Welcome to Year 6.

We are looking forward to working with you all this year! Keep an eye on this page for updates about our learning and useful information about what is happening in school.  Please note, any new information is always added to the top of the page beneath the important information.  Pop back and visit us often to see what we have been up to!

Please remember:

* All uniform, PE kit, coats and wellies should be labelled.
* Coats, filled water bottles and book bags should be in school everyday.
* For morning playtime children may bring 25p to spend at the tuckshop or bring their own healthy snack.

Autumn 1

This half term the focus of our indoor PE lessons is yoga. We have been trying to improve our strength, flexibility and balance as well as getting our minds ready for the week ahead.

In biology we have been learning about natural selection. We found out about Charles Darwin and what he had noticed about the colouring of peppered moths in the 19th century. The number of dark coloured moths increased because the tree bark became darker with the soot from the factories.

To understand this we played the peppered moth game. We started with equal numbers of light and dark coloured moths and looked what happened when we reduced the amount of light bark there was for these moths to land on.  If a moth landed on bark that camouflaged it then it survived and was able to reproduce. If it landed on bark where it wasn't camouflaged it got eaten by a predator. In our game we also noticed that the number of dark coloured moths increased.

We are very proud of  the topic books that we have made in Year 6. They were our design technology project for the first half of the autumn term. They involved many processes. Our project involved a lot of patience and perseverance.  Here we are covering the card covers with our tie-dyed fabric – the corners were the most challenging and we folded them like gift wrap to make them neat.