“Success doesn’t come to you; you go to it” – Marva Collins
The Year 6’s wrote their final Exams for the year this week. It was a long, grueling process, however, they have finally made it to the end. Miss Nel and myself are both incredibly proud of the effort and dedication that the Year 6’s have put into each of their Progression Tests.
As the Year 6’s take on the daunting task of entering the High School next year, here are a few tips that may be useful:
- Pursue activities you really enjoy.
- Work hard.
- Be yourself, no matter what.
- Take care of yourself.
- Ask for help.
- You are loved.
- Learn to manage your time.
- “Let’s eat, Granny” vs “Let’s eat Granny” – Grammar saves lives!
- Don’t be afraid to make new friends and lose old ones.
- You will use Math after school!
- The teachers aren’t your enemies.
- Make the most of every experience.
- Don’t forget how funny you used to find your KS2 teachers.
- “A lot” is two words.
- Miss Nel and I will be here whenever you need anything.
We have no doubt that the Year 6’s will go on to accomplish great things in the future and we cannot wait to see the amount of growth that is going to happen for each student! WE BELIEVE IN YOU!
What are the Year 6’s excited about for High School:
“We will be learning new subjects” – Maia Davies
“We will be taking part in ISA” – Treasure Daniel
“We could choose our own languages” – Alessio Lemme
“I am excited to leave early during exams and be more independent” – Iviwe Matakata
“I am excited about looking up to new people” – Saumya Maharaj
“I am excited to learn new things and to be more responsible and independent in my learning” – Faith Chivaka
Brittney Hakime
Year 6 Teacher
Change Is Good
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” – Aristotle
This term in Year 6, we have been learning about Material changes. The students have been focusing on topics such as reversible and irreversible changes, mixing and separating solids, soluble and insoluble substances, separating insoluble substances, solutions, how can we make solids dissolve faster and how does grain size affect dissolving.
It has been a very interesting journey for the Year 6’s as experiments have been conducted each time they learnt about a new topic. They tested each of the above topics and came up with their own predictions, methods, results and conclusions. I hope that they cleaned their parents kitchen straight afterwards!
Here are some things the students enjoyed about Science:
“Well in science I really enjoyed conducting the experiments and finding out some things that I didn’t know, for example, I did not know why things dissolve faster in hot water but I then did the experiment and checked my textbook, I found out the answer. I also liked making the picture that we did at the beginning of the term about irreversible and reversible changes.” – Treasure Daniel
“I really enjoy the experiments because they give me a greater understanding on how things work like solutions and dissolving it is really fun.” – Maia Davies
“The thing I like about science is that when I conduct an experiment it makes it easier for me to understand the lesson. Like for the insolubles as I did the experiments it helped me understand and for the irreversible work when the teachers told us to make pictures in our book it helped because I used highlighting, so it stood out in my book. In science I’m 100 percent understanding the work.” – Yadar Mashoene
“On online schooling in science, we have learnt about material changes, solutions and mixtures, soluble and insoluble substances, different methods on how to separate mixtures and solutions, factors that affect dissolving, how to conduct a fair experiment and how to record our results. My favourite part of science is conducting experiments and learning the outcome of each one. I also enjoy learning about how to separate different mixtures and solutions.” – Saumya Maharaj
We are very proud of the excellent work our Year 6 classes are consistently producing!
Brittney Hakime
Year 6 Teacher