Welcome to Year 6
Being in Year 6 at Abbey Gates is a special and memorable time. Mrs Jordan, Mrs O'Dea, Mrs Miles and the children endeavour to work hard whilst having lots of fun along the way!
In the Autumn term our topic is 'Storms and Shipwrecks' and we hope the subject will inspire our future writers, mathematicians, ship builders, designers and meteorologists. 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 Kingswood. 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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Hakka
This half term, the children have relished the opportunity to learn the Hakka. Throughout the half term, great cooperation has been demonstrated and leaders have been developed.
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Making a Difference in World Presentations
During PPA this term, with Mrs Comins, Year 5 have been undertaking the RE topic of ‘Making a Difference in the World’. Last week, the children had to get into twos and create a PowerPoint presentation showing all they had learnt. Then today, the groups presented them to class....
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How much salt?
This afternoon, year 5 were set a challenge by the Chief Alchemist to see how much salt cold and hot water could dissolve before a saturated solution was created. The children remembered how to create a fair test and once again showed great teamwork.
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Spanish Week
Year 5 have enjoyed learning Spanish this week and they amazed Mr Rich with how much they could remember from last year. This week we looked at Spanish numbers, days, months, and common Spanish phrases.
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Portal Music
Year 5 had great fun this afternoon and enjoyed creating a lot of loud noise (most of it beautiful noise though!) They had to improvise and compose music for when a character travels through a portal taking them to an imaginary world.
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Alchemy Island Launch
To launch our new topic of ‘Alchemy Island’ the children had a visit from the Chief Alchemist’s apprentice, who delivered a rather special brief case. Inside the case was a riddle which would provide the start location for the children’s journey through Alchemy Island....
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Ben Nevis Conquerors
WOW! Erin and Jude conquered Ben Nevis over the half-term holidays. This is an incredible achievement and even more so as they raised an amazing £300 for Children in Need. They made it up and down in only 6 hours! In what looks to have been very cold and wet weather...
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Perimeter and Area Games
https://maths.garyhall.org.uk/gordons/swf/Perimeter.swf Perimeter Games https://maths.garyhall.org.uk/gordons/swf/Area.swf Area Games
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Victorian Children Projects
Mr Rich and Mrs Comins have been blown away by the quality of the Year 5s Victorian Children Projects. The quality of them, the amazing presentations and the range of layouts has surpassed Mr Rich’s and Mrs Comins’s expectations. The children really enjoyed sharing facts they...
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Magnificent Magnets
This afternoon, Year 5 undertook various investigations into magnets. Frist of all, they identified magnets in everyday life and how they move. Then the class played around with the magnets to see what happens when different magnetic poles are put together, learning the language of attract and repel, and feeling the...
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Most recent Class Pages
- Painting skills (Year 1)
- Ordering quantities of objects (Year 1)
- Spectacular Space Facts (Year 5)
- Planets research (Year 5)
- Craters in the ‘Playground’ (Year 5)
- Blending Pastels (Year 5)
- What makes me, me? (Year 5)
- Year 6 takes on the Rest of the World (Whole School, Class 2012-2018)
- Summer Term Super Stars (Whole School)
- ‘Wonka Machines’ - Explanation texts (Year 6)