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2023-2024

Autumn 2023

This term we have lots of exciting learning planned and will be shortly celebrating Harvest with some special poetry performed in our year groups. Our topics for this term are Animals including Humans in Science and Black and British as our History topic. We have made a great start to the year already and have made our class charter to show how we will all create our learning environment in Team Titan

Our class charter

Our Science Experiment - Observing over time

We put a chicken bone in vinegar and observed it every two days for a fortnight. It was originally hard and brittle but after 14 days it was flexible and bendy. This was because the vinegar (which is an acid) reacted with the bone to strip the calcium.

End of Science topic task: researching and making connections

English: 500 word story competition - writing, sharing & editing our stories together

CHILDREN IN NEED DAY 

 

The CTA (a group of our Y6s pictured below) organised a fantastic morning of activities for the whole school in the hall, a competition to design a new bow or bandana for Pudsey and Blush and did an after school cake bake all to raise money for this worthwhile cause. We were very proud to raise over £150!

 

 

Spring Term 2024

 

This term might be a short one but there is lots going on! World Book Day, Comic Relief and Sporting tournaments to name but a few. Our new topics are Materials in Science and The Sikh Empire in History. Keep checking back to see what we are up to.

World Book Day - Y6 Reading with Buddies

Comic Relief - Red Nose Day

Our CTA have been busy again today helping to fundraise for this very worthy cause. We have done scavenger hunts in classes, quizzes and a joke competition as well as running a cake bake after school. 

The Magic Balloon Science Experiment

As part of our materials topic we have been looking at Reversible and Irreversible changes. Today's experiment was observing a chemical reaction between vinegar and soda bicarbonate. Look at our balloons!

Dodgeball Competition

What better way to end the Spring Term than with a sporting competition? Our Y6 Dodgeball team travelled to York College today to face lots of other schools in the district Dodgeball competition. We had a fantastic day, played several matches and finished a very respectable 4th in our group of schools. 

Summer 2024

 

As we start the final term of the year there are many events on the calendar. From SATS to residentials, bikeability and transition not to mention our exciting Y6 production. There are lots of things to look forward to - don't forget to check back and see what we have been up to. Our new topics in Science are Forces and Evolution and we will be looking at Independent Fieldwork in Geography and Unheard Histories in our History lessons.

 

 

Science - Exploring Forces

As part of our Forces topic today we were looking at Upthrust. We did a group challenge today exploring buoyancy and floating and we had to change a ball of Playdoh to make it float. We then tested our 'boats' to see if they could float and how much they could carry. See our investigating below.

Making the 'boats'

The finished models

Group 1 Testing

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Group 2 Testing

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Group 3 Testing

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Group 4 Testing

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Group 5 Testing

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Group 6 Testing

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The results!

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