Year 6 - Snow Leopards and Jaguars

Thank you to everyone who came to our Art Gallery Exhibition on Wednesday. The children have worked very hard this half term to produce so many exceptional pieces and were delighted to share them with you. As writers, we have created our own narrative poems inspired by 'The Lady of Shalott' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. We were excellent at using old-fashioned vocabulary and developing the narrative in different ways. In the mornings, we have had our first exposure of the end of Key Stage 2 assessments (SATs). The children demonstrated excellent focus and resilience while completing the papers and have earned a relaxing and enjoyable break. Well done and enjoy half term!

In English: this week in class the children have carried on studying The Lady of Shalott . We've looked at other narrative poetry - some more modern than others - and learnt some difficult vocabulary. The children have been preparing to write their own narrative poetry and have been writing from the perspective of a character within the narrative. So far children have really engaged in this English topic and have risen to the challenge interpreting difficult texts. In topic: the children have also been creating their own works of art, this week, inspired by their recent investigations of different art movements, artists and artworks. You should have received and invitation to our year 6 art exhibition on Wednesday 16th October at 2:30pm . Please come along and talk to the artists about their work if you can make it. Work in progress! As mathematicians: we have been recalling prime numbers, making sure that we can find common factors and consolidating other numbe

This week in Year 6, we have begun to look at a new text in English. We introduced 'The Lady of Shalott' by Alfred Lord Tennyson by looking at artists' illustrations of the poem and inferring what it might be about - the children were excellent at spotting and interpreting hidden symbols and clues! We have been very proud of how they have tackled this challenging text and how they were able to use the old-fashioned vocabulary when creating their own story maps of the tale. We ended the week thinking about how the Lady of Shalott might feel seeing the outside world through and mirror and shall be using the ideas generated from this session in our work next week. In Maths, we have been looking at division. We worked collaboratively to practise our method for dividing by 1-digit numbers to complete a treasure hunt around the library. We then moved onto dividing by 2-digits, which the children have taken in their stride! They demonstrated excellent focus and res