Year 6

Children in Years 5 and 6 have enjoyed attending homework club to complete their different tasks set for the week.  

Well done to all.  

Class 13 have been learning about the circulatory system and how the heart works to pump blood around the body. As part of their learning, they dissected a lamb’s heart, carefully examining the four different chambers and the blood vessels connected to it.

This hands-on experience helped them…

In Computing Club, we have been learning about Wikipedia and discussing why it is important to think carefully about information we find online. While Wikipedia can be a very useful source of information, anyone can edit many of its pages, which means mistakes can sometimes appear. We also talked…

This week, we made our own versions of the circulatory system, showing where the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood travels to reach our lungs, and the rest of our body.

This week, as part of our circulatory system topic, we dissected a lambs heart.

The children worked in groups, to dissect and find the atriums and ventricles of the heart.

Class 14 have enjoyed dissecting hearts today and learning all about how the heart works and really enjoyed seeing the inside of the sheep heart we dissected.

Well done class 14.

This week, we discussed what foods can make a healthy lifestyle. The children looked at different food diaries, and different food labels, and discussed what snacks they thought each person should have based on their existing diet. 

We then fed this back to the class.

Class 15 have learnt about iambic pentameter poems this week.

They have performed a poem using William Shakespeare’s rules. 

Congratulations to everyone who took part. They came in first place beating 8 of the local schools.

There were some fantastic displays on the track in the warm heat.

Well done!

This week, we performed our re-written modern versions of the highway man. 

We acted these out to the class.

Class 14 made a domino run during wet play this week, it was reasonably successful!

Year 6 had an amazing time at Flamingo Land! The entire year group visited either Monday, 8th June, or Thursday, 11th June to kick off their “end of an era” celebrations. The children were in school bright and early at 7:45 am, and we departed just after 8:00 am to arrive at the theme park before…