Year 6

Welcome To Year 6's Class Page!!

Hello, and welcome to Year 6's Page. Over the course of the year, you will find information here about what the pupils are learning in class, examples of their excellent work, and photos of them exploring and having fun learning new things. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact either Mrs Salza or Mr Willis.

k.salza@st-clares.manchester.sch.uk r.willis@st-clares.manchester.sch.uk

Autumn One Overview

Year 6 Autumn One Overview.

Year 6 Autumn One Overview 24/25

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PE Days Autumn One Term

6W - Tuesday and Friday

6S - Tuesday and Friday

Welcome to 6S PPT 2024-25

Welcome to Year Six
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Check out our videos on the four operations:

Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication

Division

Year 6 Spellings Overview

Year 6 Spellings overview

Year 6 Spellings Overview
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Autumn One

We have had a brilliant first week back to school, and have already immersed ourselves fully into the year six curriculum. We have enjoyed learning about place value and reading and writing numbers up to ten million in Maths, we have explored how light travels in Science, used Digimaps in Geography to explore our local area and made wider links between
Blackley, the North West of England and Europe, we have recapped how to use our bodies to mirror in Physical Education for our gymnastics topic, and lastly, we have delved into the dignity of the human person in Religious Education as we identified the most beautiful characteristics of our friends around us, and made them smile by sharing the positivity with each other. Take a look at our first week in year six.

MacMillan Coffee Morning

The year six children did a fantastic job of hosting this year's coffee morning. Thank you to the parents and carers who joined us, and for the amazing donations

Maths in 6S

This week, we have been identifying common factors and common multiples. To help with our understanding, we created Venn diagrams to clearly show the factors and common factors of certain numbers.

Exploring Reflection

This week’s science focused on exploring reflection and understanding how it can be used in our everyday lives. We learned about periscopes and their usefulness, car mirrors and even mirrors used in the hairdressers. We then made our own periscopes to further understand the angle of incidence.

Shadows!

Year 6 have been learning about shadows and how they are formed, they have been investigating how the size and shape of a shadow changes when they change the distance to/away from an object.

6S Presentations

Our focus in English is on Oracy and how to present information and work with others in discussions. For our RE lesson, we researched the religious orders and presented our findings in the form of a group presentation, the children used loud, clear voices, used factual information and took turns to present their information.

Well done 6S.

VOISE Workshop

Today, the year 6 children took part in a science workshop led by students at the University of Manchester. The focus was on STEM and on engineering in particular. They were given the task of creating a sturdy overhead anchor for overhead lines on a train or tram track. They worked incredibly well in teams, and asked many fantastic scientific questions throughout the afternoon. Well done year 6! We clearly have some budding young scientists amongst us.

Clay Hearts

This half term, we are learning all about the heart and the circulatory system. In our art lessons, we are learning how to sculpt using clay, and have started to create a clay human heart. We have used red and blue paint to create the effect of oxygenation and deoxygenated blood. They look incredible.

Pig Heart Dissection

To conclude our science learning from this half term, the year 6 children (and their parents) dissected pig's hearts as a way of seeing the four chambers, the aorta, and even blood clots up close! Both the children and the parents were fascinated, and equally disgusted! Thank you to the parents who joined us for the interactive science lesson.

Advent Calendars 6S

6S Test the voltage of a circuit

This half term, year 6 have been exploring simple series circuits and investigating how to change the brightness of a bulb in a circuit. They have also correctly identified faults within a circuit and worked together to fix common problems such as; high/low voltage, using the correct components in a circuit and ensuring that all components are connected to a cell.

Year 5 and 6 Visit OLHS

Both the year 5 and 6 children were invited along to Our Lady's RC High School to watch their performance of High School Musical. They had an incredible time! Thank you to OLHS for inviting us along.

6S WW2 Work in History

Have a look at the amazing work that has been produced this half term in history, We have been learning all about WW2, the role of women in the war and the effect that the Blitz had upon Manchester. To celebrate the end of the unit, we hosted a WW2 day where many activities were completed such as; baking using rationed ingredients, morse code reading, making a morse code oscillator, writing letter as an evacuee and more! We then invited the parents and carers in to visit our WW2 themed museum of work!

6S Oracy in RE

As a school, one of our focus' is on Oracy and discussions. So, in our RE work we incorporated drama and discussions into our work. We read scriptures based on Jesus healing the sick, and used our drama skills to act out the scenarios, and freeze framed certain areas of the performance. We then discussed what we witnessed and how this links to how we can go forward and help others in our day to day lives.

6S Prayer and Liturgy

This half term, the children in 6S worked together in small groups to plan and present a prayer and liturgy session for the Year One children. They worked very hard to prepare for the lesson. Well done 6S

British Science Week 2025

This week, we are celebrating British Science week, and focusing on how scientists have adapted or changed our thoughts and ideas about science. We were incredibly lucky here in Year 6, and were visited by Mr Hindley, our school Governor, who used to work as a chemist. He talked to the children about his role in the laboratory, how he studied microorganisms, and how bacteria grows. We have learned all about science as a career, and have increased our science capital so much! Thank you to Mr Hindley for visiting us.