Today, the children were fortunate enough to work with Paul from the amazing Primary School Enterprise Project.
They spent the day creating and designing their own radio shows and they had many tasks to complete: assigning roles within their teams, managing a budget, desiging a logo and mascot, and discussing and identifying the ideal places to advertise and play their show. Not only did they have to work as part of a team, listen to each other and share their ideas the children had to present their show to a panel of judges where they were pushed out of their comfort zones completely when they were all expected to speak! They worked incredibly hard all day, displaying lots of different skills but most importantly having a fantastic time! The presentations and shows were that good Paul decided that not only one group would go through to the final, but two!
Both teams are now super excited to be able to evaluate and improve their shows in preparation for the final, which will take place in July at the Metrodome Arena against a number of other schools. They will be expected to present again to another panel of judges including some famous radio presenters such as Stephanie Hirst, JoJo and many others!

An enormous well done to everyone involved, but particularly the Super Six and Songs on Air who were our winners! Keep your fingers crossed, one of our teams could be the overall winners!

To celebrate the end of SATs and to show case our rounders skills we held a mini rounders tournament on the school field, we invited another local school to come and take part. In total there were five teams and everyone took part in both batting and fielding, unfortunately we didn't win, however we still had great fun and can't wait to play again!
Well done to the team from Hoyland Springwood, you gave us a great game and we look forward to playing you again soon!

This week was our final Parent Workshop! 
The children had planned and created stroyboards to help them create a stop animation using the iPads. They used different resources and props - from school and home - to create their backgrounds. The parents then helped them to create each scene from their storyboards and they used the 'I Can Animate' app to create and edit their creations. The children even learnt how to add music and sound effects to enhance their animations! Everyone worked really hard and we are now going to evaluate each others work to identify how we can make them even better!
Check back soon for our final animations!

Today we have been practising how to use a protractor to measure and draw angles accurately!
We taped up the tables to make crazy patterns and then measured the different angles. We labelled them by writing on the tables with white board pens! (Ssshhh, don't tell Miss Smith!) 

As part of our topic this term - The Great Debate - we invited our local, Labour MP, Stephanie Peacock in to school. Stephanie came to talk to us about what life is like as a Member of Parliament, what inspired her to become an MP and what her favourite part of the job is.
We learnt some interesting facts about the rules MPs have to follow whilst in Parliament and of course, asked some rather tricky questions about the current political situation in Britain. Stephanie was more than happy to answer all of our questions and then asked us what we thought should be a key priority for development within our community. We shared all of our ideas: vandalism, plastic use, helping homeless people and caring for the elderly.

We took part in a guided reading carousel where all our reading skills were tested at different stations. We worked mainly in pairs to sort true and false statements, correct and improve 3 mark questions, skim and scan for key vocabulary and matched questions to their answers. Who knew guided reading could be so much fun? 

Today we had our parent workshop. We were given a challenge where we had to use a variety of materials to create a 'boat' that not only floated on water, but held different amounts of weight.
We used card, plastic, paper, tape, glue, corks, lollipop sticks, straws and many other materials to make our creations.
After we began testing them, we soon realised the larger the surface area of the boat the more weight it would hold: this is because the weight was distributed more evenly! 
We then had to use our maths knowledge to total the weight that the boats held before they began to sink!
We also observed that the boats with more cardboard sank quicker as they absorbed the water and dragged the boat down. The ones with plastic on the bottom were able to float a lot longer as they were water resistant.

We had a wonderful World Book Day in Year 6. It was amazing to see the effort put in to the different outfits the children had on - from Harry Potter inspired outfits to the real Gangsta Granny herself - it was truly wonderful to see! We enjoyed taking part in our final World Book Day parade at High View too!

Later on in the day, we had the opportunity to share our favourite books with another year group. 6SH visited Year 3 and 6JB were visited by Year 2. Again, everyone had a fantastic time whether it was reading to another, listening to another read, doing the silly voices or listening to an adult, the children enjoyed sharing their books - check out our pictures below!

We had an amazing day!

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Today in maths we took part in revision stations. Each station was set up with different activities involving 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. We worked in small groups as a carousel and supported each other in completeing the actitvities, we worked hard to remember all we had learnt about shape throughout key stage 2 and also learnt some new, interesting facts about shapes. We are looking forward to building on our knowledge and applying this to lots of different problems and investigations!

This week we have celebrated the progress made by the children in reading, writing and maths. We have worked really hard this term and are now looking forward to the holidays!
Well done Year 6!