Blog by Clare Fleming

Year 6 memories

Year 6's reflect on their times at the school and the history they have made or been a part of’, before heading off to Big School.

Please share an important memory in the blog below. 

Formby Beach

We had a fantastic time at Formby beach, the visit supported our topic work, 'On the Beach'. We had the opportunity to paddle in the sea, make sandcastles and have a picnic. 

Meeting Nadiya Hussain

Designing Sandwich boxes

Unit 2 used 2Design And Make to create sandwich boxes. They construct the model using Purple Mash amd printed out the net. I hope you like them?

Ribchester

We had a fantastic time learning more about how the Romans lived. We had the opportunity to try on replica armour, handle real artefatcs and explore the ruins of a Roman bathouse and granary.  

Hatching Chicks

Chicks have arrived in school and will be staying with us for two weeks. There is an incubator set up at the front of school for the children to observe the eggs as they begin to hatch. Please follow these events on our school blog.

12/5/16~

The chicks have been moved out…

Stormbreaker

Miss Pollard's English group have been typing a letter as a characters from Stormbreaker to persuade each other that Alex Rider should or should not be a secret agent. After we finished our letters, we printed it, proof - read it and edited it to make a final draft. 

Miss Pollard is really…

Caterpillar Open Day

Parents and Carers came to help make a Hungry Caterpillar puppet at Shawclough Primary School's Nursery. We had lots of fun. Thanks to everyone who attended.

Is coding the most important language in the world?

Is Coding the Most Important Language in the World?

Activity

What things did they say and show to change people’s understanding of coders and coding?

Can you list as many cool places you can work or cool jobs you can have that use coding?

Please answer the following questions…

Postcards from Skipton castle

Here is a selection of Unit 2's postcards that they created using Purple Mash. They are really proud of their work and so is Miss Fleming.

Do you like our postcards?

Fun Discovering Ratio in Unit 4

Unit 4 have been applying ratio in practical maths this afternoon. They did so in the following ways:

• Made cocktails with different ratios of orange juice and lemonade.
• Made fruit kebabs - thinking about how many pieces of fruit (eg pineapple) in relation to others (eg melon)
• Mixing…

Favourite Book

Can you tell us what your favourite book is and why?