Welcome to our Year 6 class page!
The Class Teachers are Mr. Wilcox and Mr. Wadsworth.
The Teaching Assistants are Mrs. Boukadida and Mrs. Tomlinson.
We have lots of exciting and interesting learning planned for the year ahead. We hope that you enjoy reading through what we will be learning in class over the Autumn, Spring and Summer terms.
Our Learning in Year 6 (2023-2024)
Autumn Term Learning Photos
English: Performance Poetry
Article 29 – Children’s education should help them fully develop their personalities, talents and abilities.
We have been learning to perform the classic poem ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ using expression and actions.
P.E.
Article 31- Every child has the right to rest, relax, play and to take part in cultural and creative activities.
Article 24 – All adults and children should have information about how to stay safe and healthy.
Football Coaching: We have been learning how to control and dribble the ball and developing our team-working skills.
Gymnastics: We have been learning to apply straddle, tuck and pike positions to our sequences of movements both on the floor, with a partner and on apparatus.
Music: Happy by Pharell Williams
Article 31- Every child has the right to rest, relax, play and to take part in cultural and creative activities.
We have been learning how to sing the song ‘Happy’ and to play an accompaniment with musical instruments.
Computing
Article 29 – Children’s education should help them fully develop their personalities, talents and abilities.
We learnt to input, change, order and sort data in a spreadsheet on the laptops & we have been learning to code using Scratch on the iPads.
Science
Article 29 – Children’s education should help them fully develop their personalities, talents and abilities
Light – we have been learning about how light travels in beams, can be reflected and can be blocked to make shadows. We have done lots of practical investigating.
R.E.
Article 14 – Children can choose their own thoughts, opinions and religion, but this should not stop other people from enjoying their rights. Parents can guide children so that as they grow up, they learn to properly use this right.
Rituals: We have learnt about some of the features of important rituals from some of the main faiths and religions such as The Eucharist, Salah and Passover. Here the children are trying out some of the foods in the Pesach (Passover) meal.
Special Events
Article 24 – Children have the right to the best health care possible, clean water to drink, healthy food and a clean and safe environment to live in. All adults and children should have information about how to stay safe and healthy.
Article 19 – Governments must protect children from violence, abuse and being neglected by anyone who looks after them.
NSPCC workshops-November, Odd socks for Anti-Bullying Weeks and Children in Need Day & Show Racism the Red Card Day.
Spring Term Learning Photos
CRC Article 28 – All children have the right to a quality education.
CRC Article 14 – All children have the right to freedom of thought and religion.
CRC Article 17 – All children have the right to access reliable information.
Year 6 visited St. John’s Church in Shildon to take part in an interactive Life Exhibition. This was a multi-media experience where pupils used iPads to learn about the life of Jesus. They also learnt about the story of ‘The Good Samaritan’.
Pupils visited four different interactive tents led by four different adults and at the end, the pupils took part in an interactive quiz to show what they had learnt.
Thank you St. John’s for this great learning experience.
6H Spring Term Learning Photos
English: Performance Poetry
CRC Article 29 – All children have the right to develop their personalities, talents and abilities to the full.
We have been learning to perform the poem ‘The Visitor’ using expression and actions. The videos below show the children performing their retelling to the class.
VIDEO coming soon…….
PE
CRC Article 31- All children have the right to rest, relax, play and to take part in cultural and creative activities.
CRC Article 24 – All children have the right to be healthy.
CRC Article 19 – All children have the right to be safe.
Dance Coaching: We have been learning how to dance in a Bollywood (Hip-Hop) style with the help of Jasmine, our Dance Coach.
The video below shows the final performance of the dance we learnt, including our own group sections that we choreographed ourselves.
VIDEO coming soon………
Hockey: We have been learning to hold the hockey stick correctly, to dribble the ball with control and to pass accurately.
Computing
CRC Article 29 – All children have the right to develop their personalities, talents and abilities to the full.
We studied what a network was and how our computer network in school worked. We created network maps in groups to show this and examined the different wired and wireless connections.
We have continued to enhance our coding skills, this time using CODE.org and their Minecraft simulations. We learnt how to use loops to simplify and streamline our code blocks and avoid repetition.
Science
CRC Article 28 – All children have the right to learn.
Classification – we have been learning about how animals and plants are grouped and their different features. We learnt how to use and create keys to help identify or sort living things. We have also studied micro-organisms and tested the conditions that were best for growing mould on bread.
RE
CRC Article 14 – All children have the right to their own thoughts, opinions and religion, but this should not stop other people from enjoying their rights. Parents can guide children so that as they grow up, they learn to properly use this right.
The Easter Story: We have learnt about the Easter Story and have tried to consider the key events from different people’s perspectives. The photographs show us having a class debate about whether Jesus deserved to be crucified or not.
We have also visited the ‘Life Exhibition’ at St John’s Church, which was all about Jesus’s life and death.
Special Events
CRC Article 19 – All children have the right to be protected from violence, abuse and being neglected by anyone who looks after them.
CRC Article 28 – All children have the right to learn.
NSPCC Number Day
World Book Day
Our Learning in Year 6 (2022-2023)
- Our Learning in Year 6 Autumn Term
- Our Learning in Year 6 Spring Term
- Our Learning in Year 6 Summer Term
Unit of Light
To start our new unit of ‘Light’, Mrs. Thompson from Bishop Barrington came in to teach us. She put us into groups and we had the opportunity to complete a whole range of fun activities from trying to bend light, write secret messages and looking at them in U.V light to mixing colours to create white light. Once we had all had a go at each activity, Mrs. Thompson then taught us the theory behind each one. We are going to use this knowledge during the rest of the unit. Click on any thumbnail to view our slideshow:
Year 6 Geography
As part of our first Geography lesson on Rainforest and Forests, the children were given six photographs and 6 definitions. They had to work in pairs to discuss the definitions and match them up with the photographs. As we delve deeper into forests, the children will be studying the Amazon Rainforest and forests in the United Kingdom.
Click on any thumbnail to view our slideshow:
