Year 6: Blog items
Date: 18th Jun 2024 @ 2:27pm
Year 6 had a great session this morning learning how to ride a skateboard. The session covered safety, how to stand, ride in a straight line, turn and we evenb attempted a trick or two!
Date: 17th Jun 2024 @ 4:06pm
We continued our 'Mechanical Systems' unit by finding our more about pulleys and gears. We learned how pulleys an gears can be used in mechanical systems before experimenting making different gear chains. We also made pulleys from wooden dowel and cotton reels.
Year 6 Computing - Variables in Games
Date: 12th Jun 2024 @ 4:06pm
Today we began our coding unit of variable in games. We used Scratch to code different sprites to either increase or decrease in value when clicked. Some of us went further and added backdrops and sound.
Year 6 visit to Manchester Museum
Date: 12th Jun 2024 @ 8:09am
Today Year 6 visited Manchester Museum. There were lots of different areas to explore, including Ancient Egypt, Fossils, The Natural World and Ancient Asia. We were able to link our learning in Science to the fossil and dinosaur section as well as looking at how animals and plants have evolved over time. We had a great time and learned lots.
Date: 23rd May 2024 @ 8:43am
Our French topic this half term has been 'Le Weekend' (The Weekend). We learned how to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes in French before learning ten phrases for the activities we may do. After learning opinion phrases, we then constructed longer sentences and paragraphs to describe the weekend. We used French dictionaries to check unfamiliar words.
Year 6 - Barclays Life Skills Workshop
Date: 20th May 2024 @ 11:40am
We were lucky to receive a visit from Elini, who delivered a Barclays life skill work shop on the subject of safe and sensible spending. The session focussed on how to keep money safe and introduced specific terminology such as fraud and scam. We then went on to look in detail at an email and identifed things to look out for if it was fraud or a scam. Finally we moved on to look at sensible spending including budgeting and saving.
Date: 17th May 2024 @ 11:46am
Year 6 - we are SO proud of the effort, determination and resilience shown during SATs week, we could not be more proud of you!
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 11:34am
After working so hard all week revising for SATs, we had a relaxing yoga session to calm our minds before the weekend. We practised all the poses that we had learned, including the downward dog and childs pose before putting them together in a routine.
Year 6 - Mental Health Awareness Week
Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 12:50pm
This week, Boundary have been holding their own Mental Health Awareness week. One thing we have discussed is how exercise and movement can boost your mood. We all made sure we moved for the whole break time, with many of us running around the playground - including Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. Jones!!
Date: 2nd May 2024 @ 2:06pm
Today, Year 6 took part in a live webinar centred around SATs and how to deal with any stress or anxiety we are feeling around our tests. We discussed the kind of feelings we might be having and how to deal with these. We were then introduced to the website 'Kooth', which has lots of advice and guidance for helping to improve our mental health.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 9:35am
This morning the whole school was involved in a whole school assembly that centred around the religion of Hinduism. Our visitor - Krishna - gave us lots of background information about the religion, including the story of Rama and Sita and why oil lamps are lit. We also learned about each of the gods and the role they play. It was a very interesting and informative assembly.
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 12:06pm
This week, Oak class have begun their new class novel of Wonder by R.J. Palacio. We don't want to give too much away so read the following blurb and see if it's something you'd like to read:
'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'
Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
Year 6 - Opinions about school subjects in French
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 2:50pm
Year 6 continued their unit based on school subjects. After learning how to tell the time in French to the nearest hour, the children went on to create longer sentences which involved saying what day and time they study a particular subject. They also completed a listening activity which focused on children's opinions about school subjects. Everyone did really well.
Year 6 - Computing: 3D modelling
Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 7:39pm
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: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:39pm
Today we held out second Speling Bee of the year and it was another fantastic occasion. 4 children from each year group represented their house and were given three spellings each to spell out loud from a bank of words they have been learning since September. The competition was extremely close, with Rodwell and Elston finishing joint first as the children from these houses spelled all of their words correctly.
Well done to all of the children who took part today.
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 3:29pm
Year 6 have had a great day today! We met Jam the T-Rex, learned about Mary Anning and what fossils can tell us about evolution and ended the day with a workshop where we learned how to create a green screen movie.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:52pm
In Reading into Writing we have begun writing narratives. We have begun with a short story based on the silent video 'Rock, Paper, Scissors.' Our task was to write the conversations that we thought would occur between the three main characters. We also added description throughout our stories to bring both characters and settings to life.
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:48pm
This week we started our statistics unit. After a recap on all statistics covered in Years 3 - 5, we moved on to look at solving problems using line graphs. Today we have been looking at infiormation displayed on dual bar charts.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 11:45am
What a World Book Day this has been! Year 6 have really gone above and beyond this year with their character costumes. From Harry Potter to Dr. Frankenstein, the variety has been really impressive. We have also taken part in a book and football quiz with schools around the country as well as a Book Banter session, where we discussed fun facts we have learned from non-fiction books.
Take a look at some of our costumes!
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 8:24am
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Date: 26th Feb 2024 @ 5:00pm
As part of our work for LGBTQ+ history month, Year 6 look at the Stonewall Riots in New York and the impact they had on the LGBTQ+ community. This included learning about key figures, such as Marsha. P. Johnson and Brenda Howard. We also learned about the history of 'Pride' and how different countries celebrate this. It has been a very interesting unit of work and we have enjoyed looking at and celebrating our differences.
Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 8:43pm
What a great day we had in Year 6 today! Over the last couple of days we have been researching pizzas and looking at recipes in order to design our own pizza. Today we worked in groups and pairs to make from scratch the pizza dough and the sauce. We then split the dough into equal parts and rolled/stretched it out to create a thin base. Once this was done, we added the sauce and then picked a range of different toppings to add. We were very impressed with the results and they tasted amazing!! We are going to evaluate our pizzas tomorrow and say what we liked about our prodct and what we would add/change.
Date: 20th Feb 2024 @ 7:38am
Today Oak class had their first 'Book Banter' session. The purpose of these weekly sessions is to allow children to discuss books with the class and promote their love of reading. We will also talk about authors, characters and themes across books. We are looking forward to sharing our love of reading with each other.
Year 6 - Reading written French
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 2:59pm
Year 6 ended their French unit, Les Vikings, by writing a description of a Viking using everthing they have learned over the last few weeks. They then practiced reading them out loud using their French phonic knowledge to perfect their pronunciation.
Date: 6th Feb 2024 @ 3:45pm
Today we were visited by local magistrates who told us all about their jobs and how they play integral roles in the court system. We then took part in a mock trial, which centred around a case of online bullying. Children were given roles to play and words to read out, these included prosecution, defence, judge, victim, court usher and witnesses. The children really got a feel for what goes on in a courtroom and some of us are even considering future careers!
