Team Turquoise 2025/26.

 Your class teachers are Mrs Vipond and Miss Smith. 

Your teaching assistants are Mrs Buck and Mrs Rogers

What a busy half term we have had!

In Geography, we have been learning all about the rainforests of the world and have looked in detail at exactly what they are and where they are located. We have loved discovering more about them and looking at the diversity of life which lives there. We have considered the various threats faced by rainforests and the reality of deforestation.

As Scientists, we have been studying ‘Living Things’. We have recapped the seven life processes which make something a living thing and learnt all about Carl Linnaeus: a Swedish scientist who devised a seven part system for grouping living things. Complicated stuff, but we had lots of fun inventing clever ways to help us remember the system! We have also created our own classification keys and learnt all about microorganisms: both harmful and helpful. As well as this, we have looked at the different vertebrate and invertebrate groups and how plants are classified. We created our own branching diagrams to identify livings – both real and imagined.

In RE, we have continued to develop our knowledge of the Buddhist religion and have explored what the Buddha said about suffering and desire. We have also thought about how Buddhists use prayer flags to spread positive thoughts around the world and even had a go at designing our own while listening to a Buddhist mantra. In PSHE, we have spent lots of time considering our dreams and goals and how we might achieve them and in Computing we have learnt how to create, comment and add posts to a blog.

In Art, we had an amazing wire workshop, creating wire sculptures from chicken wire. We cut them to match a template using wire cutters and joined them together with pliers. We made two models each and      decided whether we wanted to decorate with tissue paper, with mod-roc or leave as wire!

Next half term, we will continue with our Geography and Science topics of ‘Rainforests’ and ‘Living Things’. In DT, we will be starting our very own rainforest-inspired cushions topic and in PSHE, we will be looking at how to keep our bodies and minds healthy.

Enjoy the holidays and we look forward to seeing you all again soon!  

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

Patrick & Zeus

Albie & Ollie

Eveleen & Jazmine

Patrick & Zoe

Well done to our half-term certificate winners for determination:

Aisha, Ashnee, Harry, Oscar, James

Celebrating Home Learning   

Well done to our weekly Rockers...

Top Ten Rockers Kayden Lucas Zoe Aisha Harry Tilly Ben Eleanor Ashnee Aksh	Rocked 5 times Will return after half-term.	Rocking Challenge Will return after half-term.

... and also to our weekly Readers.

Will return after half-term.	Will return after half-term.

Well done to the children who completed the half-termly reading challenge:

Lucas, Tilly, Zoe, Hithesh, Jazmin, Harry & Vinny.

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