Welcome to Year 6 Spring Term 24-25
Volleyball
In PE we have been learning to play Volleyball. We have begun by learning the ready position, how to high pass volley and practised keeping a rally going to ensure control with the ball. We had a fun 4 vs 4 game to practise our high catch volleys. Next we will learn how to set a ball for our teammate.
Year 6 loved celebrating Chinese New Year. We listened to Chinese music, looked at traditional Chinese art and created some painting with Chinese pagodas and floating lanterns. As well as this, we chopped up a range of vegetables, mixed some sauce and rolled these up in pastry to create our own vegetable spring rolls. It was a great day.
Safer Internet Day - Protecting yourself from Scams!
This year’s theme for Safer Internet Day was all about scams and phishing. We learned what a scam was, how to spot a scam and all about phishing. We had a go at trying to spot scams and learned how modern AI imaging and videos are increasingly used to create online scams. We had great fun creating our own scams on Purple Mash using celebrities. Would you have fallen for our scam?
Ancient Greek Mythical Creatures
In Literacy we have been learning about Ancient Greek myths and their features. This lesson we studied some of the beasts from Ancient Greek times. We had to read the descriptions and match those to the pictures. We are looking forward to creating our own Greek myth.
Mental Health Awareness Week: Know Yourself, Grow Yourself
This year, Mental Health Awareness Week focused on the theme Know Yourself, Grow Yourself. Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed exploring and discussing the special places and important memories they hold in their minds.
As part of the activities, they created Personality Island posters, reflecting different aspects of who they are and shared these with the class. This sparked meaningful conversations about the importance of understanding ourselves and supporting our mental wellbeing.
Together, we talked about why mental health matters and explored practical ways we can look after our own. To round off the day, everyone took part in fun team games in the hall, promoting teamwork and connection.
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Yoga
This term we have started a PE unit focusing on yoga. Today we focused on the stretches 'Cobra' and 'Downward dog' and learnt about the benefits of yoga on our bodies. Once we were confident with these, we worked through the story 'The Sun Salutation' completing other poses such as 'Mountain Pose', 'Coyote' and 'Plank Pose'.
Non-Chronological Reports
With our new unit being non-chronological reports, we have been looking a some non-fiction books to see their organisational features. We have compared our core text 'Mythologica' to these books and written reviews about their organisational features.
