Etz Chaim Jewish Primary School

Year 6 2024-25

 

Welcome to our Headline of the week. This will give you a small taster of some of the learning taking place in your child’s class.

We hope you enjoy reading our Headlines each week.

17/01/25

In History we have been learning all about WW2 and specifically this week we have been learning all about the evacuee children and what it might have felt like to be evacuated.

10/01/25 

In English this week we have been learning all about the features of a balanced argument and have been researching facts to be able to use in our final writing.

20/12/24 

In DT we have been working on creating an adventure for the Beebots to go on. We wrote a story and planned its adventure and this week we have been building the actual 3D adventure, that the Beebot will take.

13/12/24  

In Science, the children have been learning all about refraction. We drew images of arrows in our books, made predictions about what would happen and then held glasses of water over our work and watched the arrow switched to face the opposite direction. Magic!

06/12/24 

In Science, the children in Year 6 have been looking at how light travels. Using measuring lines and angles skills, we built our own periscopes out of cereal boxes.

29/11/24 

The children have been working in groups to create a presentation and poster about Israel, in Jewish Studies this week.

22/11/24

The children have been looking at how light travels from a source to an object, and then from that to our eyes in Science this week.  The children used their learning to produce a TV programme to teach others how we see and presented them to the rest of the class.

11/10/24 

In science, Year 6 have been learning all about electricity, and were really surprised to find that it could travel through them and joining hands in a circle they were able to make a circuit.

27/09/24  

As you are aware Year 6 has been in Kingswood all week, working on our teamwork. As one of our activities, working together in groups, the children had to build a safe shelter.

20/09/24  

As our first circle meeting, as the leaders, will take place this week, we have been spending time working in our circle groups to plan our meeting.

13/09/24 

In Year 6 this week, we have been very busy with practice SATs all week, but we still found time to have a go at making clay monkeys.

17/01/25 

In Math’s this week we have been looking at converting between metric and imperial measurements. Today we looked at converting between miles and kilometres.

10/01/25 

In Jewish Studies this week the JAleph programme was introduced, to elevate Hebrew reading skills across the school. As part of this we have been playing Aleph Bet games to help with our learning.

20/12/24 

In Science, we have been learning all about light and how we see. We created posters to show our learning.

13/12/24  

We were all very excited this week to have visitors from Israel as part of the Chanukah Torch Relay. We tried to recreate the torch with our bodies, along with other Chanukah related shapes

06/12/24 

This week eight children, who are the Tzedakah Tzevet team, represented the school for Mitzvah Day, by taking all the sorted food collection, to Food Bank Aid. As well as taking the food there, they were shown around the site and helped to sort the food we donated.

29/11/24 

Year 6 this week, had the honour of meeting with some member of Kisharon school this week and worked together to sort through all the donations for the Mitzvah Day food bank drive.

22/11/24

In Maths this week, we used different resources to hrlp confirm our results, as we came to the end of our unit.

11/10/24 

In English this week, we used all our describing skills, to try and describe a place for others to guess, that did not include any names or addresses.

27/09/24 

Year 6 had a visit from Tribe to lead a session of Tishrai’s Got Talent, where the children did activities and quizzes around all of the Chaggim in Tishrai.

 

20/09/24 

In Maths this week we have been working hard with number lines that go all the way to 10,000,000.

13/09/24 

We have been spending a lot of time since becoming Year 6, working on building our leadership skills. As being leaders is something very important as we progress in Year 6 and take on more responsibilities.