Year 6
Autumn Term
During this term, we will be very busy with Year 6 maths, writing, reading, speaking and listening and SPAG objectives and we will be learning about and enjoying a wide range of topics as well:
The eroding coastline around the U.K. and a particular in-depth study of the Formby coastline,
A significant turning point in British history: The Victorians, the industrial revolution and the life of a Victorian child,
Black History: culture, mask making and dance,
Exploring Scandinavia,
The Vikings,
Graffti Art,
A sense of place.
Light and sight
We will be reading Kensuke's Kingdom and Streetchild during class and reciprocal reading.
Educational visits and workshops:
Eroding coastline: 14th September 2017
Quarrybank Mill: Tuesday 26th September 2017
Black History Workshop: Thursday 12th October 2017 (In School)
Tatton Victorian Servants: Thursday 9th November 2017
Viking Experience: Thursday 30th November 2017 (In School)
Tatton Evacuees/WW2: Thursday 8th March 2018
Robinwood Residential Alston Cumbria: Wednesday 11th - Friday 13th July 2018
All activities are National Curriculum linked and support Learning Outside the Classroom.
Welcome to Year 6
Year Six Class has adopted the British Value of 'Equity'.
Throughout the year, we will be learning about ways we can promote fairness
at school, home and within society.
Meet our head and deputy girl and boy, school council representatives and house captains
Monitors
Christmas 2017
Living history: Our Viking Experience
Living History: In 1887, the Prince and Princess of Wales honour Tatton with a visit. To help with the preparations, we were recruited as extra servants.
Tingatinga paintings originated in Tanzania by the artist Edward Saidi Tingatinga in 1968. Edward began his work painting under a Baobob tree. His work consisted of bright, bold colours, simplistic designs, inspired by his surroundings.
Black History Month – today we learned about African culture through art and dance activities.
Shadows investigation
Today, we are imagining ourselves as Victorian servants and maids and painting our pictures.
At Quarry Bank, we explored the Industrial Revolution and discovered what it was like to be a child apprentice. Home to the pauper children who worked in the mill, we went in the Apprentice House which is a recreated ‘home’ where we experienced life in the past. From the strict lesson in the schoolroom to seeing the grisly medical treatments of the day, we really experienced Living History.
The children looked at photographs of spectacular examples of coastal stacks, caves and arches and painted using watercolours.
We met our buddies this afternoon and spent time getting to know one another.
Our Eroding coast learning day out. Formby is one of the most rapidly changing sections of coastline in England. Over the past 50 years close to 200 metres has been swept from the front of the sand dunes by tidal erosion. Year 6 have been learning about this problem and the coastal management strategies used at Formby.
How does light travel? We had fun experimenting together.
