Welcome to Year 6
Being in Year 6 at Abbey Gates is a special and memorable time. Mrs Jordan, Mrs Hatton, Mrs Miles and the children endeavour to work hard whilst having lots of fun along the way!
In the Autumn term our topic is 'A Child's War' and we hope the subject will inspire our future writers, mathematicians, historians, designers and geographers. As well as our work in topic we will be visiting Joseph Whitaker for sports on Wednesday afternoons. In October we will be attending a residential visit to PGL. It will be an action-packed three days where children will take part in a variety of activities such as: abseiling, climbing, fencing and the high ropes of course!
We will also be busy during the Spring Term with SATs revision and the tests in May. We are also looking forward to lots of exciting events in the Summer Term including Sports Day, the Summer Fayre, - so lots more fun on the horizon!!
Class Updates
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National Mining Museum
As part of our topic of ‘Life is the Pits’, Year 5 went to the National Mining Museum in Wakefield. The children met Sally a 6 year old girl, who was a trapper down the mines, they also met some Pit Ponies and its explored the grounds. Year 5 the also...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Board Games
To bring our class book of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to a close, Year 5 had great fun creating and designing board games based around the book.
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Writing Algorithms using Scratch
Today, Year 5 enjoyed learning how to write algorithms. They made use of the ‘Scratch’ software in order to this.
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Ancient Mayan Food Tasting
Year 5 loved tasting food from Central America and seeing the types of foods that the Ancient Maya and Ancient Aztecs used to eat. A big thank you to Mr Rich’s mum and godfather (Mr Apsden) for cooking all the food and enlightening the children with their knowledge. Both...
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What did the Ancient Maya eat?
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/mayans/what-did-maya-aztecs-and-incas-eat/ http://www.mayankids.com/mmkpeople/foods.htm https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/top-10/maya-foods/ https://historyplex.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ancient-mayan-food-culture
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‘Marbulous’ Marble Runs
Year 5 have had a great few days undertaking our Design and Technology project of 'Marbulous' Structures. Today, the children had to show off their understanding of joins and how to create bends, in order to produce a free standing Marble Run.
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Christmas Coordinates
Year 5 enjoy learning how to plot coordinates this morning, which involved a Christmas theme.
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Musical notations
In Music this half-term, Year 5 have been learning how to read music and write music, using the basics of staff and other musical notations. They have really enjoyed this and created their own pieces.
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Baby People - Urban Gongs Tour
In the Summer Term, our current Y5/6 classes had a very exciting day making music as part of the ‘Baby People Urban Gongs’ Tour. The day began when the whole school were invited to a performance by 'Kayu Gangsa' and 'Baby People' - a fusion of gamelan and...
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Using perimeter and measuring to map out Abbey Gates.
Year 5 had to apply their knowledge of addition, measuring, perimeter and positioning in order to create a floor plan of Abbey Gates Primary School. The children really enjoyed this activity and all achieved success with a little bit of perseverance in what was a tricky challenge.
Notice Board
Most recent Class Pages
- First Y5/Y6 basketball match! (Whole School)
- Biscuitology (Year 3)
- Magna Science Adventure Centre (Year 3)
- Healthy biscuits and muffins (Year 3)
- A fantastic end to the term in Year 4! (Year 4)
- Action Packed PGL (Year 6)
- Riddle research (Year 3)
- Ikano Mini Marathon (Whole School)
- Rainforest Launch (Year 5)
- ROOTS and SHOOTS topic launch (Year 3)