Practice SATS week by Millie-Paige

Last week, we completed our final practise sats before the real thing. Currently, we have finished all of the year six criteria and are preparing ourselves for it. 

On Monday, we had the SPaG test (which is spelling, punctuation and grammar) where we have fifty minutes to complete it and fifty questions to complete. Also, a spelling test which requires twenty spellings read out by Miss Darvill.

On Tuesday, we had the reading test. It is the longest and probably the trickiest one (at one hour long) and it has three different texts in it to answer questions about - normally a poem, story and a non-fiction text. In this test we had: a fact file about space; a poem called giants about snails and frogs; and a story called the lost world which was about explorers and dinosaurs. 

On Wednesday, we had the first arithmetic maths test: half an hour long and worth forty marks. 

On Thursday, we had the reasoning paper 2. That has approximately thirty-five marks. Usually, it includes word problems, problem solving questions, angles, shapes, measurements and more.

When it gets to Friday, in the real sats week we will go to have pizza and go bowling to celebrate all of the hard work we have achieved.

But on Friday this week we completed the maths reasoning 3 paper then. 

In addition, in the real sats week, on the Wednesday we will have the arithmetic paper and  the reasoning 2. Because in the current practise sats week, we had another school event on that day. Also, the reasoning 3 will be on the Thursday. 

I wrote this so you (as a reader) know about the year six sats. In my writing I tried to include elements from the year six expected and greater depth standard as this is a piece of my writing. Such as high level punctuation such as colons, semi-colons, brackets, dashes, hyphenated words and a spelling from the year six spelling list. This is a formal piece of writing with mature language, so I used traces of informality to make my writing greater depth.

TTRockstars High Score

Today, Reece scored his high score on TTRockstars and was incredibly proud.

High Schools

It was an exciting day for year 6 as they found out which high schools they would be going to in September.

Where are we going 6D?

A Game Review by Millie-Paige

Roblox

Roblox is an American gaming site, with seventy million monthly users. You can play it on computer, laptop, ipad/tablet and on phones. It is a great game to play and to design you own games. I play because it’s good to earn money, have fun, and be creative.

About Roblox:

There are loads of things to do: buy robux to customize your avatar, buy gamepasses, make friends and play with them, favourite games to play on them easily and chat to other people on game to have even more fun.

My two favourite games are ‘Welcome to bloxburg’ (which you have to pay twenty robux for) and ‘Work at a pizza place’. Pizza place is where you make and deliver pizzas to earn money in order to improve your house. Bloxburg is a game where you can work in lots of different places to also earn money to build your house, and there are lots of other activities on there as well.

Even though most of my friends have it, I would recommend it to all people age 9+, teenagers and all of my friends. I would give this a 10 out of 10.

Some amazing writing

Bob produced an excellent narrative based on The Sleeper and The Spindle.

Neil Gaiman even responded to a tweet about it. Well done Bob :)

A Poem by Bob

Slowly falling as the cold day goes by.                 

Never going to be colder.

Over the hill the snow laid and and glistened.

What will there be next? Rain, wind or a sunny day.

A Poem by Ewan A

‘A Terrifying Night’ by Millie-Paige

A Terrifying Night             

With the sky looking ominous, the darkened clouds leaked. It lashing down extremely fiercely. As the ferocious wind was blowing, the front door of the abandoned tree house was opened by a black figure. “Who is he?” I thought with my heart pounding getting quicker and quicker. I took another look.

It was eight o’clock on an Autumn evening and I was just going for a late walk on the long windy path through the trees. The trees, that were around fifteen metres tall, danced in the angry breaths of the sky. I peered over. BANG! Panting anxiously, I sneaked behind the nearest bush (just in time). I was terrified; my hands were shaking. Slowly, the mysterious figure approached.

Shuffling back, I needed to make a run for it. I rose to my feet, and stumbled swiftly to the tree house. As I nervously pushed the creaky door open, I murmured under my breath, “He must be gone, is he?” Inside there were various things: spiders, rattling planks of wood and many creatures scuttling across the floor. The empty as space, cobweb-invaded room was the same as before. Steadily and awaringly, I tiptoed in. I wasn’t afraid. Until...

CRASH!  I saw no more.

'Time Critters: Volume 1' by Zachary

Zachary has been working hard on creating a graphic novel at home. He has named it 'Time Critters' and he is going to be releasing it in stages. He hopes that you enjoy volume 1.

A Review of TTRockstars by Millie Paige

Times Table Rockstars

Times table rockstars (TTRockstars) is a website and app that our school (the pupils in key stage 2) have and use to help them with their times tables. We have a username each and answer times table questions to earn money to design our character. You can also get different ranks like: wannabe, rock star, rock legend and rock hero and more.

We have battles between the year 6 classes - which I really like - where we play to compete to see who will win. There is garage, studio, soundcheck, festival (where you can play against anyone), arena (where you play against your classmates) and rock slam - where you can challenge someone.

My favourite thing about TTRockstars is challenging your friends and trying to beat your high score every time. You can play one, two and three minute games.

‘Lightning Girl’ Book Review

Lightning Girl - Book Review  

Millie-Paige

I’ve nearly finished reading Lightning girl, and it’s one of the best books I’ve read. The author is Alesha Dixon; illustrated by James Lancett. There is another book - which is call Lightning girl - superhero squad - that I am planning to read next, following on from the first one.

It’s about this girl (Aurora Beam) finding that her and her family have superpowers. As well at problems at home, she’s not having the best time with her powers (at school). So I’m looking forward to reading the end, and I would like other people to enjoy it as well. 

I would recommend this ool to childrens 9+. I would give this book a 9/10.

I have also noticed some relative clauses, single dashes, and hyphenated words. Which is good because in year 6 we are learning about them.

'The Way' by Amelia

Darkness consumed me. I shiver from my surroundings and take a step. I look forward and check my pocket; Fluffy is still there. I move around to look for an exit; it's like living in a parallel universe. Above is a small, wooden hut with a few steps. One, two, three, four, five. There appeared to be more. I have been going up for ages. I appear to be getting nowhere.

Up and down. Up and down. I rush ahead. I can't go up but I can't go down. Is it a trap? Maybe. I'm suppose to go left or right but neither work. I go to the very top where there is a forcefield. My foot slides through the step. I fall.

I land under the hut. I saw something. I crawl to reach it and can see it says number thirteen. I decide to proceed. There were two cars: number thirteen and number thirteen. I chose the first one. It all starts to make sense and I know what I have to do.

What am I?

I can always be seen and heard but can't be touched,

I can conquer the world,

I am fearless and will do whatever it takes to achieve something,

What am I?

Can you guess what Connie's poem is about?