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9 March 2023

Y6 celebrate World Maths Day with Y1

To celebrate World Maths Day, Y6 spent the afternoon with Y1 helping them to play Maths games and develop their counting and adding skills. 

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3 March 2023

Y6 visit the Wonder Dome

Y6 were absolutely thrilled to be treated to a session in the Wonder Dome - a mobile 3D planetarium. Once inside, they went on a journey to space and learned about how there could well be life on other planets. What an experience! 

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2 March 2023

Extreme Reading in Y6 for World Book Day

Y6 were set a World Book Day challenge: to find an area of the classroom where they could read in an u usual but quiet and focused way. They all enjoyed their favourite books in some weird and wonderful places and positions!

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2 March 2023

Y6 and Reception share stories together for World Book Day 2023

Y6 spent a lovely afternoon with our Reception children sharing books and special stories. Our Y6s read to the younger children with real expression and enthusiasm. They enjoyed juice and a biscuit to round off a fantastic World Book Day. 

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17 February 2023

Printing in Y6

Y6 have been learning how to make their own printing tiles by engraving patterns into them and then experimenting with layers of colour and different  designs.

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14 February 2023

Y6 Rum Story and Whitehaven Harbour

Y6 had a great day out discovering more about the history of slavery and the sugar trade at the Rum Story.  They learnt about the wealthy Jefferson family who traded from their office in Whitehaven and used the sugar which was farmed by slaves on plantations in Antigua to make rum. After looking…

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10 February 2023

Y6 and Reception celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week

Reception and Y6 shared a playtime today to celebrate the end of Children’s Mental Health week. The theme this year was “Let’s Connect’’ and our oldest children loved connecting with some of our youngest! 

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10 February 2023

Y6 Healthy Choices Workshop

Y6 were joined by Leah from CADAS for a healthy living and choices workshop. They learnt about the importance of making sensible choices as they get older despite being tempted by peer pressure. Leah played games with the class which meant they had to make certain choices about different…

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7 February 2023

Y6 St Bees Science Fair

Year 6 were invited to St Bees private school to take part in a Science Fair. Throughout the meowing the children studied the structure of a cell using a microscope. They were shown how a Van Der Graff generator charges things up creating static electricity. In the labs, the children carried out…

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3 February 2023

Times Tables Rock Star NSPCC Challenge

KS2 took part in the NSPCC Times Table Rock Star challenge today. They all tried very hard to be the winning class with the highest number of correct answers per pupil. The speed and recall of some of the pupils was very impressive! A huge well done to everyone. 
 

 

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27 January 2023

Y6 Gymnastics Balances

In their gymnastics lessons, Y6 have been learning how to use their bodies with a partner to create balances safely.

 

 

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5 January 2023

Y6 Investigate Refraction and Reflective Materials

Year 6 completed their unit of learning on light by planning and carrying out an investigation to discover ‘What surfaces make the best reflectors?’.  They set up an investigation that had a controlled variable, independent variable and dependent variable.  They predicted and carried out the…

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