Blog Author: Mrs Gladwin

Year 6 have been making special Valentine's Day books. This involved folding, cutting and weaving before thinking about the messages that went inside.

We have a good relationship with A&G Precision in Preesall. Members of their team are STEM ambassadors so work with schools to give pupils an insight into the world of engineering. This week our current Year 6 pupils attended a workshop where they were set an engineering task and had to work in…

Today in RE, Year 6 found out about the Jewish festival of Passover. They then used clay to make their own versions of a Seder plate.

Today we have been finding out what the heart does and how it works. This is Lucie's diagram showing the parts of the heart.

Exploring making a zip line using their knowledge of pulleys. 

Year 6 exploring the 10 plagues sent by God in their second 'Walk through the Bible' session.

The orange represents the world, the red ribbon around the middle represents the blood of Christ. The 4 cocktail sticks represent the 4 seasons and the candle represents Jesus - the Light of the World.

The Co-op in Preesall kindly donated the oranges for making the Christingles for our Carol Concert.

In our light topic, Year 6 have been exploring how light travels.

As part of their Science topic on light, Year 6 have been exploring how shadows are formed and also why the shape of a shadow changes through the day.

We made play dough using different ingredients and then explored them in our circuits. The play dough containing salt and cream of tartare allowed electricity to flow through it as it is a conducting dough. We found the dough made with sugar to be an insulating material.