Hobletts Manor Junior School
Turquoise
Team Turquoise 2025/26.
Your class teachers are Mrs Vipond and Miss Smith.
Your teaching assistants are Mrs Buck and Mrs Rogers
It has been a super busy week in Team Turquoise!
We had an amazing trip to London Zoo as part of our Living Things topic in Science and our Rainforest topic in Geography. We got to see lots of animals, some of them very up-close. Check out the lion pictures below! We also visited the rainforest centre, which recreates a rainforest environment and saw a sloth and monkeys in the trees.
In Maths, we have been revising how to answer questions on money and our revision poster has been about quadrilaterals. We have also been revising estimating the answer to complicated questions by rounding and how to find percentages of numbers. In English, we have been writing more of our Mr Hall biography and have been learning about the grammar we need for the SPAG test including active and passive voice and what subject and object are in a sentence.
In Science, we found out that when fossils were found in Victorian times, this was when the world found out about dinosaurs. We also found out about Mary Anning, who found lots of fossils of dinosaurs at the beach at Lyme Regis in Dorset. We also found out how fossils can be formed when animals are frozen, when they get stuck in tree sap or through the 'mold and cast' process. As part of Science Week, we also completed a team-work investigation where we found out that good communication is essential to complete a project. We drew pictures with our team mates all holding onto the same pencil with pegs! In Computing, we started work on our own adventure story and created buttons that allows the reader to choose their own version of the story and in RE, we recreated significant stories from the life of Jesus.
Next week in Maths, we will be revising time questions and our revision poster will be about 3D shapes. In English, we will be finishing our Mr Hall biography and continuing to revise word classes and sentence structures for the upcoming SPAG test.
Year 6 PE Days are Monday and Thursday
Please come to school in PE kit on these days.
Well done to our Weekly Award Winners
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Arya & Sam |
Ashnee & Eveleen |
Lily & Tilly |
Skyla & Aksh |
Skyla |
Celebrating Home Learning
Well done to our weekly Rockers...
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Top Ten Rockers
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Rocked 5 times Kayden, Lucas & Zoe
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Rocking Challenge Harry
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... and also to our weekly Readers.
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Skyla |
Adam, Tilly, Jazmin, Zoe, Vinny, Harry & Ashnee |
Web links that you may find helpful
- www.bbc.co.uk/history
- BBC Bitesize - KS2 Science
- BBC Bitesize - Dance Mat Typing Build speed of typing in a fun and challenging way
- CBBC - Newsround An engaging news based website.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z82hsbk/year/zmyxxycBBC
- Books To Make You Feel Better..pdf
Documents you may find useful
- key-word-spelling-lists.docx
- Spelling Lists - All Year Groups.pdf
- Grammatical Terminology Prompt.pdf
wc 09.03.26: Science & Geography: This week we went to London Zoo and visited the rainforest centre. We saw lots of amazing animals.
wc 09.03.26: Science - this week we found out how fossils are and why they are so important in Science to reveal what living things came before us! We looked at some real fossils too
wc 02.03.26 - World Book Day - We had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day. We enjoyed taking part in an online 'books and football' based quiz and had a lovely time at our 'books and blankets' afternoon. Look at our amazing costumes!
wc 23.02.26: Science - this week in Science we were challenged to design the 'best' butterfly. We then found out that beautiful and bright butterflies will not survive so we then designed a butterfly that would survive because it is camouflaged!
wc 23.02.26 - PE - This week in gymnastics we worked with our learning partner to complete different balancing positions and made up a routine to show the class.
wc 23.02.26 - Art - Our finished sculptures.
wc 9.2.26 - In Science, we collected plant specimens from the school site and create a specimen poster.
wc 9.2.26: This week in art, we used mod-roc to cover our wire sculptures!
wc 2.2.26: Science - this week we made branching diagrams to help us identify living things.
wc 26.01.26 - In Science, we learnt about how animals are classified and that they are classified into 2 groups: vertebrates and invertebrates. We looked at the key features of each group.
wc 19.01.26 - This week in Science, we created a poster about both helpful and harmful microorganisms.
wc 12.01.26 - On Thursday, we had lots of fun taking part in the Math's game afternoon.
wc 05.01.26 - In Science, we started our 'Living Things' topic and revised 'MRS GREN' to enable us to identify whether an object is living or not.
wc 15.12.25 - This week, we participated in a workshop where we made robots out of lego using coding for DT.
wc 08.12.25 - In Science, we found out how to create a circuit with a switch and created circuits with bulbs, buzzers and motors.
wc 01.12.25 - This week in RE, we designed our own Christmas cards incorporating a mix of sacred and secular images, finishing them with a sacred message inside. We really enjoyed doing this!
wc 17.11.25: Science - this week we added components to a circuit and observed what happened to the brightness of the bulb!
wc 10.11.25: Science - this week we made a circuit with a bulb and a battery and observed what happened when another battery was added!
wc 03.11.25 - Our amazing trip to the Bentley Priory Museum.
wc 20.10.25 - This week in Art, we have been continuing replicating paintings of London using our chosen medium ready for our final pieces after half term.
wc 13.10.25 - This week in History, we have been looking at sources of evidence from World War 2!
wc 6.10.25: Science - this week we investigated refraction and tried to make rainbows with torches and prisms!
WC 29.9.25: Science - this week we investigated how the size of a shadow changes when the light source is moved closer or further away from the object.
Wb 22nd September - Our clay dragon eye sculptures.
Wb 15th September - Our 'Gargoyles' role play.
