Year 6: Blog items

Year 6 - Magistrates visit

Date: 25th Sep 2024 @ 5:38pm

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!

European Day of Languages

Date: 23rd Sep 2024 @ 4:41pm

Today we celebrated the European Day of Languages by holding a special assembly. We talked about why it is important to know about other languages and cultures and how this might help us when we grow up. We discussed the characteristics that you need to learn a language including enthusiasm, curiosity, perseverance and self motivation. We ended with a languages quiz and learned a greeting song in French. 

Year 6 - Investigating Light in Science

Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 10:25am

Our Science topic this half term is light. After recapping on our learning from Year 3 and discussing the vocabulary that we need to know, we learned that light travels in a straight line. We conducted an experiment to prove this.

Year 6 Computing - Introduction to Spreadsheets

Date: 18th Sep 2024 @ 3:41pm

Today we began out Computing unit on spreadsheets. The first lesson included learning about how to input data into cells and how to format cells to change the size, colour and style of text. We also began to look at how to add a formula to specific cells in order to add together numbers.

Year 6 - French Grammar

Date: 12th Sep 2024 @ 12:41pm

This half term, Year 6 will be learning about grammar in their French lessons. We started by looking at indefinite articles - un and une, the French words for 'a'. We recapped on the fact that French nouns have a gender and that un is used for masculine nouns and une is used for feminine nouns. We used French dictionaries to find the gender of nouns.

Year 6 - Invasion Games

Date: 11th Sep 2024 @ 1:04pm

Today we began our unit on Invasion Games. We discussed different types of sports that invloved working as a team for a common goal. We then looked at dribbling in basketball and footbal and practised both of these skills.

PSHE - Year 6

Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 8:55am

To begin the year we have all been thinking about our goals for the year ahead. We discussed what a goal is and how we can achieve them by breaking the goal down into small achieveable steps. We are all going to be working hard this year to achieve social and academic goals.

Music - Year 6

Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 8:48am

This week we started our Music unit looking at soul music. We listened to and appraised the song 'Do What You Want To!' and discussed the elments of music surrounding the song: tempo, dynamics, texture, lyrics etc.

Year 6 - Sports and Picnic at Stanley Park

Date: 19th Jul 2024 @ 10:40am

Today we took our Year 6 children for a fun-filled morning of sport at Stabley Park. The rain just about held off enough so that we could enjoy ourselves. A picnic together rounded off the great morning!

Year 6 - Leavers' Disco

Date: 19th Jul 2024 @ 10:32am

Our Year 6 Disco went down a treat with the children! A perfect way to celebrate a great year and to say goodbye to each other.

Year 6 - Farm visit

Date: 11th Jul 2024 @ 2:57pm

Today we had a visit from a local farm and we had a great time. We got to see and pet a range of farm animals: goats, sheep, cows, chickens, rabbits and a pig! We were told how to safely pet/handle the animals and were allowed to groom and brush some of them. 

Boundary Choral Speaking competition

Date: 9th Jul 2024 @ 2:46pm

This week we held our annual Choral Speaking competition. From Reception to Year 6, year groups learned poems by heart and performed them to the rest of the school. Once again, the standard was extremely high and we are proud of all the children for taking part. This year's winners are Year 3, who will represent Boundary at the Blackpool Choral Speaking competition on Friday. 

Year 6 - Heritage Day

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 7:58am

For Year 6's Heritage Day we looked at the history of LGBTQ+ in the town and how Basil Newby has played such an influential role in the growth of the town.

Year 5/6 - Coastguard Talk

Date: 28th Jun 2024 @ 7:43am

Today we were visited by the coastguards who gave us a talk on water safety and how to stay safe when we are at the beach. Advice included what to do if we find ourselves in trouble in the water and what to do if someone we are with finds themselves in trouble.

Year 6 - Local Area Study

Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 3:40pm

Year 6 have really enjoyed their latest Geography unit - a local area study of Blackpool. We have learned how our town and region fit into the wider world, identified key physical and human geographical features on maps and asked how our region might meet the needs of people. Finally, we used field work to answer the question: Is Blackpool still a fit place for people? The children produced some excellent work and were really inetested in finding out more about where they live. 

Year 6 - Sports Day

Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 1:27pm

Year 6 had a great afternoon of sport. The sun was shining and everyone had a super time. Events included archery, obstacle races, hockey dribbling and speed bounce. The event was well attended by parents and carers. Thank you to Mrs. Webster for organising sunch a great event.

Year 6 - Art Day

Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 2:43pm

We had a great day learning about mark making and different shading techniques. We practised techniques in our sketch books before creating a self portrait. 

Year 6 - Skateboarding!

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!

Year 6 - Pulleys and Gears

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.

Year 6 - Le Weekend

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.  

 

 

Year 6 - Well Done!

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!

Year 6 - Yoga

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. 

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