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
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
To begin our latest art unit, we brought in 5 items that are special to us. These ranged from pictures, toys, teddies, clothing and other interesting items. Our project involves creating a box to keep the items in, with 4 different pieces of artwork to be created for the faces Read more
To begin our science topic – Cells – we looked at what characteristics organisms need have to be classed as living. We used the term ‘Mrs Gren’ to help us to remember all 7: Movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excrete and nutrition. We then planted cress seeds and looked 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
Both Year 6 classes took part in maths treasure hunts this afternoon. They had to apply their knowledge of finding percentages of amounts and equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. The children worked in groups to solve a variety of problems in the quickest time possible, moving between problems as they Read more
As part of our learning in Science, Year 6 have been provided with laboratory coats. Each lesson, one child is selected to wear the coat to represent that we are scientists and must work and think like scientists within our lesson. After the lesson, children who have impressed get the Read more