In Science, year 6 have been exploring electricity. We have created different circuits and explored how voltage affects the brightness of bulbs and the speeds of motors....
In the week before half term, Year 6 went on an educational trip to the Imperial War Museum. During the trip, children looked around the museum and saw lots of artefacts from WW2 and were able to take part in a documentary challenge. In this...
Year 6 had their first session with Rev Laura to discuss their faith and consider becoming part of the church. The children spent time in the church particularly looking at the Lords Prayer and the message that underlies this prayer. There were 7 stations set...
In writing we have been exploring the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake. We began our writing sequence by performing the original poem by Blake before we looked at the features of the poem and then creating our own descriptive poems based on the class...
In year 6 this week, we have been completing our mock SATs exams. As a way to unwind from these tests, we took the afternoon to complete some symmetry paintings inspired by the artist Belynda Henry. We painted and folded our page to create a...
Year 6 have been focusing on equivalence, in Maths. We began the week looking at equivalent fractions and drawing these on a number line. We challenged ourselves by writing as many different equivalent fractions as we could think of....
In maths this week, Year 6 worked on different multi-step problems. We spent some of the lessons working on multi-step problems with money and finding change. We began this through playing a loop card game, where we had to connect the question with the answer....
In Maths, Year 6 have been looking at statistics. We began the week by learning how to read line graphs. We then put this to work and matched pictures of line graphs with their descriptions to make sure we understood what each graph was representing....
In R.E. this week, Year 6 studied some passages from the Bible and identified key themes such as forgiveness, repentance, redemption, jealousy and rebellion. They compared these Bible passages to each other and thought about the themes more generally in the Easter story....
In Science, year 6 created fact files about different animal types. For each class of animal, each person created groups of facts in order to answer our big question, ‘How do you know a camel is a mammal?’...