Year 6 had a very busy week this week.  In Science this week Year 6 have been studying Nutrition and the Circulatory system.  They learnt about the four components of blood and how each cell works in the body.  In Maths, the children continued to work on decimals and percentages...

This week in English, year 6 participated in a verbal debate. The children were presented with a modernised story of the three little pigs and discussed who killed the big bad wolf. In teams, the children had to use a formal tone, to present their arguments either for or against the statement in que...

This week in Maths, Year 6 were exploring fractions. They have learnt how to multiply, divide, add and subtract fractions. We particularly focussed on dividing fractions and learnt about the KFC method, ‘Keep, Flip, Change’. The children used this method to help solve tricky calculations...

This week in Science, Year 6 learnt about scientific circuit symbols.  First, the children discussed the purpose of a circuit before identifying parts of a circuit and their scientific symbols.  They were then able to practice drawing scientific symbols before drawing a scientific cir...

In English, our new core text this term is called Phillip Pullman, Fairy Tales from the Brother Grimm. We have focused on the fairy tale ‘Cinderella’, which has an unexpected plot twist! This week we were discussing and harvesting vocabulary from the text. We discussed the meaning of eac...