Summer Term 2013

 

W.B 15.7.13

What a busy week we have had in Y6! Well done to everybody for an amazing performance of the Lion King- you all looked and sounded brillaint! We hope you enjoyed the leavers assembly and will take lots of happy memories of Mount Pleasant with you to Bassaleg.

Thank you for all our lovely presents, gifts and senitments- they are very much appreciated. You have all been a pleasure to teach.

We wish you all the best for the future. Keep working hard and enjoy all the happry times to come at Bassaleg. Don't forget to come back and visit us soon!!

All the best,

Mrs Irvine and Miss Phillips

 

 

 

 

 

W/B 8.4.13

This week we have started our work on Arthurian Legends. We have been listening to the story of King Arthur and discussing what a legend or myth consists of. We also studied knights and looked at the characteristics a knight would have. We have started testing our bottle rockets when we have had some sunshine and will hopefully test them all by next week.

Spellings for next week WB - 15.4.13

 

Mars	Mercury	Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
woman	active	reflection	equator	hardware
women	captive	section	sequin	internet
child	forgive	correction	earthquake	justify
children	motive	direction	conquer	keyboard
tooth	native	attraction	require	megabyte
teeth	massive	distraction	request	memory
mouse	expensive	fiction	mosque	modem
mice	relative	faction	square	module
goose	competitive	infection	sequence	monitor
geese	inquisitive	reduction	squadron	multimedia
calf	expansive	traction	consequence	password
calves	corrosive	fraction	frequent	preview
wolf	decisive	collection	disqualify	processor
wolves	attractive	construction	squeal	program
gwyliau	gwyliau	gwyliau	gwyliau	gwyliau
ar wyliau	ar wyliau	ar wyliau	ar wyliau	ar wyliau

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gwyliau - holidays

w/b 15.4.13

 We've been testing our bottle rockets to see how far they go in the air. During this time we completed a booklet on bottle rockets.

 

 

This week we have also started our new topic, Go with the flow, which is about the rivers and waters. To finish our space topic we wrote a project evaluation.

In English we have started learning about Arthurian legends, We wrote a blurb and a story start on our legend which we then put into a storyboard.To get the setting idea, we played on the ipads on a game called epic citadel.

In music we finished composing our music on garage band,then everyone listened to each others music.

In ICT we showed the year 3's our space related games on 2simple.

In Welsh we have been learning different vocabulary to use in our writing.

We are going to be working on our comprehension skils in Literacy. Please visit this website and complete some of the comprehension activities for grades 4 and 5 - http://mrnussbaum.com/readingpassageindex  /

 

Mars	Mercury	Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
knee	river	aggression	flock	alphabetical
kneel	liver	session	herd	anthology
knife	diver	confession	gaggle	article
knives	hover	impression	litter	author
know	novel	depression	shoal	catalogue
knock	shovel	percussion	school	classification
gnat	favourite	mission	pride	content
gnome	fever	passion	swarm	copyright
write	five	possession	pack	dictionary
wrist	lever	dispossession	ream	editor
wrap	flavour	progression	bouquet	software
wrapping	level	profession	fleet	spreadsheet
when	leave	discussion	flight	virus
where	television	oppression	peal	recycle
honest	develop	permission	string	association
rhyme	devote	procession	batch	queue

Spellings for w/b 22.4.13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W/B 22.4.13

 This week in Welsh we have been learning and using vocab, These are essential because we're speaking in a conversation about last years holiday.We are trying to achieve the best level possible.

This week in english we have been practising our comprehension skills ahead of our reading test.

This week in maths we have been practising our investigation skills ahead of our big maths test that will go to Bassaleg.

In science we've been looking at animals habitats and how are they adapted, we especially worked on the camel labelling all its adaptations like the hump and nose and ears.

In project we have been studying rivers and learning some useful vocabulary.

In music we had to listen to eight pieces of music and name the right ones, we also had to say about whether the texture is thick or thin.

We are now having Safe Cycling lessons every Friday to learn how to ride our bikes safely and correctly.

 

Mars	Mercury	Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
comb	broken	mansion	disguise	encyclopedia
bomb	hockey	explosion	biscuit	extract
thumb	package	occasion	juice	fantasy
crumb	racket	conclusion	fruit	genre
lamb	trickle	division	guidance	glossary
numb	chuckle	extension	guitar	index
half	monkey	confusion	linguist	irrelevant
halves	pike	decision	monologue	librarian
calm	rocket	collision	rogue	magazine
palm	wrinkle	television	squeak	non-fiction
could	sticker	vision	guard	photocopy
should	ticket	invasion	guarantee	publisher
would	chicken	expansion	language	thesaurus
bwyd	bwyd	bwyd	tywydd	tywydd
diod oer	diod oer	diod oer	gwesty	gwesty
o'r gorau	o'r gorau	o'r gorau	Dw i'n aros yma	Dw i'n aros yma

Spellings w/b 29.4.13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

bwyd - food      diod oer - cold drink        o'r gorau - OK

tywydd - weather   gwesty - hotel            Dw I'n aros yma - I'm staying here

 

W/B 29.4.13

In Welsh we have been practising our conversations about last years' holiday ready for  Mrs Irvine to assess us.

In our project work, we have been labelling famous rivers around the world on a mini map of Earth, which we had to draw to scale.

In English we have been learning about persuasive language. We used these skills by creating  a leaflet about safety on a bike.

In science we have been investigating shadows. We conducted an experiment to measure the length of a shadow during a school day.

In ICT we have been working on a stopmotion animation video on the ipads.

  

play	water	dilution	illegal	addition
playground	wave	pollution	illiterate	adjacent
motor	wander	contribution	irregular	alternate
motorway	wall	distribution	irrational	angle
bed	swan	expedition	improper	amount
bedroom	inward	addition	immortal	approximately
every	swallow	repetition	disbelief	average
everybody	beware	position	disadvantage	axis
everyone	woman	condition	misplace	calculate
everything	worm	competition	miscalculate	centimetre
some	worry	lotion	misconduct	circumference
somebody	world	potion	unnatural	corresponding
someone	swoop	promotion	unintentional	co-ordinate
Beth sy'n bod?	Beth sy'n bod?	Beth sy'n bod?	Beth sy'n bod?	Beth sy'n bod?
Ble nesa?	Ble nesa?	Ble nesa?	Ble nesa?	Ble nesa?
Beth am fynd?	Beth am fynd?	Beth am fynd?	Beth am fynd?	Beth am fynd?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beth sy'n bod? - What's the matter?

Ble nesa?            Where next?

Beth am fynd?    What about going?

w/b 7.5 13

In English we have been doing more persuasive writing using AFOREST. We have been learning how to make a balanced argument, showing both points of view.

During maths we've been working on our investigation booklets which contain various equations. We will be working on these booklets over the next week.

In project we have been studying how rivers meander and make oxbow lakes. After we finished this, Mrs Irvine set up an experiment to show the path of a river. We used a large piece of cardboard and a tray of sand to show how water goes down a steep mountain slope or a more gentle slope.

In welsh we have been pratising our holiday conversations because we are taping them next week.

Within ICT, we've been working on our stop motion animations (SMA). When we have added sound and credits, we will share them with the class.

In science we finished off our shadow investigation report. We found out that the shadow is shortest at midday because the sun is overhead and is longest in the early morning and later in the day when the sun is lower in the sky.

 

pan	mission	balloon	brighten	decimal
pancake	impossible	garden	Brighton	degree
week	missile	brother	lessen	denominator
weekend	hassle	sister	lesson	diameter
goal	passion	father	stationary	digit
goalkeeper	passive	mother	stationery	division
break	lesson	friends	dew	equilateral
breakfast	session	children	due	estimate
stairs	pass	those	metre	equation
upstairs	fuss	sure	meter	fraction
downstairs	process	clothes	current	graph
any	guess	great	currant	guess
anybody	Ble hoffet ti fynd?	Ble hoffet ti fynd?	Ble hoffet ti fynd?	Ble hoffet ti fynd?
anyone	Hoffwn i fynd..	Hoffwn i fynd..	Hoffwn i fynd..	Hoffwn i fynd..

WB 13/ 5 /13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ble hoffet ti fynd? Where would you like to go?

Hoffwn i fynd? I'd like to go......

 

Week 13.5.13

Maths-

In maths we've been completeing our year 6 investigation booklets and recently we've completed a test.

In English we've been doing some more persuasive writing, this time in letter format. We had to write about an issue from a traditional tale or nursery rhyme.  

In project we have focused on why ciries are biult near rivers and we had to choose a river to research. We thought about questions like population, employment, resources, leisure activities and industry and farming.

In science we have been identifying animal skeletons and we looked at the similarities and differences in human and ape skeletons. We thought about how changes had happened over time called evolution and how the skeleton adapted to the new needs of the human. We could see how animals had different features for different environments.

In welsh we have been reading a book about holidays called Gwyliau. We answered some comprehension questions and will be doing more work with it next week.

  

Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
create	script	horizontal
creation	scripture	isosceles
creative	medicine	kilogram
creativity	medical	kilometre
board	front	litre
bored	frontal	measure
beach	vent	metre
beech	prevent	multiplication
aloud	enter	parallelogram
allowed	enterprise	negative
attention	sign	numerator
mention	signify	percentage
sure	part	perimeter
surely	partial	perpendicular
hwyl	llawer o hwyl	llawer o hwyl
yn fawr iawn	yn fawr iawn	yn fawr iawn
diolch byth	diolch byth	diolch byth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

w/b 19th may 2013

In english we have been continuing using persuasive techniques. We wrote letters about an issue of our choice to either our parents, Mr Williams, or the Prime Minister to persuade them to our point of view. We also applied these skills when we debated in teams of 3 between industrialists and conservationists about river pollution. We had to remember to use our persuasive techniques to make our arguments convincing.

In project we watched a DVD about how the Hoover dam was made. After that we wrote a chronological report about the Hoover dam and how it affected the people around it.

In welsh we were taped reading a welsh book and doing a comprehension on it. We have also started to learn a bit on future tense.

In maths we have been doing a maths booklet on how we do certain types of skils e.g. ratio and proportion problems, fractions of numbers, percentages of numbers and using graghs to interpret data.

We are looking forward to the fun run this afternoon. Please remember to bring in sponsorship forms after the half term.

 

Mars	Mercury	Venus	Saturn	Jupiter
hope	night	jewellery	sign	recurring
hopeful	bright	voluntary	ensign	reflection
care	slight	dictionary	just	irregular
careful	eight	literacy	justice	rhombus
pain	weight	library	object	rotation
painful	straight	definitely	objection	square
use	height	miserable	person	symmetry
useful	rice	literature	personable	triangular
wonder	spice	interested	snowboard	tonne
wonderful	dice	desperate	outsmart	vertex
beauty	twice	generous	leftover	vertical
beautiful	mice	marvellous	postcode	volume
until	police	Wednesday	marvellous	weight
ennill	ennill	ennill	ennill	ennill
sgor	sgor	sgor	sgor	sgor

Spelling List (WB 3/06/13)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ennill - to win        sgor - score

 

w/b 3.6.13

In Welsh we have been writing a book review for 'Gwyliau'.To develop our speaking skills, we have been acting out a role play between a travel agent and customer, using familiar Welsh patterns. We will be taping them next week.

In art we have been looking at different paintings that include water and also at what techniques artists use to paint waterscapes.The artists we studied were Turner, Monet, Hockney, Cannaletto,Seurat, Whistler, Hokusai and Houston. We gave our opinions for each painting and learnt that art can be subjective. We also watched a video about how to paint a waterscape using water colours.

The homework for this week is to research an artist that we looked at in class and to produce an A4 sheet with a little information about the artist and a couple of examples of their work connected with water.

In project we have been continuing with our studies on rivers. We did a case study on Bangladesh,  because its built on a delta of a river.We learnt that this area is prone to flooding because they have monsoons.

In English we have started reading a new class book called Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo.In the story there is a character called The Birdman, who is mysterious and disliked by the other islanders, so we had to draw him using clues form the text and also write a poem about him. Today we completed a  KWL chart on what we know about in the story so far and and thought of questions that we want to find out about.

In Maths we have been making a maths board game. We used games already in existence and then adapted them with our own ideas. Once they are finished we will take in in turns to play each others games and evaluate them.

W/B 10.6.13

As part of our continuing project work about rivers, we have been doing some research about bridges around the world. We chose a bridge to study and found information about its' height, location and  materials used for construction. This is in preparation for our work next week where we will have to construct a model bridge. The homework this week is to research a bridge ( anywhere in the world) and produce an A4 piece of paper which displays the information found and some pictures.

After out trip to the Fourteen Locks Canal Centre, we wrote a report about the activities that we took part in. We wrote a detailed accout about the pond dipping, wildlife survey and tree identification. We were lucky enough to see lots of wildlife including Damsel Flies, Mallard Ducks, Moorhens, some British birds and even some very cute ducklings!

We have been continuing to read more of 'Why The Whales Came' which we are thorouhgly enjoying. We have found out more about the Birdman which has changed our feelings towards him. This week we wrote a diary enrty in the voice of Gracie, who had got into trouble after hiding wood found on the beach. We also used the story for inspiration to act out a freezeframe about a bullying scene.

Bassaleg Science Departement visited us on Tuesday to conduct a Science experiment using bottle rockets. In groups we had to build a rocket and then launched them to see which one went the highest.

In Art this term, we have been learning about Watercolours in preparation to paint a waterscape. We sketched a basic plan for out waterscapes, focussing on the compostion and relflection. We also learnt new art vocabulary such as blotting, beldding and stipling and techniques such as the wash and using dry-on-dry.

  Spelling List (WB 17/06/13)   

hope	trouble	generally	angel	choir
hopeless	found	interest	cruel	chord
care	around	poisonous	cancel	conductor
careless	journey	secretary	quarrel	composition
pain	route	separate	squirrel	crotchet
painless	young	business	diesel	dynamics
use	taught	boundary	pummel	harmony
useless	caught	difference	vessel	instrumental
home	aunt	original	minstrel	musician
homeless	autumn	company	council	octave
speech	haunt	different	until	orchestra
speechless	cause	centre	pupil	percussion
end	because	frightening	petrol	activity
endless	sausage	general	control	agility
Sawl?	Sawl?	Sawl?	Sawl?	Sawl?
	disgrifiwch	disgrifiwch	disgrifiwch	disgrifiwch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sawl? - how many?      Disgrifiwch - describe

 

W./B 17.6.13

We have been continuing to read the book 'Why the Whales Came.' We have now learnt about the significance of the whales and have learnt that Gracie's dad has been killed in the war. We also discussed bullying and how it feels to be a victim. We then wrote a poem about how a bullying victim might feel and also looked at bullying from the perspective of the bully.

In Maths this week, we have been doing some work in the textbooks covering all aspects of Maths. We have also done our ALFIE tests on the computer, in which everyone did really well.

Follwing our Welsh work on gwyliau, we have been writing holiday postcards to our friends. We had to use the three tenses and patterns we already know to help us write the postcard.

In Art we have been painting our watercolour pictures (they were all very successful). We used our sketches to help us plan our paintings and then practised using the watercolout paints before undertaking our final piece. We found out that watercolour paints are quite hard to paint with but are very effective for painting waterscapes.

Carrying on with our Project work, we have been researching bridges from around the world on the ipads.

We have also listened to some more interesting presentations about topics such as The Titanic, James Cook, The Golden Gate Bridge and Sydney Bridge. Everone did well, speaking clearly and using a prezi or powerpoint presentation with a quiz at the end.

  Spellings for w/b 24.6.13                Venus                             Saturn                                Jupiter

did not	morning	heavy	difference	relay
didn't	often	heavier	absence	squad
does not	first	heavily	experience	tactic
doesn't	much	heaviest	independence	tournament
will not	being	empty	confidence	triceps
won't	change	emptiness	indifference	ability
cannot	coming	emptied	influence	achievement
can't	number	emptying	insistence	addiction
could not	only	reply	guidance	approval
couldn't	both	replies	nuisance	communication
should not	walk	replying	importance	control
shouldn't	different	replied	assistance	persevere
yacht	yacht	yacht	yacht	catalogue
vegetable	vegetable	vegetable	vegetable	sufficient
plough	plough	plough	plough	secretary
giraffe	giraffe	giraffe	giraffe	precious