A picture says a thousand words...

... so if that's the case, all these photos of our adventures in February will be as long as a novel!

Working hard with some maths work

Our final African game of the term!

Doing some acting to help us with writing dialogue

Fine motor-skills practice helps us with our handwriting lessons

Just some of the cakes at the excellent bake sale organised by members of our class!

Some of our African 'Tinga Tinga' style artwork

Co-operative learning to help us become better writers

Learning about unstressed vowels is much easier when done as a team!

All the scientists who contributed towards the theory of evolution in one room! What a treat!

Comfy in our PJs for World Book Day

Mrs Crawley's teddy Scamp enjoying all our 'Book of Wonders' from our class book - The Nowhere Emporium

A Summary so Far

Spring Term is a short term - but there's just so much to squeeze into it!

Every Monday so far, while some of us are out at swimming lessons, the rest of us take some time to learn a new African playground game. Here are some photos of our attempts at Dropscotch, Mokou and Rwandan Dodgeball!

In English we have been looking at non-chronological reports. We have also been learning a lot of grammar terms, in particular focusing on noun phrases and identifying determiners.

We have also been making our classroom look more part of our topic by creating some silhouette artwork, as well as clay tiles from Benin. More Tingatinga-style artwork to come next week!

In maths we have been working particularly hard on equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. Here are year 6 completing some matching games in pairs.

In science, year 6 have had a chance to look at the dichotomous key, and had a chance to organise dolly mixtures by their various characteristics. We have also looked into microbiology, and as well as designing our own microorganism, we investigated the growth-rate of yeast.

Just a little taste of some of the learning we have crammed into the last few weeks!

Mrs Crawley