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Home Learning Packs

Check back here each week for a pack of activities to keep your hands busy and your brains sharp! The packs contain the same work, but on different days to match our new class timetable. Please make sure you are looking at the correct pack for your group (A or B).

Summer Term

Week 1

w/b 1st June

Week 2

w/b 8th June

Week 3

w/b 15th June

Week 4

w/b 22nd June

Week 5

w/b 29th June

Week 6

w/b 6th July

Week 7

w/b 13th July

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B

Salterton Sports Personality

Applications are now open for the Sports Personality award! The award is given to the student who has demonstrated a great attitude and commitment to sport this year, and is decided by a student vote.

If you think this could be you then please write a short paragraph explaining why you think you deserve the award.

Here are some areas you might want to include:

Have you represented the school in any sporting events or competitions?
Have you taken part in regular training sessions?
Have you received any personal achievement awards?
Have you supported sport in school?
Have you encouraged and supported others in school?

When you have written your application please send it to Mr. Reavill either by email or in person.

The deadline for entries is Friday 3rd July, good luck!

Weekly Worship

Reverend Perry: Justice Worship

Reverend Perry has kindly put together a worship on our term’s theme of Justice; in particular justice in the modern world and what we can do to help others achieve justice.

Watch his worship here

It’s especially important to look after our mental health and wellbeing at the moment. The Church of England has created virtual school worships to help Primary schools across the country reflect on a Christian message each week.

Updates from Salterton Class

Have a look at some of the clever and creative things Salterton students have achieved recently.

It’s been really great to see how much everyone is enjoying the Ancient Egypt topic, and I’m loving all the different creative projects it’s inspired! Here Alice has created a fantastic salt-dough necklace bearing her name in hieroglyphics. Afterwards she treated herself and made these ‘Khaks’, Ancient Egyptian sweet treats, they look delicious! Well done!

Elfie has done an absolutely incredible job making a real stoneware Egyptian canopic jar! She used a tricky traditional method to make a ‘coil pot’ and decorated it with a carefully sculpted head for a lid. Once they were dry they had to be fired in a kiln reaching temperatures around 1000°C! Then they were carefully decorated with glaze before going back into the kiln for a final firing. What a brilliant project to take on such a technical challenge and a fantastic result at the the end!

Such superb creativity in literacy recently. Amelie has created an amazing ‘Frozen’ story about social distancing, while Ben has created a brilliant detailed description to transported us to the fiery slopes of an active volcano! (Can you spot the chicken hidden in the picture?)

I’m so impressed with the beginnings of our very own Salterton herd. Just look at these perfectly pretty pachyderms! Who knew you could get such character into a milk bottle? Very well done to Ellie and Elfie, thank for sharing your work girls!

George has set himself a STEM challenge to create a helicopter, and what a great result! It looks like it has working propellors and landing gear, and it looks dangerous too with that underslung weapon system!

It’s so great to see Salterton students taking on their own creative projects. Alice has been busy making a life-size Ancient Egyptian funerary mask, and Hester has started a career in performance automotive design! Great work girls, keep it up!

This week’s GIF challenge was to make a seamless looping animation. Alex and James have done just that, great work boys!

Behold! The Pharaoh has come! And she holds the sacred chicken as a sign of res-peck-t!

More fantastically creative work from Elfie this week, what an amazing design and make project for her Egyptian neckpiece and headdress!

Yet more fantastically creative submissions from the animated GIF challenge, well done Elfie and Amelie!

Millicent and Elfie have really been thinking outside the box this week. Millicent has made an amazingly authentic-looking Egyptian necklace (almost Woodford colours too!) While Elfie has clearly found the recipe for Alice in Wonderland’s shrinking potion, I hope she has the antidote too!

Millicent has taken our Ancient Egyptian topic to the next level and made her own 3D Sphinx! The process of contour cutting and sticking all those layers must have taken an incredible amount of time. What a great project!

What an amazing response to the animated GIF challenge!

I had no idea Salterton were such a talented group of animators! I’m so impressed with how creative you’ve all been. Well done for not only taking on a technical challenge, but coming up with such original ideas!

Thank you to Jiselle, Alex, Alice, George and Ben for sharing these brilliant examples.

Ben, Kitty and George have all been busy making wonderful paper models of Egyptian pyramids and mummies with their sarcophagi (yes that is the correct plural of sarcophagus!) Well done!

Ben has even created a short video to show us how the mummy fits inside the sarcophagus. Great work!

When she’s not busy animating, Hester has also been entering writing competitions. Her beautifully neatly written description is of the Easter Dragon. The extract creates tension and a wonderful atmosphere, with lots of superb descriptive language and expanded noun phrases. Well done! Read the full story here.

Hester and Phoebe have been learning how to bring their toys to life using stop motion animation. They have created a fantastic short film with a very important message!

Alice got the whole family involved with a special Space Race for 2020. See how their fantastic science project worked out and who managed a successful bottle rocket launch!

Updates from Mr. Reavill

Mrs. Reavill and I are both well and enjoying looking after the boys in the sunshine. We both send our best wishes to all the students, staff and parents at Woodford Valley.

(Picture taken before the lockdown!)

Read a letter from Mr. Reavill for the start of the Summer Term.

The fantastic illustrator Axel Scheffler, famous for ‘The Gruffalo’, has illustrated a short book written by scientists and medical experts that might help answer some of your questions about Coronavirus’ and COVID-19.

About Salterton Class

We are the Year 6 class and a great team.

Mr. Reavill is our main teacher and our teaching assistant is Mrs Green.

We try to be responsible citizens and role models in the school, so do come find one of us if you think we can help you.

The Summer Term’s Worship value is Justice:

Important admin:

P.E Kit should be named clearly and must be in school every Monday and Tuesday.

The children should always have a reading book and their homework diary with them at school – every day please!

See what we will be learning about this term –

Summer Term Learning Overview

Check when homework is set and when it is due –

Year 6 Homework Timetable

Set yourself a challenge to complete all of these –

10 things to do in Year 6

Check the expectations we have in Year 6-

Salterton Class Rules

If you are looking for an extra activity to do at home, why not log onto your ‘MyMaths’ portal and have a go at a lesson or game on there, or earn some ‘Times Tables Rock Stars’ credits? Don’t forget that picking up anything to read will always benefit you too – it could be a book, newspaper, magazine or reference book

We are really wanting to encourage you to use the internet safely – so below is a link to a great website, teaching us to be ‘smart’ when on the internet. Here you can find great information for parents and children, as well as quizzes and games to test how smart you really are on the web. Be SMART! Follow this link for some fun e-safety ideas and games: http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/beingsmart/

We have come up with the following ground rules for e-safety in school:

Only visit sites you trust
Tell an adult immediately if you are worried about anything online
Use Hector the safety dolphin if you see something you don’t like
Respect the computers and other ICT equipment at all times
Be a role model for younger children when using the computers
Don’t talk to strangers online
Respect the filter system in school – things are blocked for our own safety