Blog Author: Miss Huddleston

We have been busy collecting labels from food and other products which have been bought by our families. Today we used Digimaps to help us calculate how far these products have had to be transported before reaching our local shops. Some had travelled thousands of miles, whereas others were sourced…

A team of 8 Year 5s and 6s went to the interschools tag rugby tournament this afternoon. After a tense couple of play-off matches, we ended up second in our pool. All our games were very close scores. Unfortunately we lost our semi- final match, but came 3rd overall. The whole team worked really…

The sun shone every day for Year 6 as they spent much of the week outside, honing their cycling skills, with the help of the Bikeability instructors. They practised various skills in controlling their bikes before learning how to signal and turn safely. After finding out about the rules of cycling…

We went out in the sunshine to take part in our Intrasports competition this afternoon. Thank you and well done to the Year 6 Sports Captains for organising our activities.

Year 6 began their World Book Day celebrations with a return visit to Ashton Manor residential care home. We enjoyed an afternoon of sharing some of our favourite books with the residents, chatting about books they enjoyed reading as children and they even helped us with a book character quiz. 
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This afternoon in geography, Year 6 have been learning about time zones and how they relate to the lines of longitude (including the prime meridian which runs through Greenwich in London). We found out what time it is now in other parts of the world and enjoyed looking at live webcams to see what…

This afternoon, Year 6 had their first taste of “Garage Band”, a music composing app which we have on our iPads. We had great fun experimenting with the sounds and rhythm patterns!

Now we have finished our individual projects on the countries of North and South America, we have spent some time reading each other’s projects. We looked out for the most interesting or surprising physical and human geography facts. We certainly learnt a lot from each other this afternoon!

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Year 6 are currently working on individual projects. Each member of the class has taken responsibility for a different country from North or South America. Once our projects are finished, we will look at each others to learn some key human and physical geography facts about each country.

This afternoon we were visited by Louise, who came to talk to us about water. We learnt about  the water cycle, how we use water in our homes and what United Utilities do to make sure we have a constant supply of clean water to use. We also learnt how they treat our dirty water before it goes back…

Today, Year 6 enjoyed the first of a series of online writing lessons with Pie Corbett (a very famous author and poet). We used our Chromebooks to interact with Pie and the 14 other schools involved in the session. We were able to add our own ideas using the “Padlet” function and get feedback from…

Year 6 went to Ripley St. Thomas Academy this morning, to experience a morning of high school life. We began the day in the chapel, learning a little about the history of the school and its special link with Scotforth St. Paul’s. We then visited the Food Technology department where Miss Exton…