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Class 6 Newsletter 06.06.14
06.06.14 newsletter
Posted On 06 Jun 2014
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Back to school
Hello Class 6! I hope that you have all had a brilliant half term holiday! Are you ready for a very action-packed last half term in Class 6? I hope so! What are you looking forward to in your last few weeks in our class? – Miss Land.
Posted On 01 Jun 2014
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A busy week and happy holidays
We have had a very busy week in Class 6 this week! It’s a good job we are all having a week off to rest and recover! On Tuesday it was our whole-school assembly and we all worked hard to make it a success. Congratulations to you all for doing such a good job! Also on...
Posted On 24 May 2014
Class 6 Assembly
Lots of luck to Class 6 with your assembly tomorrow! Class 6 hope that the rest of the school enjoy it!… …Ding-ding!
Posted On 19 May 2014
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Bicycle Photos
Class 6 have been preparing for their assembly on the 20th May called ‘I want to ride my bicycle’. Don’t forget your photos class 6 (you know what I mean)! Either e-mail them to me or bring them in for me to scan. Have a great weekend – Miss Land.
Posted On 09 May 2014
Have Monday off school…
Class 6! We have had a very busy week this week from learning how to throw a ball accurately in PE to thinking about hearts, minds and voices in English to starting to add using columns in maths. Oh and not forgetting Mr Currie’s epic friction science lesson! You have all...
Posted On 02 May 2014
Easter Maths Problems
Hi Class 6! I hope you’ve not been eating too much chocolate this Easter holiday! Have a go at the following Easter word problems. There will be a prize for whoever gets all three correct! Good luck – Miss Land. 1. The Easter Bunny buys a new basket for £1.45 and a...
Posted On 18 Apr 2014
The Easter Holiday
Hello Class 6! I hope that you are all having a happy holiday so far. What fun things have you been up to? I am going to climb the three Yorkshire Peaks at the weekend! The mountains of Whernside (736 m), Ingleborough (723 m) and Pen-y-ghent (694 m). How high will I be climbing...
Posted On 11 Apr 2014
Maths Enrichment Day – Tessellation
Classes 5 and 6 created wonderful lizard tessellations this morning, taking inspiration from artist Escher. If any children would like to create their own tessellations, try using the tessellation artist on mathsisfun.com. Use the link below:...
Posted On 02 Apr 2014
Curiosity Club Week 8
Hello everyone! We had a fun last Curiosity Club meeting! We experimented with Cornflower – it is a strange powder as when water is added to it, it behaves like both a solid and a liquid depending on how you handle it! We grabbed handfuls of the mixture and could roll it...
Posted On 29 Mar 2014
Year 3 and 4 Play – Costumes!
Hello Year 3 and 4’s! I just wondered how you are getting on trying to find the costume items we have asked you to help us with for the play? Don’t worry if you don’t have any of the items on your list – just please let me know on Monday (24th) and we will...
Posted On 22 Mar 2014
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Curiosity Club Week 7
Another successful week for the curiosity club! Today for our investigation we made a lava lamp. We used a large bottle, added some water and vegetable oil (carefully so that it didn’t go all over us!) The oil floated on top of the water. Then we added blue food colouring...
Posted On 20 Mar 2014
Curiosity Club weeks 5 and 6
The Curiosity Club have had a busy two weeks involving balloons! We were engineers two weeks ago when we made tabletop hovercrafts using balloons and old CD’s. Not all of our hovercrafts floated successfully due to friction between the some of the CD’s and the...
Posted On 16 Mar 2014
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Designs for the Year 3/4 Play Programme and Ticket
Class 6 – remember to bring in your designs by Tuesday (11th) to be entered into the competition! Good luck! – Miss Land.
Posted On 09 Mar 2014
Swimming (so exciting)!
Hello Class 6! I hope you have all had a great holiday! Just to remind you that you will need your swimming things with you on Monday as it is our first lesson in the afternoon at Yearsley Pool. See you all on Monday, – Miss Land.
Posted On 21 Feb 2014
Logic Puzzle 06.02.14
You are to make a row of three 2D shapes. Clues: • The first and the second shapes have a total of 11 sides. • The second and third shapes have a total of 14 sides. • The first and the last shape have a total of 15 sides. Which shapes are being described? Can you place them in...
Posted On 06 Feb 2014
Curiosity Club week 4
The Curiosity Club had a frothy time this afternoon, creating a foam fountain in the classroom! I will let some of the members tell you what they did…! – Miss Land.
Posted On 06 Feb 2014
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Curiosity Club Week 3
Hello everyone! The Curiosity Club attempted to blow up lunch bags this week – relying on the gas created from a chemical reaction within the bag! It was very frustrating as the bags we had were a little too big. We tried to adapt the equipment that we had but to little...
Posted On 01 Feb 2014
Logic Puzzle 31.01.14
As described by several members of Class 6, we had “the best maths lesson ever” today! You all worked really hard to record your results and use trial and error to solve the leapfrog logic puzzle! If you would like to continue with the leapfrog challenge by increasing...
Posted On 01 Feb 2014
Logic puzzle 23.01.14
10-digit Number Puzzle The Puzzle: Find a 10-digit number where the first digit is how many zeros in the number, the second digit is how many 1s in the number etc. until the tenth digit which is how many 9s in the number. Post your answers on this blog entry and I will give you...
Posted On 23 Jan 2014
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Logic
Well done in maths today Class 6! You showed off your fantastic maths skills of reasoning, talking mathematically and organising your results in our problem solving lesson! I’ll set you a fun (non-compulsory) logic puzzle to have a go at this weekend… remember trial...
Posted On 23 Jan 2014
Curiosity Club Week 2
Hello to all of the Curiosity Club members (and to those of you who are reading but are not in the club)! We had a (kind-of) explosive meeting tonight… we finally completed our volcano experiment! I won’t say anymore but will ask some of the members to explain what we...
Posted On 23 Jan 2014
Year 3 and 4 Play
I hope you have all been learning the lines for the three songs we have worked on so far for our play! And have remembered the dance moves too! I look forward to our second rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon. – Miss Land.
Posted On 12 Jan 2014
Happy New Year!
Class 6 – you made some school New Year’s resolutions. I wish you lots of luck keeping them and we will help you to achieve them in any way that we can! You also made a planet New Year’s resolution because we are learning about Our World in R.E. Do you think you...
Posted On 09 Jan 2014
Curiosity Club
A big ‘hello’ to the Curiosity Club members! We met at lunch time today to talk about our new club (for year 4’s) that is starting in January. The Club will carry out science-based investigations and try to answer questions that we would like to know the answer...
Posted On 17 Dec 2013
The heart
Classes 5 and 6 had a wonderful science lesson today! We learnt all about the heart – what it does and how it works! We even got to to handle three lamb’s hearts and watch one being dissected! Thank-you to Mr Grainger for coming in to teach us! – Miss Land.
Posted On 16 Dec 2013
“Away in a manger, no crib for a bed…”
Class 6 what a lovely afternoon we had yesterday writing our own Christmas carols! We must blog them when we have finished writing them next week! I still have the tune in my head! A very well done to you all! – Miss Land.
Posted On 14 Dec 2013
Skeleton website link
http://www.rigb.org/insideout/anatomy/casing_the_joint/joints_explorer.html If you enjoyed testing the human skeleton in science today, the link to the website is above. Enjoy testing how far he can move! – Miss Land.
Posted On 04 Dec 2013
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Scratch
We have all really enjoyed our first lesson using Scratch in ICT. I think there are some budding programmers in Class 6! Let me know if you get chance to log-on at home and tell me what you create! – Miss Land.
Posted On 27 Nov 2013
Shakespeare Homework
Class 6, how are you getting along with your Shakespeare homework? What ideas have you come up with? We have already seen a colourful duck (very original) so I am looking forward to seeing what the rest of you have made/written/drawn/baked/painted! – Miss Land.
Posted On 21 Nov 2013
“All’s well that ends well.”
Good evening Class 6! The “night owl” is still at work. Which Shakespeare phrases did you like best today? You had me “in stitches” with some of your ideas! You did really well researching what the phrases meant but it was “too much of a good...
Posted On 18 Nov 2013
-ly adverbs!
Class 6, I enjoyed your Much Ado About Nothing adverb lesson today. You know I love adverbs that tell us HOW something happened, I hope you are starting to as well! How could you describe the verb in each of these boring (yawn) sentences using an -ly adverb? 1. Beatrice...
Posted On 12 Nov 2013
Macbeth Drama Workshop
We had a super time at York Theatre Royal today! Class 6 loved taking part in the Macbeth drama workshop. When we got back to school we talked about the ‘best bits’. Not everyone got a chance to say what they liked the most about the session so can Class 6 please let...
Posted On 04 Nov 2013
Sentence homework
Please post your sentence homework (when you have it ready) in reply to this blog Class 6! – Miss Land. PS. I hope you have all had an adventurous week off!
Posted On 01 Nov 2013
A great first half term!
Well class 6, it’s the last day of this half term tomorrow and I wanted to thank-you all for a super start! In particular for making me feel very welcome at Park Grove and helping me settle in. You are a talented and quirky bunch of children and I think we have had some...
Posted On 24 Oct 2013
The First Yorkshire Marathon
Hello Class 6! Did any of you go and watch those amazing runners running the first ever Yorkshire marathon? My friend took part and ran the 26.2 miles in 3 hours and 38 minutes! I thought she was so brave! I wonder how Mrs Hearson got on? – Miss Land.
Posted On 20 Oct 2013
Tudor Enrichment
I hope you are all looking forward to the Tudor enrichment activities that the teachers in Key Stage 2 have prepared for you? When you all come to class 6, be prepared for the interesting flavours that will await you…! – Miss Land.
Posted On 19 Oct 2013
Pen licences
Congratulations if you were awarded your pen licence today! If you didn’t get yours today, keep working hard on your handwriting, presentation and neatness in all of your school books and you might get your licence soon in class 6! – Miss Land.
Posted On 16 Oct 2013
Our egg (teeth) test
Well class 6… the eggs (teeth) are in the fridge! Do you think we will have 7 complete eggs by Monday? I can’t wait to find out what happens! I predict the results will encourage us to ALWAYS brush our teeth twice a day! – Miss Land.
Posted On 16 Oct 2013
Persuading
Class 6 you are going to be writing a persuasive letter this week. What things have you persuaded your friends, parents or teachers to do in the past? Did you use any emotive language? – Miss Land.
Posted On 13 Oct 2013
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Posted On 13 Oct 2013
National Face Your Fears Day
So, did you all try and face your fears today using bravery and courage? – Miss Land.
Posted On 08 Oct 2013
Chew, Chew!
Class 6! What a fun investigation you carried out today in science! You planned, carried out and wrote up your investigation – you all did really well! I enjoyed seeing the chewers chewing and the counters carefully counting the number of chews made! Did you enjoy the...
Posted On 08 Oct 2013
Stockbridge Farm Pictures
Year 4, have a look at the photos from Stockbridge Farm https://parkgrove.ebor.academy/children/trips-and-visits/stockbridge-farm-september-2013/
Posted On 02 Oct 2013
Can you believe…?
Class 6 carried out a survey of their teeth today! The results were widespread… the amount of teeth the children had in their mouths ranged from 18 to 32! Lots of teeth were missing as we seem to have one falling out in class most days! So – do you know the difference...
Posted On 02 Oct 2013
Glorious Sunshine!
Hi Class 6! I hope you are all out and about enjoying the glorious end-of-September sunshine! I went to a wedding yesterday and the bride looked beautiful in the sunlight. I asked you what your favourite weather was on Friday during the register. Can you remind me of what type of...
Posted On 29 Sep 2013
Henry VIII’s diary
I enjoyed reading your Henry VIII diaries Class 6! I wonder if he kept a diary in real life? If he did, do you think he wrote it himself or do you think he made one of his ministers write it because he was busy hunting, playing tennis or eating? – Miss Land.
Posted On 24 Sep 2013
Times by 10
If you times a number by 10, or make it ten times bigger, what happens to it (thinking about the place value grid we looked at in today’s lesson)? Can you times these numbers by 10? 5 9 45 99 100 What happens if you want to divide by 10 or make a number 10 times smaller?
Posted On 20 Sep 2013
Meanwhile…
We have been working on using time connectives in English this week. Can any of you write a couple of sentences using the time connective ‘meanwhile’ properly? – Miss Land
Posted On 20 Sep 2013
Cliff hangers… (duh, duh, duhhh!)
Class 6 what imaginative children you are! You did well taking the scenarios you chose from the hat and writing suspense-filled cliff hangers with them! Did you like the twist in my cliff hanger? And can you write short, dramatic sentences now? – Miss Land.
Posted On 17 Sep 2013
The Eat Well Plate
We looked at healthy eating in science today. How many dairy products should you aim to eat daily? How about fruit and vegetables? I liked the colourful plates that you drew in class! – Miss Land.
Posted On 11 Sep 2013
Two times table song…
Well you are all certainly getting into the times tables songs now! I look forward to starting the next song with you, it’s one of my favourites! Get your Latino dancing shoes on…! – Miss Land.
Posted On 09 Sep 2013
Homework project
Have any of you had a chance to think about what you might do for your homework project? Lots of you were interested in Tudor dress and Tudor instruments so perhaps one of these topics might be a good research project? – Miss Land.
Posted On 07 Sep 2013
First day back
What a lovely first day back we have had! It was great to see you all ready to work and with lots of interesting stories from your summer holidays. Thank-you for making me feel very welcome at Park Grove! You came up with some interesting questions about the Tudors which we will...
Posted On 03 Sep 2013
A very warm welcome to Class 6!
Hello Class 6! Welcome back to school and also to our amazing new blog! I’m really looking forward to seeing you all and hearing what exciting things you have been up to in the holidays. We are going to have a fun, happy and jam-packed learning year and so I hope you are...
Posted On 02 Sep 2013
BBC News – Education
- Birthday card delivered almost nine years lateA father says his 10-year-old son was "gobsmacked" to receive a birthday card almost nine years late.
- Going to university 'transformed my life'Dr Suzella Palmer dropped out of school aged 14, but returned to education and is now a lecturer.
