Welcome to the Year 6 Class Page 

2024-2025

21.03.25

Year 6 have been really enjoying our new History topic, in which we have been focusing on the changing role of women over time. This week, the children created their own suffragette poster, in which they campaigned for women's right to vote! 

14.03.25

This week, Year 6 kicked off the school's Lenten fundraiser by leading Lenten Games on the playground at breaktime. The children came up with a whole host of imaginative, fun and creative games, which were richly enjoyed by the rest of the school.

Thank you children for all of your hard work and efforts - we managed to raise over £400 for our Mission Together charity! Amazing!

07.03.25

This week we made our falafel burgers! Working in groups of three or four, the children worked together to make their burgers. It was great to see the children work with such enjoyment and enthusiasm...although, the vast majority weren't bowled over by the final taste test! McDonalds and KFC can sleep easy!

28.02.25

As part of our DT Burgers topic, Year 6 worked in teams to make three different types of burger sauces - salsa, tzatziki and BBQ. The children had a great time making the sauces, and an even better time tasting them with carrot batons, celery sticks and bread sticks. Roll on next week, when we will be making our falafel burgers!

14.02.25

This week, the children completed their English end of unit 'big write' activity, in which they rewrote Oscar Wilde's, 'The Selfish Giant', from the giant's point of view. The children worked very hard on this activity and their stories were a pleasure to read. Well done Year 6!

07.02.25

As part of our Landscape Art unit, the children experimented with different watercolour effects and techniques. The used bubble-wrap, cling-film and tissue, as well as practicing gradient and wet on wet techniques.

24.01.25

On Wednesday, Year 6 presented our assembly to the rest of the school, as well as the Y6 parents. The theme of our assembly was justice. During the assembly we shared our ideas about the importance of fairness, why we should never cheat, our personal achievements that we are truly proud of, as well as the fairness of God.

All of the children did an absolutely AMAZING job! Well done Year 6!

17.01.25

In our music lessons, we have been learning about funk and disco music, through the song, 'You to me are everything' by The Real Thing.

This week, we listened to five cover versions of the song, each with their own unique spin and different take on the original version. We discussed similarities and differences between the different versions and gave each of the cover versions our own personal score out of 10.

The five cover versions we evaluated were versions by: Sonia (80s pop), Anthony Strong (jazz/swing), The Overtones (acoustic), Karizma Duo (acoustic) and The Jetfighters (pop).

10.01.25

Happy New Year!

To start the new term, we spent an afternoon recapping our learning from the Autumn term, during our 'Curriculum Review' session.

We looked back at what we had learnt in English, Maths, RE, Science, PE and Key Skills, as well as across our four topics (DT: Chinese Inventions, History: The Vikings & Anglo-Saxons, Computing: Programming in Scratch and Geography: Local Area Study). We finished the session by completing a quiz about our Autumn term's learning.

20.12.24

This afternoon, we finished off the term with our Christmas Carol Concert. In front of a packed hall, Year 6 led the concert with an array of beautiful group and solo performances.

It was a wonderful way to round out the year and send everyone off into the Christmas holidays with huge smiles on their faces!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS from Year 6!

13.12.24

CHRISTMAS DINNER DAY!

We all had such a great time during Christmas Dinner Day, where we especially enjoyed sitting with our special friends from Reception! It was a great time had by all, which really got us into the Christmas spirit!

Thank you to Pam and her team in the kitchen - the turkey dinner was amazing (even the sprouts)!

29.11.24

On Thursday morning, Year 6 travelled to Stockport Armoury to take part in a Crucial Crew event. It was a brilliant morning, in which we worked our way through six different presentations/sessions about various aspects of growing up and personal safety. We learnt so much through a range of fun and engaging activities.

22.11.24

As part of our new Geography unit, 'investigating our local area', we went on a walk around the land surrounding St Peter's and observed various types of land uses: residential, commercial, agricultural, transport infrastructure, as well as various open spaces. Back in class, we wrote a proposal to the council for one way in which the land use around St Peter's could be improved.

15.11.29

In gymnastics, we have been focusing on various ways of jumping, balancing, rolling and travelling with our weight on our hands, whilst maintaining a high level of quality and control in our actions and movements. We have started to choreograph a routine with a partner, working in unison to link various actions/movements together.

08.11.24

Year 6 have been really enjoying our new Computing topic, in which we have been working in partners to programme a skiing game using Scratch.

It has been great fun and we are all very proud of our games!

18.10.24

For the past week, the children in Year 6 have been working extremely hard on their ‘Big Write' activity to conclude their English unit. For their 'big write' task, they have rewritten the story, 'Star of Fear, Star of Hope' from Lydia's point of view.

The children have put so much hard work and effort into their stories, especially focusing on including fronted adverbials (of time, place and manner), fronted subordinate clauses, relative clauses, parenthesis, passive voice and dialogue into their writing. They have also included a whole host of other structural, grammatical, punctuation and text features.

Their stories have been a joy to read. Well done children!

11.10.24

On Friday, we celebrated the Special Friends Assembly, in which each member of Year 6 was partnered up with a child from the new Reception class and in doing so, becoming 'Special Friends'. It was such a lovely celebration, which the children especially enjoyed!

Well done to all of the Year 6 and Reception children - some very special friendships have been formed!

04.10.24

We have now completed our DT: Chinese Inventions topic and the children have really enjoyed making their own kites. They thought carefully about which materials they wanted to use for the sails (sugar paper, printer paper, plastic bag, tissue paper or wrapping paper) and for their frames (wooden dowels or paper straws). Their final products looked amazing and the children especially enjoyed taking their kites outside for a trial flight!

27.09.24

In PE, we have been focusing on various events from sportshall athletics. In previous weeks, we have focused on the chest push, javelin and speed bounce disciplines. This week, we practiced the standing long jump. The children worked on their techniques and performed the discipline brilliantly, with some great distances jumped!

20.09.24

Exciting times in Year 6 as our 'Special Friends Assembly' is approaching, where each member of Year 6 will be 'buddied up' with a child from the new Reception class.

To prepare for that, we spent an afternoon playing with and getting to know the children in Reception. It was so much fun and we can't wait for the official assembly in a couple of weeks' time. 

13.09.24

We are back in business and Year 6 have made an outstanding start to their final year at St Peter's.

Our DT topic to start the year is 'Chinese Inventions'. This week the children carried out an investigation to test the overall efficiency of four different types of paper (printer paper, tissue paper, newspaper and sugar paper). They tested various factors such as strength, absorbency, opacity, as well as carrying out an ink test.

As well as that, the children made their own hanging compasses by magnetising their needles and attaching them with threads to their pencils, before carefully dangling their magnetised needles into plastic cups.

A great start to our new topic. Well done children!