Posts belonging to Category Class 6

100 Word Challenge (Week 27)

This week the prompt is a phrase. The phrase you need to include in your 100 Word Challenge is: ……the green shoots could just be seen…………

S.O.A.R

Switch Off And Read The video games industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Therefore, it is an important part of Bradford and England’s economical future. “During May, I am giving up my games consoles and doing more things like reading, art and exercise. Hopefully lots of Fagley pupils will follow [...]

Captain’s Log 1

On our way to Hull Marina for voyage 1. Traffic okay and we look like we should be early, which is good. Courtney is asleep, probably to be followed by a few of the other crew members too!

Snow Such Thing as Bad Weather

Well 375 schools may have closed today in West Yorkshire, but the pupils of Fagley Primary are not put off by a bit of snow. This afternoon’s Forest School session began by with a spot of recycling. Earlier in the year, each class produced a piece of artwork to tie in with their creative curriculum [...]

Science Week Investigation

To conclude our work on Air Resistance in Year 6 and to celebrate Science week, we are going to have a parachute and spinner landing competition tomorrow. The competition will be to design: – the parachute that will be the most accurate and land on the X – the spinner that will stay in the [...]

Step Up Market Challenge 2013

Year 6 is proud to announce that they have entered this years Step Up Market Challenge. The aim of the challenge is simple – to develop a product or service and sell it profitably on a real market stall! As part of their careers education, a group, now known as ‘DIY Delights’, have developed a [...]

Book Reviews

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Get into the Swing

The 6 Forest School group had seen me preparing a rope trail for the Key Stage One group earlier in the week. They were keen to have a go at creating their own rope trail obstacle course. They decided to split into two teams and design an obstacle course to challenge each other. Reece, Imath [...]

Forest School Mallet Melody

The children are now competent users of a variety of tools including bow saws and fixed blade knives. Today we introduced a new tool to their repetoire, a billhook. A billhook is a traditional tool used to cleave wood and in particular for hedge laying. We used the billhook today to enable us to fashion [...]

Wind Power

All the seasons in one day greeted us at Forest School today! We began by thinking what senses are stimulated by the wind. Martine said sometimes you can smell flowers when they are blowing in the breeze. Michael said that you can see the trees blowing and feel the wind on your face and blowing [...]