Mathematics
Active teach – maths
Children in year 6 worked in groups and pairs to complete a number hunt, focusing on adding and subtracting decimals from TeachActive. They worked very well as a team and did not stop running. Well done year 6.
Learning for Life
Crossing the Line
Year 6 had the opportunity to take part in a workshop and monologue performance of Crossing the Line. It addresses the issues surrounding child criminal exploitation and gives the children the tools and understanding needed to identify and deal with these issues. We first watched the video, which explains the Read more…
Christian Values
Inside out – World Mental Health
Today, we celebrated inside out day but discussing and exploring ways to improve out mental health. In class we watched a video all about mental health, we discussed ways in which we can keep our mind healthy and activities that we can do to support positive mental health. We also Read more…
Learning for Life
Crossing the lines
This afternoon, Year 6 have watched the film ‘Blurred Lines’ by Parvez Qadir. The film aims to tackle the topic of organised crime and county lines. During the film, we stopped and answer questions relating to specific topics: stranger danger; healthy friendships; peer pressure; grooming; keeping secrets or who to Read more…
Learning for Life
Learning for life – keeping safe.
Year 6 have been exploring the topic ‘feeling safe’. Last lesson, we discussed what a drug is. The children worked well to discuss the definition of a drug and what the terms of ‘legal and illegal’. As a class we discussed and explored what drugs are used for. We recognised Read more…
Computing
Computing – Spreadsheets
During our Purplemash lessons, we have been looking at how to create a spreadsheet to record the probabilities of rolling a dice. We collated, recorded and analysed the results and used these to create a graph. We used a basic formulae to total our results, this saved us a lot Read more…
Learning for Life
Humanism
Year 6 were very lucky today to have a visit today from a Humanist, Kevin. Focusing on our topic in RE at the moment is, ‘What matters most to Christians and Humanists?’ Kevin explained what a Humanist is and what they believe in. Humanists are people who want to take Read more…
Science
Science
why and how does heat transfer through a solid? During this lesson, the children acted out solids, liquids and gases when heat had been applied. In a solid, the particles vibrate quicker and heat energy is passed between each particle, through a chain or particles and eventually through the whole Read more…
Science
Thermal Equilibrium
Year 6 have been exploring the topic ‘heat’ in science. We have discussed key vocabulary linked to our topic and managed to understand thermal equilibrium (when heat is spread evenly between 2 or more objects). The class experienced the feeling of their hands changing from hot to cold to warm Read more…
Whole School
Violin performance
Year 6 have been working extremely hard throughout Autumn 2, learning an incredible 10 songs on the violin. The children were absolutely fantastic at learning the different pieces, I’m sure parents will agree that their violin skills were super.