6S
Welcome to the class page of Class 6S
The Year 6 Team
Miss Stalker - Class Teacher (6S)
Miss Graham - Class Teacher (6G)
Mrs Shaw - Teaching Assistant
Miss Crozier - Teaching Assistant
Welcome back to our final term in Year 6 and at Torrisholme Primary School - can you believe we are here already?!
We have an absolutely jam-packed half term planned and so much to look forward to and we can’t wait to get started.
our Topic this half term is ‘In the Street’ and we will be learning to do graffiti art, street art based on the work of Banksy, rapping, beat boxing, street dance and cooking street food - and that is only part of what we are doing this term!
We will also be rehearsing for our production ‘Prexit’ which is being recorded on Monday 12th July and we will be enjoying many fun trips and activities to give us the send off we deserve - wow that is a lot to fit in to just over 6 weeks!
Please check your emails regularly and look out for information regarding our trips and leavers’ activities.
Spring 2 Newsletter
Our Last Day - goodbye Torrisholme. Class of 2021 you are AMAZING and are going to be missed very much. Have a brilliant summer and enjoy every minute at high school. 😃🥇☀️
Rounders and Pizza evening with a very special member reunited back with her class 😃😃
Water Fight 💦
JUST WOW! What a way to end an incredible week - Sports Day then a water fight! It was the best Friday in the sun 😃☀️🥇
TTT FESTIVAL - we have all had the best day at our festival. It was soooo much fun!
Chester Zoo
Check out our amazing artwork in the style of Banksy - they are awesome, aren’t they? You may be able to guess whose work it is based on the silhouette image.
We started creating our own Banksy style artwork today. First, we had to make our stencils using images of ourselves and then we experimented using them to make sure they worked before producing the final piece tomorrow.
We had a great time in our best box and rap session with Leroy from More Music, today!
We are currently experimenting with stencil making as part of our Banksy work. We are having a go at making 3 different stencils which progressively become more complex - here is stencil, which involved cutting out the whole image to create a silhouette. We found this quite fiddly so we are expecting level 2 to be a challenge!
Dodgeball
On Monday afternoon, we had a coach to teach us the finer points of dodgeball.
Letters from the Lighthouse - in preparation to write diary entries tomorrow, we looked at the mixture of emotions one of the characters feels as the events of chapter 2 unfold
Today, we spent time analysing some of Banksy’s street art and then we were given the challenge of producing our own stencil, without any guidance, in preparation for producing our own piece of stencil artwork in the style of Banksy. As you can see, we had some varied results.
What a great start to our ‘In the Street’ topic. Today, we designed our own ‘rap’ cap ready to wear throughout the term. We are really looking forward to all the fun we have planned for our last half term 😃🧢
John Dyer Artwork
The Amazon Basin
In Geography, the children have been learning about biomes. After learning about the characteristics and locating biomes around the world, the children chose a biome to research and create an information page about. Here’s the first few finished ones. More to follow.
We have travelled back from The Amazon Rainforest with a species of animal to share with the rest of the world - check out our non-chronological reports but beware, they might bite!
After reading The Great Kapok Tree, we chose an animal and used acrylic paint to create a tile
We consolidated our understanding of latitude and longitude today when we plotted our tour around South America
Our balloon globes showing our geographical understanding of the Earth 🌎
Today, we kick started our new topic with a flight to South America. We carried out in-flight tasks to become familiar with the amazing continent we were travelling to and when we arrived, we were presented with an envelope of clues to try and guess our first destination.
Shading in our Mona Lisa sketches applying the skills we learned in the drawing style of Leonardo Da Vinci
Our amazing poems inspired by Nevermoor
Ink Marbling fun!
It’s time to apply our sketching and shading skills!
Experimenting with shadow before adding shadow to our drawings
Practising layering and pencil pressure control
Practising different shading techniques in Art
Today, we used cubes and pictorial diagrams to help us visualise converting improper fractions into mixed number fractions
Our finished art project. We are very proud of our work and I think you will agree that they look amazing!
The making of our backgrounds
There were mixed feelings about this next step of our art project as the children were asked to tear their work into strips! Yes, that’s right, the children ripped their work up! Don’t worry though, all the strips will be mixed together and shared back out for the children to create their backgrounds 😃😃
How amazing do the children’s animal eyes and noses look for their art project? They followed a blending technique using the various shades of the same colour oil pastels to create their desired effect and we are all very impressed with the finished results. We can’t wait to see them on the final piece.
What a fantastic reading session we had in class today to kick start our English work based on Nevermoor. The children supported and challenged each other’s predictions based on the character names, objects from the text and the front cover. We can’t wait to start reading this magical story😃
Today, we began a mini art project to settle us back in to class nicely. We are looking forward to showing you our finished pieces of work.
Inspirational People - Holiday Research Project
Christmas Spelling Challenge
HALF TERM HOMEWORK CHALLENGE
Newsletters
Autumn 2 Newsletter
Our finished non-chronological reports all about a Swedish Christmas - we enjoyed finding out about Swedish traditions and comparing them to our own Christmas traditions.
A very festive lunch time 🎄🎄
We had a brilliant time at our mini fair this morning. Lots of fun was had and sweets were won. Congratulations to Aimee who guessed the exact number of sweets in the jar and Joseph who won the festive penguin by guessing its name correctly. 🎄🎄
Check out our absolutely awesome Year 6 Vikings display which is in the hall. As not many people get to walk through the hall at the moment, I thought I’d share the display here for everyone to see!
Our Viking long ships are finished and we are really pleased with them.
Santa Dash 2020
The children had a fantastic time doing their Santa Dash. The event began with a Christmas themed warm-up linked to the Twelve Days of Christmas. We did a variety of moves such as: turkeys flapping, penguins waddling, ice skating and reindeers galloping- very festive!
The rain managed to hold-off until we had finished the running.
Charcoal Valkyrie Pictures
Viking Day - We have had a great day participating in Viking related activities. We started the day with a trading event. It was absolutely fantastic to see the children working together as a team and strategically changing their trading techniques to become the most successful traders. The children then swapped their trading skills for craft skills and they designed and made a Viking shield out of clay. They all worked hard to create the correct shape and carve intricate detail to their work. We were also lucky to have a virtual meet with a ‘real’ Viking from Jorvik!!! The children enjoyed listening to the Viking and participated in the session brilliantly. A lot of time and effort had been put in at home to create the fantastic outfits and objects for today and the children looked brilliant. Thank you to everyone involved with helping them prepare for our Viking day. We are ready and looking forward to completing our Viking longboats as part of our DT work now.
Cricket
As part of our PE this term, we have had a cricket coach to teach us the skills in this sport. We have been playing diamond cricket and practising bowling and batting.
Today, we used the Ipads and atlases to research and locate areas in The United Kingdom where the Vikings raided and settled. We then explained the reasons why the Vikings raided certain areas and why they chose to settle in particular places. We worked together brilliantly.
A little display created from our archeological excavation
We started our new topic today with an archeological dig. We had a great time excavating sources of evidence which we then used to draw conclusions about the Vikings. We are really looking forward to using this to deepen our understanding further in our future Topic sessions.
Our finished robot bookmarks/key rings. Each one is personal and unique and this is a reminder of just how special and unique each and every single one of us is. The children worked incredibly hard to complete these and developed our resilience skills along the way. They look fantastic
We have our first TT Rockstars ROCK HERO 🎸 What an impressive time, Thomas. 🏆 Can anyone beat 0.99 seconds???
Busy designing a robot version of ourselves ready to start making them into bookmarks using our stitching skills.
Exploring decimal numbers
We have been thinking about what makes us who we are and how we are all unique 😀
After spending time getting in tune with our emotions and getting to know ourselves inside out, the children have produced fantastic display pieces of work. Which emotions have you experienced over the last 6 months? Maybe you can relate to how the children have been feeling.
A couple of our ‘secret student’ winners feeling proud of themselves for earning the whole class a little daily reward 😀
If you could unlock the door to your imagination, where would it take you?
Place Value Exploration - we started the week exploring numbers up to 1 million. The children used concrete and pictorial methods to represent the numbers in different ways before moving on to problem solving and reasoning later in the week.
The children have unlocked the door to their imagination. They have created their door, thought about where the door would be located, designed an imaginary world and written fantastic descriptions 😀
Let’s open the door to our imagination - the children found a mystery ancient key in their trays. Where will the key take them? If you had a key which could take you anywhere, where would you go?
Let the Reading World Cup commence!! The fixtures have been announced. Which books will make it through to the quarter finals? We will have to wait and see which book wins each match tomorrow!
The winner of our Reading World Cup is...
Here are the books that have made it through to the quarter finals. Tomorrow, we will read a couple of pages from each book before deciding on the final 4!
The 4 semi-finalists have been confirmed! Which books do you want to go through to the final and have the chance of becoming our class novel?
The finalists of our book World Cup
My 'Welcome to Class 6S' video can be found on Torrisholme TV (it was too long to save directly to the class page!) Please click on the link below to view the message 
https://torrisholme-community-primary-school.primarysite.media/media/welcome-to-class-6s