Celebrating who we are
We’ve learned about WW2 this term and how Anderson Shelters were used to keep people safe from air raids during the blitz. We attempted to make our own shelters and then tested them with bombs being dropped on them or water being splashed on them too. Great fun!
Breaking News!
Children at Berger have been learning about the history of grime music. To help children understand about how this movement grew through illegal raves and club scenes we have a pretend illegal rave at school! Children had to sneak out of class and head down to the studio where DJ Armstrong hosted the party of the century!
We went for our second visit to forest school and has a much more autumnal experience. The leaves had changed colour, the weather was nippier but we all still had a lovely time. Thanks to our parents helpers for coming along too!
For Children In Need we wore our pjs to school and helped raise lots of money towards a fantastic cause.
We had our first trip to Forest School and had a blast! Making art with wool, building shelters, climbing trees… can’t beat some time out in nature.
Berger united to raise more than £1400 to split between two cancer charities after being inspired by one of our brave young pupils who is currently battling cancer themselves. We all wore yellow to show our support and Chestnut created this poster using the theme of yellow.
Year 6 pupils partnered with a Hackney based charity called ‘Taru’ to create a dance and song to perform in Hackney Carnival! How exciting!
A group of children then volunteered to go and march in the real thing and they all did a fantastic job. Here’s a sneak peek of them in a dress rehearsal for the younger pupils.
Wow! Today we learned a skill that could help to save a person’s life in an emergency. We were lucky enough to be joined by Dr Ali who taught us all the different stages to safely and correctly give CPR in the case of somebody going in to cardiac arrest. We all remembered the stages to start such as checking if the environment was safe and making sure to call 999. We also had a go on a practise dummy which made a noise if we were pressing hard enough.
Every half term we look at a different religion from around our diverse world and chat about our own beliefs too. This half term we looked at how all religions can use art, sculpture and song to express their beliefs, show reverance and inspire awe. We then focussed back on Buddhism and made our own Vesak lanterns. We then drew our own mandalas, and then we made 3D wall plates showing our own inner feelings and thoughts.
Among all the hard work and stress of SATs we’ve found our art lessons to be a nice way to relax and unwind. This half term we looked at Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali and Hokusai (known for his painting - The Wave.) Here are just a few of our amazing pieces of work.
The children all worked so hard to do their best in their exams that we thought it only fair they should get a day of freedom. All 57 year six pupils went and enjoyed the sun in Victoria Park. We had a great time, all the children were on fantastic form and Miss Barry said they were the most impressive group of children to ever visit Vicky Park! Well done Chestnut :)
It’s the moment all year 6 pupils know is coming…
All the children worked so hard in the run up to their exams and all of them made such a great amount of progress. Whatever their scores may be we know we can be proud of all they’ve achieved! Well done Chestnut :)
Despite a very wet week, we all went and had a lovely squelchy time at forest school. It was great to see all the trees looking bright and green and healthy again and the noise of the gentle rain drops on the tree canopy above us was lovely.
We were very lucky to be given a performance by a band from Hackney City Academy. The music was loud, the rhythm was thumping and then the children were able to get involved and try the instruments themselves.
As part of our ongoing Spanish practice the whole school took part in a sharing assembly of what we’ve learned so far. We decided to put all of our knowledge into a video pretending we were giving a weather forecast for Hackney. Feel free to watch our video below and see if you can guess the different weather phenomena happening in Hackney. Enjoy!
Chestnut Class got into the spirit of all things literary for World Book Day 2024. We had some absolutely superb efforts for our costumes and the class really enjoyed being their favourite characters.
February brought about our first Spring visit to Forest School. There were buds and blossoms starting to appear on the trees and it was definitely warmer than the last time we went! We found worms, climbed trees, dug, picked litter and even bumped into the same police officer we met last time. Children also used buckets and rope to take water from the canal… until the bucket went on an adventure downstream…
To link in with our PSHE learning and also to help us prepare for the big move to secondary school, Year 6 have been lucky enough to have five workshops working with the charity Diverse Voices.
In five sessions, one per week (and with a final two remaining after half term,) we have been working with Anton and Torian looking at all sorts of common behaviours and worries and issues that might arise at secondary school. We have discussed our opinons on how might react is scenarios, we have roleplayed healthy conflict resolutions and we have offered our different opinions on social media and its correct uses. We also occasionally engaged in some drama games to help blow off steam after the more serious conversations, as you’ll see below!
So far in Year 6 we have recapped our basics, then we looked at the days of the week and months of the year. In Spring 1 our focus has been the weather! We’ve been learning types of weather, and how to say what the weather is in the north, east, south and west of a place.
As has been usual for this time of year, hace frio y lloviendo! (It's cold and raining!)
