Yom Kippur – Day of Atonement
This is a time when people of the Jewish faith seek forgiveness for and wrong doing. They seek forgiveness first from the person that they have wronged and then they ask forgiveness from God. See more in the video…
🌸🌿 Y6 Science – Classifying Plants 🌸🌿
As Y6 continue their learning about classifying living things, today they focused on plants. They learned about four main plant groups: mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants. They had to create recipes of the plant time, then we had to…
Rosh Hashanah – The Head of The Year
This is an important time for people of the Jewish faith when they remember how the earth was created and the New Year is celebrated. Find out more by watching the video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2cg5PN5KT4
Navratri – The Festival of Nine Nights – Hindu
A ten day celebration and thanks for crops and followed by fasting. Goddesses are worshipped and Hindu scripture is altered. Watch the video below to find out more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCiwGHWp90k
🚂Y6 History – Learning about Famous ‘Steamies’, using the Kagan structure “One Stray” 🚂
As the second part of our learning about the history of steam locomotives, today Year 6 studied one of a few famous locomotives. Then the new ‘experts’ went to other tables to teach their peers. Everyone enjoyed it and lots of…
Science: classifying invertebrates
This morning, Y6 made invertebrates and learned the characteristics of each group.
Mabon – The Autumnal Equinox
This coming week is about celebrating the autumnal equinox, a day when the amount of sunlight and darkness is the same. This represents both balance and harmony. This festival is followed by many but it's foundations are in the…
Mawlid al-Nabi – Birthday of The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Muslims celebrate Prophet Muhammad’s birthday today. They honour this day as they believe he is a messenger of God. The children can find out more about the Prophet Muhammad here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3RrSy4HuJk
Y6 Art – Making Memories – The idea of “Self” in art
Today, Y6 began their new 3D and sculpture art project which will be focused on the idea of the "self" in art. We looked at several pieces of non-literal sculpture and discussed what we thought about them. We found the…