Year 6

The school has its first 50,000 Word Wizards of the year on Reading Plus. This is a tremendous achievement at this stage of the school year! Well done to Charlie, William, Shafiq, Freya, Alex  and Pei Qi.

Applying some of their experience from last weeks den building session, Year 6 created miniature Anderson Shelters, linking to their current topic of World War 2. It was interesting to see the different ways the children approached this task, starting with a simple framework and building from there.

This half-term, the children have enjoyed using Tinkercad to produce 3D models. they have learnt how to resize, move, rotate and group objects to produce models of different 3D products. Last week, they designed a pencil pot (complete with pencils) and this week they have created photo frames. Artic

This week, the children in Year 6 have been introduced to the long division written method. This is one of the most complicated maths methods as it involves doubling and halving, multiplication, subtraction, addition and of course division. Initially, there were a few furrowed brows and worried expr

Year 6 are getting back into the swing of their Forest School sessions, they made the most of the Autumn weather to build some amazing shelters. Apart from the sheer creativity of the task, natural den building benefits the children in many ways. This week the dens had to be free-standing, use only

Friday 16th October is World Food Day. World Food Day is a day of action against hunger because when it comes to hunger, the only acceptable number in the world is zero. World Food Day celebrates the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organisations of the United Nations. As Harlow Green is Silver

Year 6 have been working extremely hard with their writing over the last week. They have been focussing on expanding noun phrases, using colons to explain and correctly punctuating speech. They have been reading the book Friend or Foe and predicted what might happen when one of the boys, David, was

In P.E. Year 6 have been doing a variety of activities to help keep fit. Mrs Galvin’s class have been learning how to pass backwards whilst moving forwards in tag rugby and Mr Allen’s class have started to throw and catch the ball in a lacrosse stick, which is proving somewhat hard to do. Both of th

This week we have been starting the history part of our topic thinking about World War Two. The children have considered the causes of the war and were surprised to learn that there were several different causes not just Hitler and Germany. Even more surprising, was the role the British had in causi

This week, year 6 have started their Science unit on circuits and conductors. They have been thinking about the different circuit symbols that are used to represent the components when drawing a circuit diagram. In addition, they had to act as detectives and work out why  circuit wouldn’t work and