Willow Class (Y6)

Willow Class

Welcome to Year 6! Willow Class are taught by Miss Sheardown with Mrs Woolsey and Mrs Kerr as our wonderful teaching assistants.

For PE, please ensure that you have a fully-labelled kit in school, which is both suitable for indoor and outdoor activities, on Mondays and Wednesdays. Any lost property will be stored safely until it can be returned to its rightful owner and Year 6 pupils have their own lockers and trays to store their personal belongings.

Our homework is set weekly on a Friday and is due in by the following Wednesday.

Please check this page regularly for updates and photos all about our fantastic learning journey.

Our Weekly Timetable

International Bomber Command Centre Visit - 7th November

We were invited to commemorate Remembrance Day alongside other local schools at The IBCC in Lincoln. We attended the memorial service, laid a handmade wreath of remembrance and each learnt about a particular soldier from Lincolnshire's Bomber Command, placing a poppy in their names on the Walls of Remembrance to honour their service.

Newark Air Museum Visit - Art & Poetry Day - October 31st

We headed to Newark Air Museum for an art and poetry day hosted by the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Team. During our poetry workshop, we worked with Ash Dickinson, a travelling poet who gave us lots of inspiration and discussed our writing ideas with us. We began with a warm-up exercise where we had to write a 3-line poem about a model plane, however there were 'banned' words we couldn't use, including:

- plane

- propeller

- green

- wings

- cockpit

- fly

- soar

We had to get creative! Here's an example from Elliott:

Lean, mean fighting machine,

Its prey its enemy, it attacks like a sentry,

Watch out - there's an enemy about...

After that, we visited the hangars for inspiration and wrote kennings about an object of interest. We then had a go at writing a senses poem of just 6 lines, which were:

I see...

I hear...

I touch...

I taste...

I smell...

I remember...

Then, once we had our poems, we removed the beginning two words from each line and saw just how impactful they were. Here's an example:

~~I see~~ a bomber hurtling towards me,

~~I hear~~ a menacing clatter,

~~I touch~~ the smoky air.

~~I taste~~ a hint of terror,

~~I smell~~ the fumes of the engine,

~~I remember~~ all these years of hard work, destroyed.

By Kate.

Our final activity was to write a rhyming quatrain, here is another example:

In Flanders Fields, a single vibrant poppy,

Blooming in the summer sunlight,

Most of the soldiers lost, tragically,

A terrible reminder of the fight.

By Niamh.

For our art workshop, we worked with local artist Ruth Piggott to create a beautiful poppy wreath, using some sewing skills. Have a look at the photos for more and to see our finished creation! We laid one of the two wreaths we made at The International Bomber Command Centre remembrance event on 7th November.

PGL Update - Monday 23rd September

The day has finally arrived! We’ve all been settling in well to our first day here at PGL. After arrival, we had an orientation walk around the site with Kaitlyn, our group leader for the week. We learned about the activities and sang songs as we explored. At 5.30pm we had dinner together, with options tonight of fish fingers, meatballs in a tomato sauce or vegetarian chow mein with a choice of pasta or potato wedges and steamed vegetables. There was also a salad bar to choose from, an assortment of fruit and cake for dessert - yum!

We then had a bit of free time to check into our rooms, play games and kick around a football before our evening activity, which was a quiz night based on the style of 'The Million Pound Drop' TV show, with the class split into 6 teams competing in some classic question-based rounds as well as some physical challenges. Our evening activity finished at around 8.45pm, when we headed back to the rooms to get showered and ready for bed. Fingers crossed for a good night’s sleep… tomorrow is going to be a busy day with a 7am wake-up call for a 7.30am breakfast…!

A little singsong on our walk to the evening activity

PGL Update - Tuesday 24th September

After a relatively good night’s sleep, with all rooms having fallen silent by 12.30am, we were woken at 7am to begin our action-packed day. After breakfast, for which there was a choice of bacon, beans, tomatoes, toast, an assortment of cereals, porridge and fruit, we split into our 3 groups for the first time and began our main activities. Each day, these activities will rotate around to ensure that each group takes on each activity. Today, we all began by heading down to the lake for a spot of canoeing. Everybody threw themselves into the experience and we had a great time paddling around the lake, playing games and having the occasional splashing war! Most of the class even went for a VERY refreshing dip afterwards! Then it was time for a quick change and to head off to our next activity bases. Our lunch today was a choice of sandwiches or jacket potatoes with different fillings to fuel us up for the afternoon. Throughout the day, different groups explored aeroball (a basketball-style game played on trampolines), problem-solving tasks, the vertical challenge (an obstacle course going straight up into the air), all groups had a go on the giant swing and the sun even made a brief appearance! After all of that, we were ready for a filling dinner of katsu chicken or macaroni cheese, with optional sides of broccoli, carrots, potatoes and rice, followed by homemade brownies… some very unusual combinations of food were consumed!

After dinner and a little bit of free time to relax – or play a gigantic game of truth or dare as it happened – it was time for our evening activity at 7.30pm. So, we headed off together at dusk to light a campfire, where we sang songs, danced and, of course, toasted some marshmallows. A fantastic end to our first full day of adventure.

Have a look at the photos below to see more from our day! 🥰

Giant Swing - Sophie, Phoebe & Scarlett

Giant Swing - Alfie & Chloe

Campfire Songs

PGL Update - Wednesday 25th September

Our third day of adventure has arrived, and after a good night’s sleep (with all rooms quiet by 11.30pm) and a hearty breakfast, we all got ready for another adrenaline-fuelled day! The day began with a cloudy but clear morning, and we tried out fencing, the climbing wall and the zip wire, before having a filling lunch of pasta bolognese, sandwiches or ratatouille. In the afternoon the weather began to turn, making the trapeze even more of a challenge for one group as they faced it in a heavy downpour of rain. Other groups completed the aeroball activity and we regrouped for dinner, which was a choice of chicken or veggie curry or sausage rolls, with either rice or homemade potato wedges and veggies, followed by chocolate muffins for dessert. After a bit of free time, and a lovely visit from Miss Reeder, we headed to the courthouse for our evening entertainment. Tonight's activity was a PGL tournament, in which we challenged each other in a round-robin competition of giant noughts and crosses in a relay-style game, giant battleships and a frisbee game where we had to try and knock an opponent's can from a pedestal. It's been another long and tiring day, so we rounded off the evening with a group game of truth or dare before settling down for bed at 9.30pm. We can't believe there's only one more full day to go!

Zip Wire - Sam

Zip Wire - Max

Climbing - Adam

Truth or Dare - Elliott's Dare

PGL Update - Thursday 26th September

Our final full day already… where has the time gone? Most people had to be woken up by Mrs Webb, Mrs Kerr and Miss Sheardown for our 7.30am breakfast, but once we had refuelled with cooked breakfasts, toast, cereals, fruit and yogurts, we were ready to go! Today’s activities included the vertical challenge, abseiling, rifle shooting and trapeze, for those who hadn’t attempted these activities yet, plus a new activity called 'quick jump'. For this, you had to take a leap of faith from the top of the abseiling tower, enjoying a couple of metres of freefall before the bungee rope kicked in and you lowered to the ground. It’s a good job we had burgers and chips / a selection of sandwiches, crisps and salad for lunch to keep our energy levels up!

After another couple of activities for each group, it was time for dinner, which was a choice of lasagne or chicken kievs, with a choice of potatoes, vegetables and an assortment of salads, followed by chocolate cookies for dessert. Tonight's evening entertainment featured a visit from Miss Reeder, who joined us for our evening activity. Following dinner, we camouflaged ourselves in our darkest outfits and split the class in half to play ‘ambush’, a huge after-dark game of hide & seek with a few added twists and turns. We had a great time running about in the dark - some people even added camo face paint; what a great evening activity to finish our last full day!😊

Trapeze - Lily

Abseiling - Gracie

Quick Jump - Luca

After Eights Game - Part 1

After Eights Game - Part 2

PGL Update - Friday 27th September

Year 6 Yearly Overview

This document shows what skills and themes we will be studying in each of our non-core curriculum subjects. Please note that our yearly overview is for guidance and may be subject to small changes and tweaks.