Blog Author: Mr Buckton

Year 6 welcomed a special visitor! 

A rock star!

This week, the children have been estimating the mass of pumpkins.

They were given the weight of a medium sized pumpkin as a point of reference.

Today, we were lucky enough to have visitors from Liverpool Hope University.

They worked alongside the children in small groups exploring a range of questions surrounding Earth and space.

In DT, the children enjoyed making flatbreads.

They worked in small groups to mix their ingredients together and used rolling pins to shape their flatbreads.

The children have been learning about how search engines work.

In groups, they explored the playground in order to gather information about a range of books and work in a similar way to a search engine. 

Nikita Prothero, who plays for Sale Sharks Rugby, visited the school to work with Y3-Y6 girls and promote rugby in schools.

The girls had an excellent time being introduced to rugby through a range of different games and it was amazing how quickly they picked it up.

The children created their own graphic novels. They decided their characters and where it would take place. The children enjoyed being creative and having the opportunity to create their own original story.

Today we mapped out in pairs the sequence of events from Annie getting into the barrel to the moment she reached the edge of the falls.

Today the children discovered how to quickly find relevant information on a specific topic using search engines.

Today the children used their understanding of place value in order to solve a range of problems.

The children used skills such as partioning, ordering and rounding numbers in order to find the correct solutions.

Today we looked at the disaster of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

We discussed the dangers of travelling on the Great Lakes and the factors that led to the ship sinking.

Isabella 5A, ‘I enjoyed having the opportunity to research in class.’

Today we explored gestation periods of different mammals.

We concluded that,’the larger the mammal, the longer the gestation period,’ however there are some exceptions to that rule.

Frieda 5A, ‘I enjoyed creating a bar chart to show the different results.’