Year 6: Blog items
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.
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 2:32pm
This half term Year 6 have been learning all about French verbs and how to conjugate them. We have learned that verbs have different endings depending on the personal pronoun being used. We have identified stems and endings, learned the endings to regular ER, IR and RE verbs and began to look at some of the more common irregular verbs, which do not follow the pattern.
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 7:38am
Today we started our 3D modelling unit using the website Tinkercad. Our first lesson was an opportunity to get to know how to add shapes to the workspace and how to change the size, shape, colour and position of a range ofshapes. We worked through a selectionof tutorial tasks to prepare for the next few sessions.
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 6:21pm
As part of our Geography unit, The UK, this week we have explored Human Geography. This is how humans interact with their environment and how they use the Earth's resources. The children produced some wonderful double page spreads all about the different aspects of Human Geography.
Year 6 - Investigating Voltage
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 4:12pm
We had a great Science lesson this week investigating the effect on a bulb of adding more cells to the circuit. We learned that the greater the number of cells, the brighter the bulb.
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 3:51pm
To link in with 'Remembrance' week, we have produced pieces of art linked to poppies. We began the session looking at different way to shade and add depth with art pencils and pencil crayons. We then looked at a range of different poppies and sketched our own. Finally, we added colour to our poppies using the shading techniques we looked at.
Year 6 - Discrimination and Stereotyping
Date: 12th Nov 2024 @ 9:44am
As part of antibullying week, Year 6 have been learning about discrimination and antibullying and how this can manisfest in bullying. We took part in an 'Apprentic' style activity where we had to 'fire' someone based on the information we had learned about them.
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 2:20pm
Today we were visited by the fire service who recapped on fire safety and then talk to us about road safety. We recapped on making sure we wear bright colours at night, such as fluorescent jackets. We also talked about the importance of not being on our phones when we cross the roads or listening to music. As the nights are now getting darker we must keep ourselves safe.
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 7:23am
In today's lesson, we recapped on our learning from last week including the four countries of the UK, their capitals and the seas surrounding the British Isles. We then went on to discuss where people in the UK live. We learned about cities, towns, villages and hamlets before using maps and online atlases to locate major towns and cities in our local area and the UK.
Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 9:37pm
This week across school we have been celebrating Anti-Bullying week. We started the week off with the a whole school assembly based around this year's theme ‘Choose Respect’. Throughout the week the children have been learning about being respectful and why this is such an important skill for life. Alongside this they have also been exploring the theme of bullying including what it means, different types of bullying, what to do if you are being bullied, the difference of a bystander and upstander, how to solve conflicts and what discrimination means. We finished of the week by inviting everyone to wear odd socks to celebrate everyone’s differences and promote kindness. What a fantastic week we have had!
Date: 31st Oct 2024 @ 9:14am
We began our new geography unit - The UK - with a whistlestop tour of the British Isles. We we looked at maps and explored the countries that make up the United Kingdom and Great Britain. We recapped on the 8 points of the compass and looked at the regions of the UK.
Date: 28th Oct 2024 @ 11:05am
Today in Year 6, we had a visit from someone who works for Lancashire County Council - Tim. His workshop focussed on the 5 British Values: Rule of Law, Mutual Respect, Individual Liberty, Tolerance and Democracy. We talked about how we can all demonstrate the British Values in school and the wider community. It was a really informative workshop and the children gave some excellent answers to questions posed. We are very proud of how mature Year 6 were during the session.
Year 6 - Symbolism and words used in Christian ceremonies
Date: 17th Oct 2024 @ 3:40pm
In our latest RE lesson, we explored how words and actions can convey meaning in Christian ceremonies. We looked at the words used in baptism, the symbolism used in holy communion and the symbolism of the rings in mariage ceremonies. We worked in small groups to answer questions about what we had learned.
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 4:33pm
This half term we have linked our writing with our work on Black Hisgtory Month. We learned about Harriet Tubman, a slave who lived and worked on a plantation in Maryland in the early 1800s. She escaped from her master and went on to have a successful life helping other slaves who escaped. We wrote news articles linked to her escape and typed them out. Have a read at some of our work below...
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 3:55pm
Today we held our first Spelling Bee of the year. Each house was represented by the best spellers from Year 2 - Year 6 and the children were tested on spellings they have been learning in Autumn 1. We are very proud of all the children for being their house representative and spelling some very tricky words in front of the whole school. The over all winners were Bathurst, who managed to spell 14/15 spellings across all 5 years groups.
Date: 7th Oct 2024 @ 12:38pm
Our unit this half term has been the Ancient Maya. We have learned all about the ancient Maya, a civilisation that lived in the rainforests of Mesoamerica and spanned over 300 years. We have learned how their people used the resources at hand to make tools, weapons and places to live. We have learned about what they ate, what they wore and how they entertained themselves. We have really enjoyed learning all about this ancient civilisation.
Date: 7th Oct 2024 @ 8:35am
This week Boundary Primary School celebrated Harvest Festival. Year 6 led the celebration assembly together with our special guest, Reverend Peter. We talked about being thankful for the food we eat, our good health and the life we live. The children and their families helped by donating food to Vincent House.Thank you to everyone for their support.
Year 6 - Investigating Refraction
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 8:26pm
Year 6 has a great Science lesson this week. The children were amazed by the illusions created by refraction. We learned that refraction distorts images and can even reverse them!
Year 6 - Investigating Shadows
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 12:42pm
Our science lesson this week was all about shadows. After recapping on our learning from previous weeks, we were set the challenge of investigation various questions such as what material creates the darkest shadow and how can you make a shadow smaller or larger.
