Year 6 - Snow Leopards and Jaguars

We were delighted to spend some time on the common yesterday afternoon. Our sketchbooks are handmade and we selected different types of paper to sketch on. We are learning how develop our outdoor sketching skills this term and we will take our sketchbooks away with us to Derbyshire.

We had a cracking time on Tuesday afternoon! We learnt how to find features on an O.S map and locate them using a 6 figure grid reference. This will prepare us for our Dovedale walk when we are in Derbyshire, where we will need to make good use of our map reading skills in order to complete our 8 mile walk without getting lost!

We have had a busy few weeks in Snow Leopard class. We have all really enjoyed developing our understanding of light in science. Everyone in class made a periscope - we just need to test them properly by taking them outside! Although this is a very busy time of year in year 6, we have still ensured that every maths lesson contains a 'get up and go' activity. We have enjoyed improving our counting skills by using the 'plinky-plonk' tins, and very much enjoyed doing this outside. We have also enjoyed securing our understanding of percentages and have developed our reasoning skills by our 'round the room' activity. The help desks went down a storm too!

We saw a variety of interesting WW2 related artifacts. A good time was had by all.

In Snow leopards class this week the children have worked hard to complete homework, showing some of their learning bout WWII. Here is a selection of their fantastic work.

Our maths cafe was very successful this morning. Children enjoyed sharing maths investigations with their adults and each other. We hope everyone enjoyed the collaborative, problem solving activities they took part in.

Some of the Snow Leopards have been taking part in dance lessons with Mrs Amis on Wednesday mornings. They have been learning the Maori Haka! Check out Elijah's battle face!