Year 6: Blog items
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.
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'.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 12:58pm
This week we began our new French topic, Les Vikings. We used our knowledge of cognates, known vocabulary and French dictionaries to translate a brief history of the Vikings. The children did brilliantly and can't wait to carry on with this topic.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 8:34am
Today we began our History unit of Vikings. We learned who they were, where they came from and why they came to Britain. Over the next few weeks we will learn more about them as a people, how and why they attacked Britain and what impact they had here on British soil.
Year 6 - Christmas Quiz winners!!
Date: 20th Dec 2024 @ 9:27am
Well done to Oak class - Christmas quiz winners for 2024!
A close second to Elder class. Well done Year 6.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:17am
Year 6 have produced some wonderful Christmas artwork this week based on the story of the nativity. We used watercolour paint to create stained glass effects.
Date: 11th Dec 2024 @ 4:11pm
Today Year 6 learned all about specific beliefs of Hindus. We learned that Hindus believe in reincarnation - a belief that when someone dies, heir soul lives on and they are reborn as another living creature. Eventually, they hope to achieve Moksha. This is where the circle of birth, death and rebirth is broken and they finally go to be with Brahma. We also learned about their understanding of Karma - that every action has a reaction or consequence. This helps them to live a good life as if they do good things then they will receive good outcomes.
Year 6 - A very Christmassy kind of day!
Date: 11th Dec 2024 @ 4:01pm
Today was the start of our Christmas celebrations! With our Christmas jumpers on show, we took part in the 'Elf Run' to raise money for Brian House. In the afternoon we were treated to our Christmas dinner.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 11:25am
As part of our PSHE and Science curriculum, today we invited PCSO Debby Savage to talk to Year 6 about the effects and dangers of drugs and alcohol. The children were very sensible listening to what she had to say and asked some very good questions. We discussed smoking, vaping, alcohol and illegal/legal drugs and how they can affect our bodies.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 9:11am
Year 6 have completed some great work in Science this half term. We have learned all about electricity including how to draw circuit symbols and circuit diagrams. We have worked scientifically and carried out an investigation into what happens to a bulb when you add more cells to the circuit. The children really enjoyed this topic and remembered lots of their learning when they did the end of unit assessments.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 8:12am
Our writing journey over the past couple ofweeks has been crime stories. We read lots of different examples of crime stories and gathered lots of ideas and vocabulary to add into our own stories. Some of us wrote stories about a robbery in a mansion and others wrote about a dog-napping. Read through some of stories below.
Date: 27th Nov 2024 @ 4:51pm
Today we began our PE unit of dance. For this unit we are going to learn the Haka - a tradiitonal Maori dance that is used to show strength and power. We began looking at the actions in today's lesson and some of the words. By the end of the unit we will be able to perform the Haka and say the words.
Date: 27th Nov 2024 @ 12:16pm
For our No Pen Morning we focussed on our Oracy skills. We began by discussing how to project out voice and took part in some projeciton activities, which helped us to make our voices louder and clearer. We had fun ready the line 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall' in different styels, including as if we were in a rush, if we were angry and if we were telling a secret. We finished the session with some agree, build or challenge statements, where we used our student talk tactic statements to help with organise our answers.
