Goodbye and Good Luck, Year 6 ❤️
 

Today, we said goodbye to the most incredible, hardworking, kind, hilarious bunch of Year 6s! All year, they have amazed me with their dedication and determination, with their teamwork and individual strengths. I just know they’re going to go on to do fantastic things!

I hope you all have a fabulous summer - you’ve certainly earned the rest! Please come back and tell us all about your new adventures at secondary school!
 

Now here’s a little photo-dump from our final week at Broadmeadow…
 

Lots of love, 

Miss Harris x

Important dates for your diary! 01.07.22

As we come hurtling towards the end of this year, Year 6 have lots of lovely things planned to celebrate their time with us. These dates were all on the latest newsletter, but here is a quick reminder:

Tuesday 12th July - Sports Day from 9.30am, parents welcome!

Thursday 14th July - Leavers' Production (afternoon performance)

Friday 15th July - Leavers' Production (morning performance)

Tuesday 19th July - Weston trip! Children should return by approximately 4.30pm

Thursday 21st July - Leavers' Assembly from 2pm

If you have an acting role in the play, please have a look over the weekend for anything you have at home that could be used as a costume or prop. And don't forget to keep learning those lines!

Have a great weekend,

See you all on Monday! x

24.06.22
 

6H have done fanatically well with swimming over the last couple of weeks. I have been really impressed by the improvements lots of you have made in such a short space of time!

We are now in full-prep mode for our leavers production so, if you have a speaking role, please make sure you are learning your lines!

Have a great weekend,

Miss Harris x

I think 6H were pleased to have a dip in a cool swimming pool in today’s heat! Our first two swimming sessions have been fantastic - everybody has had lots of fun and have already improved their techniques! Remember, we continue swimming all of next week so please bring your kits.

If you haven’t already done so, please remember to return your reply slip for our exciting end-of-year trip as soon as possible.

Have a fab weekend, enjoy the sun! 
 

Miss Harris x

It’s been another busy week for Year 6!

We have held auditions for the main roles in our Leavers’ Production - rehearsals to start very soon!

We’ve been writing until our pens are empty and hands ache, and goodness me, some of the writing I’ve read this week should be published, it’s SO good!

Finally, we’ve been able to get back to whole-school assemblies. I forgot how much I enjoy getting together to celebrate our successes and have a sing-song 😊

And to finish off a busy week, we had an afternoon of treats and games on the field. We’d earned it!

Please done forget, we start swimming on Thursday, and will be going every day from then until the end of the next week. Remember swimming kits and towels please!

See you on Monday x

We’ve had a brilliant week celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee! Take a look at the photographs of some of the lovely things we’ve been up to. 
 

Have a super half term!

See you in a week x

Year 6 have worked so so SO hard this week! Every single one of you should be unbelievably proud of yourselves - I know I am!

And after all that hard work, it seemed only fair that we spent the morning at the park and the afternoon enjoying one of my favourite films! 
 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. You’ve certainly earned a rest!

See you on Monday x

I am so unbelievably proud of every single member of 6H, you have all worked so hard and I just know you are absolutely ready for your SATs next week.
 

We’ve recapped, revised and consolidated until our brains are full to bursting. This week, we’ve also managed to find time to enjoy some nice treats 🍰🛝🖍
 

Go and enjoy a relaxing, chilled weekend: do things that make you happy; enjoy the fresh air; take a long, hot bubble-bath. And make sure you are well-rested for Monday morning!

You are all amazing. Let’s smash these SATs! 💪🏻
 

Miss Harris x

We have come back from Easter with lots of energy and enthusiasm, which is good because, WOW, we have worked hard this week! We’ve spent time recapping some of the trickier Maths concepts and polishing our comprehension skills in Reading. Since we’ve been working our brains very hard, it’s only right that our bodies got the same treatment so we had a go of the Beep Test in PE. I was so impressed by the determination shown by lots of 6H, but a special shout-out must go to Rachel and James who made it to Level 18!

Thank you to the children (and parents!) who took such fantastic care of our plants over the holidays - check out the photographs to see how well they are doing!

Please remember, if you haven’t done so, we must have reply slips for next Thursday so that we know how children are getting home when we finish at 12pm.

I hope you all have a lovely long weekend - let’s hope this sun continues! ☀️
 

Miss Harris x

This week, 6H has become MasterChef! We’ve taste-tested shop-bought pizzas (who knew ricotta and spinach was such a delicious combination?!), then designed, made and obviously taste-tested our very own pizzas! I have included the recipe in the photographs, after lots of requests from the children who want to have a go at home. The recipe makes two large pizzas but we used the same recipe to make six individual pizzas. 

From working together to weigh all the ingredients for our dough, to kneading and shaping our bases and adding a variety of yummy toppings, everybody in 6H has been absolute superstars!

A HUGE thank you to parents for sending in enough toppings to feed a small army! We are, as always, very grateful for your support.

Please do encourage children to take some time-out this half term to relax - they have worked SO incredibly hard this year!

If children are keen to keep their skills sharp ready for Summer Term, they can now continue through any pages not yet completed in their homework books, have a go at some of the activities set on Purple Mash, and, of course, play Times Tables Rock Stars. 
 

I hope you all have a restful, peaceful Easter.

See you in Summer Term!

Miss Harris x

Our plants have sprouted!

We were very excited when we came into school on Monday morning and found our sunflower and tomato plants had started growing! 
 

🤞🏻Looks like we might be in with a chance of winning the Broadmeadow sunflower competition! 

Today, we planted our sunflower for the Science Week competition, which will most definitely be the biggest in Broadmeadow by the summer (🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻). 
 

We have also planted tomato seeds in a variety of conditions to see what affects how well they grow. We’ve tried varying the water, restricting sunlight, increasing the size of the pot and amount of soil, and planting lots and lots of seeds in one pot.

As today was also Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day, we finished the day with some competitive word-searches and riddles!

Have a great weekend - try and get out to enjoy this sun! ☀️
 

See you all on Monday.

Miss Harris x

This week, we had chance to perform our final jazz-inspired music piece! After rehearsing our individual sections, we put it all together and filled Upper School with our relaxing jazz sounds!

I know a few children are getting into a bit of a muddle with homework after the residential trip and half term. If your child is in my English and Maths group, please ensure they have completed the following:

Maths pages 48 - 51

Grammar, punctuation and spelling pages 32 - 35

If they have missed any before this, don’t panic! We are covering lots in our English lessons anyway. It’s best that they just get up to date with this week’s homework ready to look at on Monday!

Have a great weekend!

Miss Harris 😊

We have had a brilliant World Book Week! We've spent time listening to some famous authors and poets reading thier work, dressed as our favourite book characters and, to finish the week, were treated to a visit from author Ian Billings. Check out our fabulous photographs!

A quick reminder to book in for our parents' evening next week - Mrs Hankinson's group should only book with her since the purpose of this parents' evening is to discuss academic progress.

Have a great weekend!

Miss Harris x

Important information for Year 6 parents

The Year 6 Team have put together a video going through some important information about the upcoming SATs tests, including what we are doing in school for your children and some ideas of ways in which you can support your child at home. Please click here to watch the video. 
 

In our final week, before some of Year 6 are off on their residential, we are back to our normal PE day of Thursday so please make sure children are wearing their PE kits - dark shorts/ joggers, white t-shirt, dark hoodie and trainers. And of course - homework due on Monday! I have included a reminder of the pages children should complete this week (Mrs Hankinson’s Group will have their pages on their weekly sheets).

Have a great weekend,

Miss Harris ☺️

The TTRS Battle of the Bands competition is in full swing and, goodness me, we’re getting a little competitive 😂

Check out the video of 6H having a sneaky ten minutes to boost our points in class today. The looks of concentration are brilliant!!

Remember, you can still earn points up until 7pm on Sunday so get playing!

Have a great weekend!

Love Miss Harris ☺️

This week, we have really started to explore our History focus of World War II.
 

To begin with, we pieced together the events that led up to the outbreak of war, and put these in a timeline.

Creating an evacuee’s suitcase helped us to understand how little children were able to take with them when they left the cities for the safety of the countryside.

We took on the role of an evacuee and shared our stories and experiences with the rest of the class - some children had a wonderful time but, unfortunately, others did not have such welcoming host families. 

Please remember, homework must be returned to school on Monday. 
This week, children have been asked to complete pages 6-8 in their Maths books and pages 4-7 in their Grammar books. I have included a reminder of the dates and pages we will be setting the children to complete between now and SATs week. 
 

Have a great weekend!

Miss Harris ☺️

Welcome back, Year 6! It’s been lovely to have you all back in class after our Christmas break. You’re definitely all ready for our next term, which will be one filled with lots of hard work but also a lot of fun! 
 

To ease us back in, we’ve been warming our brains up with lots of Maths games this week - have a look at the photos where we might have got just a little competitive playing a times tables game!

This term, our PE day has moved to Thursday, so please remember to come in your kits (dark shorts/joggers, white T-shirt and a dark coloured hoody) on a Thursday and not a Tuesday!

Have a great weekend!

Miss Harris ☺️

After working incredibly hard all term, we have lots of fun in our final week of Autumn Term! Have a look at the photographs of our party day, complete with Christmas Quiz and dance-off in the hall, and today’s Games Afternoon!

I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas - see you in 2022! 🎄🎉🎆

Miss Harris x

We’ve had a new memeber of 6H join us this week - Stanley, our Elf! He’s helped us get in the Christmas spirit by delivering a fabulous tree that we’ve enjoyed decorating this afternoon! 
 

Have a look at the photos of our Science investigations, trying to find an answer to our question ‘how can we change a shadow?’ 
 

We are filming a special Christmas video next week so please remember to bring something Christmassy - our theme is ‘giving gifts’ so a Santa hat, Christmas bow, or anything related to that would be perfect!

Have a great weekend!

Miss Harris x

We have been really enjoying our writing over the last few weeks, which has been inspired by 'Oliver!' - a musical based in Victorian England. Today, we have been independently trying out some of the sentence structures we have looked at in our last few lessons. We then worked together to edit and improve our writing.

In Science, we investigated how we can manipulate reflections using mirrors at different angles, which meant we *obviously* had to crack out the Christmas decorations because what else were we going to use as props in front of the mirrors?! We continued our investigation by looking at the polygons that were created using reflections of triangles with different angles.

I know lots of you have been busy earning stars for this half term's homework grid. I'm loving seeing the different ways you're coming up with to present your work - the cookery program (check out the video!) has to be one of my favourites! Please don't forget, we have print outs of all of the tasks on the homework grid at the back of the classroom.

Have a brilliant weekend!

See you on Monday,

Miss Harris x

Our week started with Odd Sock Day - chance to think about the theme for this year’s Anti-Bullying Week, ‘One Kind Word’. In our Guided Reading, we thought about this theme and chose one kind word to base our own short stories and comic strips on. 
On Friday, we had a brilliant day celebrating Children in Need 2021. It was lovely to hear why you’d chosen your outfits and how they made you happy!

We found a Children in Need dance-along, which was lots of fun to have a go at, and watched possibly the most tense sporting event ever - The CiN Biscuit Build! 🤣

Thank you to everybody who joined us in raising money for this fantastic charity!

Miss Harris x

Next week is Anti-bullying Week, and to kick it off we will be taking part in Odd Sock Day on Monday 15th November! It's so simple to take part and show your support - just wear odd socks!

This week, we have been exploring the history of Calypso music, creating colourful posters and timelines showing how this exciting and energetic style of music developed.

Lots of you have already started bringing in your homework - well done! I have included an image of our current homework grid with this blog in case you have mislaid yours!

Have a super weekend, guys!
See you on Monday x

The main character in our book, “Pig Heart Boy”, is the first person in the world to undergo a xenotransplantation (transplanting organs across species, in case you were wondering!) but is it right to use another species’ organs for our own benefit? Well, opinions in 6H were split, so we held a debate to try and come to a resolution on the matter. We adhered to the rules of listening to others, taking turns to speak, and acknowledging others’ opinions, and had to think carefully about how to articulate our opinions. I’m still not sure I know which side of the debate I’m on, perhaps your writing next week will help me to decide!

We finished our week with the most calming Art lesson I think I’ve ever had the pleasure of being in! Relaxing music, water colours, and some absolutely spectacular final pieces! Well done everyone 🎨🖌

Have a fantastic weekend, and I’ll see you all on Monday!

Miss Harris x

Our Maths lessons at Broadmeadow all start with an anchor task - a real-life problem that gives us the chance to really explore a mathematic concept. On Wednesday, we looked at a problem where we needed to work out how many marbles each child in a group had. Sounds easy, but we soon found we had to really think outside the box and apply all our addition and subtraction knowledge to find an answer. And even then, our job wasn’t done - have a look at the different ways we found to represent the problem!

In our geography lessons, we have been studying desert biomes and asking ‘what can survive the desert?’ We began by thinking about how camels are adapted to survive the harsh conditions. As a treat, on Friday, we watched a bit of David Attenborough’s Planet Earth! 
 

Miss Harris x

This week in Maths, we have be getting to grips with negative numbers. To help us with this, we played a game using a number line from -13 to 13 and battled against our partner to roll two dice, add the digits and move that many jumps in our direction (either positive or negative). We tried the game lots of different ways, adding our own rules in such as bouncing back from the end with however many jumps were left on your go, allowing doubles to throw again, but throwing two doubles having a forfeit and choosing whether to add, subtract, multiply or divide the numbers rolled. And we promise, we only got a little bit competitive!

To recap the events in our book, Pig Heart Boy, we had a go at creating an emotions graph for our main character. He’s certainly had some ups and downs already, and we’re only four chapters in! With so much of the book left, and Cam’s decision already made that he’s going for the pig’s heart, I wonder where our story will take us?

I hope you all have a lovely weekend! 
See you on Monday. 
 

Miss Harris x

This week, we have been thinking about how our language choices can help us create atmosphere and build tension in a narrative. We began by thinking about words and phrases that could describe an eerie door, before playing around with different sentence structures to add detail and interest to our writing. Take a look at the fantastic short narratives we have then written this week - talk about leaving you on a cliff-hanger!

A reminder that PE is Tuesday, so please keep coming in your very smart-looking PE kits. 

As the weather seems to be a bit unsettled at the moment, I just wanted to remind you that we are still keeping all windows and doors open to ensure adequate air-flow in the classroom, and so the classroom may get a little chilly. Children are encouraged to bring a plain hoody or extra jumper to wear over the top of their school jumper/cardigan if they get cold.

Have a wonderful, relaxing weekend!
See you all on Monday.

Miss Harris x

I have been so impressed by how fantastically well everybody has come back to school! You are already all showing what fabulous, mature and sensible role models you are going to be as the top of the school!

We are incredibly excited to be able to vote for House Captains again this year, so start thinking about whether it’s a role you’d like to put your name forward for - I can already think of lots of names I would suggest as brilliant candidates for the role!

I’ve already had you all working hard, and, wow, you have all risen to the challenges I’ve set this week! So, it’s been lovely to spend a couple of afternoons starting our new unit of work for Music, all based on the song ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams, and beginning to experiment with creating colours in Art. 
 

We really have hit the ground running in Year 6, so I imagine a few of you are feeling rather tired this evening! I hope you all have a lovely weekend (and maybe a bit of a lie-in!) and I will see you all well-rested on Monday morning, ready for another action-packed week!

Miss Harris x

Hello 6H! 

I hope you have all had a good break this summer, and are as excited as I am to get into the classroom on Monday morning! Year 6 is a very important year of school, but I think it's also the most fun! I can't wait to get started on our adventure together!

Our PE day is Tuesday so please remember to come into school wearing your PE kits. Just a reminder, PE kits should be dark (black / grey / blue) joggers, leggings or shorts, a white t-shirt or polo shirt and trainers suitable for outdoor sports.

Looking forward to seeing you all bright and early on Monday morning!

Miss Harris x