Year 6 Life Hacks!

Life Hacks!

We have been extremely busy in Year 6 this week developing and gaining new skills by completing a range of different activities. This week we were focusing on 'Learning to Learn' activities, which we have all found very enjoyable. Even Miss Davies and Miss McKitterick! We have been linking our Learning to Learn activities to our school's learning behaviours and considering how these behaviours allow us to become more effective learners. 

Activity 1: Collaboration 
We had 3 challenges to complete using three types of equipment, a  cube, lolly pop sticks and small plastic cups. Challenge 1: Build a stable structure with just one cube as its base. Challenge 2: Using each piece of equipment, build the tallest structure. Challenge 3: Build a structure which has an object protruding in an impressive way. This is what we made!

    

Activity 2: Reflection 
This activity involved us using our bubble writing, colouring and scissor skills. We thought we would find this easy but actually, it was very challenging. It is safe to say, we definitely needed to do some reflection but we are really happy with the end result. 

 






Activity 3: Resilience
We had to use our ruler skills to create cardioids! A cardioid is a plane curve traced by a point on the perimeter of a circle that is rolling around a fixed circle of the same radius. It can also be defined as an epicycloid having a single cusp. We focused on our grip when holding a ruler and the way in which we draw our lines. We were professionals by the end! 

E Safety in 4C

We followed up Mr Soffe's awesome e-safety assembly by creating our own poster to help others understand why esafety is important. Then the class voted on the most informative poster. The winning poster said, "Before you send a message, let your parent or guardian know what you have written, If you delete your message your parent won't know if you have written something bad or good." By JN The winning girl's poster was this one. "It is important to be safe in the internet because if you get an email from someone you do not know you should always tell an adult. Get an adult to see what it is and then delete it. Never open anything on the internet that you don't know about. If you find anything like messages or emails always lock it, block it, show it and tell it. Always tell an adult about new information. Always never go on inappropriate apps." by LR. Well done class 4C, you have a lot of knowledge of e-safety.

Loopy maths with loop cards!

In Year 2 this week we've been practicing different ways of doing division as part of our learning journey. We've practiced using groups, started learning about repeated subtraction, found ways to solve division mentally and even started a little bit of work on remainders.

To apply the skills that we have practiced or maybe even learnt this week, we played a bit of a game with a partner. This also helped us apply our skills from our previous learning journeys of addition, subtraction and multiplication.

We used our skills to see if we could complete a loop of Loop Cards using all four operations. After we finished our loop, we had a go at making our own (which some of us found very tricky!) and then swapped around our cards to see if they worked. One thing we really had to practice was our maths presentation skills because otherwise our friends wouldn't be able to read it!

Have a look at our work:

Year 2 are learning to learn...!

Year 2 have had a pretty fantastic first day back! We had a morning of amazing sports and have just been "learning to learn" by looking at our non-negotiables and practicing using them. These include things like underlining and crossing out using a ruler and a pencil, using a green pen to check other people's work and using cursive handwriting. We checked some of Miss Derby's  writing that she did this morning and we found quite a few mistakes! (Sorry Year 2 - looks like I left my brain at home over the holidays!)

We spotted the things that she needed to change and had a go at copying her writing using our non-negotiables. Here are some photos of us making changes and improving her work.



Speaking of fantastic presentation, we've had a lot of children earning their pen licence in Year 2 recently...