Below are the Maths Questions of the day, post your answers and explanations of how you solved them below. Extra dojos for passion and resilience will be awarded for clear explanations of your mathematical thinking.
The start of a new term marks the start of a new topic in Year 6!
Wednesday we were sent a very important letter from Scientists at the Darwin Centre, along with a range of equipment to help them find Darwin’s lost experiments.
We were left to decide how to complete the investigations independently and discovered ourselves about adaptation and how animals have evolved over time. We thought about our own hypothesis and was able to a range of scientific vocabulary to do so!
A great start to the Spring term!
Even with the Christmas holidays just around the corner, Year 6 have still been working hard to develop their writing skills. Today we used a pobble picture to inspire our writing. We focused on setting/character descriptions, the vocabulary we were using and the sentence structures. As you can see below Jay, Neha and Emma thought about this really carefully.
Well done!
Over the last two weeks we’ve been writing a variety of genres based on ‘The Dreadful Menace’ poem. Jay’s piece of writing was one of the best pieces of writing completed over the unit. We personified the season winter and used hyperbole to exaggerate it’s power.
Can you spot the variety of challenging vocabulary Jay has used?
Well done Jay!
Miss Smith
The writer of the week this week goes to Shanzay! I know that Shanzay was really proud of this piece of writing, she has used fantastic synonyms to make it engaging, as well as adverbial phrases and prepositions. What do you like about Shanzay’s writing and how might she vary her sentence structures?
The writer of the week goes to Brandon, for writing a fantastic diary entry of life in a Victorian Workhouse. Brandon has worked really hard to use exciting vocabulary, can you spot any that he has used?
Well done Brandon!
Dear Diary,
What an appalling day at the workhouse! I can’t believe what I have to do at the disgraceful workhouse. I had to clean the toilets. I would rather do rock smashing for six hours nonstop.
First stop: breakfast. The gruel launching down my throat after every chunk I swallow. I had to eat with my head down in silence, it was just so awful. My teeth stick together with every bite of mucky gruel sticking on my teeth. Trust me it is like an abhorrent muck in the workhouse, you would not like to be here.
Second stop: Rock smashing. The rocks were as hard as the hammer itself. I mean, I could only smash three and a half rocks today it is so exhausting. My body feels dead. Smashing rocks is such hard work there is so much of it. Thing is though I probably won’t see the new roads.
Third stop: lunch. Lunch was the same as breakfast. Heads down in silence! I was hungry. I felt sick. I wasn’t looking forward to the dirty food but I was so hungry.
After lunch all I hear are screams and kids crying their selves to sleep. I was frightened that I was going to get whipped with a knot on the end of a rope.
Well done to Isabelle in Rowan class who wrote the beginning of a fantastic diary entry! We have been reading ‘Street Child’ by Berlie Doherty and we took on the role of the main character, Jim, during his experience of a workhouse. Isabelle has used a range of vocabulary and sentence structures to make her writing really effective!
On Tuesday 19th Rowan Class visited Chelmsford Museum for an afternoon of Victorian fun! We learnt about the original building of the museum (as it’s a Victorian building) and then we learnt what life would have been like for the servants of the house. We visited the kitchen and handled real Victorian artefacts. We also explored what it would be like to complete the chore of washing during this period – it was hard work! We even found out that their pre-soak soap was made from stale urine!