Building Bridges, Bright Futures and Brilliant Minds in Year 6!
TL;DR:
- Attended a Kooth Mental Health workshop about wellbeing and transition.
- Learned to use Kooth safely and supportively.
- Covered exciting topics from big numbers to time zones and poetry.
- Explored “Seeing Light” in Science and “Hey, Mr Miller” in Music.
- Showed friendship, endurance, and wisdom throughout the week.
Year 6 explored mental health, big numbers, global geography and creative learning as they prepare for their next exciting chapter.
This week, we had a visit from the Kooth Mental Health Team. They delivered a fantastic workshop all about looking after our mental wellbeing and preparing for the exciting transition to secondary school. We learned how to set up our Kooth accounts safely and explored all the ways the platform can support us as we move into this next chapter. The children engaged thoughtfully, asked mature questions and showed great responsibility.
Our topics for this term:
- English – suspense, poetry and explanation.
- Maths – multiples of 1000, numbers up to 1,000,000.
- Reading - Stormbreaker
- Geography – time zones and major cities.
- PDL – Keeping and staying healthy - alcohol
- DT – Building bridges
- Music – Hey, Mr Miller. RE – Is Jesus the Messiah?
- Science – Seeing light.
Throughout all of our learning this week, our Year 6 pupils have shown exceptional commitment and enthusiasm. They continue to shine by demonstrating our core school values of:
- Friendship — supporting one another and working beautifully as a team,
- Endurance — tackling challenges with determination,
- Wisdom — thinking deeply and making thoughtful choices.
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