Year 6

Welcome to Year 6 2024-25 with Ms Daly and Miss Lamb.

We would encourage you to keep an eye on these pages as we like to share aspects of the children’s learning and experiences from Willow and Sycamore classes.

23rd October 2024 - DT

Year 6 have completed their DT project for this term which involved them creating their own waistcoats! This involved each child developing their own simple design, investigating ways to make their product sustainable, creating their own pattern and then joining fabrics using a range of stitches. The end result was some very well-dressed teddy bears (as we're sure you'll agree) and the children were able to evaluate their designs and suggest things they would do differently next time. Many thanks to our sewing helpers for giving up their time to assist with this project!

10th October 2024 - Science

Year 6 completed this term's science learning about Light, Earth & Space by making and experimenting with periscopes to demonstrate how light is reflected and how objects may be seen . We had great fun making and trialing our periscopes - it's amazing what you can do with an empty cereal box!

24th September 2024 - Mendip Outdoor Pursuits

Year 6 went on a trip to Mendip Outdoor Pursuits on Tuesday 24^th September to take part in some exciting activities. They competed in an archery competition, worked collaboratively in team challenges in the woods and played Frisbee Golf competitively against each other in small groups. The intentions for the trip were to support team building, encourage resilience and enhance their problem-solving. The day was a huge success and the children (and adults) came home exhausted but exhilarated with the challenges they undertook!

13th September 2024 - House Captain speeches

Year 6 are settling excellently into life at the 'top of the school' and have been working really hard in all areas of learning. Today is an important day for as they voluntarily enter themselves into the House Captain elections; lots of our candidates are nervous but also very excited about this leadership opportunity. They will deliver their speeches to their house groups this afternoon (all year groups take part) and then a democratic vote will take place to elect 2 House and 2 Vice-House Captains for Court, Curzon, Pier and Triangle. We wish them all the very best of luck and look forward to hearing who gets elected - announcements to be made in our whole school assembly this afternoon!

2023-24

18th July 2024 - EOY Performance

Year 6 have had a great end to their time at Mary Elton and have really enjoyed performing our production, 'The Pirates of the Curry Bean' and we had fantastic audiences for both performances who were bowled over by the standard of singing and acting on stage.

7th February 2024 - DT

In DT, they have undertaken a significant project to design and make their own 'Steady Hand Game'. This involved creating cross sectional drawings and exploded diagrams, adapting their planning as they constructed their designs and playing their games to test their effectiveness (imagine a room full of children playing the game 'Operation' and you can almost hear the persistent buzzers!) See what you think of their designs.

12th December 2023 - Science

As part of our learning in science, we have been testing the hypothesis that a streamlined object always travels further than a non-streamlined object. This involved using elastic bands to carefully catapult various shaped objects across the classroom and measuring the distance they travelled!

28th September 2023 - Mendip Trip

Year 6 went on a fantastic trip to Mendip Outdoor Pursuits in Churchill. They completed 2 activities during the day (Archery Active and Low Ropes) which were great fun! The trip promoted team building and collaboration in the children's new year group with their new teachers. This will benefit them during their year 6 journey with us.

2022-2023

27th May 2023 - Kayaking

Year 6 spent some time at Marine Lake in Term 5 being an athlete by learning how to kayak. We had a fantastic time: we were courageous, collaborative and a little bit wet!

25th May 2023 - STEM Ambassador Visit

Year 6 were lucky enough to receive a visit from Paul (a Civil Engineer from Tarmac) on Thursday 25^th May 2023; he delivered a Civil engineering presentation which gave the children an interesting overview of the industry, its career pathways and the job opportunities available. The visit provided the perfect introduction to their new enquiry 'Who were the better engineers: The Ancient Britons or the Victorians?' The children also worked collaboratively to complete a STEM challenge creating a structure from straws that would suspend a golf ball. The winning team even received a trophy for their hard work!

17th May 2023 - Shadow artists

During our Enquiry, 'Why are shadows important?', year 6 have investigated how light helps us see, how shadows are formed and what affects the size and shape of shadows. We studied some artists who are famous for their use of chiaroscuro. The term chiaroscuro (from the Italian words chiaro, meaning “light,” and scuro, meaning “dark”) refers to the use of light and shade in a work of art to define three-dimensional objects. We used a coaching model to help each other improve our art work using focussed and specific feedback. We have invited our parents and carers in from 3pm on Friday 26^th May to view our art work.

27th March 2023 - Geographers

Year 6's enquiry this term has been 'Where does our food really come from?' We have been geographers researching where in the world some of our food has travelled from; we have been learning all about the supply chains of certain foods. We started off our enquiry with a visit from Farm Link who explained all about food miles and why these are important.

20th January 2023 - Enquiry (Scientists)

Year 6 have been learning about adaptation in their enquiry this term which is titled: 'Linnaeus and Darwin - what connects them?' We completed an activity to learn about how the shape and size of a bird's beak affects the food they can eat and how different species of birds have adapted the best beak for them to survive in their own habitat.

13th December 2022 - A busy Term 2

At the beginning of term, we completed our first enquiry ‘How are lives saved’ by presenting our TED talks to each other (TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design). We began our second Enquiry called ‘How do we all live together’ in week 2 of term 2. We have been enthusiastic historians discovering all about the legacy of Ancient Greece, the birth of democracy and how democracy works in our modern-day society. We held our debates to help us decide if ‘the Ancient Greek system of democracy was better than ours in the modern UK – it was very interesting and some excellent ‘points of information’ were made! In-between all this learning in school, we also went on a trip to Life Skills in Bristol where we were able to discover lots about staying safe. Volunteers from the Centre took us around different scenarios and we worked through various safety-related activities. We were introduced to numerous difficult or dangerous situations and encouraged to work together to discuss (and carry out) possible solutions. This will help us become more independent and safety-aware as we mature ready for secondary school next year! We visited Clevedon School on Friday 9^th December to watch their performance of ‘We Will Rock You!’ It was fantastic and had us all singing and dancing along even though we were tired from walking all the way there!

29th September 2022 - Enquiry (Scientists)

Year 6 are really enjoying being scientists during their enquiry 'How are lives saved' and have had 2 visits from the NHS this week. On Thursday, a nurse from A&E came to visit to tell them all about how she saves lives and then on Friday, they had a visit from 2 Community Responders from South West Ambulance Services. They were able to experience going inside an ambulance, using the BPM monitor, testing out some of the equipment and asking lots of enquiring questions. Thank you to the NHS for helping us with our enquiry!