Blog by Tag: Year 6

Today, Year 6 were invited back to Ashton Manor residential home, to join the staff and residents for a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. First we entertained them by singing songs from our production, before enjoying cakes, jelly and ice cream. Finally we worked with the residents to solve a number of…

Our Y6 cricket team had a great day out in the Lancaster School Cricket Tournament today.  We played with fantastic enthusiasm, team work and effort.  In our group stage we won 3 of the 4 games and then played in the semi final against Moorside.  The semi was very tight and we narrowly lost. …

Our Y6 cricket team had a great day out in the Lancaster School Cricket Tournament today.  We played with fantastic enthusiasm, team work and effort.  In our group stage we won 3 of the 4 games and then played in the semi final against Moorside.  The semi was very tight and we narrowly lost. …

Two teams of Year 6 netballers went to Moorside School this afternoon to take part in the inter-schools netball tournament. We came second and fifth, but most importantly we showed great teamwork, resilience and sportsmanship.

Today Year 5&6 went to the Lancaster Town Hall to watch a performance of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev. It told the story of a boy called Peter and his encounter with a wolf.  Each of the characters had different instruments representing them. The flutes were birds, the oboe was a duck and the…

The sun shone for Year 6 today as they walked into Lancaster. Having learned about the development of the settlement of Lancaster in class, we followed our maps (both a modern OS map and a 1610 version) down the A6 before walking past White Cross then down Penny Street and Market Street up to the…

Year 6 had an inventive afternoon today. They were tasked with coming up with new ideas for using technology in the classroom. Our ideas included electronic, interactive display boards and electronic mini whiteboards that can store your workings and mean you don’t need to worry about your…

Today, Year 6 enjoyed an afternoon off their SATs to practise their cricket skills with Coach Regan.

Following our first SATstests of the week, Year 6 enjoyed another afternoon outside in the sunshine. This time we were solving maths problems to collect clues to work out an anagram - very complicated but great fun too!

Year 6 have enjoyed some active SPAG revision this morning, working in pairs to find and answer questions about grammar and punctuation. After lunch, the sun came out, so we spent the afternoon practising our ‘-shun’ spelling patterns and prefixes in two team activities.

Year 6 ventured down to the field for our history lesson this morning. We wanted to create a timeline showing the development of the city of Lancaster, from its Roman origins to the twentieth century.  Our timeline was far too long to fit into the classroom, but we had plenty of room on the field.…

This afternoon Y6 braved the rain to meet Rev. Rebecca at church. She gave us a very warm welcome and took us through the Eucharist order of service. She explained how and why Christians celebrate Eucharist and the significance of all the items involved. This has helped us to see more links…