Year 6: Blog items
Date: 20th Jul 2023 @ 4:02pm
As part of leavers celebrations, today we went to Stanley Park for a games morning and picnic together. It was another lovely opportunity to spend time together and have fun.
Date: 20th Jul 2023 @ 3:51pm
What a week this has been for Year 6!! We have had such a great year together and tonight we held our disco, where we could enjoy being together. Boathouse provided the music and the children provided the dance moves. What a wonderful time we all had.
Date: 17th Jul 2023 @ 4:13pm
Today the children had lots of fun with the Messagebus, which was provided to the school by St. Mark's Church for the day. The children had a great time being with their friends and enjoying some quality time together. On the bus, the children took part in acitivities such as climbing wall, slide, games on the Xbox and PS4 as well as playing with jenga and connect 4.
Year 6 - Choral Speaking Winners!
Date: 14th Jul 2023 @ 5:29pm
Year 6 have had a great week! On Wednesday we won the Boundary choral speaking competition with our performance of 'Tarantella' by Hilaire Belloc. Today, we took part in the Blackpool interschool competition and won! The children were amazing and wowed the judges with their brilliant performance.
Year 6 - It's Your Move Transition
Date: 10th Jul 2023 @ 9:46am
This morning, Year 6 had a visit from The Church Army who led a session about transition to secondary school. The children discussed what they would miss about being at Boundary and what they are looking forward to. We talked about the journey to school, meeting new friends, meeting new teachers and the challenges of completing more difficult work.
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 10:48am
Today for Heritage Day, we were given the question: How has Basil Newby influenced the LGBTQ+ community in Blackpool? To answer this, we looked at his life and how he became one of Blackpool's most successful entrepreneurs. This is due to him creating clubs and pubs that catered for the LGBTQ+ community. Basil owns and runs Funny Girls in town and we were visited by two of his employees, Alex and India. They gave us more background information about Basil and answered lots of questions that we had. We can't thank them enough for their time.
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 10:29am
Our Reading into Writing journey this half term has been persuasive letters. We have explored the genre and read many examples in order to gather useful words and phrases. As a year group, we decided we would write a letter to Rishi Sunak to highlight the issues the world is facing with plastic pollution. We made sure that our writing was formal and we experimented with ambitious vocabulary. When we are finished, we are going to post our letters to Downing Street!
Date: 3rd Jul 2023 @ 9:23pm
During 'Health Week', Year 6 got to experience a brand new sport - wheelchair rugby. We all got to use a specially made wheelchair - these chairs have wheels that are titlted for speed and the front of the chair has a crash bar for when the wheelchairs bang into each other. We picked up quickly how to manoeuvre the chairs and how to bang into one another. As the session progressed, we learned how to take part in small team games, which included passing a rugby ball between players. We had a great time and left with an appreciation of how demanding the sport is!
Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 2:51pm
Year 6 had a great morning at Aspire Academy for their sports day. They took part in a range of events from sprinting to javelin. All of the children displayed great teamworking and sportsmanship skills and had a great time. We are very proud of everyone for taking part.
Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 2:46pm
We have spent the day exploring patterns, colours and shapes to create moodboards in our sketch books. Our end product for our art this half term was to create mini-world light boxes, where we used our imagination to design a showbox with pictures and sculptures. We also used a range of paper, paint and colours to add detail to our boxes. We then added different colours of cellophane to the lid and shone a torch into each one, giving a small immersive feel to our work.
Date: 26th Jun 2023 @ 4:00pm
Today we began our new Art journey - light installation with use of colour. We looked at a range of light installation pieces and discussed what we could see and what words we would use to describe them. We then began explroing the work of three specific artists and evaluating their pieces. Finally, we created our double page spread, showcasing what we had learned.
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 3:41pm
Today was our second Forest School session. The sun was shining again and we had a great time together. Some of the activities included whittling wood, making shelters, finger knitting, den building and make smores. We have thoroughly enjoyed our last Forest School session at Boundary!
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 7:30am
To mark World Music Day, Year 6 learned about music from South Africa. We located South Africa on the map and then listened to several pieces of music from the couhtry. We learned that music is very important to the South Africans and is used to pass messages and stories between generations. We finished by listening to some more modern pop music that has African influences.
Date: 19th Jun 2023 @ 12:08pm
Year 6 had a brilliant second session of Handball with Mr. Williams. We focused on the skills needed to play the game including how to throw and receive accurately and the importance of finding space on the pitch. All the children worked extemely hard and displayed excellent teamwork and sportsmanship in today's lesson.
Year 6 - Tasting and Evaluating in DT
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 3:37pm
Today, we continued our Design and Technology food journey by tasting and and evaluating savoury cheese products. The next step will be to make our own savoury scone to a recipe of the children's choice.
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 3:10pm
Today we had our first Forest School session of the year. It was a veyr hot day so we made the most of the tarpualins and made plenty of shelters to keep out of the sun. Whilst we were down there, some of us made jewellery using elder branches, some of us finger knitted and some of us explored the pond and surrounding area, where we saw lots of tadpoles and even a couple of frogs. We are looking forward to our next session.
Date: 13th Jun 2023 @ 7:56am
Today we began our new PE unit of handball with Alan Williams, our local sports coach. With the weather being extrememly hot, we definitely worked up a sweat!! We practised our throwing and catching skills using the official balls, which are smaller than we are used to. Over the session, we became more accurate and powerful with our throws. By the end, we were able to hold small 3 v 3 games to practise and demonstrate our catching, throwing and dodging skills. We can't wait for our next session!
Date: 25th May 2023 @ 11:23am
Year 6 have done some brilliant work in their French lessons this half term. Our unit was called ' Le Week-end' and focused on activities that the children might do at the weekend. We learned the correct vocabulary for each activity, language to give opinions and how to tell the time to the nearest five minutes. As always, our lessons covered listening, speaking, reading and writing activities and the children produced great work in each.
Year 6 - The Human Circulatory System
Date: 23rd May 2023 @ 1:07pm
Our Science unit this half term is focusing on the human body and how to stay healthy. We started by looking at the function of the heart before learning about the circulatory system. This week we have learned about diffision and osmosis - the way that nutrients are moved between cells in our body. Although it is a complicated concept. the children conducted an experiment using potatoes to demonstrate how osmosis works, which really helped to deepen their understanding.
Date: 23rd May 2023 @ 12:47pm
Today are children were treated to a visit from Fishers Farm. The children met a variety of farm animals and learned lots about each one. We all had great fun spending time with the animals and stroking them. A lucky few managed to groom some of them too!!
Date: 19th May 2023 @ 3:48pm
In gymnastics this week we used a variety of equipment to practise our counter-tension and counter-balance. We ended the session by linking some of our balances together with movement.
Year 6 - Manchester Museum Visit
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 4:15pm
Today Year 6 went on a trip to Manchester Museum to support their learning so far. This involved areas such as:
Fossils
Dinosaurs
Ancient Egypt
Classification
Evolution
Archaeology
The children had a wonderful time bringing their learning to life and being given the opportunity to observe artifacts from a range of periods of time.
Date: 4th May 2023 @ 3:01pm
This week in Computing we completed lessons 2 and 3 of our variables in games unit. This involved adding sprites to the program and adding variables for each one so that when they were clicked their values either increased or decreased. We also improved a pre-made game and added a score variable to add up points.
Year 6 - Counter Balances and Counter Tension
Date: 3rd May 2023 @ 2:41pm
In this week's PE lesson, we continued with our gymnastics unit. We focussed specifically on counter balances and counter tension. Working with a partner, we learned that counter balances use a pushing force to create a stable balance. Counter tension uses a pulling force to create stability. We created various holds and learned how to safely support our partner.
Year 6 - Variables in Games lesson 1
Date: 26th Apr 2023 @ 3:35pm
Today we began our Computing unit of variables in games. This involved using Scratch to explore how to add variables to different sprites. We experimented with adding the variable of score and practised changing the scores of different sprites when they were clicked.
