This week, Year 6 have worked really hard and completed another set of past SATs papers. All the children approached the tests with positivity and resilience and we couldn’t ask for more. Back to normal next week!
In other news, in continuation of our World War 2 studies, we learnt about the devastating events of the Blitz. We looked at the photograph ‘St Paul’s Survives’, taken in London during the night air raid of 29–30 December 1940, the 114th night of the Blitz of World War II. It shows St Paul’s Cathedral, illuminated by fires and surrounded by the smoke of burning buildings. It was taken by photographer Herbert Mason. To recreate this iconic image, we firstly made stencils of the London skyline – with St Paul’s Cathedral being front and centre – and then used chalk around the edges. Using our fingers, we smudged the chalk to create the impression of smoke and flames and finished it off by adding damaged buildings to the foreground.
We have been making strides through our Spanish topic over the last few weeks and lots of the children are now able to say what they study in school, at what time, whether they like it (or not!) and why. ¡Buen trabajo!
In RE, we used all of our research about the Dalai Lama to write an information page all about his incredible life and the type of leader that he is.
Homework this week is a 2 week project linking with our RE and leaders.
Have a great weekend.
The Year 6 Team
