Today, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Altru Drama who entertained us with a performance of their play! “Back to the App.” The play was about Freya, Ben and Hallie who all loved the internet – and their phones and tablets; they’d spend all day on them Read more…
On Tuesday, all of Year 6 visited St Anne’s Academy for a day of enrichment activities. In the morning, the children participated in a World Cup Football Tournament in the sports hall. The children were split into 10 teams representing different countries, along with another primary school. 5-a-side games were Read more…
This afternoon, a theatre company visited school and performed the pantomime ‘Aladdin’. All the children really enjoyed it and some lucky ones even got some sweets!
This week was Hour of Code week. We were really looking forward to this lesson and enjoyed exploring the website and challenging ourselves with coding. Lots of us particularly enjoyed the Minecraft programme.
Todays assembly was the history of the young Grace Darling. A brave lighthouse keeper that endangered her life to save 9 others. We made this fun by using some drama. We re-enacted parts of the book and had great fun doing so.
As well as being dressed like rockstars today, we took part in our annual Maths Week activity. Welcome to Year 6’s Restaurant! We were given a menu with items to choose from for a starter, main course, dessert and drink. We were then given different tasks to complete such as Read more…
Today in Assembly, we had an amazing time doing a few different experiments including seeing how far a tuning fork’s vibrations can go, a race to get a ball out of a jar of rice, and finally a prediction activity of guessing what is under the microscope. We all had Read more…
This week Class 13 were learning about trade in early civilisations. Half of us were given some commodity cards which had a jar of grain, an animal and a jar of oil pictured on them and half of us became buyers. Our challenge was to try and trade all of Read more…
In year 6, our theme this year has been ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams. We have learnt to sing the song and compared it to other happy songs such as ‘Don’t worry be happy’. This week we continued to learn to play the chorus of ‘Happy’ on the glockenspiels and it Read more…
In year 6, we looked at blackout poetry for National Poetry Day. We used random texts and chose words that could make a sentence or a particular theme that we find interesting. We then blocked out unwanted words using pictures or markers to create a blackout poem. Have a look Read more…