To continue widening our children’s experience of sport, today Y45&6 had a good at fencing with a coach from FITfence.
The day started with an assembly to introduce the sport, some rules and equipment. Then, throughout the day, all six classes had a full session getting to grips with this exciting and incredibly fun sport!
To blast off their topic about space, Y56 have been creating paintings inspired by artist Peter Thorpe.
Using bright, solid colours and bold cartoon lines, the children overlaid a space craft over a semi-abstract background.
Well done children!
This afternoon, Y6 took part in a first of a series of live lessons streamed nationwide by BBC Super Movers. The lessons are designed to get children across the country moving more within lessons and learn in an exciting active way.
This afternoon’s lesson was broadcasted from Manchester City Football Club’s training ground with parts being demonstrated and taught by the players themselves. The theme of the lesson was maths and children learnt about different aspects of shape, space and measure.
This was a great activity and the children found it very engaging!
This week Y56 have embarked on their new topic: “Is there life on Mars?”
Our pupils will become experts on space and our solar system and consider the possibility of life on other planets – especially Mars.
This week we welcomed our parents in to meet the Y56 staff and get our topic underway with some trying their hand at building moon buggies with the children!
Year 6 have been working very hard this half term in PE on a dance performance. This has been created and choreographed by Miss Stainton and all of Y6 have worked incredibly hard on this!
Year 5/6 had so much fun participating in a full Viking day experience! We set up a trading post and used grain to exchange for goods. Children worked in teams to gather as much grain as possible to see who were the most successful traders at the end of the day.
In order to receive grain, they had to buy Viking tasks to complete and the traders would then buy them back. Excellent teamwork was demonstrated by all and it was a fantastic opportunity to put all of our Viking knowledge to use! Well done!
Miss Stainton’s class enjoyed participating in a range of safer internet day activities this afternoon. We spent a long time discussing how to use the internet and social media platforms sensibly and safely.
We then finished the afternoon by acting out different situations which could happen when using the internet…there are some fantastic actors and actresses in year 6!
We have been working really hard in Y5/6 to gather information about ‘The Vikings’. Last week, we embarked on a Viking QR code hunt challenge and searched the pod for lots of interesting facts. This week, we used those facts to write up a non-chronological report. Our writing skills are really improving! Well done!
Miss Stainton’s maths class have been working really hard this week completing translation challenges.
We have improved our accuracy and are confident in translating a range of simple and more complex shapes across all 4 quadrants, incorporating our knowledge on co-ordinates too! Excellent work!
