Year 6

Welcome to our Year 6 class page.  On here, you will find out about all the fun we have and other important information.   

Enterprise Week 1

Our Year 6 pupils have been invited to take part in an enterprise challenge alongside nine other school in County Durham.  The aim of this is to inspire confidence, creativity, and entrepreneurship through a variety of activities.  This includes being introduced to business concepts such as idea generation, product development and marketing. By the end of the ten weeks, pupils will have the opportunity to sell their products at a dedicated market day in April (details for this will be confirmed).

During their first week, pupils have looked at what makes a business and how a product meets a customer's needs.

Hand Buzzer Game

As part of their DT work, Year 6 have designed, created and evaluated their own hand buzzer games. They have developed a game to use their fine motor skills.  They had to consider function over form by ensuring that their product was fit for purpose and attractive for their designated audience.  Please see below for their work and final designs.

Woodland Protectors

As part of their work in geography, Year 6 have studied how to protect our forests.  They were given a spending limit of £60,000 and worked in groups to produce a spending list and a presentation to explain why they had made the decisions they had.  As each group shared their decisions, the rest of the class made notes on the key messages for each group.  At the end, they voted for their winners.

Panto Pandemonium

Festive Fun Run

Christmas Card Winner!

We were thrilled to hear that a member of our class had won the Northumbrian Water Christmas card competition.  This design will now be printed on all of their cards and sent out around the region.

World War 2 with Adam Bushnell

Year 6 had a fabulous session with Adam Bushnell. They learned about the smells and sounds associated with the Blitz. After this, they produced a piece of writing about waking up to the aftermath of a night of bombing where they included the five senses.

Meet our Lovely Librarians

Here are our Year 6 librarians.  They will take it in turns to help in the library during the week. It is wonderful to see so many of them being interested in helping in our library.

Primary Maths Challenge

We took part in the Primary Maths Challenge and although it was challenging (which we do like in maths in Year 6!) we did enjoy it as it was the chance to take part in something different in mathematics. We are hopeful that some of us will have the opportunity to take part in the bonus round in February.

Remembrance Service

Our school community game together to remember those who gave their lives, so we could live ours.  Our Year 6 pupils have been looking at the poem, 'In Flanders Fields' and as part of their work, they have considered how the poem makes them feel and what it makes them picture.  They then created their own poem within the poem using 'Blackout Poetry'. From this, they created their own imagery poetry based on their poem. Year 6 then shared their work as part of our Remembrance Service.

Judo

We have been fortunate to have had a Judo session to find out about the sport and we could join a club, should we wish. During the session, we learned new skills and worked together.

Science Circuits

In Science, our current topic is 'Electricity'.  We have been investigating complete and incomplete circuits. Next, we are going to investigate what happens when more components are added to a circuitg.

Reciting Poetry

In Year 6, we have been looking at The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.  This is a narrative poem set in the 18th Century and written in 1904.  As part of our work, we produced a diary entry as Tim the Ostler and created our own alternative ending to the poem.  We had to consider the rhyming pattern, the metre of the poem and the vocabulary we used.  We then shared our alternative versions with our class.

Classifying Animals in Science

As part of our science work, we created our own classification keys.  We had to think like scientists to create the questions to help identify each animal.

Colour Run

We all had a fabulous time taking part in the Colour Run.  We certainly were awash with colour by the end of the run!

Art Week

For Art Week in Year 6, we looked at pointillism and created a painting of a bowl of fruit using the work of Yayoi Kasuma as inspiration.  We were so impressed by how well our artwork turned out (Mrs Sleeman was most certainly impressed!).

Meet the Teacher

Please find information below from our Meet the Teacher evening.

Knowledge Organisers for Mathematics.