Dear all,

And so we here we come to the end of your fist term in Year 6. It has been a long one, but as I have mentioned many times in my blog before, it has gone by very quickly and it will continue to do so until you leave in the summer. 

It has been a fun-packed week to lead us into the Christmas break and although we just didn’t get time to make our creations in D & T in the end, we will start the New Year by making these which will be something to look forward to when we return. 

For those of you who were in today, as I told you all earlier, I think that Michael Morpurgo is a fantastic children’s author and I hope you get to read your books over the break and you tell me all about them when we return as I have only read half of his books to date still.

I want to finish by saying thank you very much to you and your parents for the voucher and the other gifts –it was very generous of you all and I am very grateful.

One thing I didn’t say to you all before you left today is that we still have 24 hours left of the Sumdog competition so if you haven’t answered all of the 1000 questions yet, then do try and get on there before it ends.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. It has been a pleasure teaching you all this term and I look forward to the hard work resuming again in January.

Take care

Mr Gradwell

Dear all,

What a fabulous week we have had with all of the festivities well under way! The week of course didn’t start in the best of ways with the boiler breaking down, but at least it ended well with our Christmas lunch and film afternoon today. Thank you on behalf of all of the staff for serving us –I hope you enjoyed it –especially the ‘seconds’ that you got to enjoy at the end of it.

This morning in church, I am very pleased to say that you were amazing and your parents have something very special to look forward to on Monday night. Remember that we will be meeting at the church at 6:45pm for a 7pm start.

As well as the Carol Concert, the Christmas activities will be continuing next week with the KS2 party taking place on Tuesday afternoon (and for which you can bring in your own clothes to change into) and the panto is to be held on Wednesday morning before we finish at 2pm.

In the meantime, remember that your home learning projects are due back in on Monday and don’t forget to play Sumdog whenever you vcan over the weekend –I would really love it if we managed to top the Hertfordshire leader board!

Have a lovely weekend

Mr Gradwell

Dear all,

So here we are with just a week and a half to go until the end of term. I know I was not with you all week but I am pleased to hear from the other teachers that you worked hard even in my absence.

In maths and English next week, you will be completing some practice SATs tests in order to see which areas of learning we need to focus on when we return in January.

In science, you will be finishing writing up your investigation from yesterday before considering what makes a healthy lifestyle as a result.

In geography we will be looking at how climate change is impacting the populations of countries around the world.

In D&T you will be creating the seams and hems that you did not get to do this week due to my absence.

Homework this week is maths and is found on the sheets that have been given to you. As ever, these are due to be returned on Monday.

Have a lovely weekend

Mr Gradwell

 

Hi all,

As we come to the last couple (and a bit) of weeks of term, it is quite clear that some of you are getting into the Christmas spirit already now. It is always a special time of the year that I know we all look forward to in school. On that note though, whilst we will be starting to have lots of different festive things going on at various points over the next fortnight, it is important to stay focused and keep working hard until the very end of term, as the challenges of Year 6 are far from over!

 

Related to the above, as I sat here writing this week’s blog, I realised that I had completely forgotten to thank you and your parents last week for all of the generous donations that you made for the Christmas hamper on our mufti day -it will definitely be worth winning a hamper in the raffle draw with all of the wonderful things on offer, so thank you all very much for contributing.

 

In English next week, we will be focusing on the publishing aspects of writing, by putting the finishing touches to our pages about our own creatures before printing them out onto the ‘aged’ paper.

In maths, we will be continuing with our work on fractions by finding fractions of amounts, before then moving on to looking at calculating and converting metric measures.

In science you will be finding out what blood is made up of and the function of each part.

In geography we will be looking at the reasons for population changes.

In D & T, we will be continuing with our joining fabrics unit by practising creating hems and seams which we will use to create the finished products before the Christmas break.

Homework for this weekend is reading and you will have either been given the extension sheets to complete or it is pages 19, 20 and 21 of the CGP Reading Non-Fiction book if you have not completed these pages already. Once again, this is due to be returned on Monday so don’t leave it until Sunday night to complete it!

Have a good weekend.

Mr Gradwell