Dear Year 6 Parent/Carer In normal circumstances, during this half term, we hold our Healthy Living Week where we would be delivering our age-appropriate sex and relationship education lessons to all the children across the school. Whilst as a whole school, we are unable to do this as normal, and have plans to ensure all…
It was a very funny week at school and not everyone was in but we still wanted to share the fantastic home learning in Home Discovery Journals that had been completed and returned for this half term. Some of the effort that goes in to these tasks is remarkable. Well done to everyone that completed it…
In science, we have been learning about microorganisms: how they are classified, how they can be helpful and how they can be harmful to us. One investigation we did was to see which conditions were preferable for yeast (a type of fungi). We added yeast and sugar to hot water, warm water and cold water….
Now that spring is here and it’s stopped raining, we need to get our garden ready for planting. Miss Gobel’s class worked hard at turning over the soil in our raised beds. We should be able to start planting next week.
On Friday, It was Sport Relief and we came in dressed in our sports kits. In the morning, we went out and took part in a run around the playground. Thank you to all those that brought in a donation to the charity.
For STEM Week, we were given a secret question to reveal and investigate. Our question was: “What is living on our hands?” To investigate this, we first set up an experiment where we exposed slices of bread to different things: hands washed in soap and water, hands washed with sanitiser only, unwashed hands and an…
For STEM week, we have been investigating the question- What is living on our hands? For the first experiment we conducted, we placed a slice of bread under different conditions and are currently observing the different levels of bacteria growing on them. For the second experiment, we covered our hands in paint and washed them…
We had some brilliant World Book Day costumes in year 6 and some great entries into the wooden spoon book character competition. Well done to everyone that took part. During the day, we enjoyed a ‘drop everything and read (DEAR)’ and drawing book covers of our favourite books.
Year 6 enjoyed sharing their home learning (from our topic, ‘Hola Mexico!’) with each other at the end of the term. There was some fantastic things to share including recipes they’d tried at home, art work, creative writing and historical research. Well done to everyone who worked hard on their Home Discovery Journals this half…
Year 6 have been learning about the heart and circulatory system in science. To find out more about blood and the different components it is made up of, we made some blood smoothies! The raspberries represented the red blood cells, the marshmallows were the white blood cells, some sprinkles were added to represent platelets and…