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.
PE Days Autumn One Term
6W - Tuesday and Friday
6S - Tuesday and Friday
Welcome to 6S PPT 2024-25
Check out our videos on the four operations:
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Year 6 Spellings Overview
Year 6 Spellings overview
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.
You may find the following websites useful:
Purple Mash - www.purplemash.com/stclaresm9
Times Tables - https://ttrockstars.com/
Accelerated reading
ps://ukhosted38.renlearn.co.uk/2244085/default.aspx
BBC learning - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Oak National Academy - https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-2
Science Fun at Home - https://pstt.org.uk/resources/curriculum-materials/Science-Fun-at-Home
Maths games - Topmarks Education: teaching resources, interactive resources, worksheets, homework, exam and revision help
E-books - Oxford Owl for School and Home (each class has their own log in details)