Year 6

A Showcase of work from from Year 6

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2 years ago
Posted on 08th May 2025 by

VE Day Celebration

Today we enjoyed celebrating the 80 year anniversary of ‘Victory in Europe’ in true Coleham style.  The children visited our air raid shelter, enjoyed a celebratory outdoor lunch and made commemorative pates and hats.  Our 2 minutes silence honoured the soldiers and people of the past who all contributed to the war effort and a reminder of why peace and kindness are so important in the world we live in.   We finished off the day with a music concert from the pupils @ Shrewsbury School.  Thank you so much for performing such beautiful music in the sunshine.  A lovely end to a lovely day.  Thanks to Mrs Stewart for rallying our troops to make the day happen.

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2 years ago
Posted on 02nd May 2025 by

Pioneer information for parents

Please find the attached information regarding Year 6’s trip to Pioneer.

The outstanding balance is now due so we would appreciate it if you could pay this as soon as possible.

If you have any questions, please speak to us or or send us an email.

Pioneer parents’ meeting 25

kit list 2025

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2 years ago
Posted on 11th Apr 2025 by

Year 6 Evolution Workshop at Shrewsbury Museum

Year 6 had a great trip to Shrewsbury Museum! They took part in an evolution workshop as part of their new science topic.

The children looked at fossils of trilobites, discovered how living things have adapted to their environments and learnt about the adaptations of humans.

Year 6 enjoyed sketching adaptations of birds and looked at how humans’ skulls have changed over time. A very exciting day out!

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2 years ago
Posted on 09th Apr 2025 by

Year 6 visit – Shrek at Meole Brace School

On Wednesday, year 6 were lucky enough to visit Meole Brace Secondary School to watch their performance of ‘Shrek – The Musical’.

What a great show it was! The whole of year 6 enjoyed the  singing, dancing and great acting

the students.

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 07th Apr 2025 by

Year 6 Bikeability Cycle Training May 2025

Dear Parents/Carers,

Our school is to receive Free Bikeability Level 1 & 2 Cycle Training which takes place on the following dates:

  • Giraffes: Monday 19th May to Tuesday 20th May
  • Elephants: Wednesday 21st May to Thursday 22nd May

What is Bikeability?

Bikeability is the national cycle training programme supported and funded by the Department for Transport. The skills your child will learn will help boost confidence and independent thinking thus helping them to be a safer road user. Learning the rules of the road when young is a real boost to confidence and a very positive experience of true travel independence. So, whether your child cycles regularly or not, the course will prove beneficial. Shropshire’s Bikeability Scheme is delivered by Learn Cycling, a national training company who employ qualified, professional, DBS checked National Standard Instructors. Please visit www.bikeability.org.uk for more information.

To take part, pupils will need Bikeability Get Ready!
A Roadworthy Cycle and a Cycle Helmet that fits securely. A roadworthy cycle has:

·         Inflated tyres,-as hard as an apple

·         Two working brakes

·         A well-oiled chain

·         A saddle and handlebars which are fixed on tight

We train in all weather conditions! On cold or wet days make sure pupils have coats and gloves.

 Please click on the link below for more information on getting ready for your course

URL: https://bikeability.org.uk/bikeability-training/get-ready/

 

This course develops the cycling skills and confidence of children who can already cycle.

To sign up for the Bikeability training taking place at Coleham School please click HERE below by no later than Monday 12th May:

We will email you to confirm your child’s place by close of play on Wednesday 14th May.

Kind regards,

The School Office

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2 years ago
Posted on 03rd Apr 2025 by

Year 6 Maya Workshop

The children had a fantastic day on Monday during the Maya workshop! Year 6 visited Chichén-Itzá through VR headsets, made traditional worry dolls, explored the meaning of their birthday, spelt their name in Mayan and learnt about traditional games and clothing. A fantastic introduction to our new topic!

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2 years ago
Posted on 14th Mar 2025 by

School Production Peter Pan!

Our 2025 School Production of Peter Pan was FANTASTIC! A massive well done to Year 5 and Year 6, our biggest cast yet of over 80 children!  It’s our highlight of the school year and there are parts for everyone, dancers, actors, narrators, back stage crew and soloists.  You all shone and we are so proud of you!  It brought tears to our eyes to see you loving the stage and being part of something wonderful, creating something special as a team.

A massive thank you to our School Production Staff Team led by our wonderful Director Mrs Stennett who glides us all through it and makes all the hard work look effortless.

J.M Barrie “It is not doing what you like, but liking what you do that brings real happiness”

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2 years ago
Posted on 13th Mar 2025 by

Year 6 Leavers’ Hoodies 2025

School Shop Direct are pleased to supply Coleham Primary with leavers’ hoodies for 2025.

They will have the school logo embroidered on the left chest and the back ‘25’ print design with pupil’s names inside and right chest name/initial.

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Child sizes (12-14 and below) = £24 each

Adult sizes (small and above) = £26 each

Colours available are:

  • Purple
  • Red
  • Navy
  • Fuchsia pink
  • Heather grey
  • Turquoise
  • Powder blue

Sizes are:

  • 9-11 yrs (32”)
  • 12-14 yrs (34”)
  • Small (37”)
  • Medium (40”)
  • Large (43”)

Hoodies can be ordered on The School Shop website

The cut off date for orders being placed is 4th April.

Please select the Click and Collect option when checking out (to avoid delivery charge) as hoodies will then be delivered all together to school at the end of SATS week in May.

When ordering, please put pupil’s full name in the Notes box and also the chosen name/initials to be printed on the front (up to 10 letters).

Any queries please contact School Shop on:

Tel: 01743 440449

Email: info@schoolshopdirect.co.uk

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2 years ago
Posted on 08th Mar 2025 by

School Production: Saturday Rehearsals

What a great day full of amazing acting, singing and dancing!  Well done and THANK YOU to all the children and staff who have given up their Saturdays to make sure the show is brilliant!

Our Director Mrs Stennett took a moment to celebrate Emilia’s 10th Birthday too in the sunshine.

It promises to be a spectacular show!

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 06th Mar 2025 by

World Book Day Pop Up Shop

Every year World Book Day publish a series of Children’s books that can be purchased for £1 or with a World Book Day voucher.  These are available from participating stores but we’ve ordered our own to save children from missing out and are running our own World Book Day Pop Up Shop in the school library.  The children loved their visits and will be bringing a new book home.

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2 years ago
Posted on 04th Mar 2025 by

Class Photographs – Thursday 13th March

School photographers, Active Photographic, will be in school on the morning of Thursday 13th March to take class group photographs of our pupils. If time permits, we will ask them to take individual photographs of those children who were absent when they visited in the Autumn.

If you DO NOT want your child to have their photograph taken on the day, please click on the link below and complete an OPT OUT form:

https://forms.office.com/e/nrJgK5eEyd

Please ensure your child comes to school wearing their school uniform so they look smart for the class photograph. If your child is timetabled to do PE, they will do it in their school uniform so please have them come in in their school uniform and bring in their pumps/trainers to change in to.

Note: Your child/ren will automatically be included in their class photograph if we do not hear from you otherwise by Wednesday 12th March.

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2 years ago
Posted on 24th Feb 2025 by

Year 6 to visit Shrewsbury Museum

As part of this term’s science curriculum work on Evolution, we have arranged for Year 6 to visit Shrewsbury Museum on Monday 7th April. One class will visit in the morning after registration; the other after lunch, returning in time for normal end-of-day collection.

During their visit, they will look at a number of exhibits pertinent to their study and each class will take part in an “Investigating Evolution” workshop.

Pupils should wear normal school uniform for the trip. They should also bring with them a warm/water-proof coat, in case of inclement weather. No spending money is required.

The cost of the trip is £3.90 per child. Payment should be made via your child’s Arbor account prior to the date of the trip please. Many thanks.

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2 years ago
Posted on 24th Feb 2025 by

Year 6 Maya Workshop: 31st March

We are excited to share with you that on Monday 31st March, we will be welcoming Widget Workshops in to share a ‘Maya’ workshop day with Year 6.  Using the latest technology, the children will explore the world of The Maya. Working in pairs, they will visit important Maya sites such as Tikal, Palenque, Uxmal and Chichen Itza, as well as swimming in a cenote. They will also explore the Maya number system and calendar and also have a go at weaving and creating their own worry doll.

As we have no other way of funding the workshop we would be grateful if parents can contribute £7.15 per child towards the cost. Payment is to be made via your child’s Arbor account prior to the date of the workshop please. Many thanks.

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2 years ago
Posted on 14th Feb 2025 by

Peter Pan Tickets

Our School Production of Peter Pan takes place on Thursday 13th March and Friday 14th March showing at 6.30pm.

Tickets cost £6 per adult and child and can be purchased on Arbor, School Shop.

Arbor School Shop does not give a confirmation following payment so please trust that it has gone through or check in ‘Invoices’ for a record of purchase.

Refreshments will be available on arrival and during the interval for fundraising to school. (cash please)

Tickets will be available to purchase to cast member’s families on Monday 24th February first.  Any remaining tickets will be on sale to the school population from Monday 3rd March.

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 07th Feb 2025 by

Author Event – Patrice Lawrence

Today we had a special visitor, Children’s author and MBE for children’s literature Patrice Lawrence.

She spoke openly about growing up in an Italian -Trinidadian household and that as a young girl she saw that families like hers weren’t represented in children’s books.  She told us about her wild imagination and the ideas that came from news stories for her latest book People Like Stars. Thank you so much to Booka Bookshop for organising this brilliant visit for us.

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2 years ago
Posted on 23rd Jan 2025 by

SATs

Dear Parents/Carers,

1) 2025 Key Stage 2 National Curriculum Tests (SATs)

The KS2 SATs will take place during the week commencing 12th May 2025. Below are the SATs dates for each test throughout the week.

Timetable for SATs week

Date

 

 Test Timings
Monday 12th May English grammar, punctuation and spelling

Paper 1: questions

 45 minutes
English grammar, punctuation and spelling

Paper 2: spelling

 Approximately 15 minutes (not strictly timed)
Tuesday 13th May English reading test 60 minutes
Wednesday 14th May Mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic test 30 minutes
Mathematics Paper 2: reasoning

 

 40 minutes
Thursday 15th May Mathematics Paper 3: reasoning

 

 40 minutes

2) Year 6 SATs revision books

 In response to the large number of requests from parents for SATs revision materials, the school has purchased a maths and GPS revision book for each child. Your child will be given these on Friday and will have a schedule to complete the questions.  The schedule will be published on Dojo for reference each week and will run Friday to Friday. We would like you to support your child with the completion of this each week, along with daily reading and times table practise.

3) Useful revision resources

In the run up to the SATs, we will be using a range of resources, which you can also access at home:

https://mathsbot.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/#

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z4mktcw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z4296rd

As ever, thank you for your ongoing support.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Featherston and Mrs Morgan

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2 years ago
Posted on 22nd Jan 2025 by

International Day

We’ve all had fun for International Day learning Spanish with Senorita Jones, singing the Fiji Rugby song with Mrs Porrett, playing an international game in PE and learning about another country in class.  Thank you to the many family guests for joining us in the classroom and telling us about places you have lived or travelled-always fascinating and providing a window to our children of a life they might choose to live one day.

In Year 4 Olive’s dad, Dominic, taught us about Laternelaufen, or ‘lantern walking’, which children do on 11th November to celebrate St. Martin’s Day and his story.  See the video below.

 

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 21st Jan 2025 by

International Food Market

We’ve been immersing ourselves in new languages and cultures throughout the day and after school it was time to try tasters from around the world at our International Food Market!

With each Year Group supporting a stall we had foods from Spain, Greece, India, Germany, USA, Italy and Poland and other countries.

Than you so much for coming along and encouraging your children to try new foods.  It was wonderful to see the cultural dishes made at home with love and little notes to go alongside.

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 20th Jan 2025 by

French Subscription for all KS2 Children

REMINDER: We purchase a subscription to Language Nut so KS2 children can have fun practising their French at home.

Languagenut is a great website resource, to reinforce French vocabulary interactively.  It teaches vocabulary so that you can hear it being spoken. Then the learning is consolidated by language games. The games are brilliant, as the children are having so much fun, they don’t even realise how much language they are absorbing.

At Coleham School, every KS2 child has a subscription to this resource and it can be accessed from school or at home, on any type of device with internet.  Your child has already been given login details to Languagenut.   They should ask their Class Teacher if they need them re-issued.

Please support your child to spend at least 10 minutes on this each week as it will really improve their French.

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2 years ago
Posted on 19th Jan 2025 by

Yr 5/6 Author Event – Patrice Lawrence

Dear Parents/Carers,

A local book shop has arranged an Author event for Year 5 and 6 taking place on Friday 7th February. 

Patrice Lawrence MBE and writer in residence for Book Trust will be joining us to talk about being an author and her brand new book being published 30th January 2025!  So, its literally hot off the press.  How lucky are we! 

Patrice Lawrence MBE is a British writer and journalist.  Her writing has won awards including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for Older Children and The Bookseller YA Book Prize. Patrice was born in Brighton and brought up in an Italian and Trinidad household. She worked for 20 years for charities supporting equality and social justice. These themes (along with a serious amount of music) inform her stories.

There will be an opportunity for a book signing in the school library.  If you would like to purchase a signed copy of People like Stars please purchase this via Arbor School Shop £9 by 31st January.  Please find a book synopsis is below.

People like Stars

A mystery and exploration of fractured families, long-buried secrets and the power of friendship, told with warmth and compassion.

12 year old Ayrton and his mum have recently moved back to the area they lived in when he was a baby – the area they fled after a local woman stole him away from Mum when she was out shopping, thankfully returning him after only a short time had passed.

Mum is suffocatingly over-protective of Ayrton, who just wants to be a normal boy. At his new school, he discovers that his new friend Stanley is linked to him in an astonishing way:
Stanley’s grandma was the woman who took Ayrton while his mum’s back was turned. She became estranged from her own family because of her actions and Stanley has never known her.

Together the boys decide to track down the grandma – now a famous artist with the Banksy-style pseudonym Vixen – but will Ayrton’s mother can get answers to the questions that torment her, and will Ayrton be able to live a more free life?

This promises to be a brilliant visit.

Kind regards,

Miss Othen

(Business Manager who loves reading!)

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2 years ago
Posted on 13th Jan 2025 by

Sci-Fi Author Adventure – Jamie Russell

We had a real adventure this morning, Shropshire Author Jamie Russell talked to us about his Sci-Fi trilogy of books and how his love of video games as a boy inspired his reading.

Year 5 were looking for an exciting reason to write suspense stories and George came up with the goods!  Turning to Mrs Stennett he said I’m reading this great book and I know the author so lets send them to him to read! so they did! Today Jamie visited to deliver his personal feedback.  Thank you Jamie for reading them over the weekend and giving up your time for us.  #writingwithapurposeispowerful

We also had a fascinating morning at the author talk Jamie gave to Yr 5 & 6 looking at the connection between video games and reading!  We had never thought of the similarities before of immersing yourself in an imaginary world and progressing through the levels/chapters.

“Just like navigating a complex video game, reading requires you to actively engage with the world on the page, decoding details, following storylines, and making mental leaps to fully understand the narrative.”

Jamie showed us the 1980’s Space Invader and The Hobbit computer games and how reading the book finally gave him the clue to defeat the trolls in the game with the power of the sun.

Fun Fact: The main character in Jamie’s novels Casey Henderson was inspired by his daughter who was tired of boy characters getting all all the limelight.

See SHROPSHIRE STAR NEWS ARTICLE

See SHROPSHIRE LIVE NEWS

 

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 03rd Jan 2025 by

Yr 5/6 Author Event -Jamie Russell

Author Jamie Russell will be joining us on Monday 13th January to talk about being an author and his Sci-Fi Adventure novels!

There will be an opportunity for a book signing in the school library.  If you would like to purchase a signed copy of the first book in the trilogy please purchase this via Arbor School Shop £9.

Skywake Invasion 

An action-packed sci-fi adventure about aliens, videogames, and what it means to be a leader. 

Casey Henderson is obsessed with smash-hit videogame SKYWAKE.  But little does she realise that her favourite game is actually an alien training tool created by the mysterious Red Eyes.

​When the aliens gatecrash an eSports tournament in a London shopping centre, everyone thinks they’ve come to take over Earth.

Only Casey realises the truth: the Red Eyes are abducting the world’s best gamers to fight in a distant, intergalactic war… whether they want to go or not!

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2 years ago
Posted on 15th Dec 2024 by

Christmas Lunch

We all enjoyed our Christmas Lunch together!! Thank you to our Catering Team for all their hard work on this day and every day this year 🌟  They arrived in school this morning at 6.30am to start cooking and managed to serve a whopping 462 Christmas dinners to our staff and pupils here and also at Bowbrook Primary.  Well done, it was lovely!

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2 years ago
Posted on 12th Dec 2024 by

KS2 Christmas Performance

What a lovely Christmas performance from ALL the KS2 Children.  It’s not easy to perform in 4 shows, to 4 different audiences across 3 days so well done to all the children for being at their best and bringing this lovely gift to their families.  It was a wonderful celebration of narrating, acting, dancing and singing.  A special mention to Year 6 as it is their last Coleham Christmas Performance.  Well done again to all the children and thank you to our families for supporting us.  It’s tiring performing in a run of sell out shows so the children deserve an extra special treat this weekend! Below is a short video of highlights!

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 04th Dec 2024 by

Our Picture Book Wish List

Our writing and reading leads Mrs Stennett and Miss Harris have been working with a consultant and plan to introduce Picture Book Studies next year.  This will feature incredible books that help us become kind, empathetic, make us laugh, make us gasp and make us curious in the world in which we live.

We are on the look out for the following books and have set up an Amazon Wish List for these.  If you might like to purchase a Christmas gift for our classes then we would be incredibly grateful for your donations.

Books can be purchased via the link below which will be delivered direct to school.

Amazon Wish List 

But don’t forget if you are kind enough to make a purchase, please leave us an Amazon note, so we know who the parcel is from! This way we can thank you and your children!

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2 years ago
Posted on 04th Dec 2024 by

Year 6 Christingle Service at The Abbey

On Monday, year 6 made their own Christingles in school. Wendy, from Shrewsbury Abbey, kindly gave up her time to come in and explain the symbolism of the Christingle and also helped with the making of each one.

We later attended the Christingle service in The Abbey. It was a truly magical experience with children singing, saying prayers and finally lighting our Christingles.  It was a serene moment for us to come together with feelings of hope and joy.  Thank you Shrewsbury Abbey for lighting up our morning!

Thank you year 6 parents for your donations which will go to The Children’s Society.

 

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2 years ago
Posted on 22nd Nov 2024 by

Mr Larkham the Scientist

There is nothing Mr Larkham likes more than exploring animal bones and skulls but today it was organs! He dissected a sheep’s heart and lungs with Year 6 and it was great for them to see all of the vocabulary terms they have been learning in the flesh!  They pumped air into the lungs to show how they would work and connected straws through from the vena cava vein to the right atrium and ventricle, and then from the left ventricle to the aorta.  It was a fascinating science lesson that led to some excellent questions about looking after their heart and lung health.

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2 years ago
Posted on 14th Nov 2024 by

Author Piers Torday visits us

Bestselling Children’s Author Piers Torday visited us today!  Piers wrote The Last Wild Collection and has won many literature awards.  Piers talked to Year 4, 5 and 6 about his new fantasy book Midnight Treasure. Set in a fantasy version of Transylvania and a kingdom of vampirs, an orphaned werwolf searches for a mysterious treasure.

Piers’ Dad left him the inspiration for Midnight Treasure.  During Lockdown Piers found a mysterious map of a fantasy land drawn by his dad —a wonderful world of knights, bears, forests, and lakes.  He had no idea what it was or when he drew it but it was the seed of a story which grew when Piers researched his family history in Transylvania (modern day Romania).

The story was also inspired by The Hobbit, the first book his Dad read to him and his brother and the book they took turns in reading to each other during his Dad’s final days.  This is such a great reminder of how special reading can be between families, stories can be timeless spanning generations and providing us with memories that we treasure!!

Thank you so much to Piers for inspiring Year 4, 5 and 6 and meeting the children for our book signing.

#readingtimeisfamilytime #readingschool #childrensbooksmatter

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2 years ago
Posted on 13th Nov 2024 by

House Christmas Card Competition

All children are invited to take part in a Christmas Card Competition.

Help us create our very own Coleham School Christmas Cards to send to local businesses and organisations that help us during the year!

Winners…The winning design for each house will be professionally printed and delivered by pupils to local businesses from the school.  The winner from each house will also have some cards to take home and with family/friends.  House points will be awarded for all entries so we hope to see lots of designs.

How to enter….The design needs to be completed on A4 paper (landscape or portrait using any art supplies) and needs to have the child’s name, class and house on the back. Entries can be handed to any house captain who will collect these or can be put in the post box by the hall.

The deadline...Entries need to be handed in by next Friday 22nd November.