News Year 6

This week has been a testing week for our Year 6s.

Whilst studying the book ‘Wolf Brother’ the year 6 children wrote a letter from the book’s main character to his father in the afterlife. 

What a way to end the week- a celebration for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee!

The children had fun today celebrating the up coming Queen’s Jubilee. 

Sunday May 15th Multiple locations – see below 9:30am @ South Norwood Lakes for age 10+ 11am @ Monument for all abilities A fantastic and fun co-creation with our friends at Kidical Mass London, we’re going for a ride to (for big kids) and through (for everyone) Central London, a parade with IBikeLondon’s wonderful cargo bike sound systems loaded up with a family friendly playlist along the Thames Cycleways, lunch in Southwark Park (great cafe with wide range of kid friendly options!),

We hope you are all prepared for Year Six’s bushcraft adventure next week, especially as the weather forecast is looking hopeful!

We’ve had a lovely day in the sun at Cypress and it’s been great to see everyone enjoying our wonderful school grounds. 

Thank you to all the parents, carers and children who joined us for the last meeting about this month’s residential trip for Year 6.

As part of their Literacy work around the text ‘Wolf Brother’ by Michelle Paver, Year 6 were visited by two cave people, Twig and Ochre, who camped on the field at Whitehorse Manor Junior School for 3 nights. 

Your child should already have brought home a kit list which outlines all the equipment they need for the upcoming residential woodland bushcraft trip this May. 

As part of our literacy unit on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, we have been delving into the killer mind of Lady Macbeth. 

On Tuesday, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Associate Director, Musical Director and Choreographer for Matilda the Musical joined us for two workshops/auditions.

We have continued to think about meta-learning this week. In particular, we have been thinking about which learning powers are the most useful in specific tasks, for example in a revision task, we would need to capitalise, make links and use interdependence (consider whether it is better to work alone or with others).

As part of our ongoing project with Pamper, Indulge and Give, some children from Year 6 have been working hard over the past 4 weeks to prepare a plot at the allotments. 

Our current literacy learning is based around the works of Shakespeare with a focus on the Scottish play, ‘Macbeth’.