Year 6CS

Welcome to 6S!

Welcome to our wonderful, kind, wacky, unique and hard working class! When you enter the fantastic world of 6S, you are entering a classroom filled with learning, fun, laughter, experiences and friendship. Together, we will have a fantastic final year at Brighton Avenue Primary School!

Year 6 is a year full of challenges and hard work where we will strive every day to try our best and achieve excellence, demonstrating brilliant behaviour and wonderful attitudes in all aspects of our school life. 

From exploring ancient civilisations to studying geographical features, we will develop our problem solving, reasoning and critical thinking skills. 

This year is all about developing our responsibilities, independence, maturity and confidence in preparation for Year 7! 

Keep checking this page for updates on all the wonderful learning we will be doing! 

Miss Sharp & Mrs Graham 

Pupil of the Week 

Well done to Lewis and Grace: this week's Pupils of the Week!!

Grace has had fantastic resilience in her maths work which has grown and grown since the beginning of the year. We are so proud of your hard work Grace, keep trying your best and shining!

Lewis is our future author. His extended writing has been superb, packed full of Year 6 writing targets. Keep up the high quality work!!

w.c. 7.10.24

This week, we embarked on our first visit of the academic year to Gateshead library. Luckily for us, the pouring rain held off just long enough for us to arrive all in one pieces (and nice and dry!). We went on a scavenger hunt, trying to find as many different types of books as possible. We couldn't believe all of the interesting books we found. Next, we had some time to explore and find a book to check out to read for pleasure in school. Some of us found books about football that looked interesting, whilst some of us loved the spooky books stand! 

In Science, we were contacted by Ellie Cocoa, a barista at our local Costa Coffee shop. She needed our help as she was receiving lots of complaints from customers that the marshmallows in her hot chocolates were melting too quickly. We planned an investigation to find out which temperature of liquid would allow marshmallows to dissolve the quickest. We filled beakers with liquids at different temperatures before placing the same amount of marshmallows in each. We then timed how long it took the marshmallows in each beaker to dissolve. It only took 1 minute and 30 seconds for the marshmallows in the hot water to dissolve whilst the marshmallows in the warm water dissolved at a slower rate. We decided that suggesting Ellie's customers stir their hot chocolate might speed up the rate of dissolving. After our investigation, we even had some marshmallows left over for a treat! Super investigating Year 6, well done! 

w.c. 30.09.24

Wow! What another crazy, exciting and fun-filled week it has been! In the past 5 days, we have taken on the roles of archaeologists, scientists, authors, athletes and mathematicians to name but a few! 

In History, we studied artefacts remaining from Ancient Maya. We thought about what they depicted, what they may have been used for, where they may have been found and what we can learn about the Ancient Maya from this. We enjoyed looking at the stone carvings of Ancient Maya royalty and thinking about what they may have been wearing and why. 

In Science, we have been learning about properties of materials this half term. We explored our learning question: Which objects from my kitchen cupboard will dissolve? We made predictions about each item, based on our wider world knowledge and our knowledge of solids and liquids before testing each item. We discovered that salt and sugar were soluble, but rice and flour were insoluble. We then thought about whether the temperature of the water would affect the rate of dissolving. What do you think?

In English,  we have been completing our narratives in our extended writing. We focused on using figurative language, dialogue and characterisation to retell the story of 'Rainplayer'. For the writing, the children chose a part of the story to retell. I was absolutely blown away by the quality of writing produced - the language the children were using was out of this world! I am so excited to see where our writing can go this year!!

In Maths, we tackled the tricky skill of mental addition and subtraction calculations with large numbers. This was tricky but the children were incredibly resilient and work extremely hard to apply a variety of mental strategies to support their learning. I was so impressed. 

Pupil of the Week

A special shout out to our Pupils of the Week; Jake & Kamy! Jake is a wonderful member of our class who ALWAYS tries his best and works hard to produce work of a quality that he can be proud of. Kamy has impressed in our English lessons, using dialogue which is perfectly punctuated! She's even used 'Show Not Tell' alongside her dialogue to develop characterisation. Your writing has been superb Kamy! Well done to the both of you superstars!!!

w.c. 23.09.24

A massive congratulations to Mya and Thomas who are our pupils of the week. Mya has been working amazingly hard in English lessons to produce some superb writing, I can't wait to see her extended write! Thomas is just a ball of energy who keeps the whole class motivated. A huge well done to you both!! 

w.c. 16.9.24

We have had a busy week getting stuck into our Maths and English topics. In Maths, we have been learning to read and write numbers up to 10,000,000. We have worked incredibly hard on some tricky reasoning problems alongside this. I have been really impressed with the children's resilience in the face of tough questions! In English, we have been writing setting descriptions based on the book 'Rainplayer' which is set in the rainforest. The children have effectively used language to create an atmosphere and paint a clear image in the reader's mind. I have been blown away by the imagination of the children and the quality of work produced - I'm excited to see our extended writing in a couple of weeks time!! We finished the week by looking at characterisation of characters through dialogue. We thought very carefully about the words our characters would say and the actions that would accompany them. In pairs, we acted out our roles using roleplay. Again, I was so impressed with the children's ideas and acting! We have some future film stars in the class! 

Pupil of the Week - A HUGE well done to Lilly & Amna who were our pupils of the week. Both girls have returned to Brighton Avenue with smiles of their faces and ready to work hard. Well done girls - you absolute superstars!!! 

w.c. 09.09.24 

Wow! What a fantastic first week we have had back at school. We have been settling into Year 6 and our new routines (and responsibilities!) and finding out about all the fun that this year is going to bring. I want to say a massive thankyou to the children who have made me feel so welcome to the Brighton Avenue community and have helped me learn the daily routines as well!!!

This week, we have been busy completing our mixed-media art topic where we have focused on creating self-portraits using a range of art materials. To support us in planning our artwork, we researched Chila Burman, a London-based artist, who uses collage and mixed media to create a range of self portraits. We especially liked her pieces where she used LED lights! Using a range of materials, we created our own self-portraits thinking about how we could use style and colour to represent our unique identities. Have a look at some of our amazing creations below - aren't they amazing!!

A MASSIVE well done to our first two pupils of the week for Year 6: Ellie-Mae and Owen! Owen, you wowed me with your wonderful attitude towards your work - you are definitely ready to tackle Year 6! Ellie-Mae - what a kind, hardworking girl you are. You have worked like a trojan in all your lessons this week all while being a wonderful friend and mentor to a new student. You have truly made her feel a welcome part of our community. Well done!