Year 6 Spring 1 Learning Challenge

We are delighted to provide you with the Year 6 Learning Challenge for the first half of the Spring Term.You will notice that the activities are split into Basic, Advanced and Deep Learning. This is a way for us to look at learning at Broadford, and is designed to ensure that children not only acquire factual knowledge but also gain a further understanding about how their new skills or knowledge can be applied to their own lives or be used to further their cognitive and social development.

The theme of the Learning Challenge for this half of the Spring term is Why should the world be ashamed of slavery?' It is entirely up to the child whether they select the poem, significant person, music or painting, or a combination of all 4. They can also select the activities that they want to attempt, though we would encourage them to deepen their learning as much as possible. 

Significant Person

Soloman Northup

	Person
Basic	Draw a portrait of  the person
	Produce a timeline of their life
Advanced	Produce a poster to advertise their achievements
	Write a letter asking them about their life
Deep	Explain how the world would be without this person
	Give five reasons  for and against why they should be in ‘The Hall of Fame’

Painting

'Not the Last Sale of Slaves in St Louis' by Thomas Satterwhite Noble

	Painting
Basic	Find out 10 facts about the painting/artist
	Produce a collage  of other paintings by the artist
Advanced	Draw a picture in similar style
	Transform the medium of the painting: use collage instead of painting
Deep	Use the image as a stimulus for 100WC
	Describe what the  painting: what it represents, how it makes you feel, what it is based on

Music

'Oh Freedom' by Odetta Holmes

	Music
Basic	Listen to a piece of music
	Identify the instruments.
Advanced	Research the life of the composer.
	Attempt to recreate the piece   of music
Deep	A mind map of different emotions you feel at various points in the piece
	Produce a piece of art/collage based on how the music makes you feel.

 

Poem

'The Slave Auction' by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The sale began—young girls were there,

Defenseless in their wretchedness,

Whose stifled sobs of deep despair

Revealed their anguish and distress.

And mothers stood, with streaming eyes,

And saw their dearest children sold;

Unheeded rose their bitter cries,

While tyrants bartered them for gold.

And woman, with her love and truth—

For these in sable forms may dwell—

Gazed on the husband of her youth,

With anguish none may paint or tell.

And men, whose sole crime was their hue,

The impress of their Maker’s hand,

And frail and shrinking children too,

Were gathered in that mournful band.

Ye who have laid your loved to rest,

And wept above their lifeless clay,

Know not the anguish of that breast,

Whose loved are rudely torn away.

Ye may not know how desolate

Are bosoms rudely forced to part,

And how a dull and heavy weight

Will press the life-drops from the heart.

	Poem
Basic	Learn it off by heart
	Find another poem by the poet
Advanced	Create a performance as part of a pair/group
	Write a short biography about the poet
Deep	Write your own poem inspired by the topic
	Compare and contrast two poems by the poet

Year 6 Spring Curriculum Letter

Emily is in the paper!

Our very own Emily Johnson from Redwood class has made it into the Romford Recorder this week due to her fantastic raffle in aid of Queen's hospital. Emily nearly lost her life aged 7 due to complications when she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and was saved by the dedicated medical teams at King George hospital.



On Saturday, this jar of 5p coins (which Emily's dad has collected over the years) will be raffled off at Dagenham Football Stadium between 7pm-10pm to raise as much money as possible. Emily has already raised £370 and hopes to increase this to £700.



I'd like to raise as much money as possible for the people who are currently in hospital especially as it's Christmas and it's not nice to be in hospital during this time.
Emily, Redwood

Well done Emily- what a wonderful idea to raise money!

http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/young-diabetic-girl-from-havering-is-raising-hundreds-for-queen-s-hospital-1-5327251

Closing date for Try, Try again!

Just a reminder that the closing date for our 'Try,Try again' poem is tomorrow! (Friday 15th December) Poems must be returned to Miss Taylor, in order to be entered. For further details of our competition, please see below.

Exciting new... Years 3-6 have entered into a Writing Stars Poetry Competition. This entails writing a poem on one of our 4 learning powers, resilience! It must be titled 'Try, try again.' However, it is entirely up to the children how they choose to approach the poem: it could be an acrostic poem, it could be a rhyming poem, it could be free verse.

For a preview of the original poem, 'Try, try again', click here

Judging the poems produced are not only laureates and poets, but two very famous footballers, Frank Lampard and Yannick Bolasie. 

The winner of this competition has some very exciting treats in store: an exclusive awards ceremony, a poet/author visit for our school and (perhaps most excitingly) Premier League kit, the Premier League trophy and their poem read out on TV by a Premier League footballer.

Classes have received writing lines to construct their poems on. If they have not, send them to Miss Taylor in Willow where they can retrieve more. 

Good luck. I know we have a winner in Broadford... 

Year 5 Spellings 11th-15th December

Below are the Year 5 Spellings for this week. The weekly test will be on a Friday and children should hand their books in on this day too. 

Pupils are expected to practice their spellings for 15 minutes per day as well as practice their times tables and read at home. Children are encouraged to search for the definitions of the words and use them in sentences in order to gain merits for their trackers.

Year 6 Star Writers

In Year 6, our star writers are Lacey Wall and Brandon Cohen. Their balanced arguments about whether animals should be kept in captivity or not were fair and unbiased. Lacey and Brandon included a range of sentence openers to portray the balance and included a variety of important points: including the risk of poaching to animals in the wild and on the other hand, the danger of animals being mistreated in captivity. Well done on very successful pieces of writing Brandon and Lacey! 

Year 6 Spellings: 11th-15th December

Below are the Year 6 Spellings for this week. The weekly test will be on a Friday and children should hand their books in on this day too.   Pupils are expected to practice their spellings for 15 minutes per day as well as practice their times tables and read at home. Children are encouraged to search for the definitions of the words and use them in sentences in order to gain merits for their tracker.