Year six have two classes who are named after the Olympic Champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. 

Jayne and Christopher were both born in Nottingham (Jayne in Clifton and Chris in Calverton) and gave up jobs as a secretary and police officer to concentrate on their amazing skills of ice dance.  Over the times that they competed they were British, European, World and Olympic champions, scoring a perfect twelve 6.0s in the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics for their iconic performance of their Boléro.   They spent years touring, training other athletes and judging and presenting Dancing on Ice.  

SATs Booster Links:

Free KS2 SATS Online 10-Minute Tests | CGP Books

16 Weeks of SATs - Arithmetic - Week 1 - Lesson 1 - Column Addition

Free interactive KS1 and KS2 SATs revision resources - BBC Bitesize

Crickweb | KS2 Literacy

Spelling - English - BBC Bitesize

Working closely with Into University and the University of Nottingham, we were lucky to experience a trip to Bestwood Country Park. We took part in den building, looking at how we could use renewable energy sources to power our shelters, then learnt how to generate power by building wind turbines.

What are we learning this term?

In Spring term, we cover lots of different topics. 

• English, we continue to explore different purposes for learning such as writing to entertain, persuade and inform. 
• Maths, we are working in the last few weeks running up to SATs to build resilience in arithmetic skills and reasoning and problem solving skills. 
• History, we are learning about Maafa, The Benin Kingdom and the African Slave Trade. 
• Music, we were inspired by Andy Warhol and his art style of Pop Art to learn about textures and different layers within music.
• Spanish, we are learning about naming different areas of the home.
• RE, we learnt about The Night Journey and it's comparison to journeys in other religions.
• DT, we used Micro:bits to create a pedometer.