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8 February 2017

Year 6 Helping in the Community

As part of the Chorley Civic Pride Award, we are helping in our community. Today Elm Class went out with some parents and cleaned up our local community by litter picking. We discussed the importance of our community and why it is vital to play our part. We then put this into action by starting a…

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1 February 2017

Mirror Mazes

In science, some of the year 6 pupils have been learning about how mirrors reflect light. We played mirror mazes outside and attempted to walk along a wavy line while looking only in a mirror held overhead. We found it tricky because of the reversal of left and right when looking into the mirror.…

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27 January 2017

Woodland Trust Bronze Award

Well done everyone! We have recieved the Woodland Trust Green Tree Schools Bronze Award! To achieve this we have been learning about the Woodland Trust in assemblies, planted 30 trees in our KS2 playground and recycled all of our ink cartridges. What a fantastic start! We are now aiming for the…

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25 January 2017

Gymnastics

Miss Baker was lucky enough to teach Year 4 gymnastics this afternoon. We had a wonderful lesson developing a range of jumps, large body part balances and travelling in different ways.

We created our own sequences on the floor and then developed these using equipment. It was lots of…

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25 January 2017

Light

In science, we have started to study light. We have learnt many facts such as light is an energy that travels in straight lines. 

Today, we carried out an investigation to prove the law of reflection. We did really well with this and worked out that the angle of incidence and the angle of…

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18 January 2017

Y6 Outdoor Maths

This week, year 6 have been learning about angles in maths. We went outside, with our protractors, to measure and draw some angles. 

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18 January 2017

Y6 Science lessons

We have started our new science topic of light today. In this first lesson we created YouTube style videos and human diagrams to explain how we see things. 

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9 January 2017

Titanic Topic Day

To introduce our new topic of the Titanic, we have had a full topic day. The day started when we were given a ticket (with the name of a real passenger on it) to board the ship in our classroom and we answered the questions below: 

What would you pack for your journey?

What will you be…

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19 December 2016

Christmas music assembly

Today we performed in our music assembly. We sang and played the guitar to a range of rap, reggae and Christmas songs. Eddie, Harrison and William even played a solo! The whole school enjoyed it and joined in with some of the songs. 

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