Year 6 start their first day at PGL today. I’m sure each and every one of them will enjoy the experience, learn new skills and put our school values into action. I’m looking forward to joining them for the rest of the week where I know I’ll see resilience, perseverance and cooperation from our super Year 6 role models. 

How lovely to see Year 6 teaching Year 4 a different approach to their maths learning this week. Teamwork and collaboration showing how you succeed by helping others. 

In Maths this week, Year 6 pupils did an amazing job of teaching column subtraction through the CPA approach to a lucky selection of pupils in Year 4! They started with the concrete approach, which is a method that includes the manipulation of physical resources. They used the resources to show their students how we exchange tens for ones, before moving on to the pictorial approach whereby we use pictures and diagrams to represent numbers.

Finally, when the teachers thought their pupils were ready, we moved on to the abstract approach where we practised column subtraction with exchanging. The whole lesson was very successful and was thoroughly enjoyed by every pupil taking part. We definitely have some future teachers in Year 6! 

We have been exploring new words to expand our vocabulary choices! Do you know the meaning of all these words? 

Have a look at some of our maths badges!

Today we came to school in our pjs and snuggled down with a book. We all ended up choosing a book we wouldn’t necessarily go for! 

In Year 6, we have been writing scary, suspense stories. We split them into 3 parts: opening, setting and conversation between characters. Check out some of our published stories:

We have been working very hard editing and publishing our persuasive writing. Our task was to persuade Miss Salisbury to agree to take us on a trip to Australia, similar to PGL.  We worked together in our teams to create our persuasive brochures on the display boards. Next, we had to pitch our company name and activities to Mrs Ray and Miss Taylor, who then chose the two best teams to pitch to Miss Salisbury! Take a look at some of our display boards below:

    Check out all our amazing art 
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