Blog Author: Miss Huddleston

Year 6 are currently learning about life in Britain during WW2. Today we focussed on what life was like for children who had been evacuated from cities and sent to live in the countryside. Using evidence from actual WW2 evacuees, we each took on the role of an evacuee and shared our experiences…

Today, Miss Huddleston took two members of our Worship Team to Clitheroe to the Blackburn Diocesan Children’s Worship Conference. The focus was “Giants of Faith”. We considered famous giants of faith, then thought about how we can be giants of faith ourselves, standing up for justice, praying…

This week Year 6 have been introduced to the method of long division. Now we have learned how to solve a long division calculation, we have moved on to thinking about what our answers actually mean, especially if there is a remainder in our answer. For example, if there are 165 people invited to a…

This morning, Year 6 made the most of the dry sunny day to learn some orienteering skills at the same time as practising their spelling, grammar and punctuation. First we had to orientate our maps and become familiar with the key before using them to locate control points around the school…

Year 6 have been learning about some of the World War 1 war poets in their literacy lessons. We have been interested to discover that one of the poets, Laurence Binyon, was born in Lancaster (and has a street named after him, just down the road from school). His most famous poem is “For the…

This week we have started our printing project in art, to create our Christmas cards for this year. We used polystyrene blocks to cut out our basic design. We then used special printing ink to evenly coat our blocks before transferring the design onto paper. Watch out for more blogs showing our…

Today we have used our new badminton nets in PE. We have practised serving the shuttlecock and worked on keeping a rally going with our partner for as long as possible.

Year 6 were transported back in time this morning as they learnt about the secret work behind the scenes of code-breakers and spies during WW2. We learnt about the work of the aerial reconnaissance planes and the photographic interpreters back at base who checked photos for evidence of enemy…

This morning, Year 6 had their first taste of badminton. We learnt how to hold the racket, the ready position and then attempted to hit the shuttlecock and return it to our partners! We worked really well together in pairs.

Today it was the boys’ turn to go along to Lancaster and Morecambe College for their tournament. There were 25 schools represented and our team of Y6 boys worked really well as a team. They won two games in their pool, drew one and lost one, narrowly missing out on a place in the quarter finals. 
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Year 6’s art topic this half term has been “People in Action”. As well as learning how to draw people in proportion and looking at various famous artists who drew people, we have studied the work of Alberto Giacometti. He was a Swiss sculptor who became famous for creating life-sized figures, with…

Some girls from Year 6 and Year 5 enjoyed an afternoon of sunshine at Lancaster and Morecambe College, taking part in the Girls Football tournament. Our team did really well, winning their pool then progressing to the semi-finals. We ended up in 4th place overall, out of 15 teams. An amazing…