Year 6: Blog items
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:57pm
Years 5 and 6 had a great hour talking to the Coastguard volunteers. We learned how to stay safe around water and how to look for dangers. We also learned that in an emergency on the beach or in the sea, you should never put yourself in danger and always call 999.
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:56pm
We had a great session today with Josie from Glow Sports. We were split into 4 teams and played a variety of games: basketball, football, hockey and dodgeball. The lights went down and the place lit up!! We've never done sports in the dark before - what a treat!
Date: 24th Jun 2025 @ 1:23pm
As part of our DT journey, we have spent some time looking at careers related to textiles. We watched videos of a fashion designer, wedding dress designer and a tailor. Perhaps one day, one of us will use the skills we have learned in DT to support our career.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 1:48pm
Today Year 5 took over the school! 4 children from Rowan and Hawthorn came across to teach our classes for the morning. They taught Math, PSHE and a gave the children a spelling test. We were all very impressed with out new teachers.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 1:14pm
Today we started our DT journey of textiles. Our first lesson was looking at existing felt products and discussing stitches used, intended user and design. Then we practised previously learned stitches on binca squares.
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 8:12am
As part of our Year 6 trip to Manchester Museaum, we were lucky to meet Dr. Hannah Chalk - the Museum Learning Manager. She told us all about her job, what she did and her route into her chosen career. She said that she felt very privileged to do a job that she loved and explained how she had studied Geology at university before doing a masters degree in Museum Studies.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 4:22pm
Today Year 6 visited Manchester Museum. There were lots of different areas to explore, including Ancient Egypt, Fossils, The Natural World and Ancient Asia. We were able to link our learning in Science to the fossil and dinosaur section as well as looking at how animals and plants have evolved over time. We had a great time and learned lots.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 3:38pm
Year 6 had a great time in Boundary's forest school area today. They completed a variety of independent activities including den building, filling the pond, making bracelets, working with clay and making pesto from nettle leaves! The children worked really well together and demonstrated many of our school characteristics.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:04am
Year 6 have really enjoyed their latest Geography unit - a local area study of Blackpool. We have learned how our town and region fit into the wider world, identified key physical and human geographical features on maps and asked how our region might meet the needs of people. Finally, we used field work to answer the question: Is Blackpool still a fit place for people? The children produced some excellent work and were really inetested in finding out more about where they live.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:02am
This half term, Year 6 have been focussing on acitvism and art. We have explored the idea of activism and why people protest. We also discussed words and vocabulary linked to activism. Then, throughout our journey we have experiemented with collaging, printing, letter formation in order to create our final piece of work. We put together everything we have learned to create a placard linked to activism. I think you'll agree that our end products are amazing!
Year 6 - Inheritance and Evolution
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:01am
This week we have completed our unit on 'Inheritance and Evolution'. Our lessons centred around understanding how genes are passed on from parents to their offspring in both the animal and plant world. We then looked at how plants and animals have adaptedover time to survive in their environments. The idea of evolution took us on a journey of how change happens over millions of years and how we can learn about the past from fossils.
VE Day - 80th Anniversary Celebrations
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 5:28pm
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 9:11am
In our final week before SATs, we took our revision outside for a fun GPS market place activity. 20 questions were placed around the playground and the children had to collect letters as they went. If they were right, the letters created a punchline to a joke.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 9:04am
Inspired by the book 'The Dot' by Peter Reynolds and the work of abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), pupils have created their own artwork using a single colour to create a self-portrait within a dot. This required a variety of skills including sketching, colour mixing and painting. Pupils were asked to consider colour, tone and hue when completing their final piece. Soon, the artwork will be combined with work from other year groups and displayed around the school.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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!
