Blog Author: Mrs Redmayne

We have been working on our Christmas prints for weeks now, building up the different layers of colours. It has been great to have Naomi to help teach us some of the key skills. Have a look at some of our finished prints. We are really proud of them!

Today we started our Christmas cards. We needed to start really early as we are making layered prints and they take a long time to dry... We were joined by Mrs St-John, who is an art teacher. She helped us to design an effective image and do our first layer of prints. We'll show you how they turn…

Can you fit 5 people through an A4 piece of paper? If you think the answer is no, then talk to some Year 6 children who now know better! This is because we were visited today by Dr Irene Wise from Lancaster University who talked to us about  STEM skills (Science, Technology, Engineering and…

In Year 6 we are investigating how to make strong and effective shelters. Today we working in teams to see who could make the strongest structure using a limited amount of materials including card, straws, pipe cleaners, paper and sellotape. Natty, Rebecca and Phoebe's team was the winning one as…

On Tuesday 8th October we held our Lockerbie assembly. Since we returned from Lockerbie we have thought and written about our experience there and what we have learnt from our trip away. We shared our memories (and lots of photographs!) with our families and the rest of the school and then we had…

We have been studying the Jabberwocky poem by Lewis Carroll and discussing the moods that the poem creates. Today we used two primary colours and mixed them to create lots of different shades of colour. We then used paper collages to depict the fantasy characters in the poem: the Bandersnatch, the…

On Friday 8th March, Year 6 took part in an acting workshop with professional actors following the whole school performance of Oliver. The performance was great fun and we learnt a lot from meeting the actors and getting to ask them questions afterwards.

We had a great time on a World Book Day - dressing up, decorating potatoes and enjoying a book character trail with our buddies all around the school.

Well done to Year 6 for all their hard work this week and the fantastic things they made for the Christmas Fair.  As you can see, the products looked great and, unsurprisingly, we sold out of everything! We'll find out next week which team made the biggest…

All week in Year 6 we have been busy preparing for the Scotforth Christmas Market. We have been working in teams and each team has had a budget of £15.  As you can see, we have been very productive but we could not have done it without all the help given to us by parents, friends and…

Today we were visited by PC Atkinson and CPO David who talked to us about being safe online. They challenged us about keeping private and not contacting anyone who we do not know when we are online.