Year 6 - Spring 2 - Week 3

Date: 6th Mar 2024 @ 1:47pm

What a busy week it has been!

To begin, it has been National Careers Week this week, which provided a good opportunity for the children to discuss their aspirations for the future. We talked about long-term and short-term goals and how some of us may even have jobs in our teenage years and why this might be. We then took part in a rather amusing activity of guessing the previous jobs of members of staff at Trinity St. Peter’s. There was some very interesting rationale behind some of the guesses! By the end of the task though, we realised that in most cases, we couldn’t make accurate guesses about teachers’ previous jobs as factors such as gender and age do not matter.

As part of our RE learning, we attended St. Peter’s Church on Wednesday morning to attend a Eucharist Service. We learned more about why Christians gather at this service and the symbolism of the bread and wine. We were then able to connect this with our current topic back in class.

The children were very excited for World Book Day on Thursday and this was certainly reflected in their book costumes! Well done to all the pupils and their parents for a fantastic effort. Throughout the day, our Year 6 pupils took part in a range of activities: from a ‘book’ themed Spanish lesson to being part of the virtual audience for Trinity St. Peter’s inaugural Masked Reader! As The Big Bad Wolf had gone into hiding in the Year 6 classroom, the children’s English lesson involved them reading, ‘The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs’ by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith and learning how The Big Bad Wolf felt that he was the real victim in this tale. The children were then asked to become lawyers in Fairytale Court and to write up a defence statement for The Big Bad Wolf against Little Red Riding Hood to present to the rest of the class. There were some very creative ideas!

We are very lucky that this half-term, we will be taking part in yoga sessions every Tuesday afternoon with Sefton Active. The children had their first session this week and - during their post-session reflection – noted how calm and relaxed they felt afterwards. Hopefully, this will be a very rewarding experience for our pupils and a hobby they may wish to continue in the future.

A special 'thank you' to our two work experience students (and ex-TSP pupils!) who have been in class helping all week. They have provided lots of support to the Year 6 children!

Reminder: swimming lessons will commence from next Wednesday. Please refer back to the messages sent to parents on School Spider.

Have a great weekend, everyone!