Tag Archives: Year 6

What makes a good advert?

  We are studying adverts in Year 6 and this week we shall be using and applying all we have learned to construct our own persuasive packaging and adverts. In order to make our own high quality products we must … Continue reading

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Collective Worship Y5&6 – Which special days do you celebrate?

November and December are very special months in many religious calendars. There was Diwali, which is celebrated by the Hindu religion, followed by the Muslim festival called Ashuru. This Wednesday is the Buddhist Sangha friendship celebration and on Thursday Sikhs will celebrate Guru … Continue reading

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Memories of Miriam Lord

Sadly, Year 6 pupils shall be moving on to their secondary schools soon. Many of them have spent 8 years with us here at Miriam Lord and we thought we would use this wall to let them share their special … Continue reading

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Collaboration and the Apprentice project

In 6JC we have been talking a lot about collaboration. What it means, what it looks like and how it changes depending on the task we are doing. We are beginning to understand that sometimes being told what to do … Continue reading

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Who lives in a place like this?

Both classes in Year 6 have been busy revising their work on Living Things. This started with some trips to Drummond Road to see what lived there before we worked collaboratively in our groups to revise our knowledge of Science … Continue reading

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Year 6 visit BRI

Last week Year 6 visited BRI to look round A&E (Accident and Emergency) and to receive some basic first aid and home / road safety training. We got to visit different parts of the hospital and see what equipment was … Continue reading

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Year 6 traffic survey

Year 6 have been learning how to work together to gather data and analyse it to help improve their Geography, Maths and Literacy skills. To do this we have been studying the local area and we are beginning to give … Continue reading

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Letters from Parkland Primary

Pupils in 6JC were reading some letters sent to us by Year 6 at Parkland primary this morning. Pupils there were very interested in our olympic torch and wanted to know if we would be visiting their school and sent … Continue reading

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Thank you letters from Year 3

Year 6 had a greek day.We had lots of fun activities and we invited different years to our Greek museum.Year 3 decided to write thank you letters and they were lovely! The borders were outstanding and they wrote such wonderful … Continue reading

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Divali

For the last few days, we have been practising a shadow puppet show to perform in assembly tomorrow.  Today we added some sound effects and music to bring it to life.  

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