Welcome to Oak Class
I am very pleased to welcome everybody back after the Summer holidays to Oak Class - year 6. Year 6 is an exciting year for our children as they prepare to leave primary school and embark on the next step in their learning journeys. There is a lot to look forward to and a lot of focused learning to ensure they are ready for secondary school. The adults working in Oak Class this year are myself, Ms Leeb, and Mrs Robertson (supporting individual children)
Summer Term
North and South America
In this Geography topic, Oak Class will use maps, atlases and computers to identify the countries in North and South America and find some of the capital cities. They will use geographical terms to describe where a range of places across the Americas are and explore the varied climates and biomes. Exploring the human and physical geography of the local area will enable the children to compare Harting to an area in North America. To end off the topic, Oak will research, identify and name the Seven Wonders of the World (new) and investigate one of the natural wonders of the Americas.
For more detailed information, please see the Knowledge Organiser below.
Websites to support this topic
Animals Including Humans
This interesting Science topic will focus on the heart (how it works and what it's for), the purpose and composition of blood and the circulatory system in humans. Year 6 will also think about how to keep healthy and the importance of exercise for their hearts.
For more detailed information, please see the Knowledge Organiser below
Websites to support this topic
Electricity
In Science, Oak will be continuing their learning about all things electric including: observing and explaining the effect of differing volts in a circuit, drawing circuit diagrams using recognised symbols and investigating variations in components and how they work
For more detailed information, please see the Knowledge Organiser below.
Websites to support this topic
Knowledge Organisers
Please find below the knowledge organisers linked to your child's learning this term. These documents provide details of the key knowledge the children are expected to learn across the sequence of learning. We would encourage parents and carers to look at these with their children and regularly spend time discussing the facts on the sheets.
This week in Oak Class (w/b 22.05.23)
This week Oak children have worked hard on completing some fabulous writing related to their Science topics and our English text The Arrival. They enjoyed exploring a story about some very busy rabbits and learning about the Fibonacci sequence in maths. Some children had the opportunity to make observations and sketches in our lovely Coronation Garden. This week Oak started their science topic and learned about the circulatory system and the heart, everybody loved making 'blood' and learning about its four components. In our PE lesson everyone showed off their team skills in a fun game of Rounders.
Summer Term Photo Gallery
Learning about the components of blood and then making some
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Working hard to solve 'The Rabbit Problem'
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Oak class helped tidy up the school grounds by doing some litter picking
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Exploring our lovely new Coronation Garden
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End of SATS celebration at The Warren
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SATS ARE OVER!
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Chilling out at our SATS breakfast
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Exploring angles in maths
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Spring Term Photo Gallery
Our finished animal sculptures (modelled on artefacts from Ancient Benin)
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Making currency from ancient Benin
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Exploring antique trade beads
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Exploring the area of triangles
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Exploring our English text through drama and role play
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Exp
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Pancake Day!
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World Book Day
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Exploring the book fair
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For our 'Let's Connect' paper chains, we used collage materials and drawings to express things about ourselves on each link.
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Searching our school grounds for living things
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Police siren on!
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Storytelling in groups using objects
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Live storytelling workshop with Wendy Shearer
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A selection of our micro-organisms
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Looking at bread mould through a microscope
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Investigating Ancient Benin
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Some children chose to put their bread in the fridge
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Some pairs chose to put one slice of bread in a dark cupboard
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This pair chose to wet their bread before they put it into the plastic bag
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Investigating where mould grows
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Multiplying decimals by 10, 100, 1000 using place value counters and grids
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'Conscience Alley' exercise - our character listens to opposing viewpoints before deciding - to lie or not to lie?
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Presenting a persuasive speech on a London landmark
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Finding fractions of amounts using Skittles
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Skittle maths!
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Hanging out on the apparatus!
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Exploring the apparatus
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Sketching
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Having a look at an antique Benin Bronze mask
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Exploring an artefact from Benin
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Classifcation quiz time
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Ordering Linneaus' classification categories
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How many different groups can you make?
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Grouping and sorting in science
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What would your happiness pose be?
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These are our happy poses
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A4 adding fractions activity.
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Making and adding mixed numbers
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Autumn Term Photo Gallery
Investigating what happens to a shadow at different distances from the light source
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Trying to use a mirror to look behind while walking forward
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Using shadows to create imaginative drawings
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Found objects cast interesting shadows
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Exploring how Juliane Koepcke felt after regaining consciousness
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Making periscopes
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Making human periscopes
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Working out how light reflects off surfaces
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Working out ways to demonstrate how light travels in straight lines
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Odd Socks Day!
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Explanation builder activity prior to writing about Henry VIII's break with Rome
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Role playing advisors to Henry VIII
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Sequencing the events that lead to Henry VIII's break with Rome
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A finished line graph
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Working on line graphs in groups
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Oak's 'living' line graph
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Much fun was had at our Brass Band England Workshop
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Finishing off our city scapes
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Which is the REAL Henry VIII?
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In RE Oak children acted out The Transfiguration of Jesus
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In Science we have been investigating light
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Year 6 visited Easebourne Primary for an Interfaith Morning where we learned about different religions
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