WELCOME TO YEAR 6

Each week we will be keeping you up to date with a "Wow of the Week". In addition to this, please read our half termly curriculum map to find out what will be happening in Year 6.

Important information

PE - Monday and Wednesday: Please come to school in your PE kit on these days. 

Reading Books -  Each child in year 6 has a book-band book and a book from our class library, with one book staying in school and one going home. In year 6, we encourage the children to be responsible for changing their books when they need to.

Spellings - New spellings given every Thursday. On a Thursday afternoon, we will have our weekly spelling lesson, in which we will focus on learning our new words for the week ahead. At the start of this lesson, we will also have our weekly spelling test focusing on the previous week's words. Please see below our spelling page where you can easily access the spellings every week. 

 

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Autumn 2

 

Robinwood Day 3:

Our final morning began with leaping from the trapeze before going caving. We ended our amazing experience at Robinwood with the grand finale- Pirahna Pool, which we managed to escape from just in time. We arrived back at school at 4pm on Wednesday having had an amazing 3 days. Year 6 represented our school tremendously throughout their stay and one of our instructors even said that he couldn't have asked for a better group of children to finish the year with.  During our stay, we faced our fears, tried new things, had some brilliant laughs and created many memories to last a lifetime. Well done to all of year 6!

Robinwood Day 2:

Today, we have been non-stop from activity to activity with plenty of smiles on faces, laughs and new experiences. We started with the crate stack, before completing the knight's quest, canoeing, archery, a dungeon escape room and nightline. Year 6's behaviour, attitude and teamwork have really shone through today and has really caught the eye of their instructors. We even ended the day with a birthday celebration, cake and hot chocolate. 

 

Robinwood Day 1:

Since arriving at lunchtime, it has been an action-packed day with both groups going on the zip-wire, giant swing, completing a team quest and climbing challenges. We ended the day with a quiz and hot chocolate and can't wait for another busy day tomorrow. 

 

25.11.2024

This afternoon, we made periscopes as we continue to learn about reflection. After learning about how the periscope allows us to see over objects by positioning mirrors at 45 degree angles, we then played a game to test if they worked.  

19.11.2024

Today, we enjoyed a fantastic day out in York. First, we visited DIG, where we learned all about the role of an archaeologist and then got to try some for ourselves. Then, we walked the short distance to the Jorvik Centre where we learned all about York's Viking past. Year 6 represented Westroyd superbly and gained lots of knowledge to help bring our history topic to life.  

12.11.2024

This afternoon, we have explored which materials are the most reflective by creating reflection catchers and making scientific observations. 

11.11.2024

Today, we have started our new history topic- 'Were the Vikings, raiders, settlers, traders or something else?' 

To start the topic, we used a scale to create a timeline of Viking Britain using some the main events during this period. We can't wait to learn more about some of these events over the course of the half-term! 

8.11.2024

This week, year 6 have worked very hard on their diary entries based on the plane crash from the opening chapter of 'The Explorer'. We have worked on using parenthesis to add chatty asides as well as how to use subordinate clauses to create cohesion within our writing. They look and read absolutely brilliantly! As you can see, our writing includes lots of editing and improving, which is all part of the process of creating a great piece of writing.

4.11.2024

Take a look at our fabulous works of art. Our task was to recreate the famous painting 'the scream', which combined our photography skills, developed throughout last half-term, and our ability to use coloured pastels to create an abstract background. We also had a lot of laughs recreating our scream faces! 

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Autumn 1

23.10.2024

Over the past week, Year 6 have been working hard on their photography skills in our Art topic. Our first lesson, focused on macrophotography, which means taking close up photos of different objects. After practicing our skills, we then used fruit to create artwork in a pop art style, focusing on how we can edit our photos and use backgrounds to create contrasting colours. In our next  lesson, we were challenged to recreate some famous album covers by exploring our ability to use a range of techniques to take photos and edit them. 

15.10.2024

This afternoon, Year 6 have been out and about in Farsley completing some geographical fieldwork. We walked to a busy location and a quieter location to measure traffic levels to help us investigate how populations impact the environment. We also asked our parents to complete a survey about the two locations we visited to help us answer our question. 

14.10.2024

Year 6 have created some stunning poems based on 'The Dreadful Meance'- a poem all about the power and fury of winter. We used this as inspiration to create our own poems all about the force of nature. 

14.10.2024

Year 6 enjoying their final and 'sunniest' Welly Walk at Westroyd.

11.10.2024

On Friday afternoon, as part of our School Heritage Day, we did the short walk to Sunnybank Mills for a workshop, in which we learned all about its history and how it links to our school and Farsley. We had a great time learning about the process of how wool is turned into clothing. We then had a go at doing some of our own weaving and explored the archives of this amazing place of history situated right on our doorstep. 

27.9.2024

This afternoon in computing, we created presentations about a country of our choice in pairs. The twist was that both pairs had to work on the presentation on separate computers and on opposite sides of the classroom, with the only way they could communicate being through the chat feature on Google Slides. This was part of our communication and collaboration unit and was a task everyone really enjoyed! 

27.9.2024

This week in Year 6, we have been writing narratives based on the first chapter of our class novel- The Explorer. In our stories, we aimed to use a wide range of sentence starters, parenthesis and direct speech. We wanted to paint a picture in our reader's mind when describing the setting and characters as well as engage our reader by creating suspense when the plane is crashing. The example below certainly does that!  

24.9.2024

Today, we planned and carried out an investigation into air resistance as part of our Forces unit in Science. For our investigation we made our own parachutes and explored questions such as 'Does string length affect how fast a parachute falls?' and 'Does the size of a parachute affect how fast a parachute falls?' 

After planning our investigation and ensuring we kept our tests fair, we went into the hall and Mr Fawcett dropped them from a ladder, although if he was a little braver, he probably could have gone a bit higher! 

19.9.2024

Today in Year 6, we have been learning how to find common factors of numbers. Firstly, we used counters and cubes to create arrays and develop our understanding of what a factor actually is, before exploring how we find factors in a systematic order. We then challenged ourselves further to find factors of much larger numbers, using short division and facts about multiples. 

18.9.2024

What a beautiful afternoon for our Hockey lesson! 

16.9.2024

In music this half-term, we are performing some 'Classroom Jazz'. This afternoon, we learned to play the main tune of our song on the Glockenspiels and next week, we will be adding in some of our own improvisation into the song!

13.9.2024

The focus of our writing this week has been to use parenthesis to add extra detail into our writing. We were using parenthesis to help develop descriptions of the characters from our class novel- The Explorer. Have a read of some of our brilliant work below. 

10.9.2024

This afternoon, we planned and carried out an investigation into Gravity. We explored the question, "Does the mass of a ball, effect how fast it falls?" 

We found out that all of the ball fell at the same rate due to the fact there was very little air resistance affecting them inside- a result not many of us had predicted at the beginning!