Year 6 Leadership Conference day at Walton Girls School.

Year 6 went on a leadership conference at Walton Girls. This is a new venture with the purpose of improving transition to secondary school as well as giving year 6 opportunities to mix with other year 6's and improve their leadership skills.
Before the event they had to make a presentation about leadership opportunities in our school. All year 6 worked on this in school and then presented this to the other schools taking part in the conference
                                           Attentive and focusing on instructions being given.

Waiting with the other schools.

Sticker badges so every one knows who is who.

discussing with others

starting the task

still on task but now working and discussing with others too

lots of sharing

refreshments were provided for us

back as a school  working in collaboration

teams had tasks to complete that earned them points 

asking pupils from Walton questions

helping each other

feeling things are going well

Now back at school year 6 are continuing their task to create a transition booklet for year 6 pupils to use. They are starting this for their homework this week.

Mrs Millar was full of praise for how well the children worked and represented our school. She was very proud of them and said they were a pleasure to take for the day.

Computing- We are Cryptographers.

In our computing lessons we are learning about cryptography. We have made our own semaphore flags and passed messages to each other using them.

Using diagrams to help them, Alex and Jake gave a message to the class which they had to work out.

We also looked at using Morse code and Jacob and Tyler passed signals to the class using torches.

We linked this with out World war 2 topic and talked about the need for messages and codes during the war.

Children In Need Day

For Children in Need we paid £1 to come dressed out of school uniform. Some chose to come Pudsey style, others in non uniform.
Joseph baked a Pudsey and Blush Bear cake for us-thankyou Joseph.

Pudsey

Blush Bear

Our Master Baker

Pudsey came to visit us and we took a whole school photo-everyone enjoyed meeting Pudsey-even the staff!

Noone wanted leave Pudsey

Lots of cuddles

class 3 enjoying Pudsey

and more class 3 

Luke couldn't get much closer!

Pudsey was very patient

and some staff joining in the fun too

What a good morning we all had.

Remembrance Day-paper making and our poetry display

On Wednesday 11th We had a paper making workshop making recycled paper and decorating it with poppies to mark Remembrance Day.
We learned about how to break the fibres of the paper down and what the equipment was called.

We were shown what to do and how to use the equipment correctly.

Now it was our turn to make our own paper.

Scooping the pulp onto our screens, waiting 30seconds for excess water to drain away...

Getting our newspaper and cloth ready...

working in pairs but each making our own paper

sponging the excess water away

starting to decorate using paper serviettes

some of our finished paper

when fully dry the paper will come easily off the cloth and we will make it into something

Remembrance Poetry

We wrote various poems based on Remembrance and made a super display together with our poppy wreaths from last week.

come into class 3 and read our poems- we will be proud to share them with you

Poems: war, peace, remembering, remembrance, poppies and more.

A super display.