Well done 6B for your efforts! 

Thank you so much for all of the pictures and videos that you have sent to me this week.  It has definitely been great to see all of your attempts at the challenges.

This week, can you challenge an adult to beat your score!?

The Challenges are:

Can you complete 50 star jumps in 1 minute?

Run 1K or 5K

Good luck and I look forward to seeing more pictures and videos!

Mr Noble

British, French, Canadian, and Belgian troops had been forced back to Dunkirk by the advancing German army. Nearly all the escape routes to the English Channel had been cut off; a terrible disaster had appeared inevitable. At the time Prime Minister Winston Churchill called it “a miracle of deliverance”.

On 12th May 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of France. By 14th May 1940, German tanks had crossed the Meuse and had opened up a gap in the Allied front. Six days later they reached the English Channel.

The British, French and Belgium governments had seriously underestimated the strength of the German forces. As a result the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), as well as French, Canadian and Belgian troops, found themselves fighting against overwhelming odds. Before long, the Allied forces had retreated to the harbour and beaches of Dunkirk where they were trapped, a sitting target for the Germans.

In an effort to at least evacuate some of the troops, just before 19.00 on the 26th May, Winston Churchill ordered the start of ‘Operation Dynamo’. This plan took its name from the dynamo room (which provided electricity) in the naval headquarters below Dover Castle, where Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay had planned the operation.

Destroyers and transport ships were sent to evacuate the troops, but they only expected to have time to lift off about 30,000 troops.

However, in one of the most widely-debated and potentially pivotal decisions of the war, Adolf Hitler ordered his generals to halt for three days, giving the Allies time to organise the evacuation. In the end, despite heavy fire from German fighter and bomber planes on the beaches, no full scale German attack was launched and over 330,000 Allied troops were eventually rescued.

The evacuation was by no means straightforward. Before long the harbour became partially blocked by ships sunk during the constant raids from enemy aircraft. It became necessary to take the troops off the nearby beaches, an almost impossible task because of shallow water which prevented large ships from coming in close to shore. Small ships were needed to ferry the troops from the beaches to the larger ships.

Here are just a few of the letters that the children have written. 

Well done Year 6! 

We would love as many of you to get involved and you could even challenge your parents!

How many challenges you do is entirely up to you it is all about having fun and keeping active. The Viking Games is competed in houses, so we would like you to wear your house colours when completing the challenges.

We would love to see you having a go so if you would like to send in pictures and videos to us please send them in to your school’s sport coach (please only send in videos and pictures if your child has parental permission for them to go on social media).

To send pictures/videos email Callum.noble@uptonjunior.com.

 We look forward to seeing as many of you take part as possible. Have fun!

 Mrs Horrigan, Miss Knight, Mr Noble

Viking Academy sport coaches.

To kick this off, we worked in pairs and covered each other in post its labelling the parts of the human body we knew. 

Then, we worked in groups and draw around one of our friends to create a body outline. Once this was complete, we added on everything we already knew including organs and bones. We had so much fun doing this! 

- Pipe cleaners and straws

- Card, scissors and glue 

- Interlinking 2-D shapes 

We were able to make a range of shapes and nets and discuss their properties using a range of mathematical vocabulary. 

We had so much fun joining in with Number day 2020! 

6Y and the rest of year 6 took part in lots of fun and varied maths challenges including: tangrams, murder mysteries, escape rooms, outdoor learning and a BIDMAS challenge. Each activity had a different maths element that required the children to work collaboratively in groups. 

Well done for your hard work today 6Y!! 

Those that played the character of Michael needed to try to explain their situation,  as well as their worries and fears.

Those that played the character of Kensuke needed to ensure Michael listened to his words of wisdom from his experiences.