Blog by Tag: Year 6

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For our first lesson in out DT unit (Great British Dishes) we learned about what the term savoury means and discovered a range of Britain's traditional savoury dishes. Whilst we have cooked cottage pies at home, in school we conducted a taste analysis for the three main parts of a Ploughman's…

For this term's DT unit 'Great British Dishes', we will be learning about and cooking a range of national dishes. During the weeks where we will not be cooking in school, the children are being asked to safely follow a recipe at home with their families and share the meal they produce…

Today in PSHE, Mrs Ventress set us the challenge to build a bridge which spans 30cm and could hold the weight of a toy car. Our aim was to use negotiation and compromise to work together efficiently to complete the task. Afterwards, not only did we test the bridges, but we evaluated our efforts at…

Wow, what fun we've had this afternoon!!!

Our joint Christmas Party was so well received and so well deserved after two whole years of waiting. The children (and teachers) thoroughly enjoyed new games such as 'Racing Through the Nativity' and 'Pass the Secret Stocking' alongside timeless…

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Year 6 have worked so hard this term during our Bounce Forward lessons, run by Sharon from Lancashire Mind! For our final session, we explained our learning through a performance, using our new resilience training to memorise lines and speak, dance and sing in front of an audience!

We invited…

How lucky we are to have welcomed none other than British Fencing Paralympian, Justine Moore!

Justine was so generous to come in and work with the children who attend 'Fencing Club', providing them with a very rare opportunity of not only receiving advice from a Paralympic champion, but to…

In Year 6, we have watched the following links and discussed how WW1 affected life in Britain, in particular, via the Home Front. We then worked very heard to create webpages to display this information to help inform others! 

General:

• History GCSE / National 5: Rationing, u-boats and the…

In Science, we have been learning about plant and animal adaptations so they are better suited to live in their habitats. To start off, we matched and then learned as many facts as possible about a selection of habitats: grasslands, ocean, polar regions, arid deserts and rainforests. We worked in…

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Do you like our French version of Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes? We've been all about the different body parts in our French lessons so what better song to choose than this?!

We have moved onto the final layers of our prints! Before this lesson, we had designed our prints, created a simple print of the outline in one colour, and pushed down patterns and sections of our tiles for the second. By designing and pushing down our backgrounds on the polytiles, we are adding…