Blog by Tag: Year 6

After enjoying wheelchair basketball, Year 6 focussed on learning some basic First Aid skills. We looked at what to do if we come across a casualty who is unresponsive. We learned how to check if they are breathing and, if they are, how to keep them safe by putting them into the recovery position.…

At the start of a very busy day, Year 6 enjoyed a session of wheelchair basketball. 

This evening, Scotforth put on its first ever outdoor production. Year 6 braved the drizzle to perform Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. The story began on the school field, before moving up into the woods to explore the goings-on of a group of runaway Athenians, a bunch of very…

Today, Year 6 were invited back to Ashton Manor residential home, to join the staff and residents for a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. First we entertained them by singing songs from our production, before enjoying cakes, jelly and ice cream. Finally we worked with the residents to solve a number of…

Our Y6 cricket team had a great day out in the Lancaster School Cricket Tournament today.  We played with fantastic enthusiasm, team work and effort.  In our group stage we won 3 of the 4 games and then played in the semi final against Moorside.  The semi was very tight and we narrowly lost. …

Our Y6 cricket team had a great day out in the Lancaster School Cricket Tournament today.  We played with fantastic enthusiasm, team work and effort.  In our group stage we won 3 of the 4 games and then played in the semi final against Moorside.  The semi was very tight and we narrowly lost. …

Two teams of Year 6 netballers went to Moorside School this afternoon to take part in the inter-schools netball tournament. We came second and fifth, but most importantly we showed great teamwork, resilience and sportsmanship.

Today Year 5&6 went to the Lancaster Town Hall to watch a performance of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev. It told the story of a boy called Peter and his encounter with a wolf.  Each of the characters had different instruments representing them. The flutes were birds, the oboe was a duck and the…

The sun shone for Year 6 today as they walked into Lancaster. Having learned about the development of the settlement of Lancaster in class, we followed our maps (both a modern OS map and a 1610 version) down the A6 before walking past White Cross then down Penny Street and Market Street up to the…

Year 6 had an inventive afternoon today. They were tasked with coming up with new ideas for using technology in the classroom. Our ideas included electronic, interactive display boards and electronic mini whiteboards that can store your workings and mean you don’t need to worry about your…

Today, Year 6 enjoyed an afternoon off their SATs to practise their cricket skills with Coach Regan.

Following our first SATstests of the week, Year 6 enjoyed another afternoon outside in the sunshine. This time we were solving maths problems to collect clues to work out an anagram - very complicated but great fun too!