Year 6 Rowan
Welcome to Rowan Class's page.
We are a pure Year 6 Class, taught by Mr M Bestwick and supported by Mrs S Costick and Miss K Monroe.
Curriculum Overviews
Please use the links below to see what we are studying in Rowan Class:
Year 6 - Curriculum Overview - Autumn Term 2018
Year 6 - Curriculum Overview - Spring Term 2019
Year 6 - Curriculum Overview - Summer Term 2019
Newsletters
Each full term, there will be a termly newsletter available for you to see what lies ahead in Year 6. Please use the links below to find our latest news.
Autumn Newsletter - click here
Spring Newsletter - click here
Summer Newsletter - click here
Letters
Please see below recent letters that have been sent home.
Useful Documents
Recently in Rowan...
Rules of Divisibility
In maths, we have explored the divisibility rules to help us with our estimating when problem solving.
History - Timelines
As part of our Brilliant Biology, we have been studying the naturalist, Charles Darwin. We have explored his diary of events, forming a timeline that we can use to map his voyage on the Beagle.
PE - Tennis
Summer brings Tennis as one of our sports in PE this term. We have been building on the skills that we learnt in year 5.
Health and Fitness Creativity Week
We had a fantastic week in Rowan Class during creativity week, building on our stamina in PE and learning about the cardiovascular system in science. Here, you can see us preparing the visual side of and filming the videos that we created about the cardiovascular system.
Fab Friday - French
Constructing our french supermarkets using key vocabulary.
PE - Football
Applying the skills we have developed in outdoor PE.
Maths - Angles
Exploring different types of angles and spotting patterns between them.
Extracting DNA from strawberries
More of our studies on famous inventions and discoveries. This time, looking at Rosalind Franklin, who discovered DNA. So we thought we'd give extracting some DNA a go!
World Book Day fun
Dressed up as our favourite characters, our day was based around biographies. You can see us sharing key events in our lives with items we brought in.
Timeline work - History
We have been exploring inventions and discoveries through time and plotted a timeline of events.
PE - Hockey
We have been developing our skills in Hockey this term in PE.
Bridgwater Food and Drink Festival
This is our stall at the Bridgwater Food and Drink Festival. We decided to sell fudge to raise money for the British Heart Foundation in memory of Mrs Godfey, a member of Year 6 staff who sadly died this year. Here is the quote from their website after the event: "A few months ago we approached Westover Green School with a new fund raising project. We kick started the money pot and it was up to the children to send out letters asking for donations. We are so happy to have been told that they raised �270.00 from having a stall on Saturday selling fudge with all the money going to the British Heart Foundation. A massive well done to everyone that was involved with this."
Binary Code!
As part of our History topic, we learnt about the works of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. At first, I think we found the idea of binary quite confusing but, after putting it into practice, we certainly had some fun!
Trip to 'We The Curious'
Rowan Class have dived into this term's topic theme 'Inventions and Discoveries' with a fantastic trip to We The Curious. We had an amazing day exploring the science museum and participating in a Lego Robotics workshop!
Science - circuits
Our new unit in science is electricity, so we have got out the electrical equipment and built circuits to enhance our understanding of how they work.
Day of the Dead
For our topic finale, we decided to dress up to the theme of Mexico's 'Day of the Dead'. This involved lots of bright colours and fancy constumes. Well done to everyone's efforts with their costumes; they were all terrific!
PE - Circuit training
Indoor PE has been a new challenge for us in Rowan Class, putting our fitness to the test with circuit training sessions. Mr Bestwick's circuit classes are hard work but we have still enjoyed the challenges!
PE - Ultimate Frisbee
Our PE focus for Outdoor sessions this term was Frisbee skills leading into games of Ultimate Frisbee. For many of Rowan Class, this has become a new favourite!
Residential Trip to Charterhouse
Year 6 had a fantastic week before the October half term on our residential trip to the Charterhouse Outdoor Activity Centre. Lots of fun was had by all and I'm sure everyone came back with many stories and new achievements to share.
Mexican Dance
Linked to our Mexico theme this term, Rowan Class have had an energetic Mexican Dance Workshop.
Classification
Recently, we have been taxonomists, classifying animals based on their characteristics; a complicated task but one that was very successful when we worked together.
Mexican Food
To start our Mexico Topic, we tasted food that originated from Mexico! Thinking about the appearance and taste of the food, we then designed our own Taco or Tortilla Wrap. It is safe to say that we found some of the ingredients a bit spicy!