Making it Happen!

Today was a really exciting day in Year Six, not because of the Christmas Production rehearsal, but rather for a new way of working that we have tried.

Over the past few weeks we have been using a program called Synchroneyes in class. It let’s me as a teacher see what everyone is doing on their laptops, which is great. We can also share each other’s screens and all sorts of clever stuff.

Today we took another big step forward in the way that we learn. We used the ‘chat’ feature of Synchroneyes to collaborate together and share information that we found out about a famous Victorian explorer called David Livingstone.

It was a brilliant way of working which let us share loads of information really quickly. As they say “many hands make light work!”

All the children were so focused on the task we didn’t hear the playtime bell!
Well done everyone.

MrKp

I think that Spanish is a great language to learn I think it is fun.   We play games and learn colours and numbers and we have Spanish every Tuesday in the afternoon and we have a laugh it is a great thing to learn.

Today we took part in a sponsored games morning and we helped other classes and the classes we helped were year one,two,three and four and our teacher is so kind he let us stay in our pe kits.

MrKp: I would just like to add that I was so impressed with the behaviour and helpfulness of Year Six, you really showed how kind and caring you all are when you helped with the younger children. Thank you for helping to make the day such a success!

Not content with doing a litter survey, which is still ongoing, we’ve decided to try out some other surveys of our own. There were some brilliant ideas that we came up with.

So at the moment we’re investigating these areas / questions and graphing our results to see what is happening.

1. Do the number of displays that have pictures on them decrease the further up the school you get?

2. Have sports cars got progressively faster as the years have gone by?

3. Which drinks are the most popular at lunchtimes?

4. Which classes have the greatest amount of paper recycling and why?

5. Which type of football player is the most popular in each class, do strikers get all the glory?

The results should be pretty interesting!

Today we remembered about all the people that died in the first world war. At 11o’clock we all stood still and quiet for two minutes to remember all the men and women that died in the war. We sold poppies everyday so children could buy them. Father Mark gave an assembly yesterday to pray for peace on the world.

Gemma and Deusa also represented the school at the church service today.

(Image Copywrite guardian.co.uk)

This afternoon we started to explore how we can use Google Earth to help us in school.

We started by looking at all the tools that you can use to fly around the planet looking at the earth from different views. We also discovered that you could see which parts of the earth were in darkness at any moment.

We then all looked for our own houses and discovered how to mark places that are important to us on the map.

It was great fun and we all enjoyed the session.

Mrs Cooper was kind enough to pop into school this afternoon with her beautiful baby daughter. We were all really pleased and excited to see them both, especially after their dramatic exit during PE last half term!

It was lovely to see them both and we can’t wait to see them again soon.

This week as part of our Victorian project we have been finding out about Jean Blondin who walked across Niagra Falls 1857, however to make it more exciting he did it with his manager on his back!

We read all about Blondin and have practiced Reading out the final part of the story. Ben, Paige, Reece, Demi and Conner read out the story which we recorded.

Part One  Part Two  Part Three  Part Four  Part Five

In assembly this morning Mr Gauld reminded us that people were dropping litter in the playground. We decided in our Numeracy group to collect some continuous data over the next couple of weeks to see if the situation changes. We’ll keep you posted.

This is the start of the blogging adventure In Year Six’s classroom. It’s just going to try and give a flavour of what is going on on our classroom on a regular basis.

Tomorrow should be interesting as we’re going to try and use wordle to show how we have improved our writing.