Challenge crew – putting our memory through its paces

28th February 2025Hannah McLoughlin

The children worked in mini crews to go next door and look at certain items placed on a desk, they had to then memorise this as the next time they looked at the desk of items, things had changed. The challenge was to work out what had changed. It’s safe to say we have not got a photographic memory just yet, but we love a good challenge to activate our brains on a morning.

Crew McLoughlin or mini Jonathan Yeos?

28th February 2025Hannah McLoughlin

In Case Study 2, we have been studying the artist Jonathan Yeo- a British artist known for his contemporary portraits of famous people. We have delved into his artwork and analysed his use of colours, tone and highlight with use of shadows. We learnt some new sketching techniques to reflect the direction of a light source on an object. We analysed use of colour- why has the author used certain colour choice, linking our knowledge of warm and cool colours. We have chosen an inspirational individual we have studied about in history and reading and started to sketch an outline. Our first drafts look pretty impressive!

Experience and Grammar day

28th February 2025Hannah McLoughlin

This half term we have begun our next unit of writing, which we’re extremely excited about as it is going to be supporting us with our final product. Our genre is a type of monologue- a speech- focussing on ‘I have a dream for Doncaster’. We were immersed into the writing by watching example videos of monologues in films we love to obviously enjoy as the audience, but importantly build background knowledge and understand a purpose of speeches. We then participated in a conscience alley to reflect on our opinions of the pros and cons of Doncaster, as well as reflected on issues within our own community. We then backed this up with research our chosen dreams for Doncaster.

In grammar day, we consolidated clauses; we found the subject, verb and object within a clause. We also played punctuation bingo, which was a huge hit! This developed our knowledge and led us to today’s learning – Miss’ expectation of us using Y6 standard punctuation. We learnt about the purpose of colons and semicolons and made our very own sentences we could add into our introduction next lesson. The grammar refresh was definitely needed ready for progressing in our writing as well as ready for our grammar test next week.

We are Authors

14th February 2025Hannah McLoughlin

During our recent writing lessons, we have been writing a diary from the perspective of a 10 year old girl in the 1960s and her dads making her attend MLKs speech. The children have loved writing a diary and are now writing their own at home, which is lovely to see.