Welcome to our Year 6 class page!

 Our teachers are: Mr Owen and Mrs Flanagan

We also have Mrs Merdani to support us in class on Monday too.

Keep checking here to find out what we have been learning in our lessons.

Wednesday 18th December

 After Mass this morning, we spent some time with our Reception buddies. We shared a snack with them, exchanged cards and then had a play outside too. We hope our little friends have a wonderful Christmas!

A visit to Santa’s Grotto

Friday 13th December

 This afternoon, we headed down to Jailey Field to take part in a Christmas themed treasure hunt. We had lots of fun and ended with a hot chocolate and a goody bag too!

We also visited Santa Claus in his grotto this morning and then he came to visit our classroom this afternoon. We hope we receive all the wonderful things we have asked for!

Tuesday 10th December

 This morning, we had Blue Watch visit Year 5 and Year 6 to talk about fire prevention.

Blue watch are part of a four-strong team who rotate their shifts so there’s always a team at the fire station ready to respond to any incoming emergencies.

The fire brigade don’t only get called out to fires. They also attend: road traffic collisions to pull and cut metal to free people trapped in vehicles, large animal rescues such as cows and horses, water rescues from the River Aire or the canal, general rescues (from lifts, park swings etc) and hazardous material removal/disposal.

If you discover a fire, you should:

1. Get out of the building as quickly as you can and shut the door behind you
2. Stay outside-don’t venture back in to rescue pets, items etc
3. Call 999 and ask for the fire brigade

You must:

TEST YOUR FIRE ALARMS EVERY WEEK!

PLAN AN ESCAPE ROUTE IN CASE OF FIRE

Thursday 29th November

 In R.E this afternoon, we performed our inspirational speeches based on Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech. We listened to Patryk, Daniel F, Peter, Betty, Ariam and Holly. 

Well done to our winner with the most votes for her inspiring speech....

Athletics

 Here are some of the children at the athletics event this week. Thank you for representing us!

Wednesday 20th November 

 In our Writing lesson today, we worked together in our editing groups to peer assess each other's writing. We found it much easier to find things to improve in someone else's work rather than our own! We used ARMS (Add, Remove, Move, Substitute) and COGS (Capitals and other punctuation, Organise, Grammar and Spelling) to help us do this. We were also checking that each other had included the use of a semi colon (in an expanded list and/or to join 2 related clauses) which has been our skill focus this week.

Herd Farm

(13th-15th November, 2024)

Thank you for attending our assembly, we had such a wonderful time and the children were especially happy to see so many of you there. 

Below is the power point from the assembly with the photos and videos that we have, as well as some select photos from our residential. 

Thursday 14th November 

 What a fab day we have had! Our groups have taken part in archery, tested our team work on the night line and made ourselves, our teachers and each other proud by being daring on the zip lines and the giant swing. We are full from a lovely home cooked roast chicken tea with brownies for dessert. Now, we are getting ready for our quiz!

Wednesday 13th November- Herd Farm

We have arrived! After tea tonight, we went on a night walk through the countryside. Sophie, our night walk leader, taught us about some of the trees we could see on our way such as: the the elder, the oak and holly bush. It was great to be in the countryside, enjoying the clear skies. We even saw Jupiter! We will continue to take lots of photos and videos and will share them with you all in our class assembly next Wednesday 20th at 9.10am.

Wednesday 24th October

In maths today we have learnt about common factors- numbers that multiply together to create a product. 

We have used our knowledge of our times tables to help us to find combinations of numbers that multiply together. 

Monday 21st October

 Well done to our fabulous girls' football team who played this afternoon! They played 2 matches and won both of them. They scored 5 goals in all and didn't concede one! Amazing start to the season girls. Your teachers and class are very proud of you!

Wednesday 17th October

 This afternoon, D-Side Dave visited us to talk about the Internet and social media awareness. We learnt some outrageous facts such as nearly 60% or people born after 2010 find social media influencers more trustworthy than books, parents celebrities and parents and on average, people spend 2hrs 24 mins on social media per day! We thought about the social media we use, how to set our privacy settings and the things that we should and shouldn't share.

Wednesday 9th October

 This morning, we looked at the famous poem 'Leisure' by William Henry Davies.....'What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare'. We rehearsed it and then performed it before recording it. Some of us even did actions to make our performance more interesting!

Tuesday 8th October

 This afternoon, firefighters from Leeds Fire Station on Kirkstall Road visited us to talk about keeping safe on Bonfire Night. We learnt that we always need to be sensible when we are around bonfires and fireworks and to encourage others to always be sensible too. We heard about hoax calls which can cost lives and the fact that firefighters and other emergency services can be called to situations and then be attacked themselves. These are examples of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB). These carry sentences of up to 10 years in prison. 

Wednesday 2nd October

 Today, we raised money in aid of the MND (Motor Neurone Disease) charity and remembered the amazing Leeds Rhinos rugby player Rob Burrow. We took part in the Connect Challenge along with 49 other schools in Leeds. This included completing 7 miles for 7 classes and other challenges. We ran around with our Reception buddies in the morning, encouraging them to run as far as they could!

Wednesday 25th September

This morning, we visited Mount St Mary's for a taster of the lessons that they offer. We took part in DT (where we made some cute finger puppets), P.E (where we rock climbed up the climbing wall) and Humanities (where we learnt debating skills).

We really enjoyed ourselves and it was lovely to see past Holy Family students around the school too! 

Monday 23rd September

Science

Today during Science our children explored the different parts of the heart and their function. .We underwent a dissection of several sheep heart to explore their similar structure, look and feel. Our year 6 children learned so much about the different parts of the heart. 

Wednesday 18th September

 This morning, we joined with Year 5 for a live webinar with author Katherine Rundell. She is the author of our next class novel 'The Good Thieves'. She shared hints and tips with us to help us in our writing including the importance of editing our work.

It was really exciting to hear about her new book Impossible Creatures. We will definitely buy a copy and read this in our story times.

Tuesday 10th September

 This afternoon, we met our buddies in Reception for the first time. We look forward to spending fun times with them this year!

More active learning in today's R.E lesson! We were focussing on 7 parables of Jesus, finding them in our Bibles and writing their references and page numbers. In our next lesson, we will study these further and decide what these parables teach us about the Kingdom of God.

Wednesday 4th September

 This afternoon, for our first R.E lesson, we took part in some active learning! We had to find the definitions of the virtues that were hidden around our classroom. These are the qualities that people should demonstrate in the Kingdom of God.