Year 6: Blog items
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 6:40pm
This week we held the first Spelling Bee of the year. All children were tested on 30 spellings they have been learning this half term and the best speller in each house was chosen to represent their team.
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 9:49am
Matthew and Jeni came to speak to Year 6 about sin, resurrection and salvation.
Matthew used the example of a 'Do not touch' sign as sin and that if Christians ignore the instructions from God and sin, this can become a habit and we can 'stick' with sinning - and Matthew got 'stuck' to the chair.
We discussed that Christians believe that, through talking with God, they can repent and ask for forgiveness and seek salvation from our wrong choices.
There was an opportunity at the end of the session to ask questions about the key words used during the session and Year 6 discussed the types of questions they wanted to ask, recorded them and then took part in a thoughtful question and answer time.
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 7:41pm
Today, Year 6 led the whole school in our Harvest assembly. We were joined by Matt and Jenny from the Church Army, who discussed the difference between giving and getting and how giving is more rewarding than always receiving and getting things from others. We thanked everyone for their kind food donations, which will be shared with the local charity 'Vincent House' next week.
Date: 5th Oct 2022 @ 4:40pm
Year 6 continued their 'Light' unit this week by investigating shadows. The children were given some key questions to investigate and several different pieces of equipment. They were asked to investigate how shadows are created, what created the shape of the shadow, how a shadow can be made larger or smalller and what type of material created the darkest shadow.
Date: 2nd Oct 2022 @ 9:00am
Year 6 continued their Rugby sessions with the coach from Wigan Warriors. This week the children looked at the tactics needed to play tag rugby. They played various games which involved avoiding being caught.
Year 6 school council elections
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 8:54am
Today was our school council elections. We began the day by listening to the potential candidates reading out their manifestos - a speech that explains why people should vote for a particular candidate. Later on in the day, each child cast their vote for who they wanted to be the school council representative for Oak and Elder. This helped children to understand the British Value of Democracy.
Year 6 - How did the Maya empire grow to be so successful?
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 11:42am
Our History lesson today involved looking at how the Maya managed to survive in jungle conditions for such a long period of time. We learned that they were skills at clearning large areas of woodland in order to create flat land. They also learned how to farm the land and when the best time to grow crops was. Over time, they were able to gather precious raw materials in order to sell and trade with other Maya states. In turn, as states grew powerful, they were able to attack and conquer neighbouring cities and claim their land.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 11:28am
In Year 6 we have finished our first Reading into Writing journey - explanatory texts. We followed all the stages of the journey:
- Cold write
- Looking at a WAGOLL for features
- Immersion in Reading
- GPS linked to the genre
- Teacher model/Shared write
- Improving a WABOLL
- Plan
- Draft
- Edit
- Hot write
We produced some excellent writing for our first piece in Year 6. Our end piece of writing was to explain how to use a 'Teacher Pleaser' machine. We think our teachers would be very happy if they had a machine like the ones we invented!!
Year 6 - Partitive Articles in French
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 7:36am
In this week’s French lesson, Year 6 have continued their French grammar unit. We started the lesson by recapping on French vowel sounds and numbers to 50 before reminding ourselves of the definite and indefinite articles we learned about in the last couple of lessons. We then went on to learn about partitive articles – the French word for ‘some’. Did you know there are four different words for 'some' in French? A different word is used for nouns that are masculine, feminine, plural and those that begin with a vowel or the letter h. We continued to work with French dictionaries to find the gender of nouns.
Date: 22nd Sep 2022 @ 8:31pm
For our final day we took part in activities such as: low ropes, challenge course, survivor and trapeze. We have all had a great time on our residential and have made memories that will stay with us for a long time!
Date: 22nd Sep 2022 @ 8:21pm
Day 2 saw a range of activities, including: canoeing, archery, den building, low ropes and the children's favourite 'Giant Swing'.
Date: 22nd Sep 2022 @ 7:54pm
We have a had a great few days at PGL. Here you can find photos of what we did on our first day, which included Jacob's Ladder, challenge course and trapeze.
Year 6 Investigating how light travels
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 8:56pm
Our lesson today focussed on understanding that light travels in straight lines. To prove this we worked in groups and were given a torch and several pieces of card with holes in them. We experimented with shining the torch through the holes to try to get the beam of light to hit a solid surface. Then we moved one of the pieces of card and this stopped the beam of light from reaching the solid surface. This is because it was blocked and could not get through the opaque material.
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 8:47pm
Today we began the first lesson of our spreadsheet unit in Computing. We explored how to input data into cells and how to change the size, font and colour of the text. We also learned how to add borders around cells and how to centre data. We were then intorduced to using the function button to program the spreadsheet to carry out calculations.
Year 6 - Our First Rugby Session
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 5:33pm
This afternoon, the children in Year 6 had their first session with a coach from Wigan Warriors Rugby League Club. We learned how to hold the ball correctly before practising skills needed for the game. All the children really enjoyed learning a new sport and can't wait for their next session.
Year 6 - Indefinite Articles in French
Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 4:25pm
Year 6 began their French lessons this year by focussing on grammar. We started by looking at the indefinite articles of un and une. We recapped on the fact that every noun has a gender and that un is used for masculine nouns and une is used for feminine nouns. We also used bilingual dictionaries to find nouns and their gender.
Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 4:21pm
Today we began our new science unit of light. We spent the lesson recapping on all the work we did on light when we were in Year 3. This included how light travels, how shadows are formed and key vocabulary, such as opaque, transparent and translucent. We ended the session with a Kahoot quiz to see how much we remembered.
Year 6 - An introduction to the Maya civilisation
Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 4:13pm
Today we began our new history unit of the Maya civilisation. This involved learning about who the Maya were, where they lived and where they apeared in the timeline of world history. At the end of the session, we went outsdie and looked at lots of pictures that showed evidence of how the Maya lived and we had to look at the photos and discuss with otherd what we think it told us about the Maya. We are looking forward to learning more about them.
Date: 22nd Jul 2022 @ 1:02pm
As part of the end of year celebrations, Year 6 went to Stanley Park for a morning of sports. We played football, tennis and rounders and for those that wanted a quiter time we had a relax station set up. We ended the morning with a picnic together.
Date: 21st Jul 2022 @ 3:13pm
Last night we celebrated the end of the year with disco just for our Year 6 children. The highlight of the night was the photobooth - a lot of us spent most of the night in there.
Year 6 Learning about religious celebrations in French
Date: 13th Jul 2022 @ 1:58pm
In French this week we have continued with our unit - Moi dans la Monde (Me in the World). We learned about religeous celebrations from around the French speaking world and used known language, congnates and bilingual dictionaries to translate email converstaions between two friends.
Date: 13th Jul 2022 @ 12:48pm
Year 6 continued their local area study of Blackpool by finding out how Blackpool has changed over the years. We used a variety of resources including videos, photographs and maps to identify changes and suggest possible reasons for these changes. We then went on to learn about the factors behind the growth and subsequent decline of Blackpool and how the town has suffered because of cheap foreign package holidays.
Date: 11th Jul 2022 @ 4:01pm
On Friday we gave money to our chosen charity 'Water Aid'. In an assembly the school council talked about the charity and how money raised can change the lives of those who don't have clean water to drink. We passed a bucket of water all the way round the school, from Nursery to Year 6. This was to make us think of the long journeys some people make to get their water, which can often be dirty and full of disease. As a school, we raised £112.84 - we hope the money will help those less fortunate than us.
Date: 5th Jul 2022 @ 4:08pm
Year 6 have continued their journey through the book Unstoppable by Dan Freedman. Unstoppable is also the name of Blackpool FC Community Trust's Year 6 PSHE programme. It addresses several issues that the children may face as they continue to grow including emotional wellbeing, family dynamics, relationships and the transition to high school. This week's focus has been secrets and confidentiality and the children discussed when it is important to speak out and share.
Year 6 Heritage Day - Blackpool's LGBTQ+ history
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 12:53pm
Today is our Blackpool Heritage Day and our topic is the history of LGBTQ+ in the resort. We were extremely privileged to have a visit from Basil Newby - a prominent name with Blackpool's gay bars and nightclubs. He talked about his life, how he had influenced the LGBTQ+ community here in Blackpool and introduced us to 2 of his team from Funny Girls, Alex and Nikki. Nikki came dressed in drag and it was a great opportunity for us all to ask questions to the whole team, which they all answered and gave us lots of information about life at Funny Girls. We would like to say a big thank you to all three of them for taking time out of their busy schedules to come and talk to us today.
