Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed watching the science show this afternoon focusing on electricity. It was brilliant to see how much knowledge the children had retained since learning about electricity in year 5. A scientist came to school to shows lots of demonstrations, the children had to make predictions about Read more…
Today year 6 have been deepening their understanding of ‘online safety’ by watching a video all about staying safe online and completing a quiz on purplemash. We discussed our digital footprint and how different apps online and phones and their settings can impact our safety when online. The children had Read more…
During forest school, year 6 have been making rafts. Today we went down to the river at Queen’s Park to race our rafts. We had lots of fun and the children worked very well in their teams.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…