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Goodbye Year Six!

​ Thank you for all of your lovely cards and presents - your kindness was overwhelming.  It has been a pleasure to teach such a wonderful year group.  We will miss you all - but we hope that you keep in touch.  We send you our very best wishes for a happy and healthy life ahead.  Keep smiling and always try your best. 

 

 

 

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat!

Today the Head Boy and Head Girl visited us from TCHS.

Thank you TCHS for the art workshop today. Thank you Miss O'Callaghan!

Campfire fun (video)!

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The great water fight!

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We had a fantastic time at the Year 6 sleepover (even if we didn't get much sleep!).

The intrepid campers! Thank you Delaney family for the fab tent! Glastonbury! The girls' tent. Just hanging around. Please don't let Mrs Wood referee rounders again.. Banished to the naughty circle... We took the game very seriously... ..as you can see. It started to thunder - but the rain stayed away. Ready for an adventure. The girls were very cosy They all went straight to sleep... Water pistols are rubbish - let's fill the bins! Water battle lessons. Ready to ambush! Nice and dry... We'll sensibly fill the containers... Why wait to get on to the field? Literally dripping wet! Ready to attack. Can you guess what happened next? Mr Kelwick couldn't escape. Now that's a good idea! That's an even better idea... Water fight? What water fight? After the battle. The sunset was beautiful. Can you see what fuelled the campfire? Rip it into pieces with feeling! Oops! Big smiles! Entranced! Ging gang goolie.... Very cool! The toasted marshmallows were a hit. Whilst the children slept - we ate pringles! Breakfast - continental style. Delicious! It's the only time she was quiet... We know you do! Mrs B and Joffley! We survived!

Well done to this week's timestable PBers!

 We spent today researching and discussing EU referendum.  At the end of the day the children voted.  40% voted in, 60% voted out. 

 

 

Well done to the Year 6 Kwik Cricket team. 6th out of 12 - despite two players unable to play due to injury!

As part of learning how to write a balanced argument, we debated the pros and cons for using technology in schools.

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We were very impressed with how passionately the children debated!

Today we had a workshop on 'Max Respect' to help us understand school transport when we go to secondary school

Highlights from 'Styled by a child', 17/06/2016

Human Venn Diagrams!

Our brilliant narrative writing based on the short, silent film - Teeth.

WOW! Look at how many got a personal best in their timestables today!

Our Year 6 team won the TCHS Technology Competition!!

Success at the cricket tournament and the TCHS Technology competition today!

A Pug's Perspective. We are so proud of the writing our class have produced!

This week's timestables personal besters!

Our Year Five pupils made us very proud today at the TCHS Technology Day.

One of our questions for Rick Riordan (author of the Percy Jackson series) was read out on live TV today! http://puffinvirtuallylive.co.uk/ondemand.php

Well done to the Year Fives who completed 'Playground Buddy' training today

Well done to today's timestable challenge personal besters!

Video - The Great Parachute Drop!

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Video - The great parachute drop!

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Today we tested our water balloon parachute final designs from the top of the church tower! Gravity vs air resistance.

Excited and ready to go! It's a long way up! Can you spot Mrs M., Mrs W. and Mr K.? The basket transported the parachutes to the top. Look up - the parachutes are coming! It survived the drop! Our's survived too! Our design was very safe! A littel bit soggy! Oops - this one is dripping! Very proud of the design. Our's survived too! Can you believe we dropped them from the top? Beautiful Quadring. Our early years children playing out. The view from the top!

Well done to this week's timestable challenge personal besters!

Which mathematical concepts can you demonstrate using Smarties?

Video - the puglets came to visit!

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We had some more very special visitors today!

"Best School Ever!" Year 6 Pupil

Video - We tested our parachute designs.

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In Science we have been designing a parachute for a water bomb!

Wow - the parachute works! We collected challenges to do to earn materials Completing the knot challenge! Practising for the tongue twister challenge. The brain teasers were hard! We earned materials for each challenge completed. We thought very hard about how to design it. Hard at work! We wored beautifully together...mostly! Look what I did! How can I tie the string to the cup? Working on making the best design of parachute. This is tricky! More challenges = more materials. Look at our parachute! Who needs a polystyrene cup!

Chopstick challenge!

We did Japanese calligraphy today at Japanese Club.

Just like Japanese students! Can you see how the kanji looks like what it is? We used black paint and a brush to draw the kanji. We tried really hard! Great working together boys! Concentrating hard! The finished kanji! Kanji close-up! Kanji close-up! Kanji close-up! Bethany has created her own Japanese club book!

We received a response to our persuasive letters from Mr John Hayes MP from the House of Commons!

Letter to the Barn Owls. Mrs Wood's letter The official envelope from the House of Commons!

Letters

Homework Menu Summer 1

Well done to our timestables PBers!

Today at Japanese club...

Playing 'Janken Po' (rock paper scissors) Janken Po! Janken Po! Today we did origami - paper folding Getting the folds right was tricky! Look at my frog! The finished frogs! Whose frog would go the furthest? WOW - look at them go! This requires skill... and concentration! Zac was the champion!

We had a happy, relaxing afternoon - we deserved it because we've been working so hard!

Well done to all of these children who beat their personal best!

Our Timestables Champions!

Today we composed our own pieces of music using outdoor and natural resources.

We have begun our topic on forces in Science.

What effect do gravity and air resistance have? How do all of these objects relate to forces?

Snakes and Ladders games - Greek style!

Writing across the curriculum

Our Wall of Fame! Kye's Science instruction writing. Patrick's persuasive letter to John Hayes MP. Kristiaan's persuasive letter-well done Kristiaan! Andreas' persuasive letter - perfectly structured. Nathan O's story based on 'The Midas Touch'. Nathan D's story based on 'The Midas Touch'. Elizabeth's beautiful Barn Owl poetry. Sophie's superb persuasive letter to Mr Hayes MP. Poppy's brilliant biography of Edward Jenner.

Celebrating Greek Day in style (thanks to everyone at home who helped!)

Look at the micro-organisms that grow in our classroom!

Lots grew in the bin! Can you see the yellow staphylococcus colonies? Fungi looks wispy and furry. Yuk! Mrs Wood's keyboard has lots of streptococcus. Streptococci are orange and cause sore throats. Fungi grew down the side of the cupboard. Underneath the bookshelf was clean! So was inbetween the cupboards. The seat of the chair had lots of microbes. Indentifying the types of micro-organisms we grew. Microbes didn't grow around the cleaning products. The hand gels and soaps stopped microbes growing. We discussed why we got an unusual result.

During Science Week, we also investigated at what temperature yeast grows best.

We gathered our equipment. Andreas wore the superstar scientist coat! We had to measure out 200ml very carefully. We made sure we were at eye level. We used a funnel to add the yeast and sugar. A balloon was sealed over the top of the bottle. It was a bit tricky! Phew - did it! The bottle ws then placed in a water bath. The water baths were at 5 different temperatures. We wrote up the experiement diligently! The balloons inflated with CO2 from the yeast. Don't be scared, Anya! Whose balloon would inflate the most? Wow - it's nearly as big as Sophie's head! We compared the balloons. The warner the water, the bigger the balloon.

In Science, we investigated where micro-organisms grow in our classroom.

TCHS gave us agar plates to grow the microbes. We thought about what we wanted to know. We washed our hand to avoid contamination. We chose an area of the classroom to swab. Are there microbes on Mrs Wood's laptop? Any on the mini whiteboard? We swabbed the agar plate with our cotton bud. Our labelled agar plates. Why did we write around the edges? Would fairy liquid,alcohol gel or handwash affect? After 24 hours we already had some growth - yuk!

Thank you Tom for bringing in your amazing creation, Brian!

Thank you Scott for a great presentation!

Homework Menu Spring Term 2

For World Book Day we created a book in a day!

We based our books on the book 'Chalk'. In groups, we created a storyboard for our story. We included our Book Day characters in the story! Pirates were on hand to give guidance. We created a front cover. Is it still raining? "What's this?" "Oh! It's chalk." "What shall we do with it?" "Let's draw something!" "Whatever we draw comes to life!" "Wally's chasing Gandalf!" "The witch is casting a spell!" "Draw a bucket of water to wash the chalk away!" "I'm melting!" "I think we'll leave the magic chalk behind." We created book a book in a day!

Celebrating World Book Day in style!

Thank you Lucy and Charley for the capital cities quiz.