Welcome to Year 6 2023-2024

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

Chill FactorE

At the end of term we had a trip to the Chill FactorE in Manchester as part of our Outdoor Adventurous Activity work in PE.  We had an amazing time learning how to ski, snowboard and playing on the snow park.  It was an awesome trip and we had a lovely time!

Production: Jill and Fred's Most Hysterical Historical Adventure

This half term we have been working on our production.  It was a thrilling race through history visiting many different eras including Victorian times, the Vikings, Ancient Egypt, the Tudor court and the trenches of WW1.  Every person got their turn on stage and we worked really hard as a year group team to make it a show we were really proud of.  

First Aid

Andrea, our trainer, came in to lead us in learning how to perform emergency first aid.  We learnt what to do if someone was unconscious, if someone wasn’t breathing, how to treat some minor injuries and how to put someone in the recovery position.

Sports Day

Sadly our Interplanet Sports Day got cancelled due to inclement weather.  However, we managed to reschedule Sports Day for Year 6 during a break in the weather.  We had lots of fun competing for a final time together.

Inspirational Visits

In conjunction with ‘Amazing Accrington’ we received a visit from representatives of local businesses to inspire children to think about careers they might be interested in when they are older.

They were: Murray Dawson from Scott Dawson Advertising; Will Fort from Sundown Solutions; Eddy O’Brien from IMEP and Ben Clements from Emerson & Renwick. 

They explained to us that there are lots of ways into the jobs we want to do when we are older and opened our eyes to some of the local opportunities there will be in the future.  We had the opportunity to ask lots of questions and Malang even won £10!

Spring Term

Foodbank

Children in year 6 had the opportunity to visit and help at the Foodbank in Clayton-le-Moors.  They helped pack parcels for local families and learnt about who this resource provides help for.  It is hoped we can continue this link after SATs.

Drone Workshop!

We were lucky to receive a visit from 'Drone Man': children learnt how to code to control drones to achieve different things.  As part of this they used professional coding language and also learnt about careers that involve coding.  We had lots of fun learning how to control the drones - we even made them dance!

Woodlands

Throughout year 6 children volunteer at Woodlands Nursing Home.  They join in with games and activities, and read and talk to residents about what they have been learning.  This is such a valuable experience for both young and old!

Victorian Day

Children had a wonderful time taking part in our immersive Victorian Day.  They took part in Victorian-style lessons, learnt about Victorian money, jobs, art and music amongst other things!  Thank you to everyone who supported the children creating their amazing outfits!

World Book Day

We dressed up as our favourite book characters to celebrate World Book Day.  We took part in lots oi reading-focussed activities and had a special art lesson where we learnt how cartoons are constructed.  We then wrote our own cartoons with the stories we had created.

Autumn Term

Mayoral Visit

The mayor of Hyndburn, Councillor Terry Burns, came to visit us with his wife, the mayoress.  They explained what their job involves and what their goals are while they are in role.  We had the opportunity to find out more about how local government works and were able to ask lots of questions.

DT - Burgers

In Design Technology we explored how burgers and lots of the sauces we use are made.  We tested and tasted different ingredients then made our our sauces and burgers, following different recipes.  We had to think carefully about what went together.  It was great eating our burgers as soon as they were ready!

Blackburn Cathedral Trip

We were really excited to be invited to visit Blackburn Cathedral.  We had a great trip exploring the differences between a church and a cathedral, and learning more about the season of Advent, investigating some of the stories and important people connected with this period in the year.

English - 'The Unforgotten Coat'

One of the books we have studied in English was 'The Unforgotten Coat' by Frank Cottrell Boyce.  In this story a young boy, also in year 6 like us, comes to the UK from Mongolia for the first time.  We had a go at one of the experiments they do in their Science lessons: making rockets.  We recreated the chemical reaction in order for our 'rockets' to take off!

Interplanet Kurling Competition

We took part in a Kurling competition between our planet teams.  It was really important to be accurate and use tactics to score points.  We had a great time!

Sabaiba and Adam were nominated as players of the day.

The results were: Jupiter (1st), Earth, Saturn and Neptune.