YEAR 6 (SILVER)
Mrs Lightley (Covering for Mr G Dempsey)Welcome to Class 6D’s Blog!
I am Mr Dempsey and I am the class teacher for class 6D.
On this page you’ll find lots of useful information and posts about what’s going on in Year 6 over the course of the year,
Visit our blog Check in regularly for photographs, homework and revision links, sport’s scores, diary dates and many other fun features.
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Mr Dempsey
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Primary Engineers
In DT lessons in Year 2 and Year 6, the children have taken part in a vehicles project funded by the Reece Foundation and Primary Engineers. The children designed, created and tested their vehicles in school. Some of the children attended a celebration event at the...
Mini Health Champions
Some of the children in Y5 have been selected to be Mini Health Champions. They attended Mini Health Health Champions Day and listened to an inspirational keynote before breaking into smaller groups and rotating through a variety of fun and engaging workshop sessions...
Magic beans on toast
We were invited to the Giants castle cafe at the top of the beanstalk for magic beans on toast. On our way to his castle we played instruments to match different parts of the story so he knew we were on our way. When we arrived he wasn’t there but we loved trying on...
Magic beans on toast
The giant from ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ invited us to his castle cafe for magic beans on toast. We had to take our own beans along to the cafe though, it is a good job we had been on a visit to TESCO the day before.
Mixing colours
We used the primary colours and mixed them to make secondary colours and painted our clay pots with them. We spoke about the war, and cool colours and the emotions we attached to different colours.
Freeze framing
We enjoyed reading our new story ‘The Storm Whale’ and freeze framed parts of the story to portray the emotions involved and the scenes the story were set in.
In D.T we have been designing and making bridges. We learned that we needed to ensure they were: stable, sturdy and supported. We used supports such as glue sticks, tube and cardboard to make our bridges more stable. We then tested the stability using weights.
£322.20 raised on Break the Rules Day
Thank you to everyone who helped to raise a fantastic £322.20 on the Break the Rules Day. That's a lot of pupils and staff breaking the rules! It was a however a great day for everyone!
What a muddy but fantastic time!
Modelling clay
We enjoyed using clay and the techniques we have learned to sculpt our clay pots using our hands and a variety of tools. We made the clay into thumb pots.
Baking Shortbread for Macmillan
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