Category: Year 6
World Book Day
We had a brilliant day for World Book Day. What a superb effort everyone made with their costumes!
Superb Science Book Ideas
This month at Lickey, we are lucky enough to have two exciting theme days – Reading and Science. Here are some excellent book ideas to engage your child in both of these exciting subjects.
Human Body Odyssey In this book, Astro Cat adventures into the Human Body. On each page he explains how a different bodily system works. by: Dr Dominic Wallman and Ben Newman |
Wild World Wild World uses poetry to describe habitats that children might find exotic. by: Angela McAllister |
Destination: Planet Earth This book will tell you all about Earth Science – perfect for our topics on volcanoes and the active planet! by: Jo Nelson and Tom Clohosy Cole. |
Outdoor Maker Lab A book filled with lots of experiments to complete with household items. Perfect for any budding chemist. by: Robert Winston |
How Science Works For Year 6+, this book explains how many different aspects of Science work for the older reader and adults. |
We hope you enjoy these suggestions.
Turbine Power
As part of their electricity in science topic, Year 6 looked at alternative ways of generating power. We then designed and made wind turbines and put them them to the test by using them to winch up increasing loads. We came up with a variety of solutions and whilst some span faster they were not as powerful when it came to doing work.
Shakespeare’s mix-up mash-up
Electrifying Year 6
This term Year 6 are exploring electricity. We’ve started recapping circuits, including identifying what is wrong in some “dodgy circuits”, before starting to use formal symbols for circuit diagrams.
PLAY IN A DAY
What a brilliant day we have all had today! Mark from the Play in a Day company came to Lickey and helped us perform a play in a day!! By working together collaboratively we successfully put on the show ‘Macbeth’ for our family and friends. Thank you to everyone that came to support and watch us.
Number Sandwiches!
In Year 6, we tackled a tricky ‘Number Sandwiches’ investigation!
We started on Number Sandwich 3, in which we had to arrange the numbers 1 – 3 in number sandwiches. The numbers had to have an amount of numbers between them that were equal to their value. For example, in between two 1’s there had to be one number and in between two 2’s there had to be two numbers!
We found that the solution for Number Sandwich 3 was 312132.
After much perseverance, we discovered that Number Sandwiches 5 and 6 were impossible!
However, Number Sandwiches 4 and 7 can be done – can you find the solution?
If you can, please bring it in to show Mr Witcomb!
We love PGL!
We had the most amazing week at PGL! Last Friday, we all got together as a year group to share our favourite parts. Here are a few of our highlights!
All aboard!
In theme we have been learning about Captain James Cook’s ship! Take a look …
Clauses
In Literacy year 6 have been writing difference sentences with different types of clauses. Can you spot the different ways you can create subordinating sentences?