Welcome to Year 6 2025-2026

Class Teachers

Welcome to the Year 6 Learning Journey.

Here we will share some of the things we get up to during each half term.

Summer Term

Fairground Rides

After SATs we embarked on a DT project to design and make an electrically powered fairground ride.  We had to do lots of research into different kinds of rides and learnt new skills and practised others that were rusty.  We also had to have good teamwork to enable us to complete our projects and overcome challenges along the way.  We were really pleased with what we made!

Y6 Residential: Robinwood

This term we went to Robinwood in Todmorden for our residential.  For some of us it was our first trip away with our friends and without our parents.  We were challenged in lots of activities and had to show resilience.  Some of the activities we participated in were archery, canoeing, raft-building, giant swing, caving, amongst many others!  We had an amazing time together!

Science Show - Light

We had a visit from Adrian Bowden to learnt lots of interesting things about light.  We got to take part in lots of cool experiments together!

Spring Term

World Book Day

We took part in our final World Book Day at primary school.  We had lots of fun dressing up as our chosen characters, taking part in the celebration assembly and class activities, and posing together!

Ian Bland - Poetry Workshop

We welcomed the author Ian Bland to our school and every year group got to take part in a poetry workshop with him.  Year 6 had lots of fun inventing and performing puzzle poems.

Drone Workshop

Year 6 took part in a Drone Workshop with Jack from Hyett Education.  We learnt how to use an Apple app called ’Swift’ to program small drones.  We learnt how to write the coding for the drones to move in different ways and complete a series of challenges.   Once we had completed all the challenges, we were allowed to ‘Fly at Will’ which meant we could design our own sequences by putting all the code we had learnt to write together in different ways.

Autumn Term

'Kids in Museums' Takeover Day

Mount Pleasant Primary School were chosen by Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington to take part in this year's 'Kids in Museums' Takeover Day.

The Y6 children took part in lots of workshops and learning experiences where they got to experience possible careers in heritage and cultural industries.  These included looking at the role of a curator, how to plan events, marketing and PR, social media amongst many other things.  We had a great day and met some inspiring people!

Visit to Blackburn Cathedral

In November we visited Blackburn Cathedral as part of our RE study.  We learnt about the role of a cathedral and investigated some special parts and artefacts.  We especially liked the stained glass.  We were also fortunate enough to  view the Keith Jerram 'Earth' installation and took part in a workshop where we thought all about our ideas of peace.

South America Projects

This term Y6 have worked independently to create projects about their given country in South America.  We had amazing responses and everyone worked incredibly hard!  Well done.

DT - Burgers

In DT we investigated how to make healthy burgers and made our own sauces - they tasted great!