To further supplement their development in becoming skilful rounders players, Year 6 practiced their fielding skills today focusing mainly on throwing, catching and tactical play. Starting with some fun games to stress the importance of rapid throwing and catching to beat running players, the children quickly moved onto improving their long range throwing and catching.

Practising these skills in isolation is important but nothing compares to putting these skills under pressure in small game situation. Safe to say, the practice beforehand made the small games even more competitive. Now, Year 6 will look to improve their skills with a bat! Well done all!

Post-Easter Catchup
After a well needed Easter break,6CC have hit the ground running, returning to school with an abundance of focus, resilience and a desire to soak up as much valuable learning as they can before their upcoming SATs assessments.

Maths
In Maths, the children have explored 2D and 3D shape, coordinates , translation, symmetry and reflection. Working with new partners as of the beginning of the week, the crew of 6CC has knuckled down and impressively supported each other in every area of learning. Well done guys!

Rounders!
Wednesday afternoon saw the children enjoy the chance to let off some steam with some healthy competition: our inter class rounders tournament not only refreshed the children’s memory of the rules of the game but also saw sportsmanship, respect and great team work. Awesome start to the new PE topic, Year 6!

On the first of April, Year 6 took the annual trip down to Rotherham for Crucial Crew; a day of safety training and life skills practice. The children experienced a range of life scenarios, from a visit to the magistrates court to learning about the serious impact of hate and knife crime. All of the scenario leaders were from backgrounds relevant to the training they delivered who helped to make their training as engaging as possible.

After a busy Spring term which has flown by, the visit to Crucial Crew was a pleasantly different way to mark the end of term. We hope you all enjoy the Easter holidays and look forward to seeing you again in Summer!

Out in the idyllic South Yorkshire sunshine, our year six wood workers were grafting hard on Friday morning to sand down their wooden frames. With it being such a distinctly different design and technology task, all enjoyed the opportunity to smoothen their frames in preparation for decorating next week!

The works of J.R.Tolkien to were brought to life today with the children of 4TE and 6CC engaging in a variety of activities linked to ‘The Hobbit’.

From rune message decoding to creating art based on the setting and characters from the novels, all enjoyed learning about the different aspects of the story, as well as listening to the audio book and using clips from the films for stimuli. One of the most popular activities of the day was to create your own archaic map for your own adventure story. Beautiful work!

The first morning back and the year 6 crews have been busy at work calculating Mr Hewitt’s new prices for his bargain basement. Using their knowledge of finding percentages of amounts, the children overcame a range of (discounts) obstacles. Well done to the crews as well for their peer support and mentoring that preceded the discount finding fun!