Year 6 2017

10 children from year 5 were chosen to attend a Science Workshop at Aspire Academy. They were able to take part in a series of  engaging activities as if they were real life Medics carrying out medical procedures. The children fully participated in this and enjoyed every minute. It was a bit…

This week in our maths we are focussing on subtraction. We are developing our skills through practical tasks, using Numicon and writing calculations. 

Year 6 children took part in a Taste Investigation to see what type of taster they were. 

These two questions were posed by the children, "What happens when I eat?" "Why do I like certain foods and not others?" 

A few children from Year 6 had taken part in the Explosive Food Lectures run by…

In Y6, the children have been coaching each other on some of the areas in maths that they identified were difficult.

A team of children prepared the questions and answers and were on hand to support as the remaining children worked on solving the maths challenges.

Everyone had fun and…

This week Y6 have been preparing for their SATS. We have written Top Tips for Success in each subject and made our own Diamond Nine to remember them. In SPAG we have used picture books as a starting point for writing our own SATS style SPAG questions.

One of our boys from Year 6 attended an awards evening at Blackpool Sixth Form College.

He was awarded a certificate and a trophy for his nomination of KS2 Scientist 2017.

"As a growing, young scientist, he shows enthusiasm for learning new things in Science. He enjoys talking about…

Mrs Jefferson gave us some lolly sticks, elastic bands and plastic spoons and challenged us to make a working catapult. We really enjoyed the challenge and hope you enjoy looking at our catapults. We are going to test them to find out the answer to a number of questions.

How far will our…

We had lots of fun this afternoon challenging each other to some seated fencing matches. The children have enjoyed the Sport 4 Champions programme delivered by Sport Blackpool this half term.

Year 6 have produced some excellent writing based around The Silver Sword which is our novel this half term. Enjoy reading!

On Friday, we were fortunate to have a mobile climbing wall visit school as part of our Sport for Champions programme. It was very chilly but we all enjoyed it and had a great time and challenged ourselves to be brave learners! Well done to those of you who made it to the top!

On Monday Year 6 went to Montgomery for some specialist science teaching about light. We were able to use the labs and enjoy some hands on practical activities.