Summer II

Well  - what an amazing final  half-term we have had in year 6.

You have been an exceptional year 6 class and we have thoroughly enjoyed working with you all this year. Thank you for our thoughtful end of year gifts.

GOOD LUCK and all our best wishes for the next stage of your learning journey.  

Miss Hagan, Mrs Howard and Mrs Rackham 

Following our SATS tests,  we enjoyed our trip to Colchester Zoo. (see pictures below)

In June, we enjoyed a  day trip to London – travelling by train and then underground, we arrived at the South Bank, where we visited The Tate Modern. We then walked along The South Bank, before watching a performance of Hercules at The Theatre Royal. It was outstanding.

A few days later, we had a fun and sunny whole school beach morning.

Later in the term, we began our rehearsals for our end of year production – Hoodwinked.  Everyone worked so hard, learning lines and song words, putting together costumes and scenery.  

Then in July, 24 of us headed to Birch Hall Adventures for our Year 6 residential trip. We had a fabulous time, enjoying lots of new activities and challenges. 

The children have been working really hard with their learning in class, over the last few weeks. So, last week we took a trip to The Naze beach, as part of our geography curriculum.

Today, 9th March we visited Walton beach on a murky, misty afternoon to complete some science based activities for British Science week. 

Dressing up in  costumes of our favourite book characters

Celebrating the end of half term with some Valentine themed cup cakes

Our Rainforest Paper Snakes

These week, we have been focusing our science learning on animals and their habitats. We have been using this knowledge to help us  write setting descriptions in English.

We used the  Henri Rousseau picture 'Tiger in a tropical storm- Surprised!' to help us create out collage versions of this piece. 

We had a great  - if somewhat snowy day back at school. 

Please remember that children need Swimming kits on Mondays - we have just 5 more swimming session left this year.  PE will remain on a Wednesday afternoon. 

Today we reminded ourselves about our class rules and looked at  the theme of self discipline and self control.  These will be useful skills for us  to develop, as we approach the 2nd half of year 6 and later as we move on to high school. 

We discussed our circles of control and thought about how we should focus on ourselves and the choices we make. 

We designed our own posters to display around the classroom.

And finally taste tested our own S'Mores -

Our cute Santas made from recycled boat floats.

Christmas Jumper Day 2025

We listened to the story of the ship wrecked sailor - who was only left with his Christmas jumper.  Then we designed our own. 

Calendars

Inspired by the work of artist Wassily Kandinsky (a Russian Abstract Artist)

Sea Glass Christmas Cards

Handmade cards, using sea glass we found on Walton Beach

Tendring Ambassador's Celebration Event  - Part one 

Remembrance  Day 2025

Year 6 made these woven poppies and discussed the importance of  these as symbol,  to remember those who gave their lives for others in times of conflict.

Chinese Calligraphy Session

World War II - Naze Tower Visit. 

On Friday, we walked along the beach to the Naze, where we got to learn about the important role that the Naze Tower played in WWII.  We then had the opportunity to climb up The Tower and see the amazing views of Walton and the Backwaters, as well as the Pill Box defences that have now fallen into the sea. 

Bollywood Dance Workshop

On Thursday, we has another session with Tendring Ambassador's.  This time we took part in a Indian dance workshop. Jaymini, a local teacher. took us on a tour around the different areas of India, learning about their regional dances. 

Ukrainian Life in the UK

On Monday, we were joined by Lera, who works with the Tendring Ambassador's Project.  She told us all about life in Ukraine, both before the war and now for the people who remain there.  We learnt about the food, history, culture and music.  We made these sunflower pictures - the national flower of the Ukraine. 

World War Two  - Garden Models

Following our learning about the Home Front in WWII, the importance of Anderson Shelters, evacuee life in the country and how people were encouraged to grow their own food to support their rations,   we created models of WWII gardens in our D&T afternoon. 

Beach Art Afternoon

Last week, we went down to the beach in the sunshine, with Year 2,  for an art afternoon.  We used sand, salt and water create a dough, in which we made our handprint and decorate with our beach finds. 

World War Two themed art work

We have been busy so far with our topic based learning about World War Two.

We looked at images of London during the Blitz and use tissue paper  to create a background scene  after an air-raid.  We then used black paper to add a silhouette of war time London.

We have had a busy week and produced some great work already. 

We shared this book-

It is a guide for how our kindness can make both others and ourselves happy.

We then wrote a class poem - An A -Z of Bucket Filling

We designed our own Buckets to share how we thought that we could be good 'Bucket Fillers'

We also produced a piece of collaborative class art work - based on the painting of the 'The Weeping Woman' by Picasso. 

Each member of the class was responsible for producing a piece of the picture, which  they had to scaleup.  We then we put it together  to create our own version of this painting. 

Welcome back

I hope that you have had a lovely summer break and had time to relax with your family and friends.  I am looking forward to getting to know you all on your return.  We have some exciting things planned for our first half term, including a beach art session, a trip to the Naze tower and our involvement  with the Tendring Ambassadors Culture programme. 

PE will be on a Wednesday, and children need to be in their school PE kit on this day. They also need to have earrings removed.  PE kits can also be worn on this Friday, 5^th September and Monday 8^th September as we will have extra PE sessions before swimming begins.

Swimming will start on Monday 15^th September. Children will again need to remove earring and bring in swimming kit to school with them each week.

We will be learning spellings on a weekly basis. I will send home a copy of the words if you want to practise at home. We will have a short test each Friday (5 words only)

Children will complete a practice arithmetic test each Friday. I will send home the papers so that you can see how their scores are progressing and help to go through any questions with them.

The homework chart is on the website and at least 3 tasks from here need to be completed and returned by 23^rd October.

Mrs Bliss has asked that any letters of application for Head Boy/Girl be with her by Tuesday 16^th September.

Over the next few weeks, we are making our World War Two  air raid shelter/garden models.  If you have any fabric scraps, craft paper scraps or small cardboard boxes  e.g. cereal boxes that we could use please send these in by Tuesday 16^th September.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. My school email address is paula.hagan@walton.essex.sch.uk if this is easier for you contact directly.

Miss Hagan, Mrs Rackham, Mrs Sands