I am Mrs Griffiths, the lucky teacher of Class 6 and I would like to welcome you to our class page! Here is where we will keep you updated on all of the exciting and fun things we have been getting up to during the week. Class 6 are enthusiastic about their learning and they are proud to present their work to you on our website.

Class 6 are also extremely lucky to have Miss Bedson who will be supporting us in the classroom with our learning this year. Miss Bedson will be with us for three days a week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Why not have a look at our 'Curriculum Page' too  and check out the interesting topics we will be learning about throughout the school year!

This year, PE lessons will take place on a Thursday afternoon and during the first half of the Autumn Term and second half of the Summer Term, we will be travelling to Everton Sports Park for our important Swimming lessons. Pupils are required to have the full, appropriate kits for these activities to ensure they can take part comfortably and safely.

As you know, reading is a huge focus in our school and it can have a fantastic impact on pupils' learning across the different curriculum areas. In class 6, reading records are kept by the children and should be signed by an adult at home at least twice a week. These records are checked by myself every Friday and a 'Reader of The Week' is selected and rewarded for their efforts!

In year 6, homework is of particular importance as pupils will be preparing to sit their end of Key Stage 2 SATs in May next year. The homework will be given out every Friday and is to be returned the following Monday. The purpose of homework is to review the pupils' work from the week but at times may revisit prior learning as a method of revision. Class 6 will also receive additional spelling lists to practise and these words can be located in their reading records where the year 5 and 6 curriculum spellings are listed. If you or your child are ever unsure on a piece of homework, please do not hesitate to speak to me.

I look forward to working with you this year!

This week we were very lucky to have Andy Tooze, a famous poet, in school. Andy read lots of his poems and worked with Class 6 to write their own poems about hopes, dreams, fears and ambitions. 

 Everyone wrote fantastic poems and Jason, Izabel and Amber read their poems out in an assembly at the end of the day. 

In RE this week we have explored how we can put our faith into action in our community by helping local charities, being kind to our neighbours and being a Good Samaritan.

 We have written acrostic poems, made a jigsaw heart about the community of Liverpool and have written about how love can be reflected through our actions in every day life. We ended our lesson with a Collective Worship, reflecting on our learning in the lesson.

Class 6 celebrated World Book Day by writing stories using all of the features they have been practising in English. The children were given a picture and the start of a story and the pupils had to continue the story. Connor won a prize for his fantastic metaphors - well done Connor!

 Many children also dressed as a character from a book!

In PSHE the pupils have been looking at the cycle of our lives and how we change from a baby to an elderly person. We read the book Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and explored how your mobility, knowledge, size and sensibility changes throughout your life. We recorded this on a line graph in groups and shared our thoughts. 

We have been lucky enough to experience a wonderful workshop delivered to our whole school by Liverpool Hope University students who came to teach us all about gender equality. During the assembly and the classroom workshop, we played games, made predictions and explored stereotypes around gender. We learned that male and females are equal and that we can all achieve what ever we want to as long as we work hard and put our minds to it! We began to question our own understanding of gender and the expectations we had and we were able to celebrate the true equality of boys and girls by the end of the day! 

Today we met two officers from the British Transport Police who were talking to us about how to be safe and responsible at and around our railways. We held class discussions, watched videos, learned very important lessons and even got to try on some of the Police uniform and equipment! We discovered how fast trains move and how heavy they can be - the equivalent of 80 elephants!! We can now spread the messages that we have learned about railway safety to our friends, peers and school community to make sure that everyone knows how to stay safe! 

As part of our Design Technology project we designed and made our own decorative mosaic tiles. We learnt about the history of mosaics and looked at different examples, we even went to look at the mosaic by the front entrance of our school! 

 We looked at symbols from our work on Buddhism to design and label our tiles in our sketch book. We then made a prototype using paper squares, before making the real tile.

 Last term the pupils entered a poetry competition held by Premier League Primary Stars. Pupils had to write a poem about resilience and never giving up. 

 Although the winner will not be announced until February, Primary Stars acknowledged the pupils' efforts and sent us a variety of poetry books for our classroom! 

Year 6 were very lucky to receive a visit from Mr Bedson this week, who came to talk to the pupils about his experiences and memories from World War Two. Mr Bedson gave the pupils lots of information to help with their Topic lessons and also brought some photos and old ration books for the children to look at. 

On Tuesday 23rd February pupils visited the Crucial Crew in Bootle. The pupils enjoyed a morning of mini workshops with a theme of keeping safe. The children took part in activities, including First Aid, Road Safety, E-safety, Rail Safety, Electrical Safety and Stranger Danger. 

In our Computing lessons this half term the pupils will be making their own promotional video, with the theme of staying safe online. We looked at the pupils favourite adverts and discussed what makes them memorable and effective. The pupils have planned and scripted their promotional videos. The pupils will film, edit and evaluate their videos in the upcoming lessons. 

Jenny, from the Liverpool Learning Partnership had a meeting with the English ambassadors about updating the school library. Jenny and the ambassadors completed an audit of the current library and discussed ideas about things that they could add and change to the new library. They prepared a short survey to complete with each class in Key Stage Two, to gather more ideas. They will now use the results of the survey to design the new school library. 

As a class we read The Island, by Armin Greder and discussed the examples of discrimination that were highlighted in the book. We looked at the 'Show racism the red card campaign' and designed our own red cards to stand up to racism. 

In their PSHE lesson, the children have been learning about how the PANTS rule can help to keep them safe - we watched the Pantasaurus video and designed our own pants to spread the word and help other children stay informed. The PANTS rule:

Privates are private.

Always remember that your body belongs to you.

No means no.

Talk about secrets that upset you.

Speak up, someone can help. 

During our visit to Central Library, the English Ambassadors were delighted to meet Frank Cottrell Boyce and listen to an extract from one of his wonderful stories. The children got to hear all about Frank's inspirations and ideas! This was all part of Liverpool School Improvement's Diary writing initiative, in which our pupils took part by reading extracts from Anne Frank's diary. We also had the pleasure of listening to other diary entries and still extracts as well as watching performance poetry from another local school!