Year 6 2021-22

We recently visited one of our local mosques. Incredibly, this mosque was set up by the family of one of our own Year 6 pupils! For many of our pupils, it was the first time that they had been in this mosque, and it was really interesting to compare this mosque to the mosques that they regularly attend. Thank you for having us! 

We spent the day learning about how to be NewsWise, how to spot fake news, and the different jobs that journalists do! We had an absolutely fantastic time producing our own news reports, as well as analysing the news. Thank you, NewsWise team!

As part of our topic work on Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, we learnt about the Viking runic alphabet. Did you know that the Vikings believed Odin sacrificed one of his eyes for knowledge of the runes? Vikings who could read and write were very respected in their communities! What do you think our runic messages say?

A few weeks ago, Year 6 were invited to take part in a Light Workshop, run by the Real Photography Company, sponsored by The Ogden Trust, run at St Paul's Learning Centre. You can read all about it on the  The Ogden Trust's website . We made our own camera obscuras, took photos with pinhole cameras made out of cans, looked through the giant camera obscura onto the street outside, and even wore some camera obscuras! At the end of the workshop, we were given pinhole cameras to take back to school that we will use to track the movements of the sun over the next few months. We can't wait to see what the finished photos will look like! We had an amazing time making our cameras and learning more about light and photography, and we're very grateful for the opportunity to take part in this workshop!

Year 6 have been developing their reasoning skills in Maths. We investigated Viking runes and rounding. Children worked in partnership with each other to solve the problems. We were really motivated to work systematically and solve the challenges!

Last week, we were visited by Pippa and Hamish from  Arup , an international engineering firm with a local office. They talked to us about all the different kinds of jobs that engineers could do. We learnt how to be safe on a building site and got to try on some of the health and safety equipment! Then, we had a competition to see who could design and build the best tower out of spaghetti and marshmallows. Points were awarded for height, stability, design and the cleanliness of our building sites.