Year 6 had the first of their 6 sessions with sports journalist, Gareth Walker. Each session, he will be guiding the children through writing professional pieces of sports journalism, sharing his skills and expertise, whilst helping us to improve our own writing. Today we looked at reporting on England’s Euro Read more
Year 6 really enjoyed their Christmas party this afternoon. We played party games, danced and had party food. The staff in Year 6 want to wish all the children and their families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Last week, Year 5 and 6 went to church for their Christingle Celebration. They were all absolutely amazing! The children performed their lines and songs beautifully.
Year 6 took part in a forest school session led by Mrs Lang. They used natural resources to create a Christmas wreath, producing some fantastic results.
As part of our Geography topic (fieldwork), Year 6 visited Queen’s Park to conduct a field sketch. The children looked at how and why geographers conduct field sketches before they went out to do their own. The children used OASIS (orientation, annotation, sight, information and scale) as a key to Read more
To end our science topic, Year 6 produced high-quality academic essays to show how much we learnt across our unit. We looked at the key concepts, knowledge and facts that we knew and then planned how to articulate these, using our writing skills and academic vocabulary. We then used Read more
This afternoon, Snowdrops have had such a lovely time working with Year 6 in their classrooms. We shared a story called ‘Come over to my house’ by Dr Seuss. We talked about how all of the houses in the story were very different to each other, just like our own Read more
Year 6 have really enjoyed their music lessons for the last 8 weeks. They have been focusing on base, tone and slap. They have been working hard to produce a piece of music on the drums. The two songs they have been learning are ‘Up town funk you up and Read more
In PE, Year 6 have been looking at how they can create their own routines in gymnastics. They have had to think about skills that can flow after each other, how to balance and travel effectively, and complexity of moves. Sycamore worked extremely hard and were awarded best class in Read more
Year 6 Sycamore welcomed parents and family into our shared learning this morning. We were able to discuss our latest geography topic, Local Fieldwork, as well as the persuasive letters we wrote as part of our English unit. The letters and fieldwork, a traffic survey we conducted outside of school, Read more