Blog Author: Rachel Baker

Welcome to Year 6!

I hope you have all had a fantastic summer and are ready and raring to be back. We have lots of fun learning over the next few weeks with us starting our art topic this week.

Let's enjoy our year!

Key Stage Two all took part in an outdoor fun day today. The children loved it and completed a range of outdoor activities such as: gardening, den building, obstacle courses and we even had a climbing wall come to school. The pupils were fantastic and all staff have loved doing these activities…

Today Year 6 went for a tour around Chorley Magistrates Court. We then acted out a court case with children acting out different parts for the defendant, witnesses, magistrates and the legal advisor. We had to listen to many different people before our magistrates decided on the fate of our…

Well done to all the Year 6 pupils who took part in the music afternoon. It was lovely to hear what you have been learning in your music lessons. Some great songs learnt to play on the guitar and sing. You all showed such enthusiasm. Well done! I heard lots of the parents humming and singing along…

Mrs Sandham has had fun creating some World Cup Pop Art with Year 6 using watercolour and acrylic paints.

They look fantastic! Let's hope the artwork helps cheer on the remaining countries in the world cup. 

This week, year 5 and year 6 have started rehearsing for our end of year play. This year we will be performing 'Shakespeare Rocks' which is a comedy about William Shakespeare set in the Elizabethan era. A letter will be coming out soon for parents to purchase tickets so watch this…

Today, we started our new topic on the World Cup. Each child has picked a team to support throughout the sporting event and we have located all 32 countries competing using an atlas.  The children were given the task to research the World Cup and with some fantastic prelearning facts and…

Year 6 Preview Homework

World Cup 2018

In Year Six, over the next few weeks our topic will be the 2018 World Cup. During this topic we will be learning about the history of the World Cup, the logistics of how the competition is organised, reading fictional football stories, looking at…

A huge well done to all our amazing Year 6 children! You made us very proud this week giving your absolute all in the tests but now they are over, let's have some fun!

We've completed an orienteering course, celebrated the royal wedding, watched the Reception class wedding and had a…

Nesting Birds

A family of blue tits have moved into our nesting boxes. Look out on the infant yard for the mother bringing food for her little ones. A big thank you to the children who made these last year. Let's hope that next year we have even more birds using them!

To our amazing Year Sixes,

Over the past few weeks (okay, possibly months), you have put a lot of effort into preparation for your SATs. You will nail them! We know you will.

At the moment, you’ve been doing lots of English and Maths, but we all know that you’ve all got lots of other skills.…

Friday afternoon became French afternoon for Year 6 this week. Mrs O'Hanlon loved speaking to the pupils in French this afternoon and wanted to say "Well done on being so brave and having a go!"