Mrs Irvine Autumn 2015

 

 

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2.9.2015- A NEW TERM!

 

Welcome back everyone! We hope that you all had a super break and are ready and refreshed for an exciting and busy term. All the information that you might need will be on Mrs Irvine's main page and also in our class blog. We wlll keep you updated ( as regularly as possible!) on the work and activities that we do in school and also of any news or key information.

Please pop in to see Mrs Ivine if you have any queations about Year 6. =]

Here is our timetable for this year ( subject to some changes!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Mrs Irvine and Miss Phillips would like to thank everyone for all of their lovely cards and presents. We have both been spoilt this year, so thank you all =]

Today we have had a really fun last day. Here are a couple of things that we have been getting up to ..........

            

We all hope that you enjoyed the Christmas concert. We really enjoyed performing it. Thank you for watching !

 

 

Week b 30th November

This week's spellings

 

Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
swim	porter	advertisement
swimmer	portal	alliteration
swimming	portable	apostrophe
trim	portfolio	atmosphere
trimmed	transport	chorus
trimming	import	clause
stop	export	cliché
stopper	microscope	comma
stopped	telescope	comparison
stopping	horoscope	conjunction
spin	gyroscope	consonant
spinner	stethoscope	dialogue
spinning	scribe	exclamation
slip	scribble	expression
slipping	inscribe	figurative
slipped	transcribe	genre
a fi hefyd	a fi hefyd	a fi hefyd
a ti ?	a ti ?	a ti ?
o na neis	o na neis	o na neis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week b 23rd November

Singing songs for our Christmas production is well underway. Please keep practising the words at home. Costumes can come in when you have them - we suggested jeans, check shirts or similar that would fit a 'Western' theme, little scarves and even a cowboy hat if you have one, but not at all essential.

This week's spellings

 

Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
use	microscopic	disassemble
useful	microphone	evaluation
dread	microbe	gravity
dreadful	micro-organism	orbit
care	superb	solar system
careful	supernatural	axis
cheer	supersonic	rotate
cheerful	supermarket	sphere
skill	superlative	anti-clockwise
skilful	superimpose	constellation
colour	superhuman	satellite
colourful	superficial	astronomer
beauty	superfluous	eclipse
beautiful	superior	gravitational
Gyda pwy est ti?	Gyda pwy est ti?	Gyda pwy est ti?
Pryd est ti?	Pryd est ti?	Pryd est ti?
Sut est ti ?	Sut est ti ?	Sut est ti ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week b 16th November

This week's spellings

 

Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
mystery	subject	kiln
mysteries	submarine	landscape
shelf	subway	palette
shelves	submerge	pastel
telepathy	submit	perspective
autograph	subterfuge	portrait
hero	subtle	sketch
heroine	subtract	spectrum
heroic	subvert	aesthetic
heroism	subdued	brief
obey	subconscious	carbohydrate
obedient	subcontinent	component
disobey	subheading	design
disobedient	subtropical	diet
Fy hoff	Fy hoff	Fy hoff
hoffi wneud	hoffi wneud	hoffi wneud

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a visitor this week called Rhys Bebb who came to talk to us about Sustainability. We had to think about different energy sources and some of the advantages and disadvantages of using different types. We had to think about cost, space needed, how much was produced and how long it would take to clear up after the life expectancy of the power source ran out. It made us think that making decisions about energy is complicated.

 

Week b 9th November

On Wednesday we went to Crucial crew which was a safety workshop. We went round in groups to meet different experts who told us how we could keep safe near railway tracks, around electricity, online, with food, near dogs and our personal safety when we are out with friends. We were allowed to have a go on the bouldering wall too.

In maths, both groups have been working on fractions and in English we finished reading the novel. We planned and wrote persuasive letters to Mr Wells to try to convince him to clean up his act. We needed to include rhetorical questions, emotive language, cause and effect connectives and evidence, making opinions sound like facts.

In IT we began work on our Sustainability project with a partner. We need to collaborate on Google slides. For Welsh we need to find out about a famous person so we can ask and answer questions about them with a partner.

This week's spellings

 

Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
children	audible	business
childish	audience	caught
childishness	audition	chocolate
childhood	audiovisual	climb
childlike	auditory	conscience
childless	auditorium	conscious
childlessness	photogenic	consequence
joyful	photocopier	continuous
joyous	photophobia	daughter
joyfully	arachnophobia	decision
enjoy	claustrophobia	definite
enjoying	xenophobia	design
enjoyment	hydrophobia	development
enjoyable	agoraphobia	diamond
y gerdd	y gerdd	y gerdd
y bardd	y bardd	y bardd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week b 2nd November

                                                       Welcome Back

                                         Hope you all had a fab half term!

Maths

In Ms Luckwell's class we have been taking fractions down to their smallest form and putting numbers into decimals and fractions. In Mrs Irvine's class we've been converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and the other way round. We have also been simplifying fractions. Both classes have homework sheets this week.

English

We continued to read The Iron Woman and we planned a group drama, where Lucy, Hogarth, Mr Well's, the Iron Woman and the Iron man were interviewed by Petunia for a TV programme. We put together some questions and answers, then practised and performed our interviews. They have been videoed and then we evaluated our performances and gave ourselves a target for how we could improve.

Science

We made a graph of our results from the science investigation.

Project

We analysed the results of the Sustainability survey and did an art evaluation. In IT we were manipulating images of our own photo.

We began Bible Explorer about the Old Testament with a visitor called Amanda. She will be in each week for 5 weeks.

   

Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
electric	transfer	abstract
electricity	transplant	acrylic
electrician	transaction	charcoal
electrical	transatlantic	collage
mechanic	transcript	colour
mechanical	translucent	crosshatch
mechanism	transparent	dimension
mechanise	transmit	easel
meteor	aerodrome	exhibition
meteorite	aerial	foreground
meteorology	aerobatics	gallery
meteoric	aerodynamic	highlight
prison	aeroplane	illusion
prisoner	aeronautical	imposter
Nain	Nain	Nain
Taid	Taid	Taid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week b 19.10.15

Maths 

In Mrs Irvine's maths class we have been solving word problems,in Mrs Luckwell's we have beem doing long division and in Miss Philips we have been doing reasoning questions. 

English - we have read some more of the Iron Woman novel and then we wrote a diary entry pretending to be Lucy, explaining the events in Chapter 3. 

History - we wrote a newspaper report on the loch ness monster with Miss Phlilips and we finished our art topic looking at landscape by recreating one of David Hockney's paintings of a wood. After the paint had dried, we added collage leaves to make it look more effective.

Science - we did an investigation with 3 burning candles, weighing them at the start and then at 10 minute intervals. We found the candles kept losing weight. The next day the liquid wax had solidified again but the candles still weighed less. We concluded that the wax must have been burning as well as the wick of the candle and the wax became wax vapour. We could also see that burning wax is a reversible change.

We won the attendance certificate this week - Well done. We also got the cup for having most dragon stickers on the Welsh board - Da Iawn!

On Friday afternoon we had an internet safety talk by our Community Police Officer. We talked about cyber bullying and how to keep safe on line. Please remember to check all of your privacy settings when you get home.

Maths investigation booklets and flyers about the research homework have been sent home. Maths problems might take a few weeks to complete and you have 2 weeks to do the renewable energy research. Don't forget to keep up the reading!

Have a fun half term!

This week's spellings( will be tested after half term)

Mercury	Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
private	circle	graphic	success
beginning	circular	autograph	surely
pollution	circus	telegraph	surprise
everyone	circuit	aquarium	survey
tries	circumnavigate	aqualung	technique
fallen	circumstance	aquamarine	technology
have	transport	aquatic	texture
they	transmit	Aquarius	tomorrow
adventures	transparent	hydrofoil	unfortunately
terrible	transparency	hydroelectric	Wednesday
friend	transatlantic	hydraulic	weight
felt	translate	hydrogen	weird
just	transform	hydrophobia	women
saw	translation	dehydrate	quiet
again	Dw i'n dwlu ar	Dw i'n dwlu ar	Dw i'n dwlu ar
destroy	Dw i'n casau	Dw i'n casau	Dw i'n casau

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week b 12.10.15

School Council

In school council we discussed about how many people go on the message board.This week we have had a post by 1M saying 'could we have somewhere to put our toys because when it comes to play with them they're all gone. We would like to have some more posts each week. If you post a message on the board you will get a certificate.

We have also been looking at classes attendence. We would like to get our attendance to 100% each week.

Please could you all try to get at least one message per class.

Thank you. Beth (School council rep.)

 

automatic	consent	remember
automobile	continent	research
autobiography	condition	resources
autograph	conclusion	safety
telepathy	connection	secondary
telephone	contempt	separate
television	consultation	sequence
telegraph	consonant	shoulder
telescope	construct	sincerely
biscuit	considerable	skilful
bilingual	consequence	soldier
bicentenary	consolation	stomach
biceps	consistent	straight
binocular	consider	strategy
Dw i'n mwynhau	Dw i'n mwynhau	Dw i'n mwynhau
Dw i'n gallu	Dw i'n gallu	Dw i'n gallu

Venus                                                                                Saturn                                                                   Jupiter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week b/ 5:10:15

Literacy

This week in Literacy we have been  planning and writing a report about our time at Hilston Park.

We named it the Hilston Park - Survival Guide.

When we started to plan the report we had to make short notes about the sub headings:

Rules, Routines, Activities, Buildings, Kit List and Equipment and Instructors. Once we had made the notes we then started to write our reports. Each report was about 6 pages long and had a small glossary!

Maths 

In maths we have been doing grid and long multiplcation.  In Miss Luckwell's group we have done long multiplication and ratio work.

Science

We drew diagrams to explain the changing state of matter, using water as our example, but we looked at other solids that could change to liquids on heating and return to solids on cooling, such as chocolate, candle wax and butter. We thought about reversible and non-reversible changes. Some things can't change back to their original state, like an egg once it has been cooked or bread once it is toast.

Project

Please complete our Sustainability survey in Google classroom so we can analyse the results next week. We sorted pictures of energy use into types of energy or how it was being used and thought about why we use more energy in the developed countries compared with the developing countries.

Welsh

Try to practise the questions and answers on the language pattern sheets that came home. We have been going over some past tense questions and answers this week.

Spellings this week.

 

Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
achos	achos	achos
hefyd	hefyd	hefyd
Ble est ti?	Ble est ti?	Ble est ti?
Es i	Es i	Es i
mouse	confess	possession
mice	confession	potential
goose	contents	preparation
geese	concave	prioritise
woman	convex	process
women	conversation	proportion
fungus	convert	proposition
fungi	continue	questionnaire
tooth	contour	queue
teeth	consume	reaction
fish	container	receive
sheep	contestant	reference

 Week b/ 28.9.15

Hilston Week

 

Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
life	decimal	modern
lives	decathlon	moreover
thief	decade	murmur
thieves	decagon	necessary
scarf	Decalogue	nervous
scarves	decapod	original
knife	decimate	outrageous
knives	decimetre	parallel
loaf	century	participation
loaves	centimetre	pattern
leaf	centenarian	peaceful
leaves	centenary	people
sheaf	centennial	performance
sheaves	centigrade	permanent
self	centipede	persuade
selves	centurion	physical

Week 14.9.15

 English

In English we read the Lion and Albert poem and the funny bit was when Zak had to go and perform it with Mrs Irvine because he performed it before at drama. Later on in the week we made little booklets for younger children to read to help them understand the poem.

Also this week we wrote an Autumn poem using metarphors.

Maths

In Mrs Irvine's maths class we were finding out different methods to multiply, some in our head and some on paper.

Science

We have been finding out more about the properties of solids, liquids and gases and finding examples all around us.We did some experiments to see or hear the effects of gases, like a mini volcanic explosion with sodium bicarbonate and vinegar.

 

7.9.15

This week we went into our maths groups and had to do our first Alfie test of the year. We have been working on place value and Friday maths was about Shapes.

In English we have been learning about different types of poems and have read some poems by famous poets like Walter de la Mare and Robert Louis Stephenson. We did the beat to 'Windy Nights' so it sounded like horses' hooves. We did poetry comprehension on two poems about trees and have written a fast poem with a pattern, using noun, adjectives, adverbs and verbs.

Our science work is called Curious change and is about changing materials. We had to classify cards into groups and say what they were about. We went outside to be particles in solids, liquids and gases and we have drawn diagrams.

In PE we are learning moves from the Haka and also played hockey.

Miss Phillips did some art about landscapes with us and we compared pictures by Vincent van Gogh and David Hockney. We also changed the images in our IT lesson. In history we are looking at evidence about mysteries from the past.

 

Saturn	Jupiter
triplets	diary
tricycle	disappear
triangle	disappoint
triangular	embarrass
trident	energy
trio	engagement
triceps	enquire
triple	environment
triplicate	explanation
quartet	February
quadruped	fierce
quarter	forty
quadruple	fulfil
quadrant	furthermore
quadrilateral	guard
quadruplet	happened

 

Week beginning 2.9.15

Hello! Welcome to our first class blog in 6I!Here are the events from the first week in Year 6.

To start in art on our first day we got to paint in a new style that we had never seen before!

It was the style of Jackson Pollock.

Some of the pictures we made are on display in the cloakroom and in our gallery on our webpage!

In Geography we have also been learning about continents and oceans. In our topic book we have

been writing a list of the above topics. We also used an atlas to

locate the countries in South America.

We haven't done much PE but we have played a short game of rounders in which the scores were

a draw, three all.

Finally we had a Hilston Park talk with Mrs Irvine. We asked some basic questions like whether you could take a device that

needs charging, in which the answer was no.

Thanks for reading! Alex and Tom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venus	Saturn
party	quintet
parties	quintuplet
city	pentagon
cities	pentathlon
puppy	sextuplet
puppies	sextet
curry	hexagon
curries	heptagon
hobby	septuagenarian
hobbies	octogenarian
worry	octagon
worries	octet
story	octopus
stories	octave
fairy	nonagon
fairies	nonagenarian