Welcome to our Year 6 page.

Welcome to Class 4! Our teacher is Miss Styles and we are very lucky to also have Mr Carey, Mrs Sharpe and Miss Bruce working with us in different sessions throughout our week. On Thursday afternoons, we are taught by Mrs Hodgson who also takes some of us for group work on Wednesday afternoons and works with us in class on Thursday mornings.

During the Autumn term, we are going to continue to learn how to play the violin with Mrs Kekus. We are really looking forward to revisiting our skills with this instrument from year 5 and enhancing our skills even more!

Here on our class page you will find photographs which show what we have been doing during the year.

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Latest from Year 6

Food Technology

Moorforge

Light Investigation

Gymnastics

Violin Lessons

Latrigg

Year 6 – 2021/22

Design and Technology – Cooking and Nutrition

Our Autumn term DT unit was to research, design, make and evaluate a Great British dish. Year 6 carried out surveys as part of their market research and discovered that sticky toffee pudding was extremely popular amongst those who were surveyed. The children then found out the ingredients which were needed for this recipe and where these ingredients come from in the world. The children worked with the head of the DT department from The Whitehaven Academy to develop their recipe by changing the dried fruit that would be added. Year 6 then went up to The Whitehaven Academy where they each made their own sticky toffee pudding which they then took home to eat and, later, evaluate. They all smelled and looked delicious!

Science – Light

Year 6 have been working scientifically in their second science topic of the Autumn term: Light! One of the ways in which they have worked scientifically is they, in small groups, planned and completed a fair test/investigation in to the size of shadows in relation to the light source and also the shape of the shadows in comparison to the objects that cast them. Year 6 were able to draw some excellent conclusions from their findings.

RE – Do all Christians have the same beliefs and traditions?

During the Autumn term, our RE enquiry focused on exploring the beliefs, practices and traditions of various denominations within Christianity and how these are similar and different to one another. As part of our enquiry, we visited three local churches: St Peter’s C of E Church, St Begh’s Catholic Church and the New Life Church which is Evangelical. We were able to ask each of the church leaders about their buildings, ceremonies, beliefs, practices and much more. We were very interested to compare the different denominations and we found out lots of similarities but also many differences.

Sponsored PE – Danceathon

As their sponsored PE activity this year, year 6 chose to complete a 1 hour danceathon in the school hall. Year 6 showed some off some excellent dance moves and even learned routines to a few of Miss Styles’ favourite school disco songs from her days at junior school! As year 6 completed their danceathon, all staff and pupils walking through the hall during this time were encouraged to dance their way through which year 6 were delighted to see happen. Their danceathon was a great way to keep fit, fundraise money for the school and it put lots of smiles on lots of faces. Well done, year 6!

Music – Violin

From September to December, Mrs Kekus came in to teach year 6 how to play the violin every Wednesday afternoon. Year 6 all thoroughly enjoyed these lessons and some of year 6 have now started (in the Spring term) the violin after-school club. To bring together all the hard work that year 6 had done in their violin lessons, they played two festive songs which were recorded and included as the finale of our Christmas carol concert which we filmed this year instead of going up to St Peter’s church.

Science – Fartology Science Show

Year 6 went to see the science show titled, ‘Fartology’, which was presented by the Gastronauts, at St Nicholas’ Gardens in the town centre. Whilst there, they discovered the science behind bodily gasses, where marshmallows get their pink colouring from and also about the chemicals involved in making sherbet; year 6 were delighted that this part included Miss Styles being used as a volunteer to taste each individual chemical up on stage. From the look on her face, we don’t think the citric acid was very nice! They also got to observe some very big explosions and see what happens when you use a giant whoopee cushion all based around lots of interesting physics!

Bike Ability

In the Autumn, some of year 6 took part in the Bike Ability programme. Across the week, they learned how to be safe on their bikes and what to do in different situations on the road. They all had a great time and learned lots about cycle safety.