Engineering Day
As we have celebrated Engineering Day today, we started off by thinking about what they thought engineering was and drawing what they thought an engineer would look like. With most children drawing men, we talked about all children’s aspirations and being whatever they wanted. The children then…
CSI Macbeth Team
WWBBA: Reading
SC: To be able to retrieve, record and present information from a range of non-fiction texts.
CSI – Murder Mystery
After discovering a crime scene, the children were given evidence found by the CSI team to help them solve a murder investigation. Looking carefully at each…
Evolution and Natural Selection Science Lesson
WWBBA: understanding evolution and inheritance
SC: understand how animals and plants can evolve over time because of evolution and natural selection.
Today we started to look at evolution. After playing the evolving bird game, we realised some animals DNA mutates changing certain…
Creating DNA models
Today we have started our new science topic of evolution and inheritance. We started the topic by learning about DNA. The children were very interested in this and came up with lots of facts. We then learnt about scientific studies of DNA and created our own helix models using midget gems. And the…
Cheerleading
Today Mrs Smith started our new PE unit on cheerleading...with real pom poms! We created a dance in unison keeping in time to beats of 8. We then made up a canon sequence with groups doing their own routines one after another.
It was great fun! Next week we are going to add some cheerleading…
Trash
Class novel: Trash
After finishing this class novel, we have awarded Trash by Andy Mulligan 5 stars!
Discussing the story as a class, we decided the main themes are:
Courage and friendship
Here are some of the comments from Year 6 pupils:
"It was great. It was one of the…
Great Women in History - Rosa Parks
Great Women in History
WWBBA: investigating and interpreting the past
SC: analyse a wide range of evidence in order to justify claims about the past and refine lines of enquiry.
After learning about how men and women were treated differently throughout history, we have focused on one…
Christmas DT Challenge
Christmas Design Technology Week
(Monday 4th – 8th December)
WWBBA: designing, making and improving a product
SC: Show an understanding of the quality of materials to choose appropriate tools to cut and shape and ensure the product have a high quality finish, using art skills.
Use…
Emmeline Pankhurst Comes to Life
After learning about Emmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes, we wrote speeches as if we were Emmeline.
On the new IPads, we created a ‘Morfo’ using Emmeline’s photograph and made her speak. The children really enjoyed doing this and loved to watch the 3D Emmeline move and speak showing her…
Electricity Day
Today in year 6, we have had a Science day run by Electricity North West called ‘Bright Sparks Electricity Day’. We have had lots of fun learning all about Electricity.
Today the children have learnt all about circuits. The children built a series of different electrical circuits using…
Woodland Trust Tree Planting
A huge thank you to our children who attend outdoor club. They have planted 60 saplings in our school grounds today.
We hope this will create an amzing woodland area in years to come where the children will be able to explore and find shade.
Learning the Guitar
Today I had the pleasure of hearing the pupils playing their guitars. Well done! We had some fanastic singing and the children were all enthusiastic to learn jingle bells on their instruments. A huge well done to Annabell and Ebony who both played a solo for the rest of the class. I'm very proud…