Year Six
Welcome to Year 6!
Our teachers are Mrs Fraser and Mrs Lishman.
We hope you will visit our page regularly to see what we have been up to.
Year Six Blog Posts
Building birdhouses
This half term in DT, we have designed, built and evaluated our own birdhouses. We began by finding out about the different kinds of bird houses and the birds that live in them. Mrs Fraser challenged us to design and build a birdhouse for a blue tit, great tit or...
Our Visit to the Centre for Life
In Science this term, we are learning about light. On Monday, we enjoyed an interactive workshop at the Centre for Life where we were able to take part in lots of experiments investigating light. First we learnt about Isaac Newton and how he was the first scientist to...
Women in Science
This half term in Science, we have thoroughly enjoyed researching a range of female scientists past and present such as Katherine Johnson, Florence Nightingale, Rachel Carson and Caroline Herschel. We worked in groups to find out about their inspirational lives, what...
Netball
This half term, our topic is netball. Following a quick fun warm up to remind ourselves of the tactics involved in attacking and defence, we recapped various passes used in netball; chest pass, bounce pass and shoulder pass. The children thought about the positioning...
Book Week in Year 6
Last week, St Aidan’s enjoyed celebrating Book Week with many book-themed activities across the week. We discussed the importance of reading for pleasure to develop our vocabulary, knowledge and understanding of the world and learning across the curriculum as well as...
‘Think Good, Feel Good’ – Session 5
At the beginning of ‘Think Good, Fell Good’ session 5, the children played a warm up game called, ‘Would you rather?’ The theme of this week’s session was ‘Managing your feelings’. We chatted about how our feelings can become very strong and sometimes they can be hard...