Robinwood 2025

Year 6 had a super three days at Robinwood this year.  They learnt about team work, collaborating, persevering and completing challenges outside of their comfort zone.  We were spIit into two groups, Wave and Ocean.  It was a busy three days with activities like the giant swing, zip wire, the crate challenge, caving, climbing - just to name a few!  

Maths - NSPCC Number Day

In year 6 we celebrated Number Day by completing some challenges in class and around the school.

Design Technology (Food Technology)

In the spring term year 6 have been finding out about bread recipes from around the world and evaluating which breads they prefer.  Using this knowledge they then created a recipe for their own bread which they are going to bake this half term.

Music - Clarinet and Flute Lessons

With Emily our music teacher, we are continuing to learn how to play our instruments, the clarinet and the flute.  We are doing much better this year as we are gaining more confidence and have time to practise.  We will do a performance for our parents and the school,  in December.  We continue to learn how to read musical notes and play in time with each other as well playing some solo pieces.  We learn about tempo, pitch, rhythm and beats.  As well as reading notes on a music sheet, so we have to learn about bars and rests.

History - World Wars

During our history topic we have learnt about the blitz and significant people and events during WWII.  We found out that Coventry Cathedral was bombed during the Blitz in 1940 where it was left a ruin.  During the Blitz, people were told to build air raid shelters so they could shelter in them if they heard an air raid siren, warning them that bombs were about to be dropped.  Year 6 have learnt about the different air raid shelters used during WWII and they made some for homework.

P.E - Gymnastics

In our P.E lessons we built on our P.E from Year 5.  We have worked with partners and small groups to create sequences which included different balances such as counter tension balances.  In our sequence we had to sometimes work on our own and at other times with our group, using the apparatus that had been set up.

Science -Light (Physics)

They have investigated learnt how light appears to travel in straight lines.  They used this idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye and explain that we see things because light travels from the light sources to our eyes or from the light sources to objects and then to our eyes. They found out that light can be split using a prism and that you can see around corners with a periscope.

Art and Design

Through our Art lessons, we learnt about the artist Lui Bolin.  His art is all about camouflage, he creates visual art where he camouflages himself in places such as The Great Wall of China.  We also tried to create a piece of art which had some camouflage in it.