Blog by Mr M Blackburn

This week has been another busy week in Gold Class! Our mathematics topic was all about adding and subtracting fractions this week. This was something that we struggled with as a class but with a lot of hard work, laughter and tears we finally got there in the end! We also looked at BODMAS…

This week we completed our own propaganda posters, which all have a hidden message. The pick of the bunch can be seen on our Battle of Britain display. This display will continue to grow throughout the half term.

In English, we continued to study the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. We began…

This week was our first week in year 6 back on the curriculum after last weeks beginning of year assessments. We have made a really positive start to the year and have started discussing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and what happened to Pompeii. We wrote a diary entry at the end of the week from…

This week we have been focusing on our end of year tests! This has been a challenging week but useful practice for next year in year 6! Mr Blackburn was proud of how well we focused and the scores that we achieved overall.

In the afternoons Mrs Miller continued to teach us about Ancient…

This week we have focused on Water Safety and took part in and completed tasks set to us by swimming team at Fulwood Leisure Centre. We did this to raise awareness during National Drowning Prevention Week. The first activity we took part in was trying to identify the dangers in a number of water…

This week in Diamond class we have been learning about BODMAS in Mathematics. BODMAS will help us answer questions in the correct order.

B – Brackets. Solve any calculation inside brackets first.

O – Operations. A fancy name for squared or cubed numbers!

D – Division. Shared into. Divided…

Our time in English last week was spent planning our own myths in preparation for our Big Write today. We used a grid of key features to help us concentrate our ideas. These key features included using relative clauses, creating complex sentences using ly, ing and simile openers and also using a…

We have continued looking at Greek Myths in English. Our time recently has been split between reading myths and focusing on new grammatical skills. We practised using parenthesis for the first time and then looked at some SPAG questions linked to this skill. We also practised using inverted commas…

Another week comes to an end! These four day weeks soon fly by! We have explored the myth of King Midas this week, sequencing the events in the myth in the form of a drama. We certainly made the most of the good weather as we performed our work on the outside stage. At the end of the week we wrote…

This week in English we have continued our topic about Greek Myths. Earlier in the week we planned a diary entry from the perspective of Daedalus (from the myth of Daedalus and Icarus) and we wrote this up for our Big Write. We also read the myth of Arachne the Spinner and compared and contrasted…

It has only been 4 days but it feels like we have been back for ages! We now have Mr Blackburn teaching us all the time again (boo!) In English we started our new Topic about Greek Myths. They had complicated names in those times! Icarus, Daedalus, Epimetheus, Prometheus, Pandora and more! On…

This week has been a very special week in school as it has been science week. Scientific activities have been happening all across school. In the juniors we decided to have a competition where ecah class had to create a parachute that would protect an egg and not crack it, when dropped from the…