Today we had another fantastic music lesson with Mrs Cossavella. We have been how to read music and plot notes and chords on a stave.

Mr Clayton was very impressed with how well the class did!

Today, we were lucky to have a visitor in Year 6. Judith Rhodes is a local woman whose mother was allowed to move to safety in the United Kingdom from Nazi Germany just before the start of World War II. She has made a short film about her mother’s life and experiences being part of the efforts to save Jewish children from persecution in Nazi Germany (Kindertransport).

Unfortunately, Judith’s mother never saw her parents or sister again as they were murdered during the Holocaust.

We thank Judith for giving up her time to come and speak to us today.

Happy New Year to all! It has been wonderful to have the children back this week. There were certainly some tired children on Wednesday! I think an early start came as a shock to some!

Today we went to have a look round the Year 5 topic exhibition in the dance studio. They have been studying the ancient Greeks and it was lovely to be able to see their amazing work and to speak to some of them about their learning. I think it brought back some nice memories about our class’s work from last year!

We also had our first library session of the we today which was very nice after a few weeks away!

This week we were incredibly lucky to speak to former RAF Squadron Leader and fighter pilot, Brian Iddon, who also happens to be Mrs Cooper’s dad! We had a fantastic time finding out what it is like to be a fighter pilot and learned a lot about the ins and outs of flying aircraft. Thank you so much Mr Iddon and thanks again to Mrs Cooper for organising this great experience for us.

This week, Menaya and Mercury were our learners of the week. They both show a great attitude to their work and have super collaboration and interdependence in their learning behaviours. They work brilliantly alone or as part of a group and are always happy to help other children. Well done girls!

Are you practising you times tables using TTRock Stars every single week?

Make sure that you do! We want everyone to do at least 15 minutes of practice each week so that you can rapidly recall these key facts.

This week, Niamh was our Rockstar of the Week for having the best ‘accuracy’ in the class.

Well done Niamh!

6TC enjoyed a fun computing lesson this afternoon. This term we are studying websites and will be learning how to make one of our own! Today we were thinking about what makes a good website by researching the web.

We have had an extremely busy but very exciting final four days of Autumn 1 here in 6TC.

We have been continuing with our writing unit on ’warning tales’ and used drama freeze frame activities to really get to know the model text.

We also had a wonderful time on Wednesday with our Reception buddies! We met them down in the hall where they had invited parents to come and see the boxes they had made. These boxes were filled with things that represented the children had decorated them themselves.

Today we have been thrilled to attend a meet-the-author event on Zoom. The author’s name is Aisling Fowler and she told us all about her first book, Fireborn. The book sounds fantastic and the class enjoyed hearing all about the story!

A big thank you to Ms Whiteley for organising this event for us!

Another busy week comes to an end in 6TC. It was certainly an eventful one as we went on a school trip to the amazing Eden Camp!

The children had a great time and were very excited for he visit!

We got to find out about many different aspects of World War II which has given us a great hook as we move into the history element of our topic ‘From woodlands to the Blitz.’