A wonderful interview with a governor

Thank you  so much to Russell who came to visit Year 6 to tell them all about his families experiences during WW2.  We loved hearing about how your aunty and uncle escaped and how they managed to bring this with them. Many Thanks

Creating electrical circuits in Year 6

6W had an interesting afternoon attempting to build parallel and series circuits with different amounts of bulbs and cells.  We had loads of fun trying to add more and more batteries to the circuits and seeing what would happen

Year 6 enjoying a visit from Bill - a WW2 Evacuee

Year 6 had a fabulous afternoon meeting Bill who came to talk to them all about his experiences during WW2.  Bill was amazing, answering all the children's well thought out questions and we all loved it when he read us a story based on  other children's experiences at that time.  Both Year 6 teachers were  also very proud of how the children behaved throughout this visit, Bill was extremely impressed with all of them.                                                                  

Year 6 Freeze Frames

In our English sessions, we used the freeze frame drama technique to demonstrate how the villagers might be feeling when first seeing the mysterious doorway to the 'Nowhere Emporium' (by Ross MacKenzie) that arrives in their village during the prologue off the book.  We are now using this to write a conversation between these characters outside the magical shop.

Year 6 World War Two detectives

The whole of Year 6 had a fabulous morning handling World War Two artefacts, discussing their uses and how they relate to our Topic. They have generated some amazing ideas.

Fabulous Year 6 Writers

Some fabulous examples of year 6 writing - making their teachers truly proud x

We're so proud!

We are proud of our Year 6, not only for working their socks off for SATS, they are now unscrambling their brains to get their writing sorted for the end of June assessments.  Keep it up Year 6 You can do it! We think you are amazing x

Unicef Wants and Needs

This week in Year 6, we were looking at fundamental similarities between people who look very different. This led into discussion of how, although people may look different, we all have the same basic needs which feeds into children's rights.

The children had to look at Unicef's Wants and Needs cards to develop an understanding of what people need to live, survive, develop and thrive. They then had to work with somebody they would not usually work with to discover what similarities they may have.

Here is an example of some of their work highlighting their similarities.

Reasoning and visualising in Maths - Mental Multiplication

As part of our warm up in Maths today we used concrete resources (and pictures)
to visualise and reason about what is meant by 7 x 6 and how we can use this as a starting point to extend our mathematical thinking into decimals, negatives and large numbers.

Just look at the range of representations we made to completely cover our tabletops (and who doesn't like writing on classroom tables👦👧?)!

Reasoning across the Curriculum

In year 6 we are starting the new year by having a real push on developing our reasoning skills across the curriculum. This involves clarifying our thoughts with each other and talking through our reasoning - about a character, about an equation, about a scientific concept - before putting our thoughts on paper in clear, well considered sentences.
Over the past week we have sought to explain mistakes and justify the odd one out in Maths; reason about which words best represent a character in English; and make well-reasoned predictions about a snowman's coat in Science.
As you'll see in the examples below, Welford's year 6 students have risen to the challenge with aplomb!
2018 is off to a stunning start!