This half term in History, Year 6 have been expanding their knowledge of Ancient Civilisation by learning about Ancient Maya. The children started by looking at world maps and identifying the location of the land that was occupied by Ancient Maya - this was once...
In light of Holocaust Memorial Day, Year 6 took part in a live interview with Peter Lantos, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary. Peter was born in 1939 and explained what he remembered of the few years that led up to his family’s deportation to Bergen-Belsen...
In science this term, Year 6 are learning all about 'Animals including Humans'. We are focusing our studies on the circulatory system and how we can manage factors that will affect it, for example sugar, exercise and coffee. This week, we conducted our first scientific enquiry in small groups, which...
The Year 6 teachers have been extremely impressed with the pupils' poetry writing this week. They have been using their class text, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, to support them in writing some fantastic poems about the three witches that Macbeth encounters at the beginning of...
This term in writing, we are exploring a new key text: Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Today we began to unpick the text, looking specifically at the witches' spell. We will be using inspiration from the text to write poems to convey the dreaded spell! Our...
To bring our humanities topic on Indonesia and Tsunamis to a close, we explored the impact of the well-known Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004. We used our prior knowledge on how tsunamis are formed to help us understand how the disruption landed itself on the shores of...
This week, Year 6 launched their first STEAM project of the year, with a focus on construction. In the design brief, the children were asked to create a periscope for a submarine that could have been used to spy on the enemy in World War...
Year 6 have been writing persuasive letters to Winston Churchill this week, from the perspective of Ruth Balicki, who is a character from the text they are reading in class - The Silver Sword by Ian Serallier. The Balickis are a Polish family, who had their...
Today, Year 6 visited the Forest Road Youth Centre to take part in TfL’s Junior Citizenship scheme. The morning consisted of a range of workshops, that were lead by team members from Transport for London, Hackney Dental Service, Metropolitan Police, London Fire Brigade and THINK!...
Year 4, 5 and 6 have all had excellent training this week with FAB First Aid. The wonderful Rhona came into school to teach our children how to use DRABC when they see someone who appears very unwell. This acronym stands for Danger, Response, Airways,...