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In English, we have been reading extracts from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and we are starting to plan our own chapter using some of the settings and characters. Today we designed our own treasure island and took our classmates on a talking tour.

In Geography this week, we’ve started learning about volcanoes. We had some interesting class discussions about the pros and cons of living near a volcano.

Another busy afternoon in Year 6 preparing our stage sets and characters for the stop motion animation filming that will begin next week. The children are working in mixed groups from across the 3 classes to create an animation depicting the fossilisation process (mineralisation) they have learned about in science.

Niamh and Isaac

Liberty Gymnastics

Lottie

Dominic

Democracy Gymnastics

Evie

Amy

Ada

Joseph and Charlie

Mrs James’ maths group: Exploring 3D shapes and their nets.

British Science Week: Testing how environmental factors affect how far away from a target a paper spinner lands.

In Geography this week, we are learning about earthquakes. Today, we discovered what happens when tectonic plates move against each other.

When one tectonic plate moves, all the other plates move too.

More 3D maps of North and South America!

In Mrs Marshall’s maths set, we have been investigating 3D shape nets and properties of 3D shapes.

More 3D Maps

In Spanish this week, the children have been writing an advertisement for a property of their choice and sharing them with their class mates.

Gymnastics

Today in gymnastics we worked on star jumps, jumping jacks, piked rolls and dive rolls.

Amy’s Dive Roll

Myles’ Dive Roll

Harriet’s Dive Roll

Dominic’s Dive Roll

We created 3D maps of North and South America from memory. We tried to include all the physical features we have been learning about. What do you think?

Let Girls Play! ⚽️

World Book Day: Book Swap

A big thank you to all the children who took part in our Book Swap! We’ve gone home very happy with our swaps!

Year 6 World Book Day!

Year 6 Art: Focussing on our observation skills and up-levelling our drawings of eyes.

Practising our stop-motion animation skills before we make a film about fossilisation.

Year Y RE: Looking at all our amazing art work based on the values of Jo Cox.

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Spanish in Year 6 - we have been learning how to describe our homes in Spanish. Today the children were testing their vocabulary knowledge by sorting a set of word cards into word class groups (with a little help from bilingual dictionaries).

Safer Internet Day 2025📱

Today, Year 6 took part in a live lesson about safer internet usage. The live lesson taught us all about how to identify scams online and keep our personal details secure. We had great fun and learnt a lot!

Unity: Playing games in our last lacrosse session

Liberty’s last lacrosse session.

Liberty book club

Mr Stanley Maths Set Long Division QR Codes 🤩

Democracy Reading Journals

Unity: Our final two books reviews of the year - both brilliantly presented using the oracy skills we have been practising.

Unity: Lacrosse in the sunshine

Celebrating Lunar New Year in 6 (and 5!)

Unity Lacrosse

Liberty playing lacrosse.

Learning how to keep ourselves safe at Crucial Crew.

In science we have been learning about biomes. Our task is construct a ‘circle book’ about the six main ones: everyone has made a great start, and we paused to look at each other’s and give feedback.

Unity Book Club: We have had more fantastic book reviews over the past two weeks, including two from the same series! Everyone has presented brilliantly and answered a range of questions from the class.

Liberty Book Club - we had 3 amazing presentations today. Each child spoke with confidence and promoted their books successfully. Great job!

Mrs James’ and Mrs Marshall’s maths sets have been learning how to use scale factors to enlarge 2D shapes.

In Science we played a board game to learn more about how complicated the fossilisation process is. Some of us managed to get fossilised - some didn’t!

Snow Day

In school we have completed some activities in our Reading Journals.

Then we played The Pirate Game as a (part) year group! There were some brutal take downs and some glorious victories!

Fun in the snow

Lacrosse

World War II Homework Projects

We set a homework project for the children based on our History topic. There were a range of tasks to choose from and the children have worked exceptionally hard to produce some outstanding pieces of work! We then set up an exhibition to share all our hard work!

Unity: WWII Projects

Democracy WWII Projects

Unity: Designing and building bridges

This week’s book club in Liberty was hosted by Dominic and Josef, who had chosen 2 very different books to showcase - Bad Dad by David Williams and Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan. All the year 6 staff are loving how the children are wanting to borrow each other’s books. Reading is a pleasure!

D&T: Bridge Building Woodwork

D&T Bridges: Focused Task

Christmas party!

WW2 projects are complete and they are amazing!

Crazy Hair Day

Year 6 Elves🎄

Unity Book Club: Two very different books today from Darren - a funny, graphic novel - and Asil - a story based on The Blitz. Both great presentations!

Liberty loves graphic novels! Well done to Wilf and Summer for their great presentations this week. Everyone wants to read Looshkin and Dog Man now.

Planning a dialogue for the beginning of our quest stories.

Ice-skating token treat.

Hailey baked some cinnamon cookies using a WW2 recipe. The whole class are in agreement: WW2 biscuits are delicious despite having very little sugar content.

Christmas Fair fun!

Unity: Using our knowledge of circuits to design and make electric buzzer games.

Unity Book Club: Two more fantastic presentations from Tanisha and Ivy, both with beautiful posters. This time they were about books which not many of the class had heard about. Fantastic work girls!

Liberty Book Club - Hailey & Harriet chose 2 very similar series this week - Dork Diaries and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Well done girls for your great use of notes!

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Year 6 (and the teachers!) had a great time at The Imperial War Museum North, continuing our learning about World War II.

Science: Democracy Completed Buzzer Games

Science:Making Electric Buzzer Games

Look at these WW2 ginger biscuits made by Lottie. They were a huge hit with the whole class.

Unity Book Club

Two more fantastic reviews today. Niamh and Nabhaa both prepared brilliantly and presented their favourite books with enthusiasm and fantastic oracy skills. Well done!

Gail’s Bakery opened its doors today and very kindly invited some of our Year 6 children to visit for a look around, a hot chocolate and a sweet treat! Many thanks to Rich who looked after us all and shared the company’s history and told the children how the bakery operates. Our children asked some very intelligent questions and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Liberty Book Club - well done to Loppy and Sri this week who told us all about their favourite characters in their chosen books. Loppy even dressed up as her character!

Unity Book Club

Over the past three weeks we have been treated to some amazing book reviews that have included costumes, posters and props! Some have been books from familiar series and others have been completely new, but all of them have got us excited about reading different books.

Liberty Book Club - Two more fabulous presentations from Eric and Lottie. There are a lot of requests to borrow each other’s books in class now!

Science Electricity Investigation

Harriet baked a popular WW2 recipe - sweet carrot biscuits - at home for us to try in school. These biscuits contained no sugar as it was rationed during the war. the sweet taste comes from the carrots. They were a huge hit. Thanks Harriet!

Children In Need Day - thanks to everyone who donated change to raise funds for this very worthy cause.

This week’s Book Club in 6 Liberty:

Today is Odd Socks Day - we are wearing odd socks to mark our individuality for Anti-bullying week.

Cut Your Carbon Month

Liberty Book Club - Harry, Shahd & Hailey C shared their favourite books with us this week (Dr Doolittle, Finding My Voice & Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone).

CCAC Trip to London!

30 lucky Y6s took a tram, train and tube to see our work on display in the V&A museum! In the afternoon we took advantage of the beautiful Autumn sunshine to see some of the capital’s famous sights! We even managed to celebrate Laina’s birthday! The children were superbly behaved on what was a memorable day.

Unity Book Club

This week Matthew introduced to a series books that sound fantastic and that most of the children hadn’t heard of before - some of the class will definitely be searching them out!

Book Club

In Book Club today, Zoie introduced us to her favourite book: Peril on The Atlantic. It is the first book in what looks like a fabulous series of mystery adventure stories by A.M. Howell.

Badminton: In our final badminton session, we used all the skills we have learnt to play matches.

Year 6 Welcome Meeting 2024 - 25.pdf

Reverse Poetry

As part of our English learning, we studied Refugees by Brian Bilston. We were amazed by the change in meaning and effect, by reading the poem backwards after reading it forwards! Using this as a stimulus, we created our own reverse poems about the environment. When you read our poems forwards, you hear the view of a Disinterested Destroyer of The Environment but when you read them backwards, you hear a Passionate Protector of The Environment!

We then used our oracy learning to practise reading our poetry - adding emphasis to key words to enhance the meaning. We recorded our poetry recital and added pictures to add further depth to our presentation!

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Zoie Reverse Poem.mov

Unity book club: Over the past two weeks we have been treated to some fantastic reviews supported by posters and even costumes! Everyone has demonstrated a range of oracy skills, delivering clear, well prepared presentations and showing great enthusiasm for the books they have read.

Liberty Book Club: this week it was Kechi and Sam's turn to present their favourite books. They used a wide range of oracy skills to impress their audience and now, there are lots of children wanting to read their chosen books.

Liberty Book Club: Mark presented The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien and Kaushika introduced us to Douglas Daley Where's My Tarantula by Jackie Marchand.

Reading Journal Progression Through Holes

Poetry in English: Refugees

Today we explored Brian Bilston’s poem: Refugees. We read the poem from top to bottom and collected words it made us think of and we used them to create a micrography picture. We then re-read the poem backwards and we’re surprised by the difference!

Liberty Book Club: Melody talked to us about her love of Gangsta Granny by David Walliams and Nuah introduced us to Wow!: the visual encyclopaedia of everything. Both children were very enthusiastic and worked hard to demonstrate great oracy skills.

Unity Book Club: Lawrence, Manya and Sam introduced us to some fantastic books.

Unity: Working together to edit and up-level our writing before we publish it.

Spanish in Year 6 - this term's topic is 'En La Clase' (In The Classroom). So far, the children have learned some new vocabulary, created and performed mini role plays and have just successfully completed their first Spanish reading comprehension task.

Democracy Book Club: Evie and Charlie 📚

6 Liberty book club: this week Alice introduced us to The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks by Katie Kirby. She told us the book is easy to read as it's set out in a diary format and it has great illustrations. Ronith presented a series of Loki books by Louie Stowell. Ronith said that he had bought his first one using a World Book day voucher and loved it so much that he went on to read all the others.

Heart Dissection

Today we consolidated our learning by undertaking a heart dissection in our science lesson. We were able to search for and identify the main parts of the heart that we have been learning about.

Our Year 6 Prefects👏

Reading Journals

We have started journaling our reading journey through Holes. Each week, as part of our Guided Reading, we choose activities based on what we have read that week. The class have made a great start!