We hope you enjoy our Year 6 leaver's photo video filled with memories from our time here at Quarry Mount.

• Summer 2 Homework Menu

We had a wonderful puppet-making workshop with Mikey (who has worked on films such as Aladdin and Maleficent 2). We learned about how to make puppets seem real by using breath and weight & then we made our own dog puppets out of brown paper.

Some of our Year 6s visited the Children's Centre to help them make crowns as part of our Jubilee celebrations. They had a lovely time.

Year 6 had a great time at John Smeaton Leisure Centre taking part in a mini-triathlon. We swam a lap of the pool, ran 200m and cycled 200m.

Homework
Each half-term, I send home a topic homework menu that children can complete tasks from. The best piece of work will make that person the homework champion.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
Best wishes,
Miss Blackstone

• Summer 1 curriculum newsletter

In Spring 2, we made collages inspired by William Morris. We used a mixture of our own digital photography and existing images of flowers to create our wonderful collages.

We came into our classroom one day to find we had been left a note and some mystery cans. It turned out to be from Stanley Yelnats... the main character in our class reader 'Holes'! He had left some "sploosh" for us to try and it was delicious!

During Spring term, we were looking at 'light' in Science. We learned about how light travels in straight lines and used this to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them. One group explored this idea by making Mario change size when he ate a mushroom!

We had a wonderful day for World Book Day dressing up as our favourite characters. We also designed a new book cover for our class reader 'Holes' by Louis Sachar. We are loving reading it so far!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
Best wishes,
Miss Blackstone

• Curriculum newsletter Spring 2

Do you want to be our class homework champion? Choose some activities from this homework menu to be in with a chance of winning.

• Spring 2 Homework Topic Menu

Our design question for D.T was "What should Bilbo do if the dwarves call in for tea?". After discussing ideas, we decided to make seed cakes as this is what Bilbo serves his guests in the novel. We had a great time while baking and practising our measuring, mixing and spreading skills. We also experimented with different cake tin sizes and cooking times to see which yielded the best results. We found that the large cake tin and baking the cake for 45 minutes worked best. It was delicious!

We enjoyed making Ancient Greek vases during Autumn 2. We completed a cold task using play dough before making a vase from clay. We then painted them and glazed them. We think they look great!

Follow along with me as I read the final page of the text map.

Follow along with me as I read the second page of the text map.

Follow along with me as I read the first page of the text map.

Here are our self-portraits inspired by the Chris Ofili painting "No Woman, No Cry". He made this painting to represent Stephen Lawrence's mother's grief following his untimely death.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
Best wishes,
Miss Blackstone

Follow along with me as I read the text map.

We hope you enjoy our Year 6 leaver's photo video.

In our D.T lessons we learned how to make banana bread. It was delicious!

As part of our whole school hook, Year 6 went on a "flight" to Jamaica! We took our passports and boarding cards through security, had our bodies scanned, put our suitcases through the bag scanner and enjoyed some in-flight refreshments. When we got back to our classroom, we made some tropical fruit juice by cutting up various exotic fruits.

In Year 6, our history day was all about the Stone Age. We did all sorts of fun activities, including: face-painting, making our own paintbrush, creating cave paintings, watching a theatrical production called ‘Prehistoric Park’ and completing linking quiz sheets, turning the playground into a Stone Age cave using chalks, creating a paper woolly mammoth and more!

Year 6 spent the day covering objectives they missed in Year 5 due to lockdown. These included: demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes; explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials (i.e. ash); and describe the changes as humans develop to old age.

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We have been reading 'Holes' by Louis Sacher as our class reader this half-term. We have immensely enjoyed reading the book and meeting all of the characters, like Stanley and Zero. In the novel, the children live and work in a desert-like area called Camp Green Lake. For our DT learning, we had to design and make a shelter for this habitat, using materials from the scrap shed. We split in to two teams and had to select materials that were appropriate for the job, as well as figuring out how to join them together while working as a team. Who do you think built the most effective shelter?

In our Music lessons, we learned how to play 'Blinded By Your Grace Part 2' by Stormzy on the glockenspiel and chime bars. Here is a short clip of us playing the song.

We've really been enjoying doing our Maths work this half-term, especially our work on volume. Here are some photos of us using linking cubes to create cubes and cuboids with particular volumes as part of our A task.

In Spring 2, we made collages inspired by William Morris. We used digital photography to create our collages.

In Year 6, we have been learning to play the Glockenspiel and Chime bars. Here is our lovely rendition of Jingle Bells. Enjoy!

On the last afternoon of half-term, we had a wonder Christmas party. We played classic party games such as: pass the parcel, musical chairs, musical bumps and sleeping lions. We had lots of fun!

Year 6 planned an investigation to see if variations in circuit components can change the outcome of a circuit

In Autumn 2, Year 6 made Greek pots from clay. We designed, sculpted, painted and glazed our pots independently.

Follow along with me as I read the text map.

• Curricular Letter Autumn 1