Year 6 Zone
Welcome to the Year 6 Transition Zone
Hello Year 6 students and your grown-ups
This area of our website is especially for all of you Year 6s who are joining us in September.
Over the coming weeks and months we will be adding lots of information so you can get to know us more. There will also be videos to watch from key staff, your new form tutors and some of our students to help with your transition from a Year 6 primary student into a Year 7 Newhouse Academy student.
We know that it has been a really strange time for you, but we want to make sure that your experience of joining us here at Newhouse Academy is a truly excellent one.
Mrs Mears – Head of Year 7
Year 6 Easter Challenges
Take part in our fun challenges - there are prizes and rewards to be won
There are 5 challenges – a wellbeing challenge, a reading challenge, an art challenge, a science challenge and a PE challenge. You could choose to do one challenge or as many as you want. There are prizes and rewards to be won!
Year 6 Wellbeing Challenge
Make a Resilience Toolkit
Here’s how to take part:
- Watch this video with Miss Wilson.
- Think about resilience, what it means and why it is important.
- Watch the video below with Ormie the pig.
- Think about challenges you may have faced, anything that may have made you want to give up or not try in the first place.
- Think about what you did to deal with the situation.
- Think about 5 positive ways you can deal with difficult situations.
- Write these down and put them in your resilience toolkit. You could use an old jar like Miss Wilson or a box or anything you want.
- You might want to decorate your resilience toolkit.
- Get your grown up to take a photo of your resilience toolkit and email it to transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk making sure they include your name and primary school.
Year 6 Reading Challenge
Create your own book cover and write a short book review
Here’s how to take part:
- Design a book cover for a book you love. It can be a re-design of the original cover or you can create your own design.
- Write a short book review to go with your cover. Add your favourite characters and favourite parts of the story.
- Get your grown up to take a photo of your book cover design and book review and email it to transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk making sure they include your name and primary school.
Year 6 Art Challenge
Design your own Easter Egg full of pattern
Here’s how to take part:
- Draw an egg shape on a piece of paper and decide what you are going to use to create pattern on your egg.
- You could decide to use pencils, paint, felt tips – the choice is yours.
- Get your grown up to take a photo of your Easter egg design and email it to transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk making sure they include your name and primary school.
- Watch this film with Miss Allen and Miss Jones to see an example of their pattern inspired design.
Year 6 Science Challenge
This looks like a job for a science expert!
Here’s how to take part:
- Watch this film with Mr Hartley carefully.
- In experiment 1 Mr Hartley is burning metals. Can you answer these 2 questions from watching the experiment.
- What colour does copper turn when it’s burned?
- What is an example of where you might have burned iron filings before?
- In experiment 2 Mr Hartley is making elephant’s toothpaste. Can you answer these 2 questions from watching the experiment.
- This is an exothermic reaction, what does that mean?
- What gas is given out from this reaction?
- Get your grown up to pop all 4 of your answers into an email and send it to transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk making sure they include your name and primary school.
Extra stuff – Mr Hartley makes slime in our second film ‘The science behind slime’. If slime is your thing give it a watch and if you manage to make your own slime get your grown up to email us a photo at transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk don’t forget to include your name and primary school.
Year 6 PE Challenge
Take part in the Sock Olympics
Here’s how to take part:
- Watch the video with Mr Jeffrey and Mrs Tough.
- Have a go yourself and record your score. You will need someone to time you, you could do the best of 3.
- Throw the socks in the bucket – Mr Jeffrey got 7 – how many can you get?
- Knock over the target – Mrs Tough took 5 attempts – how many can you do it in?
- Kick the socks into the bucket – Mr Jeffrey got 0 – how many can you get?
- Tip tap challenge – Mrs Tough got 5 – how many can you get?
- Get your grown up to send your scores to transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk making sure they include your name and primary school. They can include a photo of you attempting the challenge if you wish.
If parents and carers would like to be able to see some of the things we have been up to you can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @NewhouseAcademy
