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Year 6 - Mulberry Class
Goodbye Year 6
Mulberry Class you have been an absolute pleasure to teach. I will miss each and every one of you. Without a doubt, you have bright futures ahead, and I am sure that you will have a fantastic time at secondary school. Make sure you continue to believe in yourselves and be resilient when you find things difficult because you have come so far this year.
Good luck!
Thank you for a wonderful year filled with laughter.
Best wishes,
Miss Lee
Trophy Winners
Leavers’ BBQ
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Song Lyrics (Chitty Chitty)
Remember, you have access to the following websites:
TTRockstars - https://ttrockstars.com/
SpellingFrame - revision wordlists and Year 6 word lists https://spellingframe.co.uk/
Mymaths - https://www.mymaths.co.uk/
Spag.com - Continue with tasks for spelling, punctuation and grammar revision.
Year 6 Sports Day
Competing in our houses, we part in throwing games and running races. Our fun relay races included filling the bucket with water while being timed, balancing the bean bag on our heads and racing with a tennis ball and racket . At the end of the day, we were incredibly hot, so Mr Branch threw water over all of as we celebrated for the winning team: Cook.
Jubilee
Today, the children celebrated the queen’s jubilee by displaying their work from this week and eating cupcakes. Earlier this week, we tie dyed tops and made PowerPoint projects for the era we were selected to study - 1950s. Additionally, the children learnt more about the queen and important milestones within her reign. In the class photo, you can see our fabulous crowns and the queens head which we created with our own mini portraits.
Well done Year 6 - National Curriculum Tests are finished!
Mulberry Class, I am extremely proud of each and every one of you. You have worked so hard all year to be able to show off all your knowledge in these tests. I hope you are all looking forward to next week.
From Miss Lee 
To finish the week, we celebrated with ice-cream and a Year 6 rounders tournament.
Ice-creams (AGAIN!) 2022 Challenge
Congratulations Hayley and Alex for winning the PTA’s 2022 Challenge by raising £222 each. Thank you to the PTA for the ice-creams. Mulberry Class thought they were delicious!
Easter
Capture the flag
Roy Lichtenstein artwork
Animal workshop
Science Week
During Science Week, we completed a series of mini experiments, including exploding coke and mentos, making our own bubbles and creating balloon skewers. On Friday, we competed in groups to make parachutes to send an egg to the ground safely from the Year 6 steps. We came up with some fantastic inventions with most of our eggs making it to safety!
International Day of Mathematics
On International Day of Mathematics, our class took part in activities to celebrate mathematics in the world around them. We looked at shape and geometrical patterns, including tessellations. Using an online app, we created tesselations and investigated symmetry. We took part in a maths scavenger hunt where we had to take pictures related maths.
World Book Day
To celebrate World Book Day, we came into school dressed as our favourite book characters. In addition to this, we wrote a book review explaining what our book was about, what we could improve and why we would recommend it. To finish off the day, we went into a year three classroom to share stories with the children and hear them read.
Bikeability awards
Thank you for the ice-creams!
Safer Internet Day
This week, we celebrated Safer Internet Day. We wrote a Safer Internet Day diary entry which was based on e-safety themes such as online friendships, cyberbullying and solving online problems. In addition to this, our Digital Leaders hosted an e-safety quiz in our class to promote different e-safety messages before going around the school to host a variety of different activities. Prefects from our class went into a reception class to read a Safer Internet Day themed book.
Number Day NSPCC Fundraiser
On Friday, at KS1 and 2 lunchtime, the children ran a stall to raise money for NSPCC in aid of their event: Number Day 2022.
There were three competitions to enter: guess the weight, find the co-ordinate of the missing treasure and estimate the number of sweets in a tub. We asked for a donation of 50p to take part in each competition which we donated to the NSPCC. Other donations were collected throughout the day. At the end of the day, the winners were announced.
£71.26 raised
Thank you to everyone that donated, and to the children for being so enthusiastic when taking part in the day.
Each class took part in a maths problem solving task. We had the untangle a rectangle problem where we had to apply our knowledge of fractions to find the fraction of the total amount for each shape within a rectangle. Additionally, Whitebeam (Year 3) challenged us to complete their very own maths task based on Carroll and Venn diagrams which they had been learning about this week.
Nothe Fort
On the first week back after Christmas, we had our first trip of the year. The children had an amazing time learning about World War Two and what life was like in Britain at this time. They sang traditional songs, learnt about household chores, took part in a simulated bombing raid and went to school (1940’s style).
Christmas service
Thank you Rev. Ruth for our wonderful Christmas service. Mulberry Class sang fantastically and well done to our readers who stood up in front of all of Year 6 and read beautifully.
Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a lovely break and I’ll see you in the new year!
Christmas meal
Wow! A meal for 61 children prepared in a morning. Great work Year 6 - no excuses not to help your family when they’re cooking! The children made fantastic decorations for the dining room and their own party hats as well as helping with the food preparation.
Christmas team building challenge
On Thursday, Mulberry class were challenged with the task to make the highest 3D Christmas tree. However, each team had to be resourceful because they were only given two sheets of A3 paper, one strip of cellotape, one glue stick and two scissors. In their pairs or one group of three, they had to come up with a team name and work together to get their 3D Christmas tree built. Points were given to the highest tree, best Christmas decoration, great teamwork and delegation of roles. The children used their imaginations and made some wonderful creations.
Class Christmas Cards
Throughout the last week, Mulberry class were getting extremely creative and festive by making their religious Christmas cards. They started by tracing their chosen design and transferring it to the bottom of their white card. The following day, they added the navy blue sky to the background by tearing tissue paper and gluing it down. There was also a glitter station where they added gold glitter to their Star of Bethlehem, which guided the Three Wise Men to where baby Jesus was born. The final step to complete their cards, was sticking down their glittered star and two gold strips, before writing their chosen words above their picture.
Paper chain race
While some of the children were in the top hut, helping make the Year 6 Christmas meal, the rest of the class were busy making decorations for the dinning hall. One activity we did was making a festive paper chain. Mulberry class were divided into two groups and their challenge was to see which team could make the longest paper chain, which a red and green pattern. Both teams worked extremely hard in the 20 minutes they had and the final paper chain was the entire distance of the playground.
Christingle making
At the start of the week, Mulberry class learnt the meanings of the different parts of a Christingle. They then had the opportunity to make their own Christingle, which they took home at the end of the day.
Mother Goose pantomime trip
Children in Need
As part of this year's Children in Need, Mulberry class all came into school wearing non-school uniform. Some children showed off their spots by wearing Pudsey ears, t-shirts and even onesies! We looked at what Children in Need is, who it helps and the different ways our donations would help the lives of disadvantaged children. To finish off the day, we did some Children in Need themed maths by looking at code-breaking.
Anti-Bullying Week
This Monday in Mulberry class, we participated in Anti-Bullying Week. We all wore our odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique. In assembly, we looked at what bullying is, the impact it can have and what we can do to stop it.
Mock Trial
This week children from both Mulberry and Sycamore class travelled to Perrott Hill School to participate in a mock trial event. The children did an exemplary job prosecuting against Hambridge School and came away successful with a guilty verdict. With the closest scores the event has ever seen, Preston came away in third place overall. The judges adjudicating the event expressed how impressed they were with each child's performance and understanding of the case. It seems possible that Preston might have some future lawyers in their midst!
MATHS WEEK
Maths Week England 2021
To start off Maths Week, we collected data to investigate the trend between shoe size and height in our class. After measuring every pupil, we created a graph to interpret our results. Once we had plotted our results, we could see a trend in our results: the larger the child’s feet, the taller they were. This was supported by the positive gradient of our line of best fit showing an increase in height with shoe size. We answered other questions based on interpreting our results as well as calculating averages for our data set using the mean and range.
On Wednesday, we took part in Cool Aeronautics ran by the company Leonardos. We were tasked with creating a raft and a wind turbine out of recycled materials as part of our mission scenario to survive on a remote island that we were stranded on. During these tasks, we worked together to use our engineering skills to design, create and test our final ideas.
For one of our maths sessions this week, we had a zoom call with a teacher from Mangahigh Maths where we used logins provided to take part in the lesson challenges and investigations. The children collected a series of online medals throughout the lesson for their successes.
Throughout the week, the children took part in the TTRockstars competition.
More information is available at: https://mathsweekengland.co.uk/
Cool Aeronautics
Remembrance Day Service
Remembrance Day Art
In art this week, we learnt how to effectively use watercolours to show light and dark tones in preparation for our Remembrance Day final piece. Once we had experimented with our watercolour technique, we chose colours to create a sunset background for our war scene. Later in the week, we used black poster paint to create a silhouette shown in the pictures.
World Mental Health Day
Today, Mulberry class supported #HelloYellow World Mental Health Day by wearing yellow and donating money to a charity: Young Minds. During the day, we discussed the importance of looking after our mental health, the techniques we can use to maintain a healthy mind and what we can do if we aren’t feeling our usual positive selves. It was lovely to talk about what each child likes to do that makes them happy.
Forest school
This week, year 6 travelled to Preston Secondary School for a day of forest school. We began by building micro-villages using a variety of materials we could find in the woods. After a visit from the headteacher at lunch time, we moved onto fire building and making s’mores!
Welcome back Year 6
On Tuesday Morning, Mulberry entered their new classroom ready to start the first week back. Throughout the week, the children have been working hard to set the standard for their final year. They have been writing a recount on their favourite day in the holiday, learning about their Year 6 Christian Value (Perseverance), looking at how species are classified into kingdoms and much more.
I want to say a big well done to all of you. We are going to have a great year!