Year 6 visited the Open zone to complete some green screen filming after writing a script about democracy and voting rights in Ancient Greece which they are studying in history lessons.
Whilst there they also completed a robotics workshop using software called Spike and lego pieces which they could attach to motors and run programmes through one they wrote the code themselves. The children had a brilliant time with some excellent work achieved by everyone.
We celebrated Roald Dahl day on his birthday (13th September). His favourite colour was yellow so we all tried to wear something yellow. During the day we discussed some of his books and completed activities linked to these. We held a competition linked to ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ which involved us designing our own unique sweet/chocolate bar.
Year 6 are undergoing a project to make an automata toy. This week we were building the frames. We used wood, saws, wooden blocks, rulers, glue guns and joined together our pieces with care and concentration.
Congratulations to all of our end of year achievement winners!
We enjoyed learning songs to sing in our end of year singing assembly!
As part of our final year 6 science unit, we have been studying light. We finished off our project with a visit to the Centre of Life where we took part in a ‘Light Fantastic Workshop’ which was excellent and then rounded up many other science topics previously taught during our time at the junior school. We watched a science theatre show and visited zones such as: Hello World, Space Zone, Brain Zone and Creativity Zone. We also visited The Planetarium and watched a ‘We are aliens’ show which was fascinating. We had a brilliant day out on our final primary school trip.
We enjoyed a day in school where we were allowed to come dressed in what made us feel comfortable. We discussed why we were proud to be who we are.
As Year 6 move on to their Secondary Schools, we’d like to wish them all good luck for the future. The have had an amazing year, loads of trips, activities and worked so hard. We’re proud of all of them and would like to share their successful SATs results with you.
Reading 95% of students gained the expected standard, with 93% in writing. In maths the figure was 97%, so overall 90% of our children have reached the standard expected at the end of Primary School. This is in contrast to the national standard of 59%
