Happy New Year everyone! As we start a new term and new year, we would just like to take the opportunity to say a heartfelt thank you for the cards and gifts we were given for Christmas. They were much appreciated! We hope you have all had fabulous festive periods and wish you all the best for the new year.  Kind regards The Year 6 Team

This morning, Miss Hunn and Mrs Brown had the pleasure of taking our year 5 and 6 runners to the Northern Gateway Sports Park for their cross country event.  We came away with a medal, some top 10 finished and some super speedy children. We were both so proud of all of the children. They showed all of our school values in abundance! They cheered others along to the finish line, kept themselves going being resilient.  Both of us were so proud of the children, they were true role models.  Here is a photo of our fabulous team!

 In this season of mists and mellow fruitfulness we have been looking for some of the potential inhabitants of our nascent insect home. Armed with nothing but a British insect identifier our intrepid bug botherers looked under all the really rotten logs in the Eco Area. 10 out of the 20 species were identified!

 This week, our spelling pattern is:  Word families based on common words, showing how words are related in form and meaning. This includes words such as: suggest digest congestion gesture gestation lightning daylight enlighten twilight limelight

 Please see below the slides covered during the English Workshop.

 On Tuesday, Year 6 attended the war memorial in Kelvedon, where we had a service for Armistice Day. We showed our respects and remembered those who have fallen by reading poetry that we had written, sharing prayers, a two-minute silence and laying the Kelvedon St Mary's wreath.

 This week, our spelling pattern is:  Words ending in -ably This includes words such as:  adorably valuably believably considerably tolerably changeably noticeably dependably comfortably reasonably

 This week, our spelling pattern is:  Words ending in -able As this is our second week  with this spelling pattern, we have a new group of focus words. These are:  adorable  valuable  advisable  believable  desirable  excitable  knowledgeable  likeable  changeable  noticeable

 This morning, we had a visitor from the Essex Fire/ Police Service education team to speak to us about safety around Halloween and Bonfire Night. They left us the following leaflet with their top tips for you to browse and have asked the children to pass on what they have learnt so that the season runs smoothly. 

 This week our spelling pattern is:  Words ending in -able This includes words such as:  applicable  tolerable  operable  considerable  dependable  comfortable  reasonable  perishable  breakable  fashionable

 Our final day has dawned and each group has only two activities left to complete their timetables. Today's highlights include climbing, trapeze and orienteering. Once we have eaten lunch, we will be ready to leave and head back home having made so many great memories. Day 5 = let's hope for a great drive (home). Mrs Lawrence and the team