Year 6: Blog items
Date: 11th Oct 2023 @ 11:49am
We have held our first Spelling Bee of the year and what a wonderful event it was! 4 children in each year group represented their house and were given three words to spell from over a list of 30 possible words. Every child showed courage and determination when it came to spelling their words. It was a very close contest, with Chepstow winning overall with 15 out of 15. We are very proud of all the children who represented their house and are looking forward to the next one.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 12:52pm
In today's history lesson we were given a mystery to solve. We were told the story of an archaeologist called Alberto Ruz, who spent time searching through Maya temples in the 1940s. In one of the temples he found evidence of a secret area under the base of the temple. After a long time trying to get into the space, he eventually opened up the hatch to reveal the resting place of the great Maya king Pacal. The children had to work out who this person could have been based on evidence from the tomb.
Date: 4th Oct 2023 @ 6:15pm
In this week's French lesson, we continued learning about French grammar. We looked in more depth at the gender of nouns. We used French dictionaries to find the correct gender and then added the appropriate definate article (le, la, les or l'). Some children completed a challenge where they had to add the correct ending to make the noun plural.
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 6:31pm
In this week's PE lesson, we swapped tennis for badminton - utilising the skills we have already learned. We focused on the serve and learned the most effective technique to perform a consistent serve. We practised effectively hitting the shuttlecock at a target before using forehand and backhand to take part in a rally.
Year 6 - Investigating Refraction
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 2:37pm
Year 6 had a very practical science lesson this week, investigating refraction. We learned how refraction can change the direction in which light travels resulting in illusions and distorted images.
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 2:35pm
In PE this week we have progressed further with our net and wall skills and practised sending and receiving tennis passes over a net. It was tricky at first but as the lesson progressed, we managed to pass and receive shots with a partner - some of us even had some rallies going on.
Year 6 - European Day of Languages
Date: 25th Sep 2023 @ 1:47pm
Year 6 had a great day celebrating European Day of Languages. After assisting with a whole school assembly, where the House Captains particpated in a language quiz, the children took part in a treasure hunt around the playground. Questions were based on languages, culture and the geography of European Countries. The winning team scored full marks!
Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 2:46pm
In today's Science lesson, Year 6 carried out investigations to answer questions about shadows. They found out which type of objects make the darkest shadow, how the shape of the shadow is created by the object that is blocking the light and how to make a shadow larger or smaller.
Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 12:54pm
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!!
Date: 13th Sep 2023 @ 4:03pm
In our History lesson today, we have had the opportunity to look at various Mayan artefacts including a replica calendar. The children asked and answered lots of interesting questions and used their critical thinking skills to talk about what each object told us about the Maya.
Year 6 - Computing: Spreadsheets
Date: 13th Sep 2023 @ 3:53pm
Today we began our new unit of spreadsheets in Computing. Today's session involved inputting data into a given table. We did this by rolling a dice 5 times and repeating the task. We then added each roll to the table.
Date: 11th Sep 2023 @ 6:11pm
Today Year 6 continued the grammar unit in their French lesson. First, we recapped on last week's learning - the gender of nouns and indefinite articles. We moved on to learn about definite articles and found out that in French there are four words for 'the' (le, la, l' and les). We then used French dictionaries to find out the gender of nouns and write the nouns with their correct definite article.
Date: 6th Sep 2023 @ 5:44pm
We started our history topic by considering the question 'Why do we study the Maya in school?'. After finding out where the Maya lived and viewing some of the ancient sites on Google Earth, we looked for clues in the playground and used our critical thinking skills to decide what made the Maya so special.
Year 6 - Introduction to tennis
Date: 4th Sep 2023 @ 7:35pm
Today might have been our first day back but we got straight back to it and even got to begin our net and wall unit with a brief introduction to tennis. We learned how to hold our rackets properly and how to control the ball with the racket. We also progressed to sending and receiving accurate passes to our partner.
Date: 20th Jul 2023 @ 4:02pm
As part of leavers celebrations, today we went to Stanley Park for a games morning and picnic together. It was another lovely opportunity to spend time together and have fun.
Date: 20th Jul 2023 @ 3:51pm
What a week this has been for Year 6!! We have had such a great year together and tonight we held our disco, where we could enjoy being together. Boathouse provided the music and the children provided the dance moves. What a wonderful time we all had.
Date: 17th Jul 2023 @ 4:13pm
Today the children had lots of fun with the Messagebus, which was provided to the school by St. Mark's Church for the day. The children had a great time being with their friends and enjoying some quality time together. On the bus, the children took part in acitivities such as climbing wall, slide, games on the Xbox and PS4 as well as playing with jenga and connect 4.
Year 6 - Choral Speaking Winners!
Date: 14th Jul 2023 @ 5:29pm
Year 6 have had a great week! On Wednesday we won the Boundary choral speaking competition with our performance of 'Tarantella' by Hilaire Belloc. Today, we took part in the Blackpool interschool competition and won! The children were amazing and wowed the judges with their brilliant performance.
Year 6 - It's Your Move Transition
Date: 10th Jul 2023 @ 9:46am
This morning, Year 6 had a visit from The Church Army who led a session about transition to secondary school. The children discussed what they would miss about being at Boundary and what they are looking forward to. We talked about the journey to school, meeting new friends, meeting new teachers and the challenges of completing more difficult work.
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 10:48am
Today for Heritage Day, we were given the question: How has Basil Newby influenced the LGBTQ+ community in Blackpool? To answer this, we looked at his life and how he became one of Blackpool's most successful entrepreneurs. This is due to him creating clubs and pubs that catered for the LGBTQ+ community. Basil owns and runs Funny Girls in town and we were visited by two of his employees, Alex and India. They gave us more background information about Basil and answered lots of questions that we had. We can't thank them enough for their time.
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 10:29am
Our Reading into Writing journey this half term has been persuasive letters. We have explored the genre and read many examples in order to gather useful words and phrases. As a year group, we decided we would write a letter to Rishi Sunak to highlight the issues the world is facing with plastic pollution. We made sure that our writing was formal and we experimented with ambitious vocabulary. When we are finished, we are going to post our letters to Downing Street!
Date: 3rd Jul 2023 @ 9:23pm
During 'Health Week', Year 6 got to experience a brand new sport - wheelchair rugby. We all got to use a specially made wheelchair - these chairs have wheels that are titlted for speed and the front of the chair has a crash bar for when the wheelchairs bang into each other. We picked up quickly how to manoeuvre the chairs and how to bang into one another. As the session progressed, we learned how to take part in small team games, which included passing a rugby ball between players. We had a great time and left with an appreciation of how demanding the sport is!
Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 2:51pm
Year 6 had a great morning at Aspire Academy for their sports day. They took part in a range of events from sprinting to javelin. All of the children displayed great teamworking and sportsmanship skills and had a great time. We are very proud of everyone for taking part.
Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 2:46pm
We have spent the day exploring patterns, colours and shapes to create moodboards in our sketch books. Our end product for our art this half term was to create mini-world light boxes, where we used our imagination to design a showbox with pictures and sculptures. We also used a range of paper, paint and colours to add detail to our boxes. We then added different colours of cellophane to the lid and shone a torch into each one, giving a small immersive feel to our work.
Date: 26th Jun 2023 @ 4:00pm
Today we began our new Art journey - light installation with use of colour. We looked at a range of light installation pieces and discussed what we could see and what words we would use to describe them. We then began explroing the work of three specific artists and evaluating their pieces. Finally, we created our double page spread, showcasing what we had learned.
