Y6 North of England 2017
There are schools in this group:
- Just Imagine
- Bury and Whitefield JPS
- Fairfield Community Primary School
- Holly Mount RC
- Holy Trinity, Bury
- Radcliffe Hall
- St Joseph and St Bede R.C. Primary School
- St Thomas’s C.E. Primary School, Bury
- Sunny Bank
- Ribble Drive Primary School
- Churchfield Primary School, Barnsley
- Unsworth Primary School
- Our Lady of Grace, Bury
- Greenmount Primary, Bury
- Healey JIN School
- St Paul’s C Of E Primary School, Bury
- Faringdon Academy, Sunderland
- St Luke’s C of E Primary School, Bury
- Kearsley West Primary and Nursery School
- Belle Vale Community Primary School, Liverpool
- Mersey Drive Primary School
Updates
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Submission by Churchfield Primary School, Barnsley
Churchfield Primary School’s additional scene
The events that led to Suzy posting the warning in Franny's locker
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Line of Fire news article
Our Y6 Reading Gladiators thoroughly enjoyed creating a newspaper article about ‘Line of Fire.’Line of Fire
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Submission by Churchfield Primary School, Barnsley
Churchfield Primary School
Listen to a recording of our favourite poem form Caroline Annd Duffy's collected poems for children.
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Selfishness in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales
Our Lady of Grace’s Year 6 Reading Gladiator’s loved reading ‘The Happy Prince and other stories.’ They decided to focus on the theme of Selfishness.
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Submission by Churchfield Primary School, Barnsley
The White Stallion radio play
This is Churchfield Primary School's radio play, telling the story of The White Stallion. We've loved completing our latest challenge. Enjoy!
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Submission by Churchfield Primary School, Barnsley
“For the moment, the war is far away. It hasn’t touched any of us terribly”.
The Churchfield Reading Gladiators discussed the quotation: 'For the moment, the war is far away. It hasn't touched any of us terribly'. We decided that although a war may be physically far away, it's actually a real and close threat and has an impact on everyone's lives. We tried to show this by placing a war scene so close to an idyllic, safe scene. The horse in its safe stable could easily end up a victim on the battlefield. The children are naively heading towards the danger, believing they are safe... We couldn't resist including Cecily, May and Jeremy and we made a few other references to 'The Children of the King' in our artwork.
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The Toilet Roll Scorpion!
Made for our performance of “Be Very Afraid” by Carol Ann Duffy in WOW assembly on Friday.
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The Bookworm Bat
…..who flaps around during our performance of “Be Very Afraid”
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9th Mar 2018, 11:59am
What a wonderful prop!18th Mar 2018, 3:30pm
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The Bubble Bath Jellyfish
We had great fun making all of our props for the performance poem in World Book Week!
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9th Mar 2018, 11:58am Wow - I bet it was a performance to remember! -
World Book Day
Michael came as Jeremy from “Children of the King” on our belated World Book Day (postponed due to the snow). Jeremy is his favourite book character!
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8th Mar 2018, 10:46pm
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Another Busy Night!
Reading fever is sweeping the school, inspired by our reading Gladiators who have been avidly promoting the new and improved school library. Book reviews by the Gladiators saw books such as Pax, Story Like The Wind and Carol Ann Duffy’s Poetry Treasury disappear from the shelves at record speeds. #inspiringothers #readtosucceed
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Poetry Fever
Year 6 have explored the collection of Carol Ann Duffy’s poems and picked and performed some of their favourites. We love the variety and the chance to explore the rhythm and flow of each poem.
The challenge is to learn and perform two at Gladiators next week, and write a poem in the style of their favourite so far.Comments
9th Feb 2018, 7:40pm I'd love to be a fly on the wall for your performance session. A wave to St Joseph and St Bede Gladiators from the Reading Gladiators team.... and cheerio courgette! -
Totally Captivated…
Well- what a stunning book we have this term. Two sessions in and we are hooked… some fantastic predictions demo year 6 in our first session as we linked this text to other texts and picture books we have read such as ‘The Journey’ and ‘Refuge’. #resilience
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20th Jan 2018, 4:20pm Hello St Joseph and St Bede Gladiators. A Story Like the Wind is a beautiful, lyrical story - almost like reading poetry. Some other books that could be read alongside this one include Shaun' Tan's The Arrival, David Miller Refugees (the refugees might not be what you expect) and Armin Greder's Mediterranean (only read this one if you can cope with very dark, sad themes).28th Feb 2018, 10:18pmWe read The Journey as an added extra after this- stunning also! :) -
Line of Fire Newspaper
Our Y6 Reading Gladiators thoroughly enjoyed creating a newspaper article about ‘Line of Fire.’
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5th Jan 2018, 11:51pm An informative piece and good to see that you have thought about providing information for anyone affected by the bombing.19th Jan 2018, 12:29pmWe like the way your newspaper looks so smart. The headline is bold and clear.We have not read this book yet, but now we are intrigued! Love from the Mersey Drive Gladiators.22nd Jan 2018, 4:27pmWe love the design of your newspaper, from Sedgley Park Y4 Reading Gladiators. -
Pax
Enjoying our muffins!
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20th Dec 2017, 8:03pm Now you are just making me jealous with your lovely Pax muffins. MMmmmmm.23rd Jan 2018, 3:32pmThe Saint Paul’s children want to tell you that they love your cakes and are now looking to design and make their own horse cakes for the book they are currently reading! -
Pax watercolours
Do you like our fox pictures? We observed some photographs carefully to capture their likeness.
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19th Dec 2017, 11:43pm We LOVE your pictures. You have captured the likeness of foxes and the colour is spot on too. Are you going to display them in your class?26th Jan 2018, 7:03pmThe Churchfield Gladiators in Barnsley love your paintings. We like how each fox looks unique and slightly crafty! -
Pax
We celebrated our last session of the year by making Pax buns!
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19th Dec 2017, 11:40pm This is such a cool idea. I wish I lived close by; I would be popping in for tea! -
Happy Christmas
Our last session of the year. Happy Christmas to everyone!
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15th Dec 2017, 3:29pm How very festive. A very Merry Christmas to you too and to all the Gladiators in the North of England. -
Extreme Reading
We are taking part in the extreme reading challenge- take a photo of yourself reading in extreme conditions. We chose the spooky tree!
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1st Dec 2017, 9:29am That looks like fun! I hope you are enjoying Pax. -
Y6 Our Lady of Grace Reading Gladiators
The Y6 Reading Gladiators were very happy today to receive the new book ‘Line of Fire’ and to receive a new sparkly gold journal.
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27th Nov 2017, 1:33pm Hello, Our Lady of Grace Gladiators. We are excited to hear what you think of the new book - and to see how you use those lovely looking journals. Happy Reading! -
Churchfield’s Pax Presentation
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24th Nov 2017, 9:55pm Fabulous presentation, Churchfield Gladiators. Another hit! -
Our Runner-Up Prize Books!
We were ecstatic to find out that we were runners up in the ‘Children of the King’ mini-challenge. We were also extremely excited when our package of books arrived at school…
Three of the books have already been chosen from our class’ bookshelf!Comments
24th Nov 2017, 7:33pm Hello Churchfield Gladiators. We are delighted that you like the books. We also loved The Thing About Jellyfish scene that you sent us. You are producing some super work. -
Pax Display
The children have been set the challenge of creating a display in our new library, which responds to Pax and promotes the upcoming Reading Gladiator texts. The children are in LOVE with Pax, and this drawing was emailed to me for the display just 30 mins after our Gladiators meeting after school – this evening! #inspired #hookedonreading
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24th Nov 2017, 7:34pm In the style of Jon Klassen! I love the texture on Pax's coat, beautifully observed. -
Year 6 Explore: Themes
This week, we had some teachers from cluster schools join us for our Gladiators session. They wanted to see first hand the impact Reading Gladiators is having on the children and their reading engagement and progress. The St Joseph’s Gladiators identified many themes between chapters 7 and 10 and made impressive links to wider society, past and present. We debated whether war is always the answer, and compared the contrasting opinions of Pax and Grey. The adults were amazed by their language and enthusiasm- not just for Pax- but for reading in general. A very proud teacher! Here are some of the wider themes they discussed.
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23rd Nov 2017, 11:02pm What an uplifting update. Your Gladiators are doing you proud. Thank you for sharing this feedback with us #spreadingtheword -
Snow Castle
We have glued on our favourite quotes from the book.
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23rd Nov 2017, 5:16pm A very creative way to share those quotes. Are you going to display it in the library with copies of the book so that other children can read it? I'm sure they will have been inspired by your enthusiasm and creativity. -
Snow Castle
Check out our model of Snow Castle.
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23rd Nov 2017, 5:13pm The Reading Gladiators team are impressed with this creative response to the book. Glad to see your mascot is in the picture! -
New Mascot
Meet our new mascot Gladator the Gladiator!
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23rd Nov 2017, 3:45pm Hi Mersey Drive! Loving your slightly scary mascot! -
The book is finished!
We are feeling quite sad to say goodbye to the book, but looking forward to the next challenge!
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21st Nov 2017, 10:15am You may well feel the same way about The Thing About Jellyfish when you reach the end of that too! Onward and Upward Gladiators - there is always a new challenge to face.21st Nov 2017, 1:55pm Hello Mersey Drive Gladiators. Lovely to hear from you. Caroline is right about the Thing About Jellyfish. Perhaps you would like to read Pax or Line of Fire next so that you can take part in the mini-challenges? And then you could come back to The Thing About Jellyfish later. -
Children of the King
Year six made bookmarks to illustrate the themes in Children of the King.
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21st Nov 2017, 10:13am Lovely idea Mersey Drive and a useful aide memoir as you are reading too.21st Nov 2017, 1:57pm Those book marks look great. I really like the way that you have used the silhouette technique that is used for the front cover. -
Getting creative!
We used black and white shapes and symbols to illustrate the key themes in the book “Children of the King”.
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21st Nov 2017, 10:10am Very creative indeed and nice simple way to represent some complex ideas. Well done Gladiators!21st Nov 2017, 1:57pm That's a very striking image - super design work.
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