Welcome to Year 6 

from

Mrs Fellows and Mrs MacDonald

Our email address is: year6@kingsleyschool.org.uk

This is checked regularly however, if you need to speak to a member of staff as a matter of urgency, please either speak to a member of the leadership team on the gate on a morning or ring the school office.

If you require any additional information regarding our curriculum, please do not hesitate to contact your child's class teacher or a member of the Leadership Team.

We have arrived safely and have already made our beds and started to settle in. Now we are raring to get our first activities under way. 

Please keep up to date with our fabulous adventures on the Carlton page below where we will be uploading photos each day as soon as is possible.

Computing

In Computing, we have been learning about computer systems and how they are all linked. We have paid special attention to networks and the idea that the internet is a huge network full of networks. We have also attempted to recreate sending messages in 'packets' through our own network. It was great fun and we even managed to put our packets together to send messages and to build a picture. 

The Marvellous Mayans - Topic

We have been exploring the different aspects of Mayan life and how this has shaped the world we live in today. We looked at how their civilisation sat in history in relation to other ancient civilisations and talked about what we already knew about the Romans and Egyptians. In addition to this we explored sources and made our own predictions about artefacts we evaluated. 

PE

We have been so lucky to have an amazing coach with us this half term teaching us tag rugby. The bad weather hasn't dampened any of our spirits and we have played some great games to apply these skills in the hall on rainy days. Effective communication, listening and teamwork have been the most important skills developed in this topic and we are ready to apply these to all of our other lessons! 

Science

Exploring light, reflections and shadows (and the science behind them) has been really interesting. We have learned some new vocabulary which we are using in our work and have enjoyed using different equipment to test our our hypotheses too.

Literacy

We have used freezeframes to get into the roles of the characters of our class book (When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit). It has had a wonderful impact on our writing where we have written some wonderful letters to other characters. 

We have thoroughly enjoyed the first few weeks in Year 6. We are working hard, having fun and becoming fabulous role models for the younger children. 

We had a great time in 2023- 2024. Check out our adventures below...

After learning lots about the Suffragettes and what lengths they went to in order to improve women's rights and secure the vote, we held a debate in class to simulate how passing a bill may look like in Parliament. There were some excellently articulated arguments put forward. 

We loved learning all about the marvellous work that the Dogs Trust Charity do. It was very interesting and we even learned a few new things about dog's mannerisms that we didn't know about. 

We are Crime Scene Investigators in Literacy at the minute. There has been a crime committed in the hall and we were brought in to investigate and help solve a possible murder. We need to use this evidence we collected to inform the people of Scotland via a newspaper report.   

We have had a great time exploring how different species evolve and develop a range of adaptations to help them survive.

We looked at how moths camouflage and which types of bird beak are best for collecting different types of food. 

We had a great time in Whitby exploring the different places we are learning about in Literacy (our Room 13 topic). 

We had an EGGcellent time in Year 6 today.  They absolutely smashed the Easter Egg competition with some fabulous ideas. Everyone in school found it so difficult to vote for their favourite.  Check out our entries below:

Our winners!

Joshua - Carlton Camp

Bobby - the Wonka Eggsperience

Blaine - Manchester United

We have had a great time in Maths exploring decimals. We have looked at different representations of a range of decimal amounts and talked about what we know about them looking at different ways of creating them and their equivalence with fractions. Our use of apparatus to explain our findings is fabulous.  

We have had an amazing morning watching Elf at Vue Cinema as a treat for the hardwork we have put in all term! 

Inspire Time

We have been working really hard this term and on a Friday, we have enjoyed some time playing games and doing crafts. 

In PSHE, we have completed the topic “Getting on and falling out”. Some of us got deeply involved in this topic and were able to relate some of the experiences to our own life at school and at home. We spent a lot of these lessons with discussions and group conversation/work, some short tasks, which all built up to our final piece of work. Our final piece of work was responding to problems in the style of an agony aunt, all the children were wrote to from different people asking for advice. They had to write letters back to these people. 

In French, we have been learning “La Seconde Guerre Mondiale”, meaning the Second World War. This topic has followed the journey of Ralph and his 2 sisters, who were evacuees during WW2. We have enjoyed learning about their experience during this time. We have learnt lots of new French words related to the war, but in Year 6 we have had to challenge our learning, not only have we been learning the new French vocabulary, our main focus for this topic is to be able to spilt the vocabulary into word classes. Last week we were all able to pick out the adjective in every single French sentence and then say what it meant in English!

RE

This term, Year 6 have been learning about the different rituals of a range of religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam). It has been incredibly interesting learning about the different ways people show their faith and how these rituals develop stronger bonds between those who perform the rituals. 

Science

We have had a fabulous time exploring the different components within a simple circuit. We looked at the way energy moves around a circuit and how it is transferred from electrical energy into light, heat and sound energy. We even designed our own investigations and tested out our own hypotheses. 

Literacy 

During our Maze Runner work, we have been exploring the idea of the Glade. We have been outside and explored the sounds, sights and smells of the field while imagining that we were trapped in the Glade. We also used freezeframes to explore the feelings that different captives might feel when trapped inside the Glade. Our Rescue Notes have been fabulously well written from these experiences.

Art

In Year 6, we have been designing and creating coil pots in the style of Mayan ceramics. It was quite fiddly and we had to work quickly so that the clay didn't dry out. We produced some excellent pots and our painting is fabulous. 

Judo

We had a great time trying out some Judo moves in a taster session in the hall. It was incredibly fun and some of us have even learned a few new skills that we had never done before. We now know that Judo is all about causing your opponent to lose their balance and it is about respect and control. 

PE

We have had a great time exploring the rules and skills needed to successfully play games of handball. We have talked about how different strategies work and the different skills we need in order to successfully intercept a ball to receive possession and how to score a goal. We especially enjoyed playing games of "Fruit Pickers" to practise these new skills. 

We attended the first Crucial Crew event of 2023 at the Power Station this week. It was a fabulous afternoon and we thoroughly enjoyed learning about different things that we can do to keep ourselves safe. We met people from the council, RNLI, Police and the Fire Brigade. 

Some of us even practised calling 999 to ring for an emergency service. 

Local History Week

Dusing Local History week, Year 6 explored the shipbuilding industry of Hartlepool's past. We looked at different jobs that were available when working on a shipyard and how this industry changed Hartlepool. 

We created some amazing leaflets to share our research and even explored perspective in Art to draw a ship that was built in William Gray's shipyard in Hartlepool!