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Coningsby St Michael's Church of England Primary School
Believe. Aspire. Succeed.
6S
Welcome to 6S's class page. Mr Saunders is our class teacher from Monday to Thursday. Mrs Skelton teaches our class on a Friday. Please check back to this page as it will be regularly updated.
Term 6
This term our church school value if truthfulness.
We will be exploring this value through questions such as:
What does it mean to be truthful?
Are you always truthful?
What happens when you don't tell the truth?
How do you know who to trust?
What does Jesus teach about truth?
We will also be focusing on The story of Zacchaeus the tax collector Luke 19 v1-10 as our Bible story of the term.
In science, children were given this challenge this week. If your class could design a traffic light to manage the flow of children through the school, what would it look like? Think about a solution – and put your ideas to the test!!
Year 6 created their own animations using the website flipanim
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Term 6 Newsletter
Term 6 Homework
We have completed an endurance narrative about Shackleton's journey. Please take a look at the amazing writing the children completed.
In computing the children have been creating animations using the website flipanim. The children had to present either an eye blinking, a flower growing or a light turning on and off.
In science this week we have been making our own switches out of match boxes and clothes pegs to open and close a circuit.
In maths this week we have been using multilink cubes to explore volume.
Term 5 Newsletter
Term 5 Homework
Term 4
This term's church school value is thankfulness.
We will explore the value of thankfulness through questions such as:
What does it mean to be thankful?
What does it mean to take someone or something for granted?
What are we thankful for in our school community?
What are the things we forget to be thankful for?
Why did Jesus give thanks?
We will also be exploring Psalm 100
In science this term we are looking at electricity. We started off the topic by trying to make a lamp light up using only a cell and some foil.
Term 4 newsletter
Term 4 homework
We will be using this lovely illustrated book for part of our English work this term. Over the next two weeks we will be writing our own first person narratives about a close encounter with a pack of wolves.
In science this week we have been designing our own garden centres. Children had to place the plants given into different areas of the building according to their characteristics.
In science we have started our new topic of Living things and their habitats. Today we looked a classification and grouping. Children were given sweets to place into their own labelled groups.
In Maths this week we have created double page spreads about decimals, percentages and fractions.
In computing this week we have started to use Scratch to make animated stories.
In French we have been learning the numbers to 12. Have a look at our French .
To complete our Geography learning about deserts we have some visitors from Boston college who came to share some animals with us who live in the rainforest and desert.
Term 3
We will use questions to explore compassion such as:
What is compassion?
How do you show compassion?
How have you shown compassion to others?
We will also use the bible story of Jesus feeding the 5000 to support in exploring the church school value of compassion.
This week we will be moving on to another brilliant book about Charles Darwin. We will be looking deeply at the text and producing our own explanation texts.
You can read the text by opening up both pdf files. It is a great opportunity to also look at the amazing illustrations the book has.
Our book this term.
Over the past few weeks we have been building up to writing a discovery narrative in the third person based on the exploration and discoveries of Charles Darwin.
Have a read of some of the narratives that the children have produced.
We have loved playing handball this tem in PE. The improvement in the children's skills has been amazing!
In Science (biology) we have been looking at how animals adapt to their environment. We discussed Darwin's work on the finches of the Galapagos' Islands and which beak shape would be best to pick up different foods. .
Over the last few weeks we have been looking at Darwin an Exceptional Voyage. One of our lessons involved looking at some artifacts he may have come across on his adventures. This giant snake skin really got us talking!
In PE we have been doing gymnastics. We have really come a long way in a short period of time with our headstands and handstands.
Home learning week beginning 7.02.22
Working from home 31.01.22
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Working from home week beginning 10.1.22
Working from home week beginning 4.1.22
Term 3 newsletter
Term 3 homework
Term 2
Our school value for term 2 is perseverence.
We will learn about perseverence through questions such as:
1, When have you shown perseverence?
2, Why is it important to persevere?
3, How can you help someone to persevere?
4, When is it difficult to persevere?
We also learn about perseverence though our bible story of the term: the story of Nehemiah.
Term 2 Newsletter
Term 2 Homework
Term 1
Our Church School Value for this term is friendship. These are the things we will be thinking about in terms of friendship:
Why are friends important to you?
What does it mean to belong to a community of friends?
What are the qualities of a good friend?
Who is a role model that shows how to be a good friend?
What should we do when we disagree?
How can we protect and mend friendships?
Our Bible story for the term is the Good Samaritan.
Home learning 29.11.21
Home learning 22.11.21
Home learning: English, science and guided reading 18.10.21
Home learning Maths week beginning 18.10.21
RE 20-10-21
PSHE 20-10-21
History 21-10-21
Home learning 11.10.21
Home learning 4.10.21 English, guided reading and science.
Maths home learning week beginning 4.10.21
Home learning RE, PSHE, Art week beginning 04-10-21
Home learning English and Science 20.09.21
Home Learning for maths week beginning 20.9.21
Home learning RE, PSHE, History, Art week beginning 20-9-21
Term 1 newsletter
Term 1 Homework
This week we had a STEM afternoon with the local RAF. Children were asked to design a "carbon zero" RAF base. They thought about how vehicles could be powered, accommodation, growing their own food and much more. They considered how they would do this using geothermal, wind, solar, hydro and biomass energy.
In RE this week we took a visit to our local church to look at some of the key Christian artifacts we could find.
In science this week we looked at a visual demonstration of how the digestive system works.
Week 3. In science this week our class have been looking at the circulatory system and making our own life size model. Lots of key vocabulary will be added to show the arteries and veins and how they carry oxygenated and deoxygenated blood.
We have had a great gymnastic lesson this week! We were looking at travelling and balances.
