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…
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…
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…
Last week, year 6 looked and discussed the term ‘trust’. We looked at the story of Jesus walking on water and this meant he trusted God and how his disciples trusted him. We then discussed who we trust and why or what we trust and why. Then, we drew around our Read more…
Today year 6 have enjoyed their Christmas party. They have played games and busted some moves. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the staff.