Year 6

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In science today, we recapped the steps when designing a fair test. We then tested the following solids: coffee, curry powder, flour, sugar and sand, by stirring them into warm water. We decided that a solid has dissolved when it disappears into the solution. Tomorrow we are investigating: do all…

The year 6 children excelled themselves today! 

To celebrate Black History Month and as part of our topic 'Slavery' we had a lady from a theatre company in to work on a drama performance. The children used their prior knowledge and learnt lots about the civil rights movement to depict important…

Wow! We were so lucky on Friday as we had a celebrity in our classroom: Nico Mirallegro! Nico is an actor, he started his career at 15 when he got the part of Newt in Hollyoaks. He has gone on to star in Upstairs Downstairs, Spike Island, My Mad Fat Diary, The Village, Common...just to name a few!…

Today we explored separation and filtering in our science lesson. We had lots of fun deciding which piece of equipment was most effective to seperate the solids from the mixture. We reflected lots too, and asked lots of questions. We found that if we did this again we would about it differently.…

These two girls used all the techniques, we have been learning class, to create suspense: ellipsis, variety of sentence openers, short sentences just to name a few.

By Aaliyah

By Sadie

Well done girls!

By Mason

We have been reading suspense stories and looking at how authors create suspense in their writing. We have gathered lots of ideas! Today we watched a spooky short film 'Alma' and we will begin writing this using the features we have been learning about. Look out for our finished pieces...let's…

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In Year 6 we having been making bread, in RE, to help us understand the 'parable of yeast'. We found out that God's Kingdom is compared to yeast because without it bread wouldn't be the same and once its combined with with the other ingredients you can't extract it, just like we are all a part of…

Welcome to year 6. Please take a few moments to read this 1/2 terms curriculum forecast which will keep you up to date with the topics we are studying this term.

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5/9/14 -This weeks Star Pupils were Keira and Patrick, well done on…