Y6 Drop Everything for Book Week

As part of the on-going celebrations for World Book Day, the children at Royal Hill are spending an entire week celebrating reading. 

Part of these exciting celebrations is DEAR (Drop Everything And Read). At the signal of a bell at any random time of the day, the children stop whatever they are doing and enjoy 15 glorious minutes submerged in their favourite (or current) book. 

"I love DEAR, it means I can read ahead in my Book Club book!" -Scarlett

"I anticipate that I might complete an entire book this week in DEAR time alone!" -Marc 

Stay tuned for my photos and news from World Book Day and the other celebrations this week! 

 

  

Writing Competition

 

Fabulous Fry-Up Friday

Today, our  Year  6 children ran another successful ‘Fry-up Friday’, where they made bacon rolls and vegetarian sausages baps. They also served up freshly-squeezed cold juice drinks to the incoming parents and students of James Wolfe School. All of their hard work, reciprocity and organisation paid off and resulted in a profit of around £109. Plans for new books have already been made for £30 of the takings, which will be used for the Year six book club next half term.

‘There were far more customers than last time, and we tried our hardest to sell all of them, but we ran out of bacon at about 8.30am!’  - Arnas, 6N

Stay tuned for details of the next event run by our lovely Year 6 children! 

More photos coming later!

Written by William and Abigayle, 6N

Homework 3.2.17

Please find below this week's homework task. Children should return this to school in their Homework books by Thursday. Every child should also be reading every day and noting this in their planners, which should be signed by an adult at home and given to class teacher on Friday. 

Have a lovely weekend - the Year 6 team 

 

Past Pupil Visit

As a teacher, it's always great to see your past pupils come back to visit, and see if they really did keep their promises to work hard once they left primary school. 

One James Wolfe pupil who managed to do just that was Jordan Cousins. Now enjoying his first season at Queen's Park Rangers, Jordan has had a successful ten years since leaving James Wolfe, playing for Charlton Athletic, and being capped for England at Under 16, Under 17 and Under 18 levels.

 

Though Jordan came to visit our Royal Hill campus, James Wolfe was still based at Randall Place during his time with the school. "It's all very different to when I was at the school!" Cousins remarked. He was gracious enough to take the time to meet some of our children, and answer some of their questions. What were his words of wisdom for our children at James Wolfe today?

"Work hard and listen to what your teachers say!" 

We agree, Jordan - thank you for stopping by, we wish you every success in the future! 

-Mr Cowley

Maths Madness

Today Miss R's Maths group tried their hardest to get their heads around a tricky skill: long multiplication. 

To aid them on their quest, they paired up and went outside armed with chalk. Exercising their reciprocity skills, the children worked hard to explain the steps of learning to one another as well as helping each other to remember their tricky times tables. 

"I feel much more confident about multiplication problems now," exclaimed Kasey. 

Great work everybody! Can't wait to see you putting those skills to the test with some problems! 

-Miss R 

 

    

Book Club Launch

The children in Year 6 were very excited when they came into school this morning. There was a buzz around the classrooms and anticipation as the children had to carefully think about their choices.

What were they choosing? 

Their book club of course! The sign up sheet was ready for children to assign themselves to a club, each run by a different member of staff. Book titles in the fantastic selection included: Ethel & Ernest (Raymond Briggs), Fantastic Beasts (J K Rowling), The Boy in the Striped  Pyjamas (John Boyne), The Midnight Gang (David Walliams) and Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) to name just a few!

Each Wednesday the children will meet in their assigned club with their text of choice and discuss the latest plot twist, predictions and persevere with reading. 

More updates on Wednesday Book Club coming soon!

Welcome to the Year 6 Blog!