Class of 2018

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…

In science this term we are looking at classification of living things. To help us think about the questions needed in a classification key we played ‘Who am I?’ with living things we may find on a woodland walk. We were allowed to ask yes or no questions and once we found out who we were we had…

Today year 6 re-enacted a Seder meal to help us remember the significance of this important festival to Jews today. We tried the symbolic food and drink and found some were far more appetising than others! We also set a place for Elijah and opened the door to welcome him in. We enjoyed looking for…

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…

This week Year 6 have visited Chirnside House and Ashton Manor care homes to entertain the residents with their carol singing. They also enjoyed chatting to the residents afterwards.

Year 6 have finally completed their Christmas printing project, with their third layer of colour. The results look spectacular and will be used as our Christmas cards to our parents.

Today, along with children from some other local schools, Year 6 went to Ripley to meet the famous children’s author Jacqueline Wilson. We learnt how she began writing in primary school and had her first story published in a magazine at the age of 17. Her first book was published when she was 26…

Today we held our Christmas Market after school - the culmination of our Enterprise Week. Each group packaged and priced their various products before displaying them for sale in the hall. As a class we did really well and managed to more than double the money we had been loaned by SCOT4ALL! We…

Year 6 have been working hard all week, planning and making a range of products to sell at the Christmas Market on Friday. They have used many skills throughout the week and taken on roles including project manager, accountant, advertiser, quality controller and resources manager. Come along to…

This morning we had a visit from Sarah, a STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) ambassador. We learnt about electricity and were able to do some exciting experiments - including making a human circuit in which we could test out some materials to find out if they were insulators or…