Year 6

Teachers imogensyrett@whitchurch-primary.devon.sch.uk

carolinepoppe@whitchurch-primary.devon.sch.uk

5/2/20 Linked to our Science we visited the Eden Project to complete Darwin Doodles workshop. We learnt how plants have adapted to their environment over a period of time.

28/1/20 Linked to our Geography – Volcanoes – a talk from Captain Syrett who has visited the volcano in Deception Island in Antarctica.

20/1/20 Group work in gymnastics

14/1/20 GDS maths

WTS maths

14/1/20 Learning and remembering text – Women in Science

17.12.19 Designing,Making and Evaluating our Christmas sweets according to our clients preferences.

16.12.19 Performing our Viking Dance

16.12.19 Peer editing our Chitty Chitty Bang Bang writing.

13.12.19 Year six pupils designed and made games for the school Christmas fair.

12/12/19 RE topic on responsibility to local community and global community

3/12 19 – Learning and remembering text – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

2/12/19 PSHE – celebrating differences. Freeze frames representing perception of “Power”

Maths learning

6/11/19 The Salvalation Army visited us and explained to us how they help people as part of our RE

30/10/19 Classroom Jazz with Mrs Higginson

30/10/19 Learning “I am a Cat” by Jackie Morris through story mapping.

9/10/19 Congratulations! We won the goose decorating community competition for our local ‘Goosey Fair’

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4/10/19 History – Vikings

4/10/19 – Our Mathletics certificates.

Art 1/10/19

Developing our painting skills and techniques to create our Tavistock Goose

26/9/19- Junior Life Skills

25.9.19 As part of our Science learning – Humans and other animals – Mrs Rankin (Year 4 parent) who works in the Cardiac department at Derriford Hospital spent the morning with us explaining how the heart works, features of the heart and how to stay healthy.

I can use a broad line pen to draw 19.9.19

In our ICT lessons we have been building a website to recount our visit to Skern Lodge. We used lots of different types of online apps to create material for our site. We talked about e-safety and about digital footprint. View our site at

https://sites.google.com/site/skernlodge2019/

Having fun at Skern 9th- 13th September 2019- The children have been brilliant

Year 6 – Prince Charles visit to Tavistock – we were there!

Science- Electricity

Devon Summer School Games final

Our Year 6 Quad Kids and Super 6 Golf team had a great day completing against other finalist at Exeter Arena

Our Quad Kids team were busy throughout the day however our Golf team managed to try a number of taster activities

Our Humanism talk

We created Pie Charts using real data using the number of children who have participated in West Devon competitions

Sports Day

Reasoning in maths

Exploring reflection in Science

Looking at the ray of incidence and the ray of reflection.

Creating Lego Construction after our SATs week

Stroking our Year 6 Guinea Pigs – Coco and Mocha ( Pops, Nutmeg) before SATs

Congratulations to our Year 6 who all participated in the West Devon Quad Kids event on the Tavistock College Track.

Team A won the whole competition with Lucas coming 1st overall and Elliot 3rd

Orienteering

Ellie Jackson visited us and read her story about a turtle eating plastic waste which was left in the ocean. She donated 3 of her books which were funded buy the Scrap Store in Tavistock – Thank you

Mr Chamberlain from Tavistock College visited us with his Japanese student who are on an exchange visit with the school.

Darwin Doodles at the Eden Project

World Book Day

Children’s University – Congratulations on your Bronze, Silver and Gold Award – You are a Star!

Pancake race intra house competition

Science – Extracting DNA from fruit

Author visit – a local author from Looe worked with year 6 today and shared her story – unfortunately she left it on a cliffhanger, but we are lucky to have her story book in school.

An update on our reading badges

Team building

Linked to our Geography our Whitchurch Flag in Deception Island which is an active Volcano in the South Shetland off the coast of Antarctica. Its unique landscape comprises barren volcanic slopes, steaming beaches and ash- layered glaciers .