Affirmation mirror 

A BIG thank you, Mrs Conner! We love our new Year 6 affirmation mirror in the Year 6 corridor — such a positive daily reminder for the children to be kind to themselves and be proud of who they are as individuals! 

RE Fesitval of lights – Chanukah

As part of our RE focus day, children enjoyed learning about the Jewish festival of Chanukah. All children demonstrated the values of appreciation and understanding throughout the day and particularly enjoyed learning the story of Chanukah and making their very own dreidels! A day full of fun and fabulous learning! 

 

forest schools 

The children enjoyed a wonderfully wet but adventurous final Forest School session. Despite the rain, spirits were high as they worked together to build creative dens using tarpaulins, they proudly admired how well their shelters held up against the weather! They then took part in a trust-building activity, where one partner was blindfolded and carefully guided through the trees—an experience that had everyone giggling while learning to communicate clearly and move with care. To finish the session, the group gathered around the fire for a cosy treat of toasted s’mores, reflecting on their time together and celebrating all they had learned over their years of Forest School at Hazelwood! A lovely final session for all!

 

 

Fashion Show  

Wow! What an incredible fashion show! We are so proud of all of our Year 6 children who took part in the Hazelwood Fashion Show. It was a lovely showcase of all of the hard work they have put in throughout their Design and Technology unit. Each unique design was a celebration of children’s individual cultural heritage and demonstrated impressive application of textiles skills: sewing buttons, creating pockets and seams. It was a real opportunity for children to celebrate our school values of courage, creativity and ambition and we know that although they were all a little nervous beforehand, the children absolutely loved it too!
A huge thank you to all the parents and carers who joined us for this celebration and supported us either during our sewing morning or in helping children with mood boards and gathering important resources!

Multicultural Week 

What a wonderful week of learning we’ve had as we explored the fascinating country of China for our Multicultural Week! The children have been busy learning about China’s culture, climate, geography and wildlife. They were particularly intrigued by the Chinese Zodiac story, where they learnt about the twelve animals that took part in the Great Race on the Emperor’s birthday — a race that helped him find a clever way to measure time. The children then retold the story in their own words by creating fantastic comic strips, showing great imagination and storytelling flair. Children were also inspired by Jason Lai, an orchestral conductor, learning about why he is famous and how he encourages us to connect our mind, body, and heart through music and mindfulness – he even recorded a very special video just for us at Hazelwood! His message really resonated with the children and helped them reflect on how they can bring calm and focus when thinking about their own ‘conduct’. In cooking, the children demonstrated amazing resilience while making fortune cookies — they quickly discovered that timing is everything when shaping them! In PE, children also had great fun using fans to try out traditional Chinese dance, moving gracefully and rhythmically to create a final class performance. To finish the week, the children designed their own vases inspired by traditional Ming art. They demonstrated our school value of creativity, carefully adding paint to produce vibrant patterns and beautiful designs that truly celebrated Chinese artistry. It has been a fantastic Multicultural Week in Year 6, full of curiosity, creativity, and celebration of a rich and diverse culture.

Art - 2D art to 3D Structures

 

We have been studying Lubaina Humid and inspired by her work, we have been creating our own 2D art work to develop into 3D structures. Our theme is 'dogs and cats' and we have used key skills such as negative space and scaling up to make pur initial pieces larger. 

 

We will of course, keep you posted on our final pieces too... 

National poetry day 

This year's theme was 'PLAY'! Have a read of some of the wonderful year 6 poems... 

Science - Electricity! 

In Science, we have been learning about Electricity. We started our unit of learning by building on what we had already learnt in year 4. We learned the recognised symbols for electrical components and used these when representing a simple circuit in a diagram. We then developed this by exploring and creating simple series circuits. After this, we started to explore what happens to the brightness of a lamp when we increase the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit. What we discovered is that as you increase the voltage in a circuit, the brightness of a bulb also increases. We drew a line graph to show these findings.

  

PGL - Caythorpe Court! 

This week some very tired Year 6 children arrived back to school following their fantastic trip to PGL, Caythorpe Court. The children had a fabulous time, taking part in lots of different activities: raft-building, climbing, zip lining, archery, orienteering, trapeze, problem-solving and laser tag, just to name a few! If that wasn’t quite enough, they also enjoyed fun activities in the evening too: balloon splash, campfire and a wonderful disco where they showed off their dance moves! Despite the forecast, they managed to dodge the worst of the weather and even caught a glimpse of some lovely sunshine! Throughout the weekend, lots of sweets were eaten and not much sleep was had (and that's just the teachers!) but all the children certainly made some wonderful memories and demonstrated our school values of courage, ambition and teamwork throughout the trip – we couldn’t be prouder of all their achievements!

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Activity Days - golf & Bowling! 

Whilst some children were away, other Year 6 children also enjoyed two jam-packed days of fun more locally, as part of our Activity Days. On Friday, they enjoyed a day together at Jungle Falls Adventure Golf at Trent Park with lots of very high scores and some very competitive teams! They had a blast in the glorious sunshine - how very lucky they were! On Monday, the children then visited Hollywood Bowl for even more competitive fun – there are certainly some excellent bowlers amongst them with some even making it onto the leaderboard! Whilst they were there, they also enjoyed some delicious food too! Everyone had such a brilliant time it was so nice to see the children have fun together and even make some new friends across classes. All of the children certainly demonstrated lots of our school values, especially respect towards members of the public when travelling by bus. Well done Children!

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