Welcome to the class page for Compassionate Cheetas! Our class teacher is Miss Pope who is supported by Mrs Trenear. We have a really exciting year ahead and are looking forward to enjoying our time together in school, exploring our new topics and encouraging you to achieve your best in all that you do during your time at Oasis Academy Bank Leaze.

Each term there will be a class newsletter uploaded to this section.

This will tell you all about what we are learning about, when our PE days are and what books we will be reading.

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Here is an overview of what books we will be looking at in each term and what our topic question will be in those terms

Term 2

Year 6 Wow event Term 2

In term 2 week 1, Year 6 started another new and exciting topic 'I wonder how life changed for children during World War 2?' The topic will focus on how life changed during the war with a focus on what was different for children. 

During our term 2 Wow event, Year 6 got to handle artefacts from World War 2 which included gas masks, the identity cards of Miss Pope's Nan and great grand parents, a ration book and letters regarding Miss Pope's great grandad joining the ARP. Year 6 then learnt about what is was like to live during the Blitz by listening to an extract from Miss Pope's Nan's book about living during the war and that of the 19th March 1940 which was considered to be the worst night of the London Blitz and how her home took a direct hit from a V2 Rocket. 

Year 6 finished the afternoon learning about rationing and dig for victory. In groups, the class made Carrot cake following a recipe from World War 2 that used the amounts of ingredients that families would receive  as part of their weekly rationing.

Term 1

Art Attack

During Week 5, the class had the chance to take part in an art attack challenge. We used materials from Cameron Balloons to make a large piece of art work based on our topic "I wonder why people protest?" The children designed a piece of art and made the image independently. It was great fun and everyone worked well together as a team to Enjoy, Explore, and Encourage each other! 

Year 6 Wow Week

Week 2 in Year 6 saw the arrival of Wow Week!  This was an opportunity for us to focus on team building skills and have the chance for the children to get stuck into Year 6 learning and building a great foundation for the year ahead. During the week, the children made slime, attended the life skills centre, had a Minecraft engineering session with an engineer from UWE, had a fire at forest school, went to Blaise castle and held a protest to launch our topic 'I wonder why people protest?' The children were so well behaved and set a great example to our local community as to just how fantastic the children at our school are!

What We'll build- Week 1

What a fantastic first week of Year 6 we have had! It has been so nice to see our friends again and we are so looking forward to the year of exciting learning we have ahead of us. During our first week back, we have taken part in some exciting activities focused on the book 'What we'll build'. We made towers, bridges, thought about instruction writing and worked as a team! 

Term 2

Outdoor learning day!

On the 3rd of November it was outdoor learning day! We were very fortunate to be able to go to the woods for a forest school session. We held a post Halloween pumpkin smash to feed the wild life and whittled wood to make bow and arrows. We had a fantastic time!

Term 1

Forest school

In term 1, Year 6 were very lucky to be able to go to Forest school with Mrs Trenear. We had a fire, made smores and used fire steels; however, we enjoyed most of all being able to explore the woods with our friends!

Term 2

•  Daily reading of 10 minuteChildren to record in reading diary daily reading that is completed at home. Year 6 children can complete this independently but should ask an adult to sign he diary to show they have read at home. Reading diaries need to be sent into school daily.
• Times table practice on times tables rock starsChildren should be going onto TT rockstars at home daily for 10 minutes. This will support them with 
• SumdogWork on sumdog is set weekly by Miss Pope. This work is personalised to each child and enables the children to focus on very specific learning to support their academic progress. This can be found under tasks under Sumdog. 

• Arithmetic and Spelling tests:Every Friday, children will be tested in school on Arithmetic and spellings. Spellings will be sent home termly and Arithmetic practice will be set on Sumdog weekly. On Friday, children will receive a score out of 10 which will be recorded in reading diaries for parents to see. Please ensure Reading diaries are brought into school daily.

  Year 6 Term 2 Spellings

• Useful linksSumdog      Times Tables Rock Stars: Play (ttrockstars.com)