Class 6 Learning Page 2026-27

Story Train This morning, Class 5 and 6 welcomed the ‘Story Train’ project into school to do a workshop celebrating the 200th anniversary of the passenger steam train.  They listened to the impact of having railways and discussed their own experiences of trains.  The...

Soil Project Year 6 have been continuing their Durham University soil project. Working with Rachel from OASES, they learned why the Earth’s soil is so important, about the structure of plants and what edible crops can be planted at home. They planted their own cress...

Puppets in DT This half term, we have been busy bringing our creativity to life through an exciting Design & Technology project – making our very own hand puppets! We began by exploring a variety of different puppets, including hand, finger and string puppets. We...

A Visit from Adam Bushnell We were very excited to welcome the brilliant author Adam Bushnell into our class this morning to inspire our writing. With his treasure chest full of exciting artefacts and pirate flags, Adam took us into a world of adventure and...

Shapes We have been exploring shape and space in Maths. The children can name lots of different 2D shapes. They had fun with the Beebots, using forwards and backwards commands to make them move to different shapes. They also did a shape investigation, exploring what...

Parachute Games Reception Class love playing with the parachute. It is good for their gross motor skills and gets them to move in different ways. They also need to listen and pay attention so they know when it is their turn to run underneath the parachute. It involves...

Ball Skills In PE we have been focusing on key ball skills. The children worked on throwing, catching and controlling the ball with their feet. They can throw, catch and kick a ball with a partner. They also had a try at kicking a ball at a target to score a goal.

Minibeasts As part of our topic ‘How does your Garden Grow?’ we have been looking at minibeasts this week. We started by going out into the wildlife garden and searching for minibeasts. We found ants, spiders, ladybirds, slugs, snails, worms, woodlice and millipedes....

Adding and Taking Away Reception Class have been very busy learning about adding more to an amount and taking away from an amount. They have explored how when they know an add fact they also know a take away facts. E.g. 3 add 2 makes 5 so 5 take away 2 must be 3. ...