Year 6

The Boy at The Back of The Class – On the Move Immersion

Year 6 have been busy reading The Boy at the Back of The Class and learning about refugees in conjunction with the story.
In these pictures, we did an initial immersive experience where we followed a story telling journey of a refugee by CAFOD. Each child role played a member of a family and discussed which belongings to take on their journey.
Year 6 later reflected on their experiences and the theme of belonging. Well done Year 6 for such a mature, thoughtful attitude to this topic.

The Musuem of Benin Artefacts at St Joachim’s

Year 6’s topic for the autumn term was all about the Benin Kingdom. Our Year 4L classroom transformed into a museum of artefacts and information. Children in Year 6 went around in small groups, investigating the artefacts and using the school iPads to take pictures of relevant information. This helped the children to learn a range of new facts about Benin Kingdom.

RE Expectations Silent Debate

In the lead up to the liturgical Advent and Christmas season, Year 6 have been studying expectations. They completed a silent debate activity where there were a range of statements related to expectation on our tables. Each child wrote their viewpoint on the paper and responded/expanded upon other people’s views to show the two different sides of the debate.

Super Science in Year 6

In this autumn term, Year 6 have been improving their Working Scientifically skills. They started learning about living things with a microorganism comparative test about which conditions caused the quickest growth of mould on bread. Year 6 made sure this was a fair test and you can see them looking at their findings to create suitable scientific conclusions.

Next in Year 6 we have been looking at circuits lately. We have identified a range of circuit components. We have been investigating how to be like an engineer and fix faults in circuits. Currently, we are busy planning and completing a fair test for the effect of the voltage level and number of bulbs on their brightness in a complete circuit.

12.01.2024

This week Year 6 visited the Tate and Lyle refinery site for the Junior Citizens Programme run by the Metropolitan Police, it focused on safety awareness, and how the pupils can be smart citizens in society. Some of the other agencies involved included the Fire Brigade, the police and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The children were taken through potentially life-saving scenarios such as ‘stranger danger’, contacting the emergency services, fire awareness and safety. They had a great time and one group of pupils left with a medal as the winning team.

15.12.2024

This week the Year 6 children played a major role during the traditional Carol Concert. They helped to tell the Christmas story through reading, carols and drama. All the children read and sang beautifully. The concerts included violinists, and a pianist as well as a range of different choirs who performed traditional carols and contemporary composition. Thank you to all the parents who came and supported the event.

Year 6 Knife Crime Assembly Workshop

Year 6 took part in a knife crime awareness assembly. The children looked at how to reduce knife carrying amongst children and young people. The assembly emphasised the legal consequences, physical harm and emotional impacts that arise from violence involving knives. The year 6 children were also able to explore strategies on how to reduce their involvement in such actions by good decision making using Awareness, Thinking Ahead and De-Escalation.

Benin Art Work 17.11.23

In Year 6 we have been studying the ancient Kingdom of Benin which was in what is now Nigeria. Located entirely within what is now Nigeria, the Kingdom of Benin stretched from Lagos in the west to beyond the River Niger in the east, an area that equates to about a fifth of modern-day Nigeria. This week we created an animal tile which could have been to be used as a gift to the gods at one of the Oba’s ceremonies.