land
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October 9, 2014

Investigating sound

Class 6 carried out a carousel of 6 mini science tests this week, all to find out the answer to the question: What is sound? We used balloons, pasta and a fork to help us! Class 6 wrote their investigation up beautifully in their books so if you would like to know how pasta helps to...
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October 3, 2014

A busy week… amazing homework… now for some games!

Hi Class 6! I hope you have all had a great week at school! We have had an action-packed week which included seeing all of your fabulous homework projects, completing our two-day pedestrian training and learning about quadrilaterals today! We even squeezed in playing Manon’s dinosaur loop game (with lots of very difficult names to...
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October 3, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 03.10.14

03.10.14 newsletter
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October 1, 2014

Pedestrian Training

Class 6 had their first Pedestrian Training session this afternoon. We learnt how to cross the road safely, how to use a parked car to help us cross the road and how to cross the road on a T-Junction. We know that we must stop, look, listen, continue to look whilst we walk to reach the other side...
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September 27, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 26.09.14

26.09.14 newsletter
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September 25, 2014

Community

Class 6 discussed the word community and what it means to them. We thought about our lovely class community, the wider school community and other communities and groups which we belong to including Beavers, The Church or local football teams. We were lucky that some children brought in uniforms and items associated with their communities...
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September 22, 2014

The Deca Tree Problem

We solved a difficult maths problem today in Class 6! Take a look and see if you can work it out. We used pictures and calculations to help us. Good Luck!   When Miss Land was at High Adventure she noticed a tree in the forest nearby called a Deca Tree. A Deca Tree has 10 trunks,...
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September 19, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 19.09.14

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September 19, 2014

What a Wonderful Week!

It has been a pleasure teaching Class 6 this week. You have shown amazing mathematical skills, great creativity with your writing of adventure stories and fantastic ICT skills! What have you enjoyed about this week? Mr Mastrelli
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September 12, 2014

The Extra Mile File

Hello everyone! Class 6 have really been going the extra mile over the last two weeks! We have an ‘Extra Mile File’ in class where work that children have completed at home gets put. Class 6 children have been bringing lots of interesting extra pieces of work into school!  The special file sits on top...
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September 12, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 12.09.14

2 Homework – 12.9.14 Have a lovely weekend!
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September 9, 2014

Handshaking maths!

Class 6 used excellent problem solving skills to solve a very polite maths problem today! The children worked in groups. This is the initial problem that was set for them: We have 30 children in this class. If everyone shook hands with everyone else, how many handshakes would there be in total? We started by...
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September 7, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 05.09.14

05.09.14 newsletter
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September 4, 2014

FOSSILS!

We are fossil crazy in Class 6! We had an enjoyable science lesson yesterday learning about the remarkable fossil expert Mary Anning and about how fossils are formed. We are lucky to have some very old fossils in school which we carefully looked at. Which is your favourite fossil Class 6? During the lesson, we made our...
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September 4, 2014

Welcome Class 6!

Hello to all of the children (and parents) in Class 6! We have had a great first few days settling back into school and I am pleased with how good you are at listening and what well behaved children you all are. I think we will have a brilliant year and I hope you do...
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July 21, 2014

School’s out for the summer…

Have a fabulous, safe and happy summer everyone! See you all in September! The Tile Cafe tiles should be hung up by then too… From Miss Land
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July 15, 2014

Class 6…

Hi Class 6! I hope you enjoy our little party to celebrate our year tomorrow morning! It’s got me thinking… what have you enjoyed during your time in Class 6? Let Ms Martindale, Ms Horwell, Mrs Wijeratne, Miss Slater and I know… – Miss Land.
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July 14, 2014

Dragons’ Den

Congratulations Class 6 on working so hard and raising an amazing £352.00 during enterprise week! You all worked brilliantly as a team and completed various tasks so that we got everything made. Some tiles still need to go in the kiln but we are almost there with them and look forward to seeing them up...
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July 14, 2014

Sports morning

Lots of luck to all of the KS2 children taking part in sports morning today! Go Team Yellow (the team I’m in!) – Miss Land.
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July 14, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 11.07.14

11.07.14 newsletter
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July 8, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 04.07.14

04.07.14 newsletter
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June 24, 2014

Tile Cafe

The orders are coming in Class 6…  
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June 20, 2014

The Tile Cafe

Well done Class 6! You prepared brilliantly for our Dragon’s Den pitch this morning! Your tiles looked so professional, I hope that we get lots of orders as you really deserve to do well. I know the dragons will have loved the cakes too as they were delicious! Have a great weekend, Miss Land.
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June 20, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 20.06.14

20.06.14 newsletter
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June 14, 2014

Class 6 Newsletter 13.06.14

12.06.14 newsletter
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June 10, 2014

Famous Person Cinquains

Class 6 have written and recorded themselves performing cinquain poems on the subject of a famous person. A cinquain poem should have the following syllable pattern: 2 syllables, 4 syllables, 6 syllables, 8 syllables, 2 syllables. Here is one that we looked at:   The Queen Royalty (2 syllables) Old, wise, cautious (4 syllables) Serving...
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