Category: Year 6 Blog

Another busy week for Year 6  ... our tennis skills are improving beautifully and, as Easter approaches, we are looking at different ways to raise money during Lent. We will be buying ducks, fruit trees and other usefulfor Cafod and this money-raising exercise will take place on Thursday April…

This week our school councillors gave the first collection of clothes to Mr and Mrs Yates, to take to St Cuthbert’s Children’s Centre (see photograph). Evie, Evangeline and Harry are helping with this.

We have all been busy, working hard this week. We completed the on-line health assessments on…

Another great week.

Wednesday was the first day of Lent and we came together to receive ashes. Thursday’s Book Day was brilliant. Well done to all the Year 6 children for coming to school in such great costumes. Friday morning was spent at AKS at a conference celebrating International Women’s…

A great week back after the half term holidays: everyone ready to learn. The children who took part in the Bikeabilityy training received their badges and certificates.

We had a fantastic Wednesday morning, making our pizzas (designed in DT). These were baked in the…

On  Monday we were lucky enough to be visited by a refugee. Mr Eiad Zinah spoke to KS2 about his journey as he fled from his native country. Year 6 have followed this up with class discussion and there have been some very thoughtful opinions and points of view.

On Thursday Mrs Gradwell, who is…

Wow! What a week we’ve had!

Year 6 - you’ve been amazing and have shown us how incredibly hard you all work! Thank you all!

Friday morning we went into Squirrel wood in order to complete this years bird watch challenge. A lovely, annual task, which we all enjoy :)

Next week is children’s…

This week in year 6 we have been focussing on our healthy lifestyle writing, with the lifebus helping to clarify the facts for us. We had the Tuesday afternoon session and a lot of what we learned about ( alcohol, smoking, drugs and learning how to say no in a situation that we know is wrong) was…

This week we were lucky enough to be visited by Amy and Andy from the sand dunes project. We learned all about the work they are involved in, including the Christmas tree recycling, which will take place on the last three days of January. 

In year 6 we are looking at producing information…

 Happy New Year from us all in Year 6!

Our first week back and we’ve launched back into the curriculum with gusto!

Our science work, investingating how shadows change when using a torch to look both at angles and length was brilliant and we achieved some interesting results. ( See…

Our final week of what has been a very long and hardworking term!

Wednesday afternoon saw us across at St Bedes chapel for Reconciliation; thank you Fr David for organising this. We also had our last football skills session with Ollie, which culminated in some amazing games of…

What a week we had! Monday was an extremely hard-working morning with everyone in Year 6 clearing and tidying Squirrel Wood. It now looks much neater. A great team effort. 

Tuesday, after school, St Peter’s held their “Voice” competition. We had seven girls from Year 6 entering. Well done to…

On Tuesday evening St Peter's hosted 'The Voice'  and Year 6 are very proud of our runners up: Laila, who came second and Olivia, Sophia S and Niamh, who came 3rd!

Our classroom is looking very festive now as we enter Advent - we have 3 calendars on the go :)

Friday was own clothes day and…