Year 6RJ: Blog items
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 12:08am
We have really enjoyed reading Michael Morpurgo's amazing book about a boy called Michael who sails around the world with his parents and finds himself falling overboard and washed up on a deserted island- but is he really alone? What a fantastic adventure- we have enjoyed every chapter in this brilliant book and we are looking foward to watching the new animated film version as a treat this week for all our hard work preparing for our SATs! Well done Year 6!
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 12:02am
We have been very busy this half term learning lots of different calculations with fractions.
Click the link below to play a game to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 3:45pm
What a fab Friday afternoon we've had in year 6. As part of our light unit, we have been experimenting with torches to see how light travels and what objects are good reflectors of light. The children had a great time.
In the style of Andy Goldsworthy...
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 5:04pm
Year 6 began their new art topic this half term, looking at the work of Andy Goldsworthy.
Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor who uses natural resources to create works of art. His work is described as ephemeral, which means it's only meant to last for a short time.
If you would like to lean more, click on the links below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/articles/zp4bbqt
https://artuk.org/learn/learning-resources/andy-goldsworthy-and-land-art
Y6 started by collecting their natural resources from the school playground, putting them into patterns and sketching what they could see. Then, they tested different methods of leaf printing, using paint, pastel, chalk and felt tip. This will build up to creating a piece of ephemeral art outside in the garden next week. Hopefully, it won't be windy!
Have a look at some of the fantastic work Y6 children have completed.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:10am
What a busy week it has been at Ravensbury. From part day to Christmas dinner! In the midst of the festive joy, some year 5 and 6 children visited Winter Wonderland on Wednesday. Have a look at some of the pictures!
Date: 12th Dec 2024 @ 11:34am
Years 5 and 6 performed their Christmas songs at St Cross Church today. The children sounded wonderful, especially with the acoustics in the church. Thank you to all parents and carers that came!
Date: 3rd Dec 2024 @ 7:09pm
Some of out fabulous year 6 children have been working alongside Rosie, a dance instructor, to refine their street dance skills! Here are some pictures from their performance this week. Thank you so much to the parents, carers and staff who came to watch an cheer on the children. They were amazing! Have a look at our Facebook page to see some videos. Well done to our dancers!
Year 6 trip to Stockport Air Raid Shelter
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 4:31pm
On Thursday, Year 6 made the trip back in time to 1941 to visit the air raid shelters in Stockport. Opened in 1939, the shelters were the largest purpose-built civilian air raid shelters in the country designed to provide shelter for up to 3,850 people. They were extended in 1940-41 to accommodate 6,500. People travelled from all over the country for the chance to remain safe during the Blitz attacks on Britain.
Y6 got to experience first-hand what daily life was like in 1940s wartime Britain. They completed chores, sang songs and even had to 'make do and mend'! Then, they took a trip down the mile-long network of underground tunnels. We got to see what happened during an air raid, what people experienced and how being underground saved thousands of lives.
Have a look at our fabulous photographs taken on the day! More photgraphs will be uploaded next week!
Date: 24th Nov 2024 @ 10:16pm
We have really enjoyed learning all about life during the Second World War this term and how the people of Britain survived during the time known as the Blitz. We have completed extra research at home and produced some wonderful drawings, models and projects based on this.
Year 6 work hard at school and at home! Well doneYear 6!
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Date: 17th Nov 2024 @ 10:17pm
Next week we are heading to Stockport for the day to visit the war museum there and to spend time in the underground shelters which provided a safe place for the people of Manchester to take shelter from Hitler's bombs. We are really looking forward to our visit and finding out even more about what life was really like for the people of Manchester during the Blitz.
Check back for some pictures of our visit...
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 5:15pm
For our golden time this week, we voted to design and make models of different periods of history. Check back next week for the final outcomes!
Date: 30th Oct 2024 @ 7:18am
Just before the half term holidays, Year 6 joined Nursery for a Harvest Celebration. The Nursery children had been learning about how farmers harvest the food during Autumn. They also found out why farmers use scarecrows. Nursery loved the scarecrows so much that they learned and then performed a song and dance about them to the older children.
Click on the link to sing along to Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Knowing how much Year 6 like to dance, the Nursery children then paired up and danced a Samba! Harvest Samba
The younger children loved sharing their learning with Year 6 and we hope to do it again very soon. Thank you Year 6 for being an amaxing audience and for looking after us.
Date: 6th Oct 2024 @ 6:05pm
Year 6 are off on an exciting adventure this week...we are headed to Lake Windermere for our residential trip to Ghyllhead. We are so excited! We are looking forward to all the challenges and fun activities we will take part in. Have a sneak peak of some of the things we will get up to!
Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 6:16pm
Year 6 has been reading Goodnight Mr Tom- a story set during WWII and is about a boy, Willie Beech, who is evacuated from London and sent to live in the countryside with a Tom Oakley a grumpy old man.
We have also been researching about evacuation during the war and have found out lots of information:
- the operation was called "Pied Piper"
- one and a half million children were evacuated
- the childen were called evacuees
- they were sent to live with "host families"
- a billeting officer collected them from the train station and took them to their new homes
- the governement had to persuade mothers to send their children away fromthe cities as they were relucant to do so
Watch the clip below to see what it was like for families to be split up during the war...
Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 6:03pm
We have been busy researching WWII and we have begun to collect all our ideas together ready to write our non- chronological reports later this week.
What was the cause of the second world war?
Date: 13th Sep 2024 @ 5:15pm
Year 6 launched their new history learning this week; we are going to be asking the question...
What was the cause of the second world war?
We listened to Neville Chamberlain's (the Prime Minister in 1939) declaration of war and thought about how we would feel if we heard that today. We decided that it felt very unnerving and made us all worried about what the future could hold. We imagined ourselves as children in 1939, and thought about the impact on our lives.
Click on the link below and listen to Neville Chamberlain's speech. How do you think you would feel after hearing this news?
https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/september/war-announced
Have a look at our knowledge organisrer below to see what we will be learning in history this half term!
We are a rights respecting school!
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 4:02pm
What a busy first week it has been for year 6 this week. We've launched the use of recognition boards in class which have a different focus each day. We have focus on transitions and being in the different focus areas this week. In addition, we have joined Ravensbury's journey to be a rights respecting school. We have discussed what rights that we have as children and how we can resepct our rights. As part of our learning about children's rights, we each created a haiku poem based on a text called 'Every Child a Song'. Please have a look at the attached pictures.
A reminder that PE days are Monday and Friday.
Have a great weekend.
Date: 25th Jul 2024 @ 10:45am
Happy holidays... Here are the photographs in files of the lovely year 6 pupils past and present. They will only be available until September. Thank you for all your support over the year. Mrs Bennett (Miss Thornton)
Date: 5th Feb 2024 @ 8:23pm
Today we said goodbye to Miss Rawling who has been working in 6JT for over 13 weeks. We have loved having you in our class and wish you all the best for your future.
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 12:00pm
This morning Mys Hughes allowed all the children to experince a fun-filled five minutes outside before they started their lessons. The children had so much fun and it was lovely to see them all playing so nicely together.
Date: 5th Jan 2024 @ 5:09pm
Happy New Year!
We have had a busy three days and the children have completed lots of work. We have written persuasive letters in wriitng and continued to explore division in maths. The children have worked hard and come bac to school with a really positive attitude. Next week our PE day has changed to Tuesday so the children should come in their PE kit (Black bottoms and white t-shirt) on Tuesdays and Fridays this term. Well done everyone... Its going to be a busy 2024 with SATs on their way and transition to high school so keep up the good work.
Don't forget to do your homework for Monday if you haven't already. The pages are Grammar- pg 8 Maths pg 11 and Reading pages 18/19.
Date: 6th Nov 2023 @ 7:58pm
Today was the Great Ravensbury Bake Off in year 6 and I had the difficult task of tasting each one and then judging the top three. I had to Enlist help in the staffroom of my top six and together we decided 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
Well done to everyone who took part and thank you for helping your child to make the shortbread over the weekend.
Date: 13th Oct 2023 @ 7:03pm
We have such a busy week this week in 6JT!
On Tuesday, we had a workshop about the Windrush. We found out some facts about the HMT Windrush Empire and acted out some events.
On Wednesday we had an exciting day as Rabaz, the freestyle footballer, came back into school to do a showcase assembly and a skills workshop after.
All week year 6 have been doing assessments in maths, reading and Grammer, today we looked at numbers up to 1, 000, 000 and were able to explore place value using a human numberline.
Also during our indoor PE slot we tried to beat the time from last year doing the 'Wall Sit Challenge. They all tried really hard and we stretched after to help the muscles recover.
Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 2:52pm
Today we had a great experience listening to Now Press Play interactive recordings about World War Two and Rivers. The children really enjoyed acting out the events.
Date: 1st Oct 2023 @ 5:22pm
In 6JT today we were researching information about gas masks and we had a go at putting one on. We all understood why people must have hated wearing them during The Second World War after either attempting to put it on or putting it on for a minute. We cannot wait for next week when we find out about evacuation and then set off to Ghyll Head and develop some understanding how that might have felt for some children.
