Palacio Class

Term 1

What have we been learning? 
This term, Year 6’s topic has been Rainforest. Our key question was, ‘Is it worth saving the rainforest?’, as a part of this question we have researched rainforests and produced a selection of narrative texts set in the rainforest taking our inspiration from The Jungle Book and The Explorer by Katherine Rundell.  

Our first term of maths has seen the children exploring the numbers to ten million, refining their addition and subtraction skill as well as honing their arithmetic skills. 

In foundation subjects, the children have reviewed their understanding of continents and where we can find rainforests around the world 

Wow moments: 
This term we have been focusing on settling in to year six life, this has involved getting used to outside maths and dance and team building in PE. We also worked hard to ensure our harvest art was up to scratch in creating  

Also, this term some of our children had the chance to go to Bordeaux as part of the Bristol Community of Purpose initiative where the children worked with other primary school from varying communities.  

We were extremely proud of everything this year group are achieving so far this year! 

Gleitzman Class

Term 2
This term, Year 6’s topic has been World War 2. Our key question was, ‘What would have happened to me in WW2?’ As part of our writing unit, the children created a story based on the book ‘Rose Blanch’.  

In our foundation subjects, the children studied the history of the war using independent research and applied this in their writing.  

The children also went to the Aerospace Museum where they took part in a workshop in creating periscopes, they also soaked up the history behind what part Bristol played in WW2’s RAF-getting to see real planes from the past and even old German bombs. Additionally, the children got to see the Concorde which they were most definitely awe struck with the scale of this fantastic machine.