n Year 6, we have been very busy preparing our production - The Greatest Showman. Choreographing dances, rehearsing lines, going through scenes, we are trying to make it as perfect as possible. We cannot wait for you to see it. 

Year 6 have also been writing our adventure stories. We have taken The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Phillip Pullman and written a story inspired by that. For example, The Potion-Maker's Daughter or The Shoe-maker's Son (written by pupils in Yr 6). 

Another exciting thing this week has been our afternoon on Life Lessons. In these sessions, we learn new things helping us mature. This week, we have learnt how to tie a tie , ready for secondary school. As well as this, we also learnt the cost of packed lunches and how we can have a balanced diet. Making sure we are including protein, fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates and the right amount of sugars. 

We have been super busy in Year6 recently and are having so much fun in our last few weeks at Roebuck Academy.

We have had a fantastic week in Year 6 since SATs week. Firstly, children have learnt that our end of year production will be (drum roll please)...The Greatest Showman. We held auditions for acting and the solo parts and were absolutely blown away by the talent available. Miss Williams, Mr Alden and Miss Carter would like to say a huge well done to all those who auditioned. It was a difficult decision to cast children in the roles (which I know sounds cliché; however, we went back and forth multiple times over different roles before we settled for our final casting list. As you can imagine not everyone was able to get the parts they wanted, but we have been so impressed with the attitude shown by all Year 6 this week whilst starting to learn songs.

Of course, it hasn't all been about the production this week. We have introduced a new literacy unit based on Mount Everest which involves the children writing their own Non-Chronological Reports. We have been looking at effective WAGOLLs, rating examples and identifying the features of this particular text type. In addition, we have conducted some research into climbing equipment needed to climb Everest, previous attempts to climb the summit of this magnificent peak as well as the wildlife and nature found there. Children have been thoroughly engaged by this, and we can't wait to start our independent write-up next week.

On Tuesday 22^nd February, Roebuck were visited by James Ketchell. James is an international explorer and adventurer, who has cycled around the world, climbed Mount Everest and even sailed on the Atlantic ocean for over 100 days!  

James started the day with an assembly where he shared great wisdom. He told us to never give up and that things are not as hard as they seem.  

Year 6 were even luckier as we got to have a private workshop with him. We tried on the equipment and even tried some of the food he had to eat while on his expeditions. We tried pasta bolognaise, most of us really liked it, although it was really crunchy! We had the best day and we really enjoyed listening to James about his fantastic message on growth mindset and resilience. At Roebuck we are determined and resilient.  

On Roebuck’s first week back after Christmas, we started the day off with an assembly about mistakes and how they help us to learn more. In Literacy,  which was really fun, we went in groups to different tables which had trays with objects in there that you would find washed away on the beach, and we had to guess who they belonged to.  At Roebuck, we are  detectives!

In Maths, we learnt about 3D shapes. We created 3D shapes with blue tac and straws in maths. The straws represented edges, blue tac represented vertices and the 2D shapes the faces. At Roebuck, we are Geometrists. 

In Science, we created our circulatory system with the lungs, heart and rest of the body. We drew a figure of 8 on the floor which represented our vessels. We had the lungs positioned at the top of our ‘8’, heart in the middle and the body at the bottom. We then discussed the direction of the blood and the roles of each of the organs and the part they play in the circulatory system. After we understood the direction of the blood, we then learnt how the blood becomes oxygenated and deoxygenated and why this was important.  At Roebuck, we are Scientists! 

By Leyshana and Eriola 

Mock tests

This term we have been doing a wide range of tests in preparation for our end of year SATs: arithmetic, maths reasoning, grammar, reading and spelling. We moved the tables, so NO cheating was possible, and we were provided with all the equipment we needed. Reading was the hardest or should have been because it was the first test of the new curriculum from 2016.

Literacy

In our literacy lesson we have been focusing on a book called Rose Blanche written by Roberto Innocenti. The book is about war and Rose's perspective of what happened. We have had a few experience days, brainstormed vocabulary, acted as characters from the text and used Chromebooks. Finally, we have been working hard to plan and write our own endings for the story.

Art 

This term, in art we have been completing a unit called 'Make my voice heard'. We started by focusing on graffiti tags and learning what the laws are about graffiti. One of the classes began to look at the work of Kathe Kollowitz. We have been writing our names in block letters, then we were adding cool features around it to make it more like the vibe of graffiti. We will be going on to colouring them in with different colour oil pastels to make it look nice and colourful and to stand out.

History

In our history lessons we have been learning about Wonderful Women. We have been focusing on the fact that women were not allowed to do the things they wanted to do. They were not allowed to have jobs or to have the rights that they wanted to do such as vote. They were forced to marry a man that their father chose even if the lady didn't like him. As a female student this is an interesting topic, and we can't wait to learn more about it. 

By Pegasus house captain Hannah Wyatt 

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Assistant deputy Ellie Lang.

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