This half term, Year 6 have been researching, planning, designing and making their own playgrounds. The children have spent time at Queen’s Park looking at the provision and the location of such amenities and used this research to help plan and design their own playground. They have done such a Read more…
Today Year 6 took a trip to Queen’s Park to carry out fieldwork linked to our DT topic – playgrounds. The children ‘investigated the location and usage of a local playground’. We looked at where the playground is situated within the park grounds? Is it easy to access? Who is Read more…
This week in Science club the children had the opportunity to make lava lamps. What fun we had! The children changed the amount of oil and water they used to investigate whether it changed the end result. The children realised that in some it took a while for the oil Read more…
Today, both year 6 classes took a trip to Heywood Sports Village where they took part in lots of different activities to support their transition from primary to high school. The children looked at ways they can manage stress and anxiety leading up to high school but also whist they Read more…
This week the whole school have participated in ‘The Great Science Share 2022’. The children had an opportunity to work scientifically and plan, investigate and discuss their own investigations. They looked at ‘which sunglasses were best at blocking light?’, ‘what material would be best for an umbrella and why?’, ‘how Read more…
Yesterday, both year 6 classes went to Queen’s Park to celebrate their achievements this week in SATs. We are ever so proud of how hard they worked throughout the week and we are delighted at the way in which they tackled every test and question with bravery, calmness and resilience. Read more…
Over the last few weeks, Year 6 have been working extremely hard in all topics. One area in particular that they have been focusing on, is their spellings. They have been practising all spellings from the year 3,4,5 and 6 list via the use of games. Today, both classes played Read more…
This half term, in Science, Year 6 have been focusing on the topic Energy. We have been exploring what energy is, how it is stored and how it can be transferred from one store to another. The children have focused their learning on different equation to work out efficiency, power Read more…
Balloons – who know you could have so much fun with them? Well last week our Scientists had a lot of fun at home carrying out their experiments. Well done to all the children last week. This weeks challenge is Burp in a bag! Do your parents ever tell you Read more…
Last weeks experiment was a huge success amongst various children from various year groups – well done! This week our aim is to get 20 children across the school o participate in the challenge, do you think you’ve got what it takes to be a scientist? Well read on to Read more…