Year 6

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

carolinepoppe@whitchurch-primary.devon.sch.uk

Home Learning during School Closure

During the school closure we will be providing weekly outlines of home learning tasks. You can download these below.

End of year songs and words

Songs

Song Lyrics

http://www.whitchurch-primary.devon.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2020/06/Lyrics.pdf

Our learning

Our Last Day

We tried it – Just Dance- Happy Pharrell Williams and Uptown FunkTuxedo so much fun

Based Authorify. 10 minute challenge work – some strange creature in my breakfast – our draft work on it and us sharing our ideas with others

To help you with this week’s English – our draft ideas

Finding the age of our trees in the school grounds by measuring the girth in cms and dividing the measurement by 2.5

Collage work

Outside Art at school- Thursday/Friday

Reading Den advertisement

Joel’s and George’s Lava Lamp

Ashley’s list of A-Z. He did this last week whilst lounging in the pool. He did A-Z of sweets, people, places, cars and animals

Art at Home – but actually completed at school

Lock down writing piece – an extract

Samuel has been cleaning carpets and measuring out for a hot tub

Ashley’s DT work on the Lava lamp

Jamie’s DT work and yummy food

George completing his science this week

Rowan walked up to Cox Tor over half term which was very therapeutic 🙂

Art – Colour Wheels- Ella’s, Ellie’s, George’s and Jack’s

Ella and George’s Peace Poster

Jamie’s A shiver of sharks

Ellie’s home learning

Willow’s home learning

Faye’s home learning

Chloe’s home learning

Rowan celebrated his Birthday

Our VE celebrations

Thank you Jamie and Chloe for there Dream Job PowerPoints

Your personnel project on Volcanoes has been brilliant

Joel’s Elmers

James’ home learning about cows and sheep

Jamie Orb bottle

Emily’s cooking

Finley’s Art work

George’s Art work

Emily’s and Jack’s robot

Chloe’s Art work

Ellie made a white chocolate cheesecake for her family which was and looks delicious. She also completed her tree bar chart and really enjoyed finding the trees as well as making a bird box.

George and Ella’s home learning

Max has been busy everyday with school work.

James, Emily and Rose have been busy doing the PE challenge -James has completed 12,578 steps passing Ben Nevis!

Emily’s Word cloud

Rose has been busy with her volcano project, completing her Kensuke Kingdom and Maths work.

Jamie has created a dichotomous key using a shark book he was given for Christmas.

Emily planted peas, broad beans and carrots with her mum yesterday.

Scarlett has been cooking, walking her dog Winnie daily and trying to train her in recall. She is busy completing tasks set on the memo.

Lauren has been baking a lot, learning about healthy smoothies and vitamins. She has also been making bug hotels, growing veg and stroking a pony who lives nearby .

Jack’s maths work

Darcie has been busy with her Spag , Commas and PSHE. She is also looking after Amigo who is one of four horses currently staying with her during lockdown

Jamie has been riding his bike, making shields and completing his daily exercise with Joe Wicks

George’s science work

Yummy Cake Matilda

Ellie’s has completed her incredibox

James. George and Jamie’s writing based on Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Samuel’s home learning- he has converted the playroom to table tennis room and is getting really good and has finally cracked fractions

Jack’s home learning

Home learning from Jess – Thank you for sharing

We know you all are working hard at home.

11/2/20 Art

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 .