Welcome to our Year 6 page.

Welcome to Class 4! Our teacher is Miss Styles and our teaching assistant is Mrs Hawkins who we are lucky to have in class with us every day. On Thursday mornings, we are taught by Mr Carey who also takes some of us for small group work on Wednesday mornings and Thursday afternoons. Mrs Lamb also takes some of us in small groups and these happen on Thursday mornings and Friday afternoons. These groups are always changing and we enjoy getting the opportunity to work with different teachers. Our PE day is a Thursday and we enjoy time in the computer suite on Mondays.

During the Autumn term, we were taught music by Mr Stoneham and we looked at various brass instruments and even got to play trumpets and trombones. We are looking forward to learning how to play the guitar with Mr Hendra in the Spring term.

Here on our class page you will find photographs which show what we have been doing during the year.

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The Day Year 6’s Chairs Quit!

To start off our writing unit on persuasive letters, Year 6 walked in to class one Friday morning to discover that their chairs had had enough of the way they were treated and were on strike! The chairs had written a letter to year 6 to explain why they had quit. Year 6 were required to write a letter of reply to their chairs, trying to persuade the chairs to return to work for them after break time. Luckily, year 6’s powers of persuasion worked and the chairs returned in time for our maths lesson!

Summer Term Sport: Wheelchair Basketball and Skateboarding

In the Summer term, we have enjoyed a skateboarding session and also a wheelchair basketball session where we were coached by a member of Team GB who competes in the Paralympics. Both sessions were lots of fun and are days which we look forward to each year at Monkwray. Year 6 are looking forward to more sporting days in the second half of the Summer term where we will be enjoying weekly cricket lessons and also a scooters session!

National Grid Power Challenge

During the summer term, year 6 were one of only a few schools who were selected to take part in the National Grid Power Challenge. Led by our guide via Zoom, year 6 learned all about how our homes, towns and whole country are powered and they completed three levels of challenge using lots of different electrical components to build circuits and light up the buildings. Year 6 all had lots of fun and we were all amazed to learn that Play-Dough is an electrical conductor!

Design and Technology – Light Up Boxes

Our Autumn term Design and Technology project was to design and produce a light up sign/box. To make our boxes, we had to create the main structure out of a shoe box, we created a frame to fit our boxes which involved measuring, sawing and joining. We then designed our messages for our boxes using ICT and we used our understanding of electrical circuits to incorporate a working circuit, using LED bulbs, to make our boxes light up. Once our project was complete, year 6 evaluated their work and came to conclusions about what worked well, how challenges were overcome and what could be done differently next time.

Science Crest Award – Tumbling Toast

Throughout the Summer term, year 6 have been working towards achieving their Crest awards by carrying out 8 different investigations and working scientifically. Year 6 achieved their first sticker for their task to design an outdoor gym and their second task, pictured below, was to investigate Murphy’s Law to answer the question, will buttered toast always land butter-side down? Year 6, in groups, chose their own way to carry out the investigation: some investigated the effect of the amount of butter, some investigated whether or not the height from which the toast is dropped has an impact etc. Year 6 are thoroughly enjoying working towards achieving their Crest award and look forward to their new investigation each week.

Science Crest Award – Fantastic Fingerprints

Whilst working with Mrs Lamb, year 6 have been investigating fingerprints as a part of their Crest award. The children had discussion time about what they knew about fingerprints and they looked at their own fingerprints using magnifying glasses. Next, year 6 used cocoa powder and talc to take their own fingerprints and they recorded their results and were encouraged to notice patterns found in fingerprints e.g. loops, arches and whorls. The children were then challenged to investigate which member of staff in school had touched a glass by examining the evidence of their fingerprints left on the glass with the sample fingerprints which members of staff had given for comparison.