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Year 6 - Elm Class 2020-2021
Farewell Elm Class
What a year we have had: lockdown learning, working hard in assessments, preparing for the school play, all the fun of Activity Week and much more. My first year teaching such an incredible class will stay with me forever. You have all worked extremely hard this year and you have made exceptional progress; you should be very proud of yourselves. Without doubt, you all have bright futures ahead. I look forward to hearing about your great achievements. If you ever want to say hello, we aren’t going anywhere!
Best of luck in the future and remember, follow your dreams.
Miss Lee
P.S Thank you for all my lovely gifts and beautifully written cards.
Shirt Signing And End Of Year Awards
Tea Party With Mrs Hodgson
Practically Perfect
We are incredibly proud of the performances by every child and think we can all agree it was a resounding success. The intensity of the singing and acting was coupled with great audience participation, making for a very entertaining evening (albeit a little warm). Thank you to everyone who came to support the production and for your generous donations.
Wimbledon
On Friday, we had our Wimbledon final. Jessica and Kitty were competing for the winning title. As the match began, Elm Class could barely contain their excitement. Cheering and clapping, they were eager to witness the winning point… Success! Congratulations to Jessica - the winner. Well done to Kitty for making it a close game.
Year 6 Digital Leaders receive award for Online Safety
An assessor from South West Grid for Learning visited Preston Primary on Monday, to review the school’s online provision. The assessor met with Digital Leaders, Staff and Parents to discuss the provision and the level of protection for users of digital technologies.
We were delighted to be told that we were successful with our submission, and that as a school we have established a culture which effectively addresses issues and risks, alongside encouraging a positive use of technology to facilitate quality learning experiences.
Geography Day
Well done to Elm Class for representing Uzbekistan’s flag by wearing white, blue, red and green. Throughout he morning, the children learnt about the country’s culture, history, traditions and location. As a result, the children had plenty of information to share in a booklet about Uzbekistan. Later in the day, the children got to try out related sports and dance. Additionally, we created some Japanese art in light of this year’s Olympic Games host - Japan. We have some fantastic work from Friday and the children working hard on their homework - the booklets look fantastic!
Mill on the Brue
Early Friday morning, 50 excited children waved goodbye to their parents and headed for a day of fun at Mill on the Brue. They split into groups, and completed two wet and two dry activities (with just enough time for a quick lunch and change of clothes in between). Activities ranged from raft building to riding zip wires, with every student showing exemplary manners and behaviour throughout the day. It was fantastic to see so many children overcome fears and achieve personal goals in a controlled, safe environment. We would like to thank Mill on the Brue for their hospitality, and for allowing us to create some long-lasting memories.
Zip Wire
Water Slide
Sports Day 2021
The Road to Tokyo is Open!
Key Stage 2's Sports Day opened today with Year 6 parading the Olympic, British and Japanese - the hosts - flags. All were of course disappointed that we could not welcome parents to the event, but we hope that you enjoy this short introductory video along with the photos and media that will follow on class pages that will help all to feel involved.
The results will be confirmed by the end of this week as we didn't want any class to miss out on this big announcement! We hope that Key Stage 1's Sports Day will be just as successful tomorrow and that next year all can come to Preston Primary to share in this annual favourite!
ありがとうございました
Photography Competition Winners Announced
Today, the Year 6 wait was over; the results of the photography completion were finally announced. The judges were thrilled with the standard of all the photographs this year and were amazed by the talent shown of all the children.
Receiving their awards from Elm Class were 1st Place Harry Guest
2nd Place Millie Flood
3rd Place Ayaan Nadeem.
Well done to all the children who took part!
Fundraising Hero
Harry received his certificate and charity band from Cancer Research this week, following his monumental effort with his sponsorship for our recent Race for Life. Harry raised a staggering £170 towards our grand total of £3500.
Global Games
Working alongside Mr Bourne, all the Year 6 children became sports leaders this week by being paired with a Year 2 child. Different sporting activities were offered, with an international theme, such as football, golf, archery, pétanque, table tennis, basketball etc. The children had the opportunity to emerse themselves in a new language ( depending on the game chosen) but also for the Year 6 to ensure that the younger children understood each activity and played fairly. This collaboration between the two year groups was a huge success, and thoroughly enjoyed by all that took part.
Maths investigation - height vs shoe size
In maths, the children have been interpreting graphs. Therefore, we took the opportunity to do our own investigation that we can interpret the results of. Elm class independently filled in a table on the class laptop and collected data from one another. Afterwards, we discussed and created a graph with the appropriate scale and labels to record the results. The children plotted the results in a scatter graph. Next, the children will be answering and creating questions while discussing trend, correlation and gradient based on their results and line of best fit.
Designing and making a rover
After learning about the landing of Perseverance on Mars, the children were tasked with designing their own rover prototype that would land safely on Mars. Elm class worked collaboratively to make design decisions that would enable their rover to land upright. It was fantastic to see them all working so well together.
Rover drop
Christian Value Photography Competition
This week the entire Year 6 took part in Preston C of E Primary’s annual photography competition. The inspiration for the photographs from Elm this year was ‘ Joy and Happiness.’
Once again we were able receive professional advice on how to take the perfect photograph by Mr Graham Pritchard and Mr Kevin Samways, when they delivered a photography workshop to the children.
Graham and Kevin were joined by Len Copland and Mr D. Glentworth for the overall judging. The children will find out the results on their return to school following the half term break.
All the judges and staff members were thrilled and impressed by the quality of the entries this year which made it a very difficult decision!
Watch this page for photographs of the winners in the up and coming weeks.
Race for Life Sponsorship
Wow! What a fantastic total...so far! A huge thank you to all that sponsored the children, in this very worthwhile cause. The generosity of everyone was staggering and we totally smashed our school target!
Elm Class have raised a staggering £900 towards our overall total. A great achievement!
Activity week
During Summer Term, the year sixes have worked extremely hard before their well-deserved Activity Week. The children began their week with a Taskmaster day, where they took part in multiple challenges: crazy golf, egg tower balance, tea bag launch, find the kiwi and much more. Fortunately, the weather held out for the children’s Race for Life, which every pupil raised money for. Among the cheering and clapping, each child crossed the finish line after running 5km, even those that couldn’t attend on the day. Meanwhile, groups of children were able to participate in Laser Tag. A particular highlight of the week was being one of the first year groups allowed into the cinema. The children enjoyed the walk to the cinema, but were glad to get the coach home! We finished the week with an Arts and Crafts Day to create a new stained glass window for the front of the school. Alongside this, the children had the opportunity to create 3D animals to represent our Christian Values.
Activity week photos
Activity Week Letters
Summer term
This week, Elm class have worked extremely hard to show off all of the progress they have made throughout the year. On Thursday, we celebrated with doughnuts and gave ourselves a well-deserved pat on the back.
As part of the Mental Health Awareness Week theme - nature - we created our own nature still life for drawing in our sketchbooks. After recapping several sketching techniques, we focused on using these, combined with shading, to make our drawings look 3D. Additionally, we created our own illustrations for a book: ‘The mole, the Fox, the Mole and the Horse.’ Within this book, are meaningful quotes related to emotional well-being. As part of raising awareness for the importance of mental health, we discussed the deeper meaning behind some of these quotes before drawing them.
3D shapes - making nets
Easter Activities
The children were fully engaged with the Easter festivities this week. Easter cards were made ( using watercolours depicting a scene of the sunrise over Golgotha) and our Easter Service this year was held in the hall, due to the restrictions still in place.
Revd.Ruth attended the service, with Year 6 children taking the lead with the readings, about The Crucifixion, The Resurrection and a selection of Easter Poems. The children recited the new school prayer to close the service.
Virtual reality workshop
Superhero Red Nose Day
Recycling and Fairtrade Displays
Global Recycling Day
Today (Thursday, March 18) was Global Recycling Day, and we’re being asked to think about what we throw away – seeing not waste, but opportunity.
We learnt about recycling, through a whole school Teams assembly, led by Carymoor Environmental Agency.
Questions that were raised included:What are you doing at home to recycle? How can we help our community?
As part of our English lesson, the children wrote poems to identify the plight of our planet and the importance of recycling.
Science week
In Elm Class, we thoroughly enjoyed taking part in this year's Science Week theme - 'Inventions for the future'. We narrowed the theme down to making life easier and designed our own inventions with this intention. Our ideas came with price points, marketing strategies and investment plans. At the end of the week, the final ideas were presented Dragon's Den style, where children discussed percentage shares and answered any challenging questions from their audience. Without a doubt, every idea was genius and survived the 'Dragon's Den'.
Each day, we had a scientific thinking stimulus. A variety of strands from the curriculum were covered including: learning about the planets (in French) whilst incorporating the music from Holst; researching how the rough surface of a mint bonds with the carbon dioxide gas and water in coke; making a film canister rocket and breaking the surface tension on milk with food colouring.
To finish off the week, we created our own parachutes to carry an egg. We had to consider the role of air resistance and gravity to get our eggs to land safely. As a class, we were very impressed that only one egg didn't make it!
World Book Day
Fairtrade in school display project
Week 8 Home Learning
Week 7 Home Learning
Mardi Gras and Chinese New Year
Week 6 home learning
Week 5 home learning
Life Skills Week 4
Week 4 Home Learning
Home learning Week 3.
More photographs can be found on Home Learning Gallery
Extended Writing
Weeks 1 and 2 home learning
The year 6 team have enjoyed all of the work and creative activities that have been sent in during these past two weeks - the dedication from everybody, whether in class or at home, has been wonderful! Well done!
Christmas Lunch Preparations
As part of their Design Technology curriculum, all three classes in Year 6 prepared their own Christmas lunch. From peeling the vegetables, roasting the potatoes, making the stuffing and of course mixing the gravy, the children also helped decorate the dining hall and laying the tables correctly.
This Christmas, year six took on the task of learning, rehearsing and performing a unique pantomime in just three days! From lighting and sound, to prop making and acting, our collaborative effort made for an unforgettable performance.
From all of the staff in year six, we wish you all a wonderful Christmas after working so hard!
Christmas at St James’
Year 6 were fortunate enough to be able to attend their annual Christmas service at St. James’ church. Beautifully read biblical verses along with some amusing Christmas poetry were matched by a fantastic service by Reverend Ruth reminding us all that, although it may be a different Christmas than many of us are used to, the importance of family, religion and enjoying ourselves remains. There was also something about permission to eat extra chocolate this year;we don’t need telling twice!
The countdown is on!
As we have now started advent, our Year 6 students were keen to help begin the festivities and assist the elves with the Winter Wonderland in the Welcome Garden.
Cracking the Code
Following the success of our Cool Aeronautic engineering activities, we were really excited to participate in the Sherborne and Sherborne Girls Schools’ Gifted and Talented event. Teams had to solve a series of mathematical and linguistic challenges to earn clues towards solving the overall coding puzzle. We forwarded two teams, made up of children across the Year 6 classes, who both tried really hard to solve the puzzles successfully. Well done teams!
Cool Aeronautics
Each year, our oldest students have the opportunity to attend the Fleet Air Museum, joining other schools from around Somerset to participate in scientific engineering challenges. Due to CV19, the trip to the museum was not possible, however Leonardo Helicopters hosted the event live online, meaning that this year’s students wouldn’t miss out on this amazing experience.
We were presented with scenarios requiring teams to solve puzzles, using their knowledge and skills in maths and science. The centrepiece of the day was building working model cars to then cross a bridge teams had made from recycled materials. All teams completed the challenge (to varying degrees of success!) and had a thoroughly enjoyable day.
Remembrance Day 2020
Year 6 children, took the responsibility of leading our schools Remembrance Day celebrations today. The service included poems, readings, prayers, laying of class wreaths and the playing of The Last Post by Mr R Lush fromThe Salvation Army.
After the service, at a safe distance, children delivered hand written poppy postcards, poems and art work to West Abbey Care Home.
African Drumming Workshop
To celebrate Black History Month, we were able to invite in Kaspa from Zamble African Dance Company to give our class an opportunity to learn about the history and culture surrounding ceremonial drumming and also to play our own collective rhythms!
Zamble African Dance Company
Leave this to us sonny!
Elm Class enjoyed an amazing Experience Day, with South West Heritage providing many hands-on resources and workshops for our evacuees to get to experience first-hand what those months in 1940-41 would have been like during the Second World War. We learnt about rationing, clothing and what to do in an air raid!
#Hello Yellow!
A fantastic effort from the pupils and staff in Year 6, as we joined in with the World Mental Health Day to show our support, understanding and recognition to those suffering from any form of mental health problem today. As usual, Mrs Sherry came up with the goods, fashioning the teachers in banana outfits for the day, whilst students did their best not to burst into fits of laughter every time a new staff member entered the room! The staff were very proud of the understanding shown of the topical discussions and as a school, we raised an incredible £405!
Pig Heart Dissection
As part of Year 6 studying the circulatory system, all children had an exciting science lesson dissecting pig hearts.
The children studied the chambers, to investigate the way the blood enters and exits the heart, by poking their fingers through the passages!
The lesson really helped to consolidate all of the learning that took place prior to the dissection and understand how blood circulates our bodies.
Healthy Eating Week 2020
As part of Healthy Eating Week 2020, Elm looked at the nutritional information for a range of common grocery items and were often surprised to discover how much sugar was contained in each portion. Sugar is a vital energy source but too much can lead to an unhealthy lifestyle, something which all Year 6 classes have begun to study in science lessons.
Life Saving CPR Skills in Elm
From this academic year, all state-funded schools in England will need to teach first aid as part of their health education. This will include basic first aid for our children, for example dealing with common injuries, burns and stings, head injuries and also life saving skills.
This week, Elm took part in a refresher session in CPR, led by Mrs Sherry. At the end of the session, all children were able to show their competence in performing a primary survey, carrying out CPR, awareness of how to place a casualty in the recovery position and the important numbers to call in an emergency.
European Day of Languages
Elm Class celebrated this year's EDL by learning from each other's linguistic skills. We learned, from lessons given by members of our class, how to greet each other in French, German, Spanish, Romanian and Urdu, whilst sharing some interesting facts about our different cultures.
Cześć, ciao, bonjour, sveiki, hello!
Congratulations to our new language ambassadors for this year - Andrei and Alex!
These children have been chosen to represent our school, as great role models for promoting languages across the school. Our Ambassadors play an important role in the organisation of Language Days in our school and closely work with teachers to promote the importance of learning a foreign language in primary schools. They enjoy their role as Language Ambassadors because they are proud of their cultural heritage and the languages they speak. This also gives them a chance to encourage other children to have the opportunity to speak a language that they do not learn in school.
Please give a round of applause to our newly elected School Prefects!
At Preston C of E Primary School, we are very keen to recognise the hard work and positive behaviour of our children and becoming a prefect is a perfect opportunity to recognise and celebrate these qualities.
We are very pleased to announce Elm’s prefects for this year are Jessica B, Michael O’D, Alexis B and Kitty-Boo A - congratulations!
All Year 6 children are invited to apply in writing to become a prefect at the beginning of Year 6. The application letter includes:
❖ Why they want to become a prefect
❖ The personal qualities they possess which enable them to fulfil the role
❖ How they demonstrate these skills and qualities
❖ What they think they can offer to the school as a prefect
Prefects at Preston C of E Primary, will help to raise the expectations and behaviour throughout the school day, including break times and lunchtimes. Prefects will demonstrate, in their everyday lives, all of the values that the school upholds:
❖ Demonstrate independence, responsibility and reliability
❖ Promoting high expectations and to be a role model for others
❖ Show initiative and honesty in all situations
And your School Council representative is...
Congratulations to Andrei C, who the class voted strongly in favour for to represent Elm at the regular council meetings as well as carrying out duties that the student body of the school wish our council representatives to undertake.
Welcome Back!
It has been a long time coming…
24 children in a classroom, all at the same time! It was wonderful to welcome our children back this week and to see how positive and enthusiastic they are. The resilience of our learners never ceases to amaze us and each have been a credit to their families, settling so well back into the flow of the new year.
It doesn’t seem two minutes since the children were starting in reception and yet here they are, embarking on their final year at Primary School!
In Year 6, we work really hard to ensure that all children have the best opportunity possible to achieve their full potential. However, we also try to ensure that we have fun along the way and provide the children with some lovely, long-lasting memories.
If you have any questions about this year then please speak to Miss Lee - your child's class teacher - or speak to Mr Gordon, the phase leader for Year 5 and 6.
