Year 5 & 6 - Newton

Welcome to Year 5 & 6 - Newton class.

Our teacher in Newton class is Mr Howarth.

Our topic this term is 'Take One Book'

It's been SATs week for the Year 6 children this week.   Every day, they've enjoyed bacon and sausage sandwiches before taking the tests (thank you, Mrs Connelly).

After their final test today, they all enjoyed an ice cream to reward the hard work and effort that's been put in.  All of them have taken the tests in their stride and remained calm and relaxed throughout.  We're all very proud of them.

Each group had a packet of American Hard Gum sweets, along with 50 toothpicks.  The first challenge required them to build a structure that could hold the weight of a large book.  The second challenge was to see how tall they could make their structure.

Over this term, Newton class have had regular sessions of yoga and mindfulness.  Using Yoga 4 Classrooms, the children have taken part in breathing exercises, yoga postures and mindfulness visualisations.  The children have said that the sessions leave them feeling relaxed and more positive for the rest of the day.  It has been a pleasure to see them all joining in so enthusiastically.

As part of our PSHE work, Newton class has been split into 6 different businesses.  Each business will be designing, making and selling cards for Valentine's Day, Mothers' Day and Easter.

The learning objective is to teach the children about the requirements of running a business: understanding what the words budget, materials, cost, expense, value for money, sales, price, profit all mean.

The business launch date will be this coming Monday - the 6th February 2017.  The groups will all have a range of Valentine's Day cards available for people to purchase.  Look out for them by the school gate before and after school - they will appreciate your support.

For the start of the new term, where our school theme is 'Take One Person', we concentrated on the most important people; the children themselves.

Newton class completed micrography portraits using words that they felt represented them and their interests.

(Micrography is artwork created from text which forms an image when viewed at a distance).

The class have been amazed by some of the facts that have been found out about our heart and the blood in our body.

For example;

- A human body has an average of 5 to 6 litres in it.  The children lifted containers with this amount of 'blood' to see how heavy it was.

- If all of the blood vessels in our body were laid out in one length, they would measure about 60,000 miles (or two and a half times around the world). 

Ask your children what they have learnt about the human body in Science lessons this term.

Clearly Newton class have really enjoyed learning about the Yanomami tribe. At our Forest School session, all they wanted to do was try and make clothes that they may wear out of natural resources.

There's going to be a Yanomami Day for Newton on December 8th - a letter will follow soon with more details .....

English - Year 6 Radio broadcasts - 21st October 2016

We have been learning about the Yanomami indigenous tribe that live in the Amazon Rainforest.  The children in Year 6 have written and recorded radio broadcasts about different aspects of their lives, which you may be interested to hear below.

Lots more activities completed on the final day before some very tired children boarded the coach home.

Well done to you all, I hope you all enjoyed it!

Arrived safely at Osmington Bay.  All children have enjoyed their activities this afternoon - archery, zipwires, tunnel trails.

Persuasive adverts - December 2015

In English, we have been writing and recording adverts for our chocolate bars.  Have a listen - have we managed to persuade you how good they are?