Author: Carly Appleton

This week we had a visitor who talked to us about having a growth mindset. We can achieve. We will succeed. We are amazing!

This week, in collaboration with World Book Day, we have been studying a picture book called Journey written and illustrated by Aaron Becker. We have been thoroughly impressed with the children’s interpretation of the story and their writing based on the story. We also loved dressing up as our favourite book characters.

This week we have enjoyed our science experiments: the ‘beak’ investigation, which required us to transfer grains of rice using different shaped beaks and the laces investigation, where each participant had adapated in different ways; some of which were helpful in retrieving the laces (food) and some which were definitely NOT helpful.

We’ve enjoyed taking our learning outside this week in maths.

We have been developing our own characters and settings this week. Exploring new vocabulary and techniques and helped us to make our writing interesting.

This week we reviewed the qualities required to be a good leader and two members of our team lead a game.

We’ve had a busy week in year 6. We’ve set up our own spy school, designed gadgets, taken part in yoga and started to explore some sinister settings where our villain resides.

Our year 6 children have been doing a great job at supporting the younger children to keep active during their break times. They have enjoyed the responsibility and showed how sensible and imaginative they are. The younger children have been brilliant at following instructions and shown great sportsmanship.

Wow! What a collection of goodies. Well done to our skills academy club this half term.