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
Our Visit to Newcastle Castle
As part of our history topic on Crime and Punishment through time, we visited Newcastle Castle yesterday. We enjoyed a tour of the castle, first finding out about the history of the castle and its’ role as the sheriff’s court and prison during the medieval times. Then...
Netball
In PE this week, Year 6 continued to develop and build on their foundational netball skills. The children learnt basic ball skills which included throwing the ball with accuracy using chest pass, shoulder pass and bounce pass and catching skills. They worked hard to...
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...