Park Mead Primary

Year 6

Isle of Wight - Day 4

Today, we have seen a bit more of the wet weather, but luckily, it cleared up quicker than expected which left us to enjoy a variety of activities: trapeze, sensory trail, archery, climbing, survival skills and giant swing.

The children are now off enjoying their evening activities including laser tag and matrix. We can’t quite believe it is our last night. The children are suitably exhausted from all the activities, so they will enjoy snuggling down for their last night.

Isle of Wight - Day 3

Wonderfully, the weather improved for us today, and thank goodness because today we kayaked! Everyone did it together and was fantastic and played all the games.
In the morning, we all did different activities including orienteering (which of course Park Mead is great at), vertical climb, problem solving and abseiling.
The children are now enjoying a bit of free time before the evening activity with the challenge of Balloon Splash (trying to protect a water balloon.) They are having a wonderful time and can’t believe we are already half way through our trip.

Isle of Wight - Day 2

We may have had a fair few showers today but that hasn’t stopped the fun! After a great first night, there has been lots of high ropes activities including Jacob’s Ladder for some groups, Vertical Challenge and abseiling. Some have done surviour training whilst others did the sensory trail. We have now completed our evening activities which included laser tag. They are now snuggling down for another peaceful night of sleep (fingers crossed) before another day of activities.

Isle of Wight - Day 1

What an action packed day! After catching our ferry to the island and arriving at the center, the children went straight to activities. Everyone had a lovely beach walk looking for the famous and ‘valuable’ Isle of Wight Blue stones.
Everyone got their feet off the ground with either trapeze, Jacob’s ladder or the zip line.
The day was completed with campfire, marshmallows and singing led by Mr Harding, who now works at PGL but worked with the children when they were in Year 1.

The Year 6 Team


Miss Bayne - 6B	Miss Eidimtaite - 6E	Mrs Leighton - 6B and 6E

We have a fun-packed curriculum in-store for you in the Summer Term.

Here is a brief overview of our coverage:

English - Narrative writing - Rock, Paper, Scissors and Harris Burdick

- Fantastic Beasts information writing

- Information Text - Circulatory System

- Guided reading is a selection of extracts

Maths - Shape, Position and Direction, SATs revision

Science - Body Pump

History - The Change of Power

PSHE - Keeping Safe and Growing and Changing

Art - Making memories sculpture

DT - Come Dine With Me

RE - Christianity and Who am I and where do I belong?

Computing - Green Screening, Powerpoints

PE - Athletics and Cricket (Summer 1), Orienteering and Tri-golf (Summer 2)

French - numbers to 100, shapes and sports

Important Dates:

SATS: Mon 12th - Thu 15th May - please ensure children are in these days.

Isle of Wight Trip - Mon 2nd June - Fri 6th June

PE days - Wednesday and Friday

On PE days, children may arrive in their PE kits as they did last year.

Dress suitably for the weather: please provide children with black or dark blue leggings or tracksuit bottoms and a sweater when cold; hats and sun-cream for warmer weather.

Library days:

Mondays

Homework

Children will write their weekly into their reading records every Monday as part of their class meeting.

Reading - 5 times a week for 20 minutes or more. This must be recorded in their Reading Records and will be checked on Mondays.

My Maths - Mondays www.mymaths.co.uk

Spelling Shed - Mondays www.spellingshed.com

Timetables Rockstars - 25 minutes a week minimum - checked on Fridays www.ttrockstars.com

Learning Logs - set on a 3 week rota - children have 2 weeks to complete the work and will have it returned a week after handed in. Children are expected to spend a minimum of 2 hours on it over the 2 weeks. Dates will be assigned through the term but will be due in on a Monday.

Click here to see the Autumn Learning Log tasks - chose which learning log to complete.

Websites to help learning: - Maths: www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/

- English: www.bbc.com/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

This will be added to as work is set.

https://bookcreator.com/ (Children will need to create a log in)

Apps that are free and useful: Seesaw Class, Apple Clips, GarageBand, Keynotes, ThingLink, ibisPaint X, LbQ, Popplet, AnimateAnything, Do Ink GreenScreen (All creations from these apps can be uploaded to Seesaw)

Access Reading Cloud, click here. to order library books.