Sycamore Class [Year 6]
Welcome to Sycamore
class.
Topic
Webs:
Term 1 2018-2019 -
World War 2
Term 2 2018-2019 -
World War 2
Term 3 2018-2019 -
Victorians
Term 4 2018-2019 -
Victorians
Term 5 2018-2019 -
Our World
Term 6 2017-2018 -
Kaleidoscope
A very big welcome to
Sycamore’s web page.
We hope that you all
had a lovely and restful summer break. The
children have come back enthusiastic and
have hit the ground running by working hard
and demonstrating a mature and responsible
attitude.
Year 6 is a busy and exciting year. We
already have lots of fantastic trips and
activities planned to balance out all of the
hard work leading up to SATs.
We will update this
page regularly with photos and information
so please make sure you keep ‘checking-in’!
As you will already be
aware the teaching team in Sycamore is: Mrs
Bazeley, Miss Leyman and Mrs Clarke. If you
have any queries or questions, please do not
hesitate to come and speak to us.
Useful information:
Homework
Set on Fridays. Due in Tuesdays.
Reading Logs
The expectation is that your child will read
a minimum of 5 times a week, logging this in
their Reading Log with 3 more detailed
entries per week.
Forest School
Friday afternoons
PE
Wednesday afternoons
*Please note* Term 1 –
PE will now be taught on a Monday
morning with Mrs
Macdonald.
Trips
Friday 21st September 8:30-13:00 –
Lifeskills Bristol
Dance Umbrella 2019
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On Tuesday
April 2nd, Sycamore Class travelled
to The Forum in Bath to take part in
Dance Umbrella. They had been
rehearsing for weeks with Michelle
Rochester of Make A Move and had
worked together to devise a piece
around the dynamics of ever-changing
friendships. They performed with
great confidence and also enjoyed
watching the other schools’
performances as there was a wide
range of dancing styles. We were
very proud of the exemplary
behaviour throughout the whole
experience of our pupils; on stage,
back stage and in the auditorium.
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Radstock Museum Visit
On Tuesday March 26th
2019, Sycamore class went to the Radstock
Museum. Everyone looked splendid dressed as
Victorians, from gentlemen to chimney
sweeps.
We were captivated by
the knowledgeable and fun volunteers who
took us back in time to experience Victorian
life. In the schoolroom, we learnt a song in
a round and heard about their stricter
discipline. Some were surprised that the
cane wasn’t as thick as they had expected!
We visited a
blacksmith and the co-op. Matty H and
Brandon helpfully pretended to be horses to
show how a horse’s shoe is fitted! At the
co-op, we were inspired to hear how 28
people saved their pennies until they could
open a shop with food that wasn’t expensive.
We were challenged to examine various
artefacts and guess their function. We
explored Victorian ice skates, poison
bottles, and hair curlers. The iron was very
heavy as it was made of solid iron. We felt
as though we had spent a morning in a
Victorian town and have learned many details
about life at that time.
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pictures about our visit. |
Cross Country Running
Competition
A group of Longvernal
children in Year 6 ran with determination at
a recent cross country school competition.
The children were challenged to run around
two large loops of a field and a woodland
area at Somervale playing fields in the
pouring rain. All of the children ran
brilliantly, showing grit and resilience to
complete the wet, muddy and testing race
route. Deservingly, the boys and the girls
both finished in third place in the small
schools team standings. Well done to all the
children who took part; we were incredibly
proud of their effort, team work and
camaraderie.
Sycamore Class Term 3
Sycamore have had
another successful term starting with a
thoroughly enjoyable trip to the Pantomime
to watch Peter Pan, where three of our
pupils were invited on the stage to sing.
Dance Umbrella
preparations are now fully underway with
specialist Michelle Rochester coming in to
help choreograph our dance alongside the
children.
We are enjoying
reading Street Child by Berlie Doherty and
have been relating this to social history
aspects of Victorian Britain. From this, we
have taken part in drama activities and have
written diary entries in the role of Jim
Jarvis. Additionally on Thursday February
7th, we travelled to South Wales to
Blaenavon Iron works and Big Pit. Both
places further increased our understanding
of the impact on lives of ordinary people of
the Industrial Revolution.
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It was exciting donning miners’ hats
and lamps to descend 300ft (90m)
down the mine shaft to experience
the conditions down the mines and to
learn about the process of
extracting coal. We were able to
relate this to our learning in
school about transportation, steam
and coal in Victorian times. The
children impressed us and the staff
at the museum with their existing
knowledge and ability to make links
between Science and History.
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image to the left to see a gallery
of pictures about this term. |
Sycamore Class Term 2
2018
Sycamore pupils were
very busy in the weeks leading up to
Christmas. They were very active, with
several pupils competing in the swimming
gala at Midsomer Norton whilst others
participated in a football tournament. In
addition to these teams representing the
school, everybody in Sycamore has had the
opportunity to experience expert coaching in
netball and gymnastics with Laura Macdonald
from Norton Hill School and also
participated in the Multi - Skills Festival
at Somervale School.
In Forest School,
Sycamore visited the Ammerdown Estate to
forage in the woods for pine cones and other
natural resources to create their reindeer
Christmas tree decorations. Ellie was very
stoical when she went splat into some
particularly gloopy mud, everyone loved
climbing and swinging on a huge tree and
Evren did a spectacular spontaneous
somersault over the gate on exit!
As part of the World
War Two topic, Sycamore has been reading and
answering comprehension questions on
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian.
On the final day of tem we then watched the
movie. Not a dry eye was in the house!
Sycamore also studied the features of
writing newspaper reports with Mrs.
Buckeridge, the Bath Spa Teacher and were
delighted when they themselves, as a result,
were featured in a newspaper article in The
Journal about their news reports written
about the Dunkirk landings.
The term ended on a
high with the Key Stage 2 disco and Sycamore
class is looking forward to seeing Bath
Pantomime, Peter Pan on Friday January 10th.
War Poems
Click here to read the poetry we have
written about war.
Sycamore Class Term
One 2018
Sycamore pupils have
been busy this term learning all about World
War Two and enjoying the novel Goodnight
Mister Tom for whole class Guided Reading.
They have carried out a range of writing
including: an autobiography; a diary entry
as a fighter pilot; a letter home from an
evacuee and a historical story. They
additionally watched and listened to an
authentic interview with Molly from Sycamore
last year’s Grandad before writing this up
in reporter style.
In PHSE, we visited
Life Skills and have also looked at
e-safety. For Forest School, we have visited
Silver Street, held traditional conker
competitions, carried out forest management
in The Orchard in addition to some cooking
and den-building.
 We
have been fortunate in having the
opportunity to work through Somer Valley
Arts with local artist Edwina Bridgeman to
produce a Bayeux- tapestry inspired tapestry
commemorating World War 1 and some of
Sycamore were also interviewed for an audio
recording linked to this. This is part of
the ‘Paulton Remembers’ event scheduled for
November 10th.
In Science, we have
been learning about Evolution and
Inheritance. We were lucky enough to visit
Somervale to have one of our sessions taught
by a specialist Science teacher in the
Science labs. The Science teacher was
incredibly impressed with the children’s
existing knowledge and ability to ask
appropriate questions; some he would hope
for in his Year 9 class.
Sycamore have really
shown from the outset that they are ready to
be leaders of the school and have done a
fantastic job as buddies for our youngest
new pupils as well as proving to be
fantastic playground leaders and assembly
monitors.
Beer Residential
The children really
enjoyed their trip. Here are some of the
memories they are taking away with them:
“I liked it
when Thomas asked ‘When is pudding?’…
when we had already eaten it all!!”
- Elsie
“Beer was a wonderful experience. I
will treasure every moment of it.” -
Ethyn
“I found it funny when the cat kept
sneaking into the boys’ tent and
wouldn’t go away!” - Francci
“I loved our trip! It was especially
funny when Mrs Courtier got pooped on
twice by a seagull which then took her
sandwich!” - Maia
“I enjoyed choosing music for the car
journeys. We listened to Cotton Eye Joe
9 times!” - Corey
“Beer was really fun - I will never
forget it.” - Ben
“My favourite part…The YHA breakfast…
enough said!” - Maisey
“I found it really funny when
everyone thought a buoy out at sea was a
shark fin!” - Benji
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