Year 6 - Autumn 2 - Week 6

Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 8:08pm

The Christmas festivities have continued with no sign of slowing down!

Music played a key role in celebrating Christmas this week. On Monday, the children practised singing various carols for the Christmas Service next Friday at St. Peter’s Church. Some of the children will also be visiting St. Joseph’s Care Home next Monday afternoon to sing these carols to some of their residents. On Tuesday, we had the wonderful opportunity to attend a ‘Discover Music’ event, which took place at Litherland High School. The children were able to watch an orchestra perform some classic songs live - and some of the children even had the chance to try different instruments under the guidance of some specialist music teachers too! Our week concluded with our final brass lesson of the term; thank you to Mrs Fogg for all her support and guidance this term.

Continuing with the Christmas theme, we took part in our final Santa Dash in primary school on Thursday. Father Christmas escorted us onto the field where we ‘dashed’ around the course! Some children were determined to win while others chose to make the most of their final Christmas lap at Trinity St. Peter’s! Christmas Party Day on Friday was a particular highlight for the class. In the morning, we played lots of games, including Mr King’s ‘Extreme Pass the Parcel’, unwrapping layers to reveal either rewards or dares! Such dares included carolling at Mrs Meredith’s door; competing against friends to get as many selfies as possible with teachers around the school; hunting for shoes and even issuing dance-off challenges to staff! 

Outside of the Christmas celebrations, we took part in ‘An Hour of Code’ on Wednesday, led by our Digital Leaders. Under their guidance, the class had to apply their coding skills to be able to play the game, ‘Code Combat: Goblins and Glory’. This was enjoyable, but certainly provided challenges…and not just to our Digital Leaders, who were able to briefly experience the life of a teacher! In Science, we also started learning about the circulatory system, which we will be exploring in more detail during next week’s ‘Science Day’.

We had our final History lessons this week, much to the sadness of the children, who have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about WW1 and WW2 this term. On Wednesday, our young historians learned about all the key events of WW2, exploring a range of resources such as newspaper articles, maps, textbooks, local documents and equipment such as ration books and medical boxes. The children particularly enjoyed using their iPads to try and find out more about the names listed in the documents and on the equipment. Thursday’s final lessons saws us concluding our learning by summarising what life would have been like in Britain during WW2 and then having the opportunity to research our own lines of inquiry. It was particularly interesting to see the range of topics the children wanted to spend more time researching, such as: the role of the Soviet Union; the conflict between USA and Japan; how the LGBTQ+ community were treated; what medical equipment was used to treat the injured; advancements in weapons and warfare.

A special ‘well done’ to those members of the class who supported the Reception Nativity by acting as the narrators. Also, ‘thank you’ to our Digital Leaders who helped with the music for the Nativity performances in Reception and Year 1, as well as helping classes with their ‘Hour of Code’ lessons. Our Sports Leaders have been a great help this week as well, helping set up lessons and lead activities in Year 6’s PE lesson on Wednesday.

The children are aware of how to access their homework for next week – either on SATs Companion or in their books. Spellings have also been set. If your child is accessing their homework through SATs Companion and needs additional support, please remind them that there are support videos attached to the tasks. If there are no available videos on SATs Companion then at least one Youtube video will be uploaded on Google Classroom. 

We hope you all have a restful weekend and are excited for the festivities to continue next week!