Year 6 News

Year 6 musical improvisation to Benjamin Britten’s Storm Interlude. Can you tell which ones are sea-monsters and which piece are the pirates? Click here to view videos

Year 6 had great fun playing the boomwhackers to Christmas songs! Click here to view videos

Social Media is one of the most popular aspects of the internet, and with the amount of apps available for download increasing constantly, keeping young people safe online has never been more important. But what exactly do we need to know about the age restrictions and safety on these apps in terms of internet safety? We answer some of your …

Year 6 enjoyed watching the pantomime this year with their buddies (socially distanced of course!)  

We enjoyed wearing our Christmas Jumpers to raise money for Save the Children

We had so much fun at the year 6 christmas party. We danced, played games and had lots of festive fun!  #article31

We had great fun doing our Santa Dash!

Year 6 showed some amazing talent when taking part in a session with hoopstars!  

This week is anti-bullying week. A week used to raise awareness of bullying. When we are bullied, we are denied of our rights. Article 2 which is about discrimination and how we have this right regardless of our age, gender, religion, language, abilities, family background but often bullies recognise our differences and use this to be unkind to us. Article …

Year 6 visited Seaham Park Cenotaph to pay their respects today. They read the poem by John Mcrae, “In Flanders Field’ followed by bidding prayers and a final poem dedicated to the unknown soldier. We will remember them …  

Year 6 together as a class have finally reached over 1 million words in 9 weeks with a total of 369 combos! This is a fantastic effort! Check out our recent leaderboard: Since coming back after half term Year 6 have read 156683 words in total and collected 42 combos! Keep it up 🙂

Year 6 showed a great knowledge and understanding of fire safety and now understand the risks of fire and how to check their house is safe. They also looked at fire safety from the point of view of the firefighters who risk their lives to save others and how they might feel as November 5th approaches. They wrote some of …

We enjoyed a spooky and socially distanced buddy time to see what our buddies were dressed as on our spooky day. We all agreed they looked great! We did some socially distanced halloween dancing before saying goodbye!  

Year 6 looked fantastic today in their halloween costumes. A day filled with spooky activities from art in the local graveyard, to finishing off our spooky Alma stories, re-creating famous halloween songs on the boomwhackers and learning about the history of halloween.

What could be more scary during our spooky week than having to attempt long division. Little did year 6 know, Mrs Prest performed some sort of witchcraft which made long division seem easy! Mathishan and William must have had a double dose of magic because after one lesson they were almost as good as Mrs Prest. Then today, the magic …

We have really enjoyed celebrating our successes in year 6. It is nice to see what each child is proud of. They choose their own work to go onto the wall. This week we have had a few new entries to our #WeAreWonderful wall. Reece, Devon, Lily and Freyja were keen to share their amazing vocabulary choices which they will …

Year 6 have kicked off their spooky week with the short animation of Alma. If curiosity and creepy dolls appeals to you then you will love this! They have produced some amazing 12 word stories which capture each scene of the animation using only one powerful word per scene. Then to make their 12 word story even more ominous, they …

We are in a our final week before half term. So far we have read 726819 words and have a target of 1000000 before half term. Can we do it? We have already exceeded our combo target of 250 as we are currently on 270 combos. Check our last week’s Reading Plus leaderboard: