Year 6
KS2 Handball Festival
Arts Day – Tunnels of Love Project
We had an amazing afternoon learning from Patrice Naiambana yesterday. Patrice is part of the Tunnels of Love project (designed by Newton Abbot Community Interest Company) that will see the underpass/subway area around Pen Inn roundabout become a site for art installations and displays. Our children’s learning will end up as part of those displays! We took part in a drumming workshop to help us listen to the patterns within sentences, then we used this learning to write about our lives – games we enjoy playing, our hobbies and any stories we wanted to put onto paper. Thanks for an amazing afternoon, Patrice!
Yoga in Year 6
Newton Abbot College PE team visited our school to help us try out some new sports. We tried out yoga and we loved it! We practised some poses on our own then got together with a partner to work on some tricky poses together. It was great fun and we will be practising yoga more in the future.
Year 6 Residential visit to Dartmouth
Just wow! We had an amazing time! From the tree climb to canoeing; from pizza-making to the zipwire – what a trip! Thanks to all parents and carers for finding the money for us to go. We feel like a different class now: have a look at these photos…
Helen Foundation & DAISI Art day
Our learning was supported today by Monica, one of the professional artists who works with the Helen Foundation and DAISI to provide opportunities to schools to work alongside real-life artists. We knew a bit about Monica already from the information on her website but today we learnt loads of new skills from her! We practised using charcoal, discovered which colours we attach to specific emotions, designed our own story using emotions and finally we created some huge pieces of artwork just like real artists! See what you think…
DAISI artist visit
Year 6 are looking forward to our visit from Monica tomorrow. We have been looking at the Fibonacci sequence in maths and how nature gives signals to follow the sequence too. We are looking forward to quizzing Monica on her experience of Fibonacci tomorrow…
West End Performers!
West End in Schools came into our school to teach the children role play involving dances based on a variety of texts. In Year 6 we focused on Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. The children enjoyed taking part together in building shapes then moving together successfully to create a dance.
PSHE learning this half term
We have been learning about Diversity and sharing our thoughts about including people in what we do, rather than excluding them for the differences between us. We all have things in common with others and when we are looking to include others, we can talk about what brings us together rather than what divides us. Our children are experts in talking about the ways in which some people in the world discriminate against others and can behave in prejudicial ways, so please ask them about it! We have a class full of children who want to change the world for the better when they get older so politicians … WATCH OUT!
Google Classroom Class Code
A few children have explained that when trying to access our Google Classroom page, they have to supply a class code. If you need it, here it is:
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Key Stage Two Music with Kipp
At the start of this half term, we have welcome Kipp, a great music teacher, to Haytor View. He has been offering music lessons to some of our Key Stage Two children. This has seen the children engage with a variety of musical instruments. The children have really enjoyed learning to play these and are looking forward to continuing their musical experiences throughout the year.
