Welcome to our Year 6 class page!
Our teachers are: Mr Owen and Mrs Flanagan
We also have Mrs Merdani to support us in class on Monday too.
Keep checking here to find out what we have been learning in our lessons.
Monday 21st October
Well done to our fabulous girls' football team who played this afternoon! They played 2 matches and won both of them. They scored 5 goals in all and didn't concede one! Amazing start to the season girls. Your teachers and class are very proud of you!
Wednesday 17th October
This afternoon, D-Side Dave visited us to talk about the Internet and social media awareness. We learnt some outrageous facts such as nearly 60% or people born after 2010 find social media influencers more trustworthy than books, parents celebrities and parents and on average, people spend 2hrs 24 mins on social media per day! We thought about the social media we use, how to set our privacy settings and the things that we should and shouldn't share.
Wednesday 9th October
This morning, we looked at the famous poem 'Leisure' by William Henry Davies.....'What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare'. We rehearsed it and then performed it before recording it. Some of us even did actions to make our performance more interesting!
Tuesday 8th October
This afternoon, firefighters from Leeds Fire Station on Kirkstall Road visited us to talk about keeping safe on Bonfire Night. We learnt that we always need to be sensible when we are around bonfires and fireworks and to encourage others to always be sensible too. We heard about hoax calls which can cost lives and the fact that firefighters and other emergency services can be called to situations and then be attacked themselves. These are examples of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB). These carry sentences of up to 10 years in prison.
Wednesday 2nd October
Today, we raised money in aid of the MND (Motor Neurone Disease) charity and remembered the amazing Leeds Rhinos rugby player Rob Burrow. We took part in the Connect Challenge along with 49 other schools in Leeds. This included completing 7 miles for 7 classes and other challenges. We ran around with our Reception buddies in the morning, encouraging them to run as far as they could!
Wednesday 25th September
This morning, we visited Mount St Mary's for a taster of the lessons that they offer. We took part in DT (where we made some cute finger puppets), P.E (where we rock climbed up the climbing wall) and Humanities (where we learnt debating skills).
We really enjoyed ourselves and it was lovely to see past Holy Family students around the school too!
Monday 23rd September
Science
Today during Science our children explored the different parts of the heart and their function. .We underwent a dissection of several sheep heart to explore their similar structure, look and feel. Our year 6 children learned so much about the different parts of the heart.
Wednesday 18th September
This morning, we joined with Year 5 for a live webinar with author Katherine Rundell. She is the author of our next class novel 'The Good Thieves'. She shared hints and tips with us to help us in our writing including the importance of editing our work.
It was really exciting to hear about her new book Impossible Creatures. We will definitely buy a copy and read this in our story times.
Tuesday 10th September
This afternoon, we met our buddies in Reception for the first time. We look forward to spending fun times with them this year!
More active learning in today's R.E lesson! We were focussing on 7 parables of Jesus, finding them in our Bibles and writing their references and page numbers. In our next lesson, we will study these further and decide what these parables teach us about the Kingdom of God.
Wednesday 4th September
This afternoon, for our first R.E lesson, we took part in some active learning! We had to find the definitions of the virtues that were hidden around our classroom. These are the qualities that people should demonstrate in the Kingdom of God.
