Year 6

Growing Courageous Learners

Archive for January, 2020

Gymnastics Trophy

January30

We won!  We won a gymnastics trophy today.  We competed against 7 different schools.  Here is some of us with our medals and trophy. Don’t we all look proud?!

Our Life Journey

January30

Planning our life journey was our task this week.  We talked about what careers we would like when we are older and how we might help ourselves to achieve them.  We know we need to do our best at school and to take part in extra activities to help us with our confidence and experiences.  […]

Heart Rate and Exercise

January30

We have been learning about how exercise can affect our hear rate/pulse. We predicted that after certain exercises, our pulses would be faster.  We took part in several different exercises and measured our pulses after the exercise and after we had cooled down.  The best pulse was found in our necks. The Plank      […]

Listeners

January23

Here in Year 6, some of us have chosen to take on the responsibility of being a Listener.  We have been specially trained over several weeks to enable us to help  any pupil within the school.  If they have any problems, questions or issues, we are trained to help!  We carry our trusty bag with […]

Swim Win !

January15

We can’t believe that we have won at another sports competition!  We are really proud to win at swimming this week at Thirsk Leisure Centre.  Swimming strokes included: front crawl, butterfly and breast-stroke.  Other competitors were children in Year 6 from local primary schools including one of the schools in our academy – Carlton Miniott.

Sewing Machine Club

January15

Some of us joined sewing machine after-school club this week.  We are making cube door stops.  We first had to practice on paper to use the sewing machines correctly and to keep control of the foot pedal.  Next we chose and cut out our squares for the cube using a cardboard template.  We can’t wait […]

Sowerby Music For Life

January15

A big thanks to Jim for coming to our school this week and introducing us to some amazing music!  We learned about brass instruments and all the different sounds that they can make!  Some of us were lucky enough to have a go.  We watched the Year 3 workshop later in the day – we […]

Kindles

January15

We love our new Kindle Fires that have arrived this week!  We can go on Reading Plus and Times Table Rock Stars as well as read different books.


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