Year 6

 

Class 6BW is taught by Mrs Beverley Watson

Class 6RP is taught by Mrs Ros Peet

 

Please note that although teachers and learning support are always busy, they are never too busy to help.  If you have any concerns, comments or queries, please contact them to find a suitable time for discussion.  In an urgent situation, then, of course, we will do our very best to help immediately. 

 

 

Year 6 - SATs Week Please note that during SATs week (11th - 15th May 2009) no absences (with the exception of hospital stays) will be authorised during this week.  All holidays for this year group must be taken after their SATs week.  If your child has access to the internet they may benefit from using this website: www.bbc.co.uk/revisewise  This site will help them revise for the English, Maths and Science tests. It has the advantage that we use this in school therefore the children are familiar with it.   15th May 2009 Well done to Year 6, who have 'survived' SATs week.  Thank you for all the support and encouragement you gave to your child during this time.     Article by Rhiannon age 10 & Alice age 11 ‘Driving Beats’, a music band, came to our school on 5th May. They first performed to the whole school. It was extremely loud!  They played a range of music from the 50’s to the present day!  There was a huge buzz in the school hall as they played rock! They were fantastic!  Later on they had a special session with Year 6, where they recorded a CD, putting more layers on with a special piece of equipment.  The Year 6 pupils had to sing high notes which were absolutely terrible, but everyone had fun and enjoyed themselves.   Wednesday 20th May - Architectural Workshop Year 5 & 6 children are having an ‘Architectural Workshop’ where they will learn problem solving, story telling, group work and maths as part of this hands-on experience relating to the National  Curriculum requirements. These ‘workshops’ have proved to be successful in the past, and the children usually have an enjoyable day.

 

February 2009 Our slideshow shows Training with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Africa Day

 

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Africa Day  The pictures in the slideshow above were taken on Africa Day (9th February), which we had arranged to coincide with Mrs Peet's trip to Iganga.

 

Children wore Mufti and came for breakfast too - funds raised went towards our link school, Kigulu School.

 

Staff organised activities with an African theme and children from different classes worked together in groups (as opposed to working in their usual year groups) on two of these.

 

Jack & Sacha Woods' dad used to live in Africa so he brought in some of the things he'd collected on his travels. Jack had prepared a short presentation, using the photographs his dad had taken. They delivered this presentation to every group in the school.

 

Royal Shakespeare Company  We are delighted to be one of the schools currently working in partnership with the Education Department of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) as part of their Performance and Learning Network project.  Daventry William Parker School is one of their Project schools and, together with Abbey Junior, Ashby Fields Primary and Braunston Primary, we will be joining DWPS students in putting on a very special performance of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in the Regional Shakespeare Festival. 

 

The performances will take place in the main hall at Daventry William Parker School on the evenings of Thursday 26th March and Friday 27th March 2009.  On one of these evenings there will be visitors from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre to help celebrate the work of the children.

 

Dates and times:

Rehearsals - Tuesdays and Thursdays each week - during school hours

After-school rehearsal on Mondays until 4pm

Saturday 28th February 10am - 4pm Two children (to be selected) for extra rehearsal at DWPS (packed lunch needed)

Monday 9th March - RSC practitioner coming to work with children during school time

Saturday 14th March - 10am - 3pm Technical rehearsal at DWPS  (packed lunch needed)

Thursday 26th March - dress rehearsal if needed.  Performance starting at 7pm

Friday 27th March - dress rehearsal if needed.  Performance startiing at 7pm

 

December 2008 Our slideshow shows Year 6 Making pizzas!

 

   

 

 

 

   

Links

 

We've provided you with some links to websites that we feel provide good information for supporting the work that is studied in Year 6.  If you find any links that don't work please report them here.

 

Science Boot Camp www.compare4kids.co.uk/learn.php 

Although there will be no more Science SATs, this is still a good site for refreshing the memory about all the areas covered during Key Stage 2.

 

All things English www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/

Try the Questionaut.  Keep moving your mouse over the picture the find hotspots; eventually questions start appearing!

 

Mathematics www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/

Number, shape space & measures, and data handling.
DEFINITELY try the latter!

 

RE Term 2 -   http://www.request.org.uk/main/churches/buildings/buildings.htm

This is a good introduction to our work on 'Worship in Christianity'. We will be exploring other parts of the website too.

 

RE Term 3 - www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/religion/Islam.htm and www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/re/re_quiz/quiz1amuh.htm

Worth visiting for an overview of Islam - and a quiz!

 

History Term 2 -  www.virtual-egypt.com and http://homepages.TCP.co.UK/~Nicholson/Egypt/nilemap.HTML 

Good introductions to our work on Ancient Egyptians - although 'Mummy Maker' is not for the squeamish...

 

HistoryTerm 4 -  www.nmm.ac.uk/TudorExploration/NMMFLASH/  

A good introduction to our work on Tudor Exploration