Spruce Blog - Year 6
PSHE: House Captains
This year, those who wanted to put themselves forward as a nominee had to create a speech and deliver it to the school during an assembly. Once the speeches were read, all children in KS2 cast their votes in the 'Tanners Wood Polling Station'. Everyone who read a speech made us so proud - they all did so well! A huge congratulations to our new House Captains!
Head Girl and Head Boy Teams
As usual, those who wanted to nominate themselves to form the Head Girl and Head Boy team had to create a speech to read in front of Mrs Qureshi and Miss Rogers. Again, all of the children who read a speech made us incredibly proud! A huge congratulations to our new Head Boy, Head Girl, Deputies and Ambassadors.
PE: Stay Active Session
We had an early 'Stay Active' session this year which was delivered by Miss Brown from the Sports Partnership. She led a session on Hockey - everyone had the chance to learn new skills and hopefully be inspired to take up hockey in some manner!
PSHE: Worries and Concerns
At the beginning of the year, we look at our potential worries and concerns. In this lesson, we made 'worry spirals' which shows how we can sometimes allow our emotions to spiral. When we pause and think and consider the bigger picture, our worries were actually rather manageable! We then scrunched them up and threw them in the (recycling) bin to show we are amazing and can conquer the year ahead!
Science: Fossils and Evolution
We have been looking at Evolution and Inheritance this term and as part of our learning, we explored fossils! Whilst some of the children were a little freaked out when Mr Biswell took the skulls out of the box... we quickly got ourselves together and looked at them closely. We looked at how the position of the eyes showed that they had adapted to give them greater peripheral vision to evade their predators.
RE: Role Play
Children were given an activity card and were tasked with creating a drama role play to show how a Buddhist following in Buddha's example would handle the scenarios.
2024-2025
Olympic Day
We had a special Olympic themed day at school to which the children took part in some sporting activities, Geography and French learning. They loved the obstacle course and were laughing their heads off at Mr Bean during the short clips shown of the London 2012 opening ceremony. We also learnt the Haka and researched Australasia!
Good luck Team GB, Ukraine and any other nations our class supports!
Spruce - Olympic Day
Sports Day
Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended our annual Sports Day.
The children had the most amazing time showcasing their skills - they certainly made lots of memories!
Spruce - Sports Day
D&T: Bridges
The children designed and built their own bridges!
Spruce - DT Bridges
Stay Active Session - Rapid Fire Cricket
The Sports Partnership came to Tanners to teach the Year 6 children Rapid Fire Cricket. They thoroughly enjoyed themselves and the cricketers of the class really showed of their skills!
Spruce - Stay Active
Watford School's Trust - Transition Workshop
Spruce - WST Transition Workshop
Magistrates Workshop
We we’re visited by two magistrates who taught us about how the Judicial System works.
Mental Health Awareness Week
We looked at the importance of having strong mental health and acknowledging that it is ok to have times where it is not so strong and how we can help ourselves to overcome those challenges.
D&T: Bridges
We tested different types of bridges by adding weights to our structures.
D&T: Bridges
End of SATs!
A huge well done to all of the children in Year 6 for working so hard this year to prepare for their SATs. They all did their very best and we are so proud of them!
SUMMER STARTS NOW!
Science
In Science, we made periscopes to show how light travels in straight lines and can be reflected.
Spruce - Periscopes
Science
We created colour wheels to show how light can look white but it is actually made up of the colours of the rainbow... Isaac Newton's observations!
Spruce - Colour Wheels
Black History Workshop
We were fortunate to have students from Longdean School's LEAD group visit to teach us about the Civil Rights Movement and pre-Colonial Africa.
Mr B was surprised to see his former teacher from Longdean turn up!
Spruce - Black History Workshop
Watford School's Trust Workshop
Thank you to the Watford School's Trust for an insightful RE Easter workshop.
Spruce - RE WST Workshop
World Book Day 2024!
Tanners Wood celebrated WBD on Friday 8th March and Spruce Class did this in style! The range of costumes on display and the creativity shown was nothing short of amazing.
We had loads of fun during a KS2 assembly where we had the chance to show off our super costumes. We created an acrostic poem, read more of our whole-class book which is 'Freedom' by Catherine Johnson. We had the chance to read a book to Holly Class mid-morning. We then designed a new front cover for the book using oil pastels and chalk. Lastly, we relaxed with some traditional Golden Time!
A thoroughly enjoyable day. Thank you to parents and adults at home for helping the children and inspiring them to embrace WBD and to read!
Spruce - WBD
World Book Day Workshop
Today, we were lucky to take part in a poetry workshop led by Chris who helped us to create a whole-school poem based on some famous book characters. Year 6 selected BFG and performed the ending to the whole-school poem during an assembly.
Mindfulness: Meditation
Spruce - Mindfulness
Safer Internet Day
Mrs Radia kick started our week by introducing us to this year's theme: Inspiring Change
We looked at the importance of remaining safe and kind when using online platforms and group chats.
D&T
Soup Day:
The children in Spruce had great fun preparing and making their soup. We learnt different cutting techniques and the importance of hygiene when cooking.
The children rounded their lesson off with an additional lunch by tasting their recipe.
Thank you to the adults at home who let us borrow some equipment!
Spruce - Soup Day
PE Indoor Athletics
We had a very exciting afternoon at Parmiter’s School competing in the Sports Partnership’s indoor athletics event.
Well done to Spruce girls and Walnut boys for coming in second place!
Spruce - Indoor Athletics
DT: Cushions
The class have been practising their sewing skills and designing their own cushions. We can't wait to see the final product! (That's right, they can repair their own school uniform now!)
Spruce - DT Sewing
Christmas Fayre
A big thank you to the FOTW for an amazing fayre!
Spruce - Christmas Fayre
Christmas Lunch
Bletchley Park Trip
Wednesday 15th November
Year 6 were given the fantastic opportunity to go back in time and visit Bletchley Park - the home of the Enigma Code breakers during WW2! We visited the mansion and Alan Turing's office - he still had his coffee cup chained to his radiator! We had a tour and looked around the museum. Lastly, we had a workshop in which the children were able to use a real Enigma machine from WW2 - worth in excess of £300,000!
Spruce - Bletchley Park
Remembrance Assembly
Thursday 9th November 2023
With Remembrance Day approaching, Mrs Qureshi delivered an assembly to explain the purpose of this day. As a mark of respect, we held a minutes silence. The children observed the silence with great respect.
Police and Crime Workshop
Today, we had a workshop delivered to us by ‘Lives not Knives’ who taught us all about safety in our community.
History
Thursday 2nd November 2023
We looked at the events that led to the build up of WW2.
Monday 9th October 2023
Today, Spruce class were incredibly lucky to meet British Olympic gymnast Steve Frew. He spoke to us about the importance of determination and resilience in order to achieve our goals and dreams. He took us through his experiences leading up to winning a gold medal for Great Britain.
PSHE
We made worry spirals in PSHE.
PE - Carnival
In PE, we have been creating a dance sequence based on the theme of a carnival. We explored samba movements, canon and unison. We also incorporated high and low movements.
We created some well-choreographed routines.
Monday 27th February 2023
World Book Week Workshop
The children enjoyed a drama workshop this afternoon to kick-start our World Book Week. The children focussed on developing a character who uses their brain to overcome and find solutions to challenging situations.
