As part of our share-a-story World Book Day (WBD) theme, Year 6 decided to build on some of their previous writing…ghost stories. We have produced a two-part guide on how to be a monster. The guides are inspired by a WBD author masterclass, where an author suggested taking Read more…
Thank you to all parents and children who donated books to our swap shop for World Book Day. We had a fantastic day in school and lots of children managed to swap their old books for shiny new ones to take home. Check out some of the pictures Read more…
For Arts week, Year 6 looked at the 7th day…the day God rested. To help with this, we created images of peaceful settings such as waterfalls, beaches and Space, and used these to inspire our own guided meditations, which included the use of imperative verbs and symbolism. We wrote Read more…
Year 6 have looked at what makes up our blood, how are blood groups different and how scientist investigate blood. First of all, we looked at how we could be blood donars. We calculated how we inherit our blood type, who we could donate blood to, and who could Read more…
Year 6 looked at how and why our pulse changes. We wrote a hypothesis as to why our pulse may increase and decrease and what we thought we could do to help change this. We also looked at resting heart rates and what they can tell us. Year 6 decided Read more…
Year 6 studied and evaluated different pieces of abstract art. We learnt that there were no real set rules to abstract art and that we had lots of freedom when creating our own pieces. We looked at brushstrokes and techniques used in famous pieces, as well as how artists Read more…
Year 6 looked at a range of skills which could be applied when working with negative numbers. We had to calculate differences between temperatures which including calculating through zero. We also looked at how we could add, subtract, multiply and divide negative numbers and why we got the Read more…
In Maths, we looked at how to create a formula to help us to calculate the area of a triangle. We investigated a variety of shapes and then focused on rectangles. We looked at cutting a triangle out of rectangles and noted what we noticed about the area Read more…
To help inspire our ghost stories, we took a walk through a haunted house. We were able to investigate the setting and see how characters would react as they ventured through the house. We noticed lots of elements to the setting we had never before come across and Read more…
Year 6 have continued to demonstrate their impressive knowledge of the Circulatory system. The children have been able to recall many of the features of the system, even including some of the valves and vessels they have researched independently. . After recalling an amazing amount of information, the children were Read more…