Author: Miss Prankard
WW2 Cooking Lesson
Year 6 spent the afternoon having their cookery lesson. They learnt a variety of cooking skills, including 'the claw' knife skills, peeling, grating and weighing using a mechanical spring cooking scale. The children then applied these skills to make carrot cookies following a WW2 recipe. It gave…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 21 November 2019
Hotseating in English
Class 6 tried their hand at some hotseating to develop their evacuee characters in preparation for writing letters to their parents from their new homes following the evacuation! They developed some great back stories which will surely turn into some wonderful pieces of writing!
Well done…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 19 November 2019
Tags: Class 6
Yorkshire Air Museumn
Last week, Year 6 from both Bramham and Shadwell went on a brilliant school trip to the Yorkshire Air Museum. It was a brilliant day with lots of learning linked to our World War 2 topic. We even got to see a model of the Barnes Wallis bouncing bomb, which we have been writing news paper articles…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 19 November 2019
Tags: Class 6
Year 6 Evacuation Day
Class 6 relaunched their WWII topic with a role play day. The children came in dressed as evacuees, complete with evacuation tags. We then travelled to the countryside (outdoor classroom) to learn all about Operation Pied Piper, where we completed activities including 'work on the farm' alongside…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 5 November 2019
Tags: Class 6
Learning about the Holocaust
In our topic and reading lessons this week, we explored the tragic, but important subject of the Holocaust. The children learnt the escalation of events designed to persecute Jewish citizens in Nazi-occupied Europe and minority groups. We then had an interesting and thought-provoking discussion…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 17 October 2019
Tags: Class 6
Exploring WW2 Newspapers
Year 6 have been identifying features of a newspaper by exploring a variety of War papers. A wonderful lesson mixing English with History with some fascinating reads!
Posted by Miss Prankard on 11 October 2019
Tags: Class 6
Reading Challenge 2019
Launching the Year 6 Reading Challenge
This week we launched our Year 6 Reading Challenge. It is a brilliant opportunity to explore lots of new books and genres as class. Each child is given a book and our aim is that the class read all of the books in a set time limit. The children were…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 9 October 2019
Tags: Class 6
Electricity
This week in Science, Class 6 created electrical circuits. Firstly, they did this to successfully light a bulb, then they added a second bulb to make observations about the affect adding an additional component would have on the brightness of a bulb. They worked brilliantly, using team work and…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 27 September 2019
Tags: Class 6
Place Value Game!
We have had a brilliant couple of maths lessons in Year 6 using a place value game to master our ability to read, compare and order numbers up to 10,000,000! We are super impressed with how the children were able to articulate their understanding brilliantly (and apply some strategy to go for a…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 20 September 2019
Tags: Class 6
Getting to know our new buddies!
Year 6 had a marvellous afternoon getting to know their new buddies a little bit more. The children worked together on a few activities with the BeeBots, using great communication and teamwork skills. The older buddies in Year 6 made us very proud with their nurturing and supportive attitude and…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 18 September 2019
Tags: Class 6
New Art Project: Henry Moore
Class Six began their new Art project on Henry Moore this week. We started by looking at the life and works of this Yorkshire born artist, who was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to make drawings of people in London using underground stations as bomb shelters. We are really…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 13 September 2019
Tags: Class 6
Welcome to Class Six
Our first week in Year 6 was super!
It was brilliant to welcome back our new Year 6 class this week. The children have already proven themselves to be excellent role models of our school by being incredibly kind and caring to our Reception pupils. We have also had brilliant introduction…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 6 September 2019
Tags: Class 6