Year 6: Blog items

Year 6 - Kooth webinar

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 4:08pm

Today Year 6 took part in a pre-SATs Kooth workshop online. The aim of the event was to talk to children about how they felt going into the SATs and what strategies they could use to help them with any worries or anxities they were having about the tests. The children were also introduced to the Kooth website, which is a support platform for young people. Kooth is the UK's largest and longest established digital mental health service that partners with NHS and local authority organisations to deliver mental health support to young children. If children would like to create their own account then we encourage parents/carers to sit with their children and look through the website. 

Year 6 - No Pen Morning

Date: 9th Apr 2025 @ 4:26pm

Today was No Pen Day and once we again we had a focus on Oracy. We started the day with some discussions topics and talked to our partners about what we thought. We then opened up the discussion to the whole class and used our talk tactics to include everyone, including agree, build and challenge. In Guided Reading we looked at orally answering questions on given texts and challenged each other to give thorough answers. In Reading into Writing, we took part in a teacher model/shared write session on explanatory texts.

Year 6 - School Subjects in French

Date: 9th Apr 2025 @ 4:06pm

This half term we are learning about school in French. We will learn the names for school subjects and how to express opinions about school subjects. We will finish the unit by learning how to tell the time so we can explain what time we study each subject

Boundary's Budding Stars!

Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:09am

On Wednesday a range of children across school performed in our music concert. We had choir, peripatetic drummers, samba, Shakespeare, peripatetic guitars and School Alive. All the children were wonderful, and should be very proud of their hard work!

Spelling Bee March 2025

Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 10:30am

Today we held our second Spelling Bee of the school year. 4 children were chosen from each group to represent their house and were given 3 spellings each. They have been learning these words over the last few weeks and we could all tell. The children did brilliantly and did themselves (and their house) proud. We are already looking forward to the final Spelling Bee in the Summer term.

Year 6 - Careers in Aviation

Date: 26th Mar 2025 @ 4:49pm

Today Year 6 took part in an online event hosted by Primary Futures. We learnt all about jobs in aviation including an aeronautical engineer, a police aircraft pilot and a researcher from Manchester University. 

Year 6 - Meeting Thomas the gorilla!

Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 12:58pm

As part of Science and Geography day, we got to meet Thomas the gorilla. We were told all about the loss he expereineced as a result of poachers and how humans are having a detrimental effect on the land. Take a look at some of our pictures with him! We also learned about the effects of deforestation and how this can have an impact on the whole world. We designed our own posters to encourage people to look after the planet. 

Year 6 - Science and Geography Day

Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 12:53pm

For Science and Geography day we have been looking at what deforestation is and the implications of it on our planet. We have looked at why deforestation happens and the devastating effects it has on our rainforests. We created posters to highlight the issue and to raise awareness of what can be done to help our world.

Year 6 - Narrative Writing

Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 9:25am

This half term we have written a narrative story called 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'. We watched a short silent video based around the relationship between main characters: Rock, Paper, Scissors. We then had to write the story that went with the video. Have a read through some of our stories.

Year 6 - The Attic

Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 3:34pm

This afternoon, Year 6 spent time in our library picking new books. We dicussed which books they had chosen and why? We finished the session by reading our class novel 'Pig Heart Boy'. 

Year 6 - World Book Day

Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 12:54pm

We were very excited to come to school today dressed as our favourite book characters. We started the day by taking part in our whole school assembly, before coming back to class to complete lots of World Book Day related activities!  

Year 6 - Algebra

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:19am

Mr Jones' maths group have been working really hard in Maths this week to understand Algebra. We started by looking at 1 and 2 step function machines before learning about formulas, expressions and substitution. 

Year 6 - Mental Health Week

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:16am

Year 6 talked about our whole school focus - Mental Health Week - and discussed the theme 'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself'. We discussed that if we can understand ourselves and what triggers our emotions, we can better manage these. We completed some activities based around the characters in the film 'Inside Out'. 

Year 6 - Cooking Pizza

Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 2:01pm

Year 6 have had a great week in the kitchen! During our DT cooking journey we researched, designed and made our own pizzas. Part of the journey was to learn new skills and we focused on safely cutting and chopping ingredients using the claw and bridge grips. Linking to our careers curriclum, we talked about how the skills we learned during this journey could link to future careers. We watched a video about a sous chef who talked about his career path and the skills needed to do his job.

The children's finished pizza's looked and tasted amazing. We have some future chefs in the making!

Year 6 - Internet Safety Day

Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 12:21pm

Today is Internet Safety Day and we have been learning all about online scams. We began the day with a whole school assembly, where we learned about the different way people can be scammed online, including phishing, trying to get people's personal information or trying to get money out of people. We then took part in a whole class live lesson where we were given tips and advice to identify if we are being scammed online.

Schools Alive 2025!

Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 9:19am

Last Monday some of our KS2 children wowed audiences in The Winter Gardens for Schools Alive. The children have worked incredibly hard since September to create a piece called ‘We are all in this together!’. They should be very proud of all they achieved, well done!

Year 6 - Communication in relationships

Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 8:00am

Year 6 began their RSE week with sessions based around communication in relationships. This included looking at what makes a healthy and unhealthy relationships and what characteristics we want in people that we have relationships with. We also looked at different ways of communicating with others online and how we can keep ourselves safe.

Year 6 - Algebra

Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 7:57am

Our most recent unit has been algebra and the children have done exceptionally well with their learning. They have learned how to substitute letters and shapes for numbers, use funciton machines to find inputs and outputs and they have also been able to work out missing numbers in equations.

Year 6 - Learn to Earn

Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 12:26pm

As part of Boundary's work on careers, Year 6 enjoyed a morning working with Young Enterprise on their 'Learn to Earn' scheme. The children calculated the cost of their dream lifestyle and how much you would need to earn to live that lifestyle. We learned about the cost of living and the average starting salaries of different jobs in Lancashire. Then we discussed the importance of qualifications and the personal qualities and skills needed to do various jobs, which linked nicely with our Skills for Life.

Year 6 - Learning about Pride

Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 9:25am

This week in Reading into Writing we have been learning about the History of Pride and the Stonewall Riots. Using what we learned, we created non-chronological reports. Here are some examples of our work to look through.

Year 6 - Jumping in Gymnastics

Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 9:21am

Year 6 had a great gymnastics session this week practising leaps and jumps. We focused on pencil and tuck jumps and how to take off and land safely. We then used various pieces of equipment to continue our practice. 

Schools Alive- Recording!

Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 9:34am

On Wednesday the children in Schools Alive got the opportunity to professionally record the sound for their upcoming performance. The children loved singing into the microphones and worked hard to sing in unison. Some children even had solos and all did a fantastic job!

Year 6 - Classification

Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 9:29am

Our Science topic this half term is about classification. We have learned why scientists classify living things into different groups. Last week we focused on classifying animals and this week we have looked at plants. We learned about flowering and non-flowering plants and different types of trees - deciduous and evergreen. We have discussed questions that we could ask to group animals and plants and created out own classification keys. 

Year 6 - Gymnastics

Date: 15th Jan 2025 @ 2:33pm

Today we started our Gymnastics unit. We began by recapping the basic shapes we have been taught throughout the years. We then began exploring different balances using points and patches (hands, elbows, knees and feet). Once we had explored a variety of ways to balance using different parts of our body, we went into partners and began creating a sequence of balances linked together with turns and jumps.

Year 6 - SATs meeting

Date: 15th Jan 2025 @ 7:41am

If you were unable to attend the SATs meeting, all the information shared with parents at the meeting can be found in the following video. If you have any questions regardingt he SATs, please contact one of the Year 6 teachers. 

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