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.
Please feel free to make comments on photographs and interact with our blog. The class would love to hear what you think about their fantastic work and achievements.
Happy blogging!
Mr Dempsey
Our Class Blog
Science week
Across the week we built our own volcano then used a recipe of mintos and coke to create our own volcanic eruption. We were also lucky to have the STEM bus visit us where we explored the surface of the moon, with moon boots.
Comic Relief
We enjoyed marking Comic Relief by having a non uniform day to donate money and lots of us wearing red. We spoke about why we were fundraising for Comic Relief too.
Comic Relief
Today we learnt all about Comic Relief and Red nose day. We talked about how important it was to support charities and how they help others in our local community as well as across the world.
Science Week : Moon Boots
The children in nursery listened to the story Whatever Next, we then went outside and made our own moon boots to go to the moon. They were quite tricky to balance on and the children showed great resilience and determination to keep trying and balance....
STEM fun
We had a brilliant time visiting the STEM bus, dissecting daffodils and identifying the different key parts (stem, petals and stamen). We then were able to group them according to their parts and investigate them under a microscope and whilst using magnifying glasses.
Mystery Reader
We have loved having another mystery reader in today, exploring different stories with us. We love having people in to share stories with our class and build our love for books.
Sharing our knowledge of the Life of Granny
Year 1 have been busy learning all about the life of Granny, including what technology our parents may have used and the jobs they may have had. We have compared it to the technology we can us now and they jobs we might like to do. We invited Reception to a gallery of...
Forest school
We had lots of fun at Forest school exploring in nature, hunting for worms and discovering ‘dinosaur bones’. We played games with our friends and also created dens from different objects we found.
French Grammar
Year 6 have been learning to use prepositions ...in French!! Check out our videos below:
Newsletter 16th March 2023
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Sign Language Week
To celebrate Sign Language Week, we joined an online British Sign Language lesson this afternoon with Signature Deaf. We thought about the importance of BSL for the Deaf community and how some people use it as their main way of communicating.The children were so...
Heel and Toe – All Ability Bike Ride
We have been given information for our families to join the second All Ability Bike Ride for Heel and Toe Children’s Charity on Sunday 11th June at Derwenthaugh Country Park, Swalwell. Last year’s event was amazing! Heel & Toe raised a whopping £10,120 for...