To celebrate School’s Football Week, Year 6 had an inter-house football competition. Each house played against each other and could score points through goals, teamwork, effort and achievement. We were really proud of everyone as they showed brilliant teamwork and sportsmanship throughout.

To celebrate School’s Football Week, Year 6 had an inter-house football competition. Each house played against each other and could score points through goals, teamwork, effort and achievement. We were really proud of everyone as they showed brilliant teamwork and sportsmanship throughout.

After our visit from England footballer Ben Godfrey, where we showcased our amazing football skills, we have spent some time writing letters to Ben to thank him for his time. We have also created a timeline of his career highlights. We were so inspired when he told us about the difficulties he has faced in his career, and motivated us to never give up!

During art day, we studied local Yorkshire artist Henry Moore. We were inspired by his sculptures and created our own using soap. We thought about what shapes represent us and used different tools (paper clips, rulers and scissors) to create these. 

Having planted our vegetables over a month ago, we decided they were due a check-up. Mrs Percy and Mr Fishwick have very kindly been looking after our crops so we were excited to see how much they had grown! They still have some more growing to do, but we can’t wait to harvest them when they are ready.

To kick off our new science topic linked to adaptation and evolution, year 6 headed round the school grounds on the search for snails: once we had found different snails, we looked at their shells and appearance and considered the location in which we found them. Then, we recorded our findings and discussed why different types of snails survive in different areas.

As part of our RE topic on religious architecture, year 6 have been exploring the world's most beautiful or unusual places of worship. We researched each building's unique features and vital statistics, then played a whole class game of Top Trumps... the winning building was Mont Saint-Michel, a tidal island off the coast of Normandy, which attracts over 3 million visitors each year!

Year 6 have been amazing whilst beginning to design their own games on Scratch. We began by using our coding and command skills to ensure that our sprite is able to move backwards and forwards at different speeds and angles, we then added a background which fit with the theme of our game. 

As part of our English topic, year 6 have brought their classrooms to light: we pretended to be on board a boat as a storm descended. We got into character as the waves splashed over us and the boat was tipped from side to side- it was very tricky to stay on our feet! Afterwards, each class wrote a collective poem which embodied our experiences and feelings.

What started as a year 6 non-fiction comprehension lesson, ended with our children inspired to create their very own static snakes! We read about how you can create a static charge by creating friction, which can then cause objects to move of their own accord. 

Year 6 took part in a variety of activities to celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi. Our favourite was re-enacting and writing our own good vs evil character speech for Captain Nicholls and Corporal Perkins from War Horse. Here we are acting out our speeches.