Year 6 

Our Class Saint is St. Bernadette

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Welcome to our class page - have a look and see what we have been up to.

Long Term Plan                                                                          End of Year expectations. 

Summer Term

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Year 4, 5 and 6 Mass

This half term we enjoyed a lovely mass celebrating St Irenaeus, the Doctor of Unity. it was a lovely mass and especially lovely as our wonderful parishioners could also join us for the celebration. 

Jubilee Celebrations

On Friday 27th June we had a wonderful day celebrating the Queen's Jubilee. We danced through the decades, played rounders, made marvelous cross stich creations and had a go at archery. At lunch we had a party on the playground and we even got to have our photo taken with a special someone! 

Spring Term

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National Storytelling Week

On the 3rd of February we joined into a live zoom with Jonny Duddle, the illustrator of the Harry Potter books to learn more about illustration and to try our hand at drawing Hagrid. 

Anderson Shelters 

 Consisting of a wooden frame structure, corrugated cardboard shell and free choice decoration we have worked hard to create these miniature models and we are very proud of them. Have a browse through the gallery below to see some more pictures of our wonderful work. 

Dan the Skipping Man

On the 11th January we had a visit from Dan the Skipping man who taught us many new skills including Double Dutch, Pretzel, Rodeo  and the Double under. We had a class session in the hall and we were all able to jump into the long rope and those of us who are Playleaders had a lunchtime session so we could share our skipping skills. 

Collective Worship 

To start the New Year the PALS led us in a class Collective worship about new beginnings. Thank you PALS. 

Autumn Term

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One of the first tasks we completed this year was to create a speech to apply for a role or responsibility. We then delivered our speeches to the whole school and a vote was held. Meet the team below:

Head Girl: Tessa

Head Boy: Kyan

Deputy Head Girl: Connie

Deputy Head Boy: Danny

Principal PALS: Johan

PALS's: Cireinna, Mikaela, Hanna, Emily and Izza 

Principal Prefect: Dawud

Prefects: James, Gabriela, Alan, Georgia, Rowan

St. Andrew's Captain: Evie 

St Andrew's Vice-Captain: James

St David's Captain: Ibrahim

St David's Vice-Captain: Aysha

St George' Captain: Eva

St George's Vice-Captain: Rayan

St Patrick's Captain: Chinmay

St Patrick's Vice-Captain: Cara 

 

Anderson Shelters

As part of our World at War topic linking to our text Goodnight Mr. Tom we have been creating Anderson shelters in Design and Technology - we will be finishing them after Christmas but have a sneak peak at their construction below.

Remembrance 

In November we commemorated Remembrance in a variety of ways - we had a class assembly, created Poppy circle books in English and visited the School Remembrance Museum to see all the artwork and artefacts collected and shared. 

Outdoor learning: Plant classification! 

As part of our Science unit we went to Hartshill park with Peak Survival School to identify and classify the local plants. We worked out if they were edible, poisonous, medicinal or mechanical.

Building the Kingdom.

On the 8th of September we celebrated our Blessed Mother Mary's birthday. We celebrated this occasion throughout the school with a birthday cupcake and in Year 6, we researched gender equality, past and present and thought about the situation happening in Afghanistan.

Physical Education.

In P.E this half term with Miss Lovatt, we have been learning all about Badminton. With Sam from Bee Active we have been focusing on improving our Gymnastic skills on the apparatus. Watch the slideshow below to see us practicing our jumping skills.