The Life of Leif Eriksson

Year 6′s Literacy theme this half term has been Vikings. We interviewed a Viking known as Leif Eriksson and gathered more notes from the internet. We then turned them into biographies using; facts, 3rd person, past tense and clauses. Below are some examples of our biographical writing, we’d really appreciate your comments on our work [...]

Ferris Wheel Evaluation

Year 6, you have now finished building your ferris wheels. Please work with your group to answer the following questions: How do you plan to decorate your Ferris Wheel? Which two aspects of your construction went well and why? What things did you do differently because of your previous evaluation (of the model you made at the beginning [...]

6GS ask; What’s Your Favourite Type of Story?

Year 6 are beginning their post SATs Apprentice Project. This involves them designing, making and publishing their own books. As part of our market research this week we need your help! Please click on a link below and complete our surveys please. They will help our groups decide what type of story they will write [...]

Year 6 Boosters Work

Year 6, your task is to write sentences about the characters from How To Train Your Dragon. We are practising Level 4 sentences with emphasis on green phrases (to add extra information) so I’m looking for use of commas and brackets to add a clause. We can then ask our blog readers and visitors to [...]

Sara’s Blog!

Some lucky children in Year 6 learned how to set up their own blogs. They used WordPress and created accounts. Although we still have lots of work to do with individual blogs, one blog in particular that is worth a look at is Sara’s. She has uploaded a couple of stories so far and would [...]

Saphia’s Killer Cat Report

Saphia used all the features of reports, her Talk for Writing text map and her target card to write a report about Lions. We have been looking the Diary of a Killer Cat in Literacy and decided to research real killer cats. This was the end result. I’m sure Saphia would love to know what [...]

YEAR 6 VISIT B.R.I

YEAR 6 AT Bradford Royal Infirmary on PhotoPeach Year 6 visited Bradford Royal Infirmary this week and learnt some key life saving skills. We had a go at CPR using training dolls. We all left the hospital with our fingers in little plaster casts too – but don’t worry we didn’t break our fingers it [...]

YEAR 6 Survey

Can you take part in our survey this week to help year 6 gather some data for their maths lessons? Which Learning Muscle do you use most?

Year 6 Christmas Come Dine With Me…

Year 6, my Christmas dinner is always at my mum’s house on Christmas day, we usually have prawn cocktail to start with, followed usually by a huge turkey, roasted potatoes, parsnips, carrots, stuffing, gravy, and SPROUTS, for dessert we have Christmas pudding and cream! Yum! For me Christmas dinner has to be like this. Your [...]

Lord Mayor visits Year 6

The Lord Mayor Visits Year 6 on PhotoPeach

Year 6 Literacy Circuit ICT Creative Writing Activity

 This week in Literacy Circuit I’d like you to write about Whitby. You can; recount the trip, tell it as a story, write a persuasive advert to persuade people to visit Whitby. The choice is yours!

Would you stay in Room 13?

Have a look at Sara’s advert for Room 13! Come and stay in Room 13 Do you want to have the scariest experience, while having nightmares in Room 13? If yes, book it now. Don’t belate or hesitate, even though it might be a torture for you. One reason you might be delighted to hear [...]

Room 13