Welcome to our Year 6 page. Here, you’ll find snippets of what we are getting up to in and out of class. Parents, remember there’s lots more to see on your child’s Seesaw.
Today, Dr Claire Johnson, from the Centre for Leadership Performance, delivered an exciting STEM workshop on behalf of Electricity North West. We learnt about how to stay safe around electricity, the different types of circuits and how components affect the resistance, and then had a go at actually building them ourselves.
Today, we had a visit from Children’s author Helen Haraldsen. She gave an inspiring presentation about perseverance, resilience, and goal setting. We learnt about writer identity and then had a very exciting Q&A session about books, writing, and publishing. Thank you, Helen!
Today, for Jennifer Carver Award Day, Year 6 designed and made their own seasonal soup. They worked in teams of 6 to select locally grown vegetables to add flavour, texture and colour to their recipe. We learned how it’s important to support local farmers and buy local so that our food doesn’t have food miles. Buying food from abroad is causing global warming because of the amount of fuel used to transport it across the world. The children made posters about this issue and also designed their own soup can label. Lots of peeling, chopping, eating and smiling today.
Today, Year 6 visited Lakes College to attend a science show that was delivered by The REACT Foundation and The Royal Institution. The show was an exciting journey through the stores of energy that surround us. From elastic to gravitational, kinetic to chemical, we enjoyed some fiery and explosive demonstrations of what energy is and how it affects our lives.
In our electricity topic today, we have been making and experimenting with different kinds of circuits. We explored the difference between a series and parallel circuit, and then made a circuit with a buzzer. As a final task, we used motors to design a fan to cool down Mrs W!
This half-term in PE, Year 6 are developing their netball skills. The children will learn about the fundamental principles of play and practise core skills such as: passing, receiving, pivoting, and outwitting defenders.
Our first topic in Art is drawing. Today, we practised our drawing skills with some cross-sections of fruit and vegetables. We wanted to show texture with pencil and add colour with watercolours and oil pastels.
