Year 6 Blog

4th October 2024

Year 6 have been busy this week building their language and creating some fantastic poems about the Antarctic. They have created amazing similes and metaphors to describe as well as using personification to really put you in the frozen kingdom. This has also included '60 Seconds of Bravery' where we have shared our poems to the rest of the class! We got so excited by our poems that we did a poetry recital during DEAR time on Wednesday. 

We also discussed what cohesion means and the importance of it within and across out pieces of writing. In order to do this, we collaboratively wrote sentences to describe different parts of Shackleton's journey in small groups. Then, we read these out to the class before identifying a cohesive order, justifying why the order was the most suited: linked themes, repeating phrases, questions and answers.

We then took part in a competition to identify which polar explorer was the most significant due to not only their discoveries but their perseverance and the lessons learnt from their respective expeditions. As a class, we then had a class vote and decided that Sir Ernest Shackleton was the most significant because he learnt from past mistakes and didn't allow for his quest to detract from his promise to his 27 men - that all would return safe and sound. The debate to get to this decision was passionate at times but the reasoning was so fantastic that it was justified passion. We are big fans of Shackleton in this class!

27th September 2024

Antarctica Antics! 

This week, Year 6 have been researching the frozen polar regions and using our frozen facts to create non-chronological texts. We have looked at climate, topography, natural resources and the concept of Polar day and night. Using our research, we then identified the key features of non-chronological texts - we wanted to inform our readers about the polar regions, to help them to become experts. We thought carefully about audience and purpose and about how to 'hook' our readers. At the end, we held an exhibition of our work and offered each other some positive feedback ass well as some targets for next time.

Here are some examples!