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Year 6

Staff:  Mr Edwards / Miss Gottlieb / Mrs Quinn

Contact info. –  john.edwards@panshanger.herts.sch.uk

Spanish is taught by Ms Fernandez on a Monday and Music is taught by Mr Mitchell on a Tuesday.

Welcome to Panshanger School and to our Year 6 class. On this page, we post photos every half term sharing updates on the activities and learning the children are completing. 

Spring 1

PE (Fitness): We explored a variety of exercises from indoor lunges to skipping and sprints. This was a good opportunity to challenge ourselves and use the stop watches and practical maths. We also began our trampolining sessions for the term.

English (mythical creatures): inspired by the Spiderwick Field Guide, we created our own creatures and wrote about them like a non-fiction guide would about real animals. This also gave us an opportunity to show off our drawing skills by producing illustrations of our creatures.

Maths: we have continued to build our fluency and confidence in decimals, algebra and ratio. The class have really become confident in their arithmetic too.

Computing: we explored E-safety and how to stay safe online. This included our own version of traitors to see who had sent a message to each group that was a scam.

Art: we created sculptures built on plinths inspired by the Fourth Plinth (Trafalgar Square). Before sculpting, we used our sketching skills to develop our ideas.

Autumn 2

Bringing Christmas Joy with Singing – The class were fantastic when taking both Reception and Year 1 children to a local care home, where we sang to the residents. The residents then surprised us by singing a song to us! We were very proud of the class.

English –The children built on the story ‘Wisp’ by creating their own sequels which continued the theme of hope. Just before Christmas, we began looking at inspirational and persuasive speeches and the children will write and perform their own in the New Year!

PE – Hockey – The children impressed us and the Stevenage coaches with their hockey skills and then before Christmas they had a morning “boot camp” on how to play cricket before having a whole class game later that day.  

RE – The children created their own Buddha statues out of clay and then painted them gold or silver which created a great finish to their great sculptures.

DT – The class made their own baubles and stockings, both of which they created brilliantly. It demonstrated their flair, eye for detail and patience!

Autumn 1

PGL

Most of the class attended PGL (Cayhthorpe Court), activities included: archery, zip wire, problem solving, fencing, buggy building, abseiling and canoeing. The children demonstrated great resilience and positivity, and were wonderfully supportive to each other. We received daily compliments from PGL staff about the behaviour and manners of the children that often indicated how our school is above beyond many others when it comes to the attitude and respect of the children – well done Year 6!

English & Art

The children were incredibly imaginative and descriptive when creating their own gargoyle creatures (which came to life at night). We spent time really focusing on atmosphere and mood, and how we can create those in our writing. As part of this we looked at “show not tell” in our writing and have become increasingly confident at understanding and using this technique.

Science (Light)

The class have enjoyed exploring this topic, which including investigations using mirrors and torches. It has been great to see the ideas and cooperation within each group during investigations, including awareness and discussion about the possible variables and how to make the investigation as fair or consistent as possible. The children have then been able to be thoughtful when making connections to previous learning or when making deductions or predictions.

Anti-Racism Workshop

As part of our partnership with Stevenage FC, some of their players and coaches led us in a Premier League Primary Stars Anti-Racism workshop. The children were incredibly engaged, thoughtful and impressed the SFC representatives with their teamwork, empathy and thoughtful ideas.

Basketball House Competition & District Competition

The class had a morning “boot camp” on revising the main skills and rules of basketball before having an intra-class tournament. As part of an ongoing theme for the term, the children really impressed the Stevenage FC coaches with their attitude and teamwork.

Having won the “family” tournament (schools in our sub-district) we qualified for the district competition. Despite it being incredibly competitive and challenging, the team was incredibly focused and composed but were unable to win enough games to go through to the county tournament.

Life Skills

With focused yet fun attitude the children seem to enjoy roleplaying their learning about how to deal with burns & scalds and severe bleeding. It was great to see their maturity and independence throughout.