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Year 6 are currently learning about life in Britain during WW2. Today we focussed on what life was like for children who had been evacuated from cities and sent to live in the countryside. Using evidence from actual WW2 evacuees, we each took on the role of an evacuee and shared our experiences…

In DT have been practising the skills that we need to make sandwiches. Today we practised spreading margarine and ate a slice of bread, butter and honey that we made ourselves!  We also used the bridge hold and the fork hold when we were cutting vegetables with sharp knives. We even used the…

We are learning about the water cycle so today we drew a flow chart on a food bag. We are going to put water into them and watch the different stages of the water cycle happen in the bag. 

This half term we have been looking at lots of different toys. Toys that we used to play in the past when we were babies and toys we play with now. The children have made some amazing toys this week, crocodile, butterflies, rockets, castles, people figures and many more. 

As part of our new English topic, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, we have learn the beginning of Robert Browning's poem.  We hope you enjoy it!

Today in science we had a look at the difference between voltage and current. We tried testing buzzers, bulbs and motors to see if their output energy changed depending on the voltage from the batteries.

Today, Miss Huddleston took two members of our Worship Team to Clitheroe to the Blackburn Diocesan Children’s Worship Conference. The focus was “Giants of Faith”. We considered famous giants of faith, then thought about how we can be giants of faith ourselves, standing up for justice, praying…

This week Year 6 have been introduced to the method of long division. Now we have learned how to solve a long division calculation, we have moved on to thinking about what our answers actually mean, especially if there is a remainder in our answer. For example, if there are 165 people invited to a…

This morning, Year 6 made the most of the dry sunny day to learn some orienteering skills at the same time as practising their spelling, grammar and punctuation. First we had to orientate our maps and become familiar with the key before using them to locate control points around the school…

We have been practising dribbling a ball in PE today. We worked in teams to bounce on the spot and move with the ball. We will use these skills when we play some invasion games.

Year 6 have been learning about some of the World War 1 war poets in their literacy lessons. We have been interested to discover that one of the poets, Laurence Binyon, was born in Lancaster (and has a street named after him, just down the road from school). His most famous poem is “For the…

We have started our new story - The Pied Piper of Hamelin - and today we thought about what activities the townsfolk would be doing before the rats came and then how things would have changed when they arrived.  We really got into character!