Year 6 2021-22

Hello Year 6! Please watch this short video. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/religious-education-ks2-my-life-my-religion-ramadan-and-eid-ul-fitr/zdv7pg8 Please watch the video again and think about these questions. 1.  What is fasting? 2.  Who fasts? 3.  When do Muslims fast? 4.  Why do Muslims fast? Please write down your answers to these questions. You can use your exercise book with lines or any piece of paper. Extension: How do you think Muslims feel when they fast? If you know someone who is fasting; ask them how they feel when they are fasting. Hope you are well, Miss Ali ****************** Hello Yea r 6, Mantralingua, who make fabulous dual language books, have free access to their ebook library.    They have books in 37 languages, including many of those spoken at Cabot.   Here is a link to their website: https://uk.mantralingua.com/homereading . In order to access the books, y...

Good morning Year 6, It feels like it's been a very long time since we've seen you now, and we miss you all very much. We're looking forward to hearing all about what you've been doing when we speak to you this week! Thank you so much if you've posted a comment on the blog - we have replied to every comment that we've seen. We'd really like to hear some of your 'Magical Door' poems when we call you this week - perhaps you can practise performing your poems before we speak to you? Or, if you prefer, you could post your poems as comments on the blog! If you've been a little slow to return to schoolwork after the holidays, please make sure you've checked the blog posts from the last few weeks. Weekly Activities Literacy 1. Carry on with your diaries. You might not feel that you have anything interesting to write about, but remember that this is a very unusual time. In thirty years or so, your children might be reading your diary to ...

Hello everyone! This is week 3 of Miss Davies' family poetry challenge. If you missed week 1, it's on the blog here: https://cabotschoolyear6.blogspot.com/2020/04/miss-davies-performance-poetry-family.html and week 2 is on the blog here: https://cabotschoolyear6.blogspot.com/2020/04/miss-davies-performance-poetry-family_20.html . If you need some inspiration for performance, Ms Tupman's aunt and uncle had a go at last week's poem, 'The Boneyard Rap':  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYMP-pN_8Tc&feature=youtu.be . Remember that this is a challenge for everyone in the family to get involved with learning and performing! Here's some fabulous advice from Michael Rosen about how to make your performance excellent:  https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2017/michael-rosen-s-top-tips-for-performing-poems-and-stories/ . Here's this week's poem: Friends by Benjamin Zephaniah Funky monkey in the tree I like it when you talk to me ...

Go and open the door. Maybe outside there’s a tree, or a wood, a garden, or a magic city. Go and open the door. Maybe a dog’s rummaging. Maybe you’ll see a face, or an eye, or the picture of a picture. Go and open the door. If there’s a fog it will clear. Go and open the door. Even if there’s only the darkness ticking, even if there’s only the hollow wind, even if nothing is there, go and open the door. At least there’ll be a draught. Miroslav Holub, ‘The door’ trans. Ian Milner, Poems Before & After: Collected English Translations (Bloodaxe Books, 2006) www.bloodaxebooks.com

Ramadan Mubarak, Year 6!  We know that Ramadan this year will be very different to any that you have experienced so far. Please watch this message from Bristol Muslim Strategic Leadership Group (BMSLG), the Mayor of Bristol and others - they very eloquently say all that we wish to say to you:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma3iNRImtbo .  We also have a few reading updates for you! For those of you who have been following along with Miss Davies' Family Performance Poetry Challenge, Ms Tupman's aunt and uncle have decided to join you! Here's their version of 'The Boneyard Rap':  https://youtu.be/RYMP-pN_8Tc . Finally, Miss Davies has made some reading lessons for you. Your parents should have received a text message with the link, but in case they didn't, you can access the lesson here:  https://youtu.be/GqMqvtIb0G4 . It will take you about 20 minutes to do, and there will be a new lesson next Wednesday. Have a lovely weekend, Ms Tupman ...

Good morning, Year 6! It's the first day after the Easter Holidays; we would normally be welcoming you back to our classrooms this morning, but instead this is a virtual welcome back to school! We're looking forward to hearing what you've been up to when we make our calls to you this week.  If you have taken the past two weeks off your schoolwork, then have a look over the last two weeks on the blog, and see what's been posted (especially the Topic links). Weekly Activities Literacy 1. Keep writing in your diaries! Watch what some of these children have to say about what life in lockdown has been like for them - perhaps it will inspire you to add some thoughts to your diary. If your family is taking part in Ramadan, which starts later this week, you might also like to write about that in your diary. 2. We will be working through some of the ideas from this workbook . You might like to work through it at your own pace, or you can follow along with the a...

Hello everyone! This is week 2 of Miss Davies' family poetry challenge. If you missed week 1, it's on the blog here: https://cabotschoolyear6.blogspot.com/2020/04/miss-davies-performance-poetry-family.html This is a challenge for everyone in the family to get involved with learning and performing! Here's some fabulous advice from Michael Rosen about how to make your performance excellent:  https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2017/michael-rosen-s-top-tips-for-performing-poems-and-stories/ . Here's this week's poem (it's a long one, so you might just want to do the chorus): https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/poem/the-boneyard-rap/ The Boneyard Rap by Wes Magee This is the rhythm of the boneyard rap, knuckle bones click and hand bones clap, finger bones flick and thigh bones slap, when you’re doing the rhythm of the boneyard rap. Wooooooooooooooo! It’s the boneyard rap and it’s a scare. Give your bones a shake-up if you dare. Rattle ...

The Magic Box by Kit Wright I will put in the box the swish of a silk sari on a summer night, fire from the nostrils of a Chinese dragon, the tip of a tongue touching a tooth. I will put in the box a snowman with a rumbling belly, a sip of the bluest water from Lake Lucerene, a leaping spark from an electric fish. I will put into the box three violet wishes spoken in Gujarati, the last joke of an ancient uncle, and the first smile of a baby. I will put into the box a fifth season and a black sun, a cowboy on a broomstick and a witch on a white horse. My box is fashioned from ice and gold and steel, with stars on the lid and secrets in the corners. Its hinges are the toe joints of dinoaurs. I shall surf in my box on the great high-rolling breakers of the wild Atlantic, then wash ashore on a yellow beach the colour of the sun.

Good evening, Year 6! As it is still the Easter holidays, the activities on the blog this week are optional. We're looking forward to hearing about what you've been up to when we next speak to you - have a think about what you'd like to share with us! As always, we hope that you've been getting outside, whether in your gardens, or walking, biking, scooting or running around your local area. Make sure you take time to appreciate all the signs of spring. Weekly Activities Literacy 1. Keep updating your diaries! 2. Watch this video of Chris Riddell explaining how he creates his characters . Have a go at creating your own character (if you're really stuck, then you could always use the character in his example). Once you've got your who , what  and where , write a creative story featuring your character (the choice of what to write about is completely up to you)! If you're not sure what to write about, pick from the following ideas: Write a...

Good morning, Year 6!  Technically, today is the start of the Easter holidays. We will still be posting on the blog and calling you over the holidays, however for the next two weeks, the activities on the blog will be optional. What do you normally do for this holiday? It's my dad's birthday on April 10th, which almost always falls during the Easter holidays (as you'll remember from our RE lessons, the Easter holiday moves, depending on when a particular full moon occurs). Because of this, I almost always spend the holiday with him, often travelling somewhere. The only exception is when he's travelling somewhere with my sister instead of me. This year, of course, he'll be celebrating his birthday by himself - let me know if you have any ideas of how my sister and I can still make it special for him! When I spoke to my dad this weekend, he reminded me that four years ago we travelled to Poland for the Easter holidays. One of the places we visited, To...

Good morning, Year 6! Lots of you have been telling us that you're a bit bored stuck indoors, and you'd like to do some exercise. Here's a reminder of some of the places you can find videos to exercise with, or other ideas for keeping yourselves fit and healthy: Daily P.E. with Joe Wicks https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers https://www.gonoodle.com/ If you have a garden, you can use that for games, too, and we are still allowed to go outside for some exercise such as a walk, bike ride, scoot or run, as long as we make sure that: it is with the same people that we live with, and we don't meet up with other friends or family; we stay 2 metres away from anyone else who is outside. You could even set up your own fitness circuit, with different exercises to do in different places (skipping, star jumps, running on the spot, squats etc.), or you could choose six exercises, give each a number between 1 and 6, and roll your dice to see which exercise you hav...

Bonjour, Year 6! There's a bit of a French theme to this post. Madame Cartlidge has published your fantastic version of La Chenille qui Fait des Trous  - if you click on the link, you can hear Madame Cartlidge reading the story in French or in English. In addition to this, Madame Cartlidge has some other suggestions for French at home 1. Create an account on Babelzone:  https://www.lcfclubs.com/babelzonenew/  (this website is usually only available for paying customers. However, during the virus outbreak, they have made it available to all teachers and children free of charge). Click use your promo code  (see the picture below). Then enter the code lcf2020sch . Ask your parents to enter their email address and create a password. Choose the language you want to practise (you can choose French, or, if you know which language you'll be doing at secondary school, then select that).  Now choose a topic, and select some of the activities to do. ...

Hi everyone! Every week I am going to be sending you a poem.    The whole family can join in learning and performing it!    Here is some excellent advice from the maestro Michael Rosen to help make your performances really good https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2017/michael-rosen-s-top-tips-for-performing-poems-and-stories/ .   I will try and   include videos of poets/children performing the poems to inspire you but your ideas will be the best. Have fun! https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poems/beware Scroll to the bottom of the page to see James Carter read the poem. https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poet-videos/children-performing-poetry Scroll to the bottom of the page to see children from St Thomas of Canterbury School perform this poem. BEwARe! by James Carter There's a ... jaw-snapper teeth-gnasher river-swimmer dives-for-dinner fish-catcher back-scratcher cave-seeker winter-sleeper forest...