Class Six

Jolly Hockey Sticks

Class 6 showing off their hockey skills this afternoon. We started the lesson playing in pairs before building a team.

Perspective

This week, Class 6 took a short trip to Hope Street where we studied perspective. We had some interesting discussions about how we see streets, roads, buildings and objects at different angles and positions along our route.

Space Day

Class 6 took part in a Space Outreach event this week at The University of Liverpool where we heard from lots of experts on all things space. We heard from astronauts about what it’s like to live and work on a space station and also learnt how our bodies react to life in space.
We seen the evolution of telescopes through the years, watched how stars explode, seen an asteroid crash to earth and if that wasn’t enough, we got to take part in some exciting activities. It’s safe to say we all had an out of this world experience.

Our Bodies

This afternoon in science, we looked at the different systems in our body. We talked about the skeletal, respiratory, muscular, circulatory, digestive systems and how they work. After recording our investigations in our books, we had some practical fun from showing how the circulatory system carries blood and oxygen via our heart and lungs to how long our digestive system is!

Diversity Day

For this Diversity Day, we read the poem “It’s ok to change.” The poem is about accepting that change is a natural part of life. It reminds us that growing, learning and becoming a different version of ourselves is not something to fear. The poem encourages readers to embrace change and trust that it’s ok to move forward, even when we don’t know exactly where we’re going.
We discussed change and reflected on what it might look like for us. We formulated some questions around the concept of change and selected our final question…Does change always mean you will be different? We had some great class discussions and finished the day writing our own poem. This morning we presented our poems to the school in our school assembly.

All the Fun of the Fair

This week class 6 have been planning, costing and seeing if they can build a profitable theme park in maths. We’ve had some great plans and the children enjoyed spending their imaginary £500,000.

KS2 Sports Day

KS2 had a fantastic time celebrating Sports Day! 🌟 From mini golf and football to javelin, standing long jump, relay races and an exciting obstacle course, every child gave it their all. It was wonderful to see so much teamwork, determination and encouragement throughout the day. Well done, KS2! 🏅👏

Thurstaston and Parkgate

Class 6 enjoyed a trip out this week as part of our geography topic. We’ve been learning the history behind the once thriving port of Parkgate and its demise in the 1900s. In class before our trip, we mapped out our route for Thurstaston using our co-ordinates and compass skills and visited the cave where ill-gotten contraband (looted from passing ships in the River Dee) was stored before being sold at The Red Lion public house in Parkgate back in the 18th century. We seen how the River Dee has silted up over time and how Parkgate has become a maritime conservation area. The Red Lion pub is still there today and Parkgate is a lovely place to visit.

Water Safety

Class 6 today have had an (in class) assembly to look at the dangers of swimming in open waters. We have looked at the warning signs and how to spot dangers or make safe decisions even if we think the water looks safe and calm. We also discussed peer pressure and how to deal with that if one of our friends insists we swim even though we’re not sure. If it doesn’t feel right then don’t do it.

Boys and Girls Football team results

Huge congratulations to the boys and girls football teams for making such a great effort over the last year. Thank you to everyone who took part and a special well done to the girls football team for winning the League twice this year! Well done everyone👏🏼

Locked Up!

As part of Year 6 upcoming history topic on The Victorians, we visited one of the smallest Victorian gaols of its time. Now opened as a museum, we got to explore the cells, the maternity area, the governors rooms, punishment yard and learnt about the executions that took place there. As you can see by our photos, some of us weren’t happy to be locked up!

Y6 Street Art Tour

Today Class 6 took a tour around South Liverpool to take a look at the different styles of street art and the artists behind them. We discussed what we thought their inspiration was and the messages the artwork was giving us. Mr Curry talked about the history and origins of the Secretary Bird and we talked about the similarities between that and our very own Liver Birds.
Finally we were so lucky (and excited) to get to meet two of the well-known street artists we have been studying in our Art lessons…John Culshaw and Liam Bononi! We got to ask them some questions and they told us why they started street art and how long they’d been doing it for, along with their inspiration and how they paint their images on a huge scale. It was such an amazing experience to get to meet and question the artists we have been researching. How lucky are we!

Y6-Making Our Mark…

Class 6 have been on a graffiti masterclass this week. Making their mark on the street art scene. They have learnt new skills in the art of graffiti and know the difference between commissioned and illegal street art. Take a look at our fantastic work below, with a positive, inspiring message (voted for by class 6) and keep a look out for our final piece on display at our leavers assembly next month.

Y6 Residential -High/ low ropes

We showed great teamwork on the zip line and had lots of fun on low ropes…

Y6 Residential-Abseiling

We had so much fun abseiling and some of us overcome our fears.

Y6 Residential- Canoeing

We had lots of fun canoeing along the Menai Strait. The weather was a bit choppy but with great teamwork, we navigated brilliantly. Once we had finished, we used our great teamwork skills to bring the canoes out of the water before some of us braved the water again for a quick dip off the jetty.

LFC Academy Champions

A huge well done to our girls football team who were crowned academy champions after winning their tournament at Melwood on Thursday. Well done all, we are very proud of you!

London Town

What a day we had in London! We started our day super early so we arrived in London by 9am. Our first stop was the tube, headed for The Tower of London.
We had a brilliant few hours at The Tower of London where we saw the Crown Jewels, Bloody Tower, Traitors Gate, learnt about William the Conqueror and his White Tower, Sir Walter Raleigh’s imprisonment and had some lunch with the squirrels and ravens before taking part in a wonderful workshop. We then headed to the embankment and had a lovely walk along the Thames seeing the fabulous sites of Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Downing Street before taking a stroll past St James’s Park to see Buckingham Palace. After an amazing day we jumped back onto the tube to Euston station where had some tea before boarding our train back to Liverpool. Oh and we did see some famous faces….Sir Kier Starmer and John Barnes!

Evolution in Class 6

In science this term we’re learning all about Evolution and Inheritance. In class today we completed an activity where we had to sort things into whether we inherit them or acquire them.
Who would have thought tongue rolling was inherited!
We also discussed the many ways we have evolved as a class this year and how we will continue to evolve.

Chasing Rainbows

In science this week we used prisms to create a light spectre (rainbow) through dispersion. This is a process where white light is split into its component colours (colours of the rainbow) as it passes through plastic or glass. The prism refracts (bends) different wavelengths (colours) at different angles, violet bends most and red the least which separates them. We got creative and used various items to show our lights spectres. Can you spot all 3?

Me and My Shadow…

This week in science, we drew around the shape of our shadows then later on we checked to see how our shadow had moved. We found that because the position of our light source (the sun) had changed, our shadow moved clockwise and became shorter due to the sun being higher at midday.
We then conducted an experiment in class to measure shadow heights as it moves closer to a light source. We used a whiteboard and placed a torch at the end of a metre stick, moving our figure towards the light source at 10cm intervals. We recorded the height of the figures shadow until it filled the board. Finally we measured the shadow heights in cm and created a bar chart and a line graph to record our findings.

Diversity Day

For this Diversity Day, we read the book “I Talk Like a River”. This book is about a boy who struggles to speak. He has a stutter and struggles to get his words out. This creates problems for him in school and he finds it hard to make friends. To help him his dad takes him to the river and explains that it’s like his speech because sometimes it flows calmly and other times the river stutters and becomes rough. This analogy helps the boy to accept his differences which makes his life a little easier. We then built on this by talking about neurodiversity and what it means. We discussed acceptance, equality and inclusion, emphasising that there’s no single right way for our brains to work, celebrating our differences.

FEPOW

Class 6 have been learning about FEPOW-Far Eastern Prisoners Of War-this term. We have looked at the conditions of the camps through secret art hidden in bamboo. We found some secret art of our own hiding in the bamboo in our classroom…

Learning with Liverpool Crucial Crew.

On Friday we spent the morning with Liverpool Crucial Crew learning skills and gaining knowledge to help us stay safe as we prepare to migrate to secondary school.
We took part in various workshops including staying safe by rivers and lakes, what good behaviour looks like on public transport and how bad behaviour can impact our lives forever if we get into trouble with the police. We also learnt how our bodies and senses can react when we drink alcohol or take drugs and the dangerous impact smoking and vaping can have on our bodies before finishing the morning writing our own affirmations about how amazing we are.

Class 6 Art

This term we have been researching the artist William Morris and creating artwork inspired by his beautiful prints. We designed various types of art from our own patterns to illuminated letters. For our final piece we created a print design then block printed it using different skills like carving and rolling the paint to build our repeated patterns. We finished by evaluating our work to see what worked well and what we may change next time.

World Book Day

Class 6 looking great in their costumes today. We read a book called Three Little Vikings, a story about 3 brave little vikings who defeated a Monstrous Troll. We then designed a poster with our own Monster and created a plan inspired by a traditional tale before putting our own twist on it. Finishing the day with a fun game of kahoot based on….you guessed it, Fairy tales.

Starstruck

Class 6 were privileged to attend a book signing with the brilliant author Frank Cottrell-Boyce. We were treated to a book reading by Frank and he talked about his childhood and his inspirations before signing copies of his new book for us.

Spanish

We’re recapping verbs today, compiling sentences and questions in groups then sharing them with the class. We then moved on to test our food knowledge with a fun game of noughts and crosses.

Diversity Day

This Diversity Day we discussed a poem called Alone. We explored what we thought it meant and the message it was giving.
“I think it’s telling us we can’t go through life alone.” ”I think it’s saying it doesn’t matter how rich you are you can still feel alone.” These are just some of the thoughts we had in class. We then wrote some poems of our own based around friendship after choosing the question ‘Can friendships always solve every problem?’. We have some fantastic poets in class 6.
Finally we read a book called Be Kind and asked ourselves what kindness looks like and how we show it. Some children said that it doesn’t take big actions or gestures to show kindness, we can show it by saying Thank You or just by giving someone a smile.

English

We have been researching key facts about Wolves this week and debating whether they should be re-introduced into the wild. We discussed many reasons for and against and had great debates.

All That Jazz

In music this week we looked at Jazz facts and learnt about its origins and inspiration. We then built on our syncopation and improvisation skills. Take a look at some of our videos on Seesaw…

POWER

Class 6 have learnt how we react to competitive situations during a game of dodgeball this week. We discussed some negative reactions like blame, criticism and some positive reactions including encouragement and compromise. We then talked about which ones we experienced during the game. We learnt that some of these reactions (whether good or bad) can have an impact on the way we play.

It’s All About Balance

Class 6 have been working in pairs to show how we can use our bodies to support each other. We then made bigger groups and improvised, showing how many balance sequences we could create. We had to have trust in each other, listen to instructions and communicate in order for us to be successful.

Computer Programming

Class 6 are building a programme to create an interactive, playable game using conditionals, variables and operators. We were inspired by the late 1970s game Space Invaders for our design.

English Hook

We’ve been looking at clues and exploring words and phrases to make predictions for our new English story.

POWER Sessions

We started our POWER sessions today where we will learn all about the importance of fitness and how our body reacts to it. Over the weeks we will support and develop our physical, social and emotional well-being.
We completed some activities to show how we were feeling, how our heart rate reacts to exercise and challenged our knowledge on body parts.

Diversity Day

For this Diversity Day we read a book called The Colour Thief. It’s a story about depression, love, family, hope and the impact depression has on a family, told from a child’s perspective. It uses the metaphor ’Colour Thief’ to help us understand how depression can drain the joy and vibrant colour from a persons life, making their world seem grey and hopeless. We reflected on things that may make us feel worried or depressed and talked about how we overcome them. 
We performed a small assembly in class to showcase all we had learnt and shared experiences and tips for helping us when we feel sad or worried. You can watch this on seesaw. 

Computing – Spreadsheets

We have worked very hard this half term to think about how information can be organised into a spreadsheet. We thought about the formatting and how formula can be used to calculate totals and averages.

Panto Fun

We were treated to a pantomime at The Unity Theatre this week and what fun we had!

The celebration of Los Reyes

We have a previous class 6 student here today teaching us about the celebration of Los Reyes (of the kings) and showing us some Spanish Christmas traditions. We looked at some traditions foods and discussed any similarities between Christmas here and Spain.

Chester

We visited Chester to see why it’s a tourist destination and to assess the human and physical features of the area.

Pixel Art

Today in computing, we have created pixel art by formatting instructions. First we set rules to send colour to the cells in our spreadsheet and assign each colour to a different number. Then we created our pixel art using this chart. Working as a team we have produced some brilliant art.

Whole School Choir

The Pleasant Street Primary School choir lit up the Liverpool Royal Hospital with their amazing energy and cheerful voices, turning the hospital into a mini concert and spreading smiles everywhere!

Cooking with Food For Thought

Class 6 enjoyed a cookery class with Food For Thought. We got the chance to show off our cutting skills we’d previously learnt in our D.T topic and also learnt some new skills. We explored some new foods and once we’d chopped, grated and squeezed all our ingredients we got to taste our delicious chicken curry.

Human Electrons

In Class 6 we are using our bodies to show how electricity is made from moving particles called electrons. We created a domino effect to show how the electrons move back and forth.

Cross Country – Cross Challenge Event

Well done to four of our pupils from Y5 and Y6 who represented Liverpool in the Cross Challenge Event at Sefton Park on Saturday 22nd November. We are very proud of your achievements!

LFC Foundation

Class 6 had a great morning doing activities with Sam from the LFC Foundation. We started by painting the things that make us happy then created a collage of letters to be displayed at LFC along with other children’s work from schools around Liverpool.

Electrical Components

Today we worked in groups to match descriptions and symbols of electrical al components before making our own fact files.

What time is it?

In Spanish this morning we’re testing our knowledge of time. Working in pairs and challenging each other. We’ve also enjoyed some friendly competitions.

Predictions

In class 6 today we are looking at items from our new English book and making predictions. We have had some fantastic discussions and ideas about the items we’ve seen and now we’re writing our thoughts down. Will our predictions be correct?

Diversity Day Assembly

This afternoon we enjoyed an assembly that celebrated some of the work classes completed on Diversity Day. Class Five explained the Windrush Generation after reading ‘Coming to England’ by Floella Benjamin. They considered the range of emotions that may have been felt on the journey to England and how the new arrivals to the country settled. Their performance and discussions were excellent and they made links to some of our school values; resilience, respect and resourcefulness.

Reception then performed a verse from the poem ‘I Rise’. We were very proud of how confident the children were reciting the poem with actions in front of the whole school.

Our assembly was completed by a pupil in Y6, who performed her own original poem, based on ‘I Rise’. Her thought-provoking words reminded people that they can achieve anything if they put their mind to it.

Diversity Day

Today Class 6 read a poem called ‘I Will Rise’ about beating difficult challenges and struggles that may happen in our lives. We discussed what we thought the poem meant and the message it was giving us. After formulating our question for further discussions we wrote our own poems.

WW11 Propaganda

Class 6 are talking about propaganda today. We’re looking at various posters that were used by the government during the war to persuade people into thinking or acting a certain way to help with the war effort. We compare the two pictures below and talk about which one sends out the most positive message in order to encourage people.

Class 6 Python Coding with Edublocks.

Over the past few lessons Class 6 have been investigating how to use Python coding, children have started off using Block based coding before moving on creating code using text. Children explored how to create different coloured backgrounds, use repeat loops to create shapes and use variables and lists to ask and answer questions.   

Poetry in Motion

We were treated to a master class in poetry by the Liverpool born poet Levi Tafari. He shared some of his poetry and inspired us to write our own poems about DIVERSITY, something which we’re very proud of here at Pleasant Street.

Levi Tafari

We were very lucky to be visited by Levi Tafari and Jenny from LLP today. Our KS2 children enjoyed a fantastic assembly listening to a live poetry performance by Levi and discussions about diversity, inclusion and equality. Y6 then enjoyed a poetry workshop.

Blood and its components

Class 6 are replicating blood in science to show all the components blood is made up of. We are discussing the function of the red and white blood cells, plasma and the platelets.

Rainy Days

Rainy days can only mean one thing! Let the games begin…

Netball Skills

Class 6 demonstrating their amazing netball skills today with some friendly competition. Learning valuable skills in teamwork and team building.

Musical Texture

We looked at how musicians add texture to their songs and the equipment used in order to do this. We then used the famous Cup song to show how we can add our own music to it using drumsticks. We made our own beat using semi quavers for the first time.

Heart Exploration

We used lamb’s hearts in this week’s in our science lesson to take a closer look at the workings of it and to explore the similarities to a human heart. We identified the valves, atriums, arteries, ventricles and the aorta. Some of us were a little squeamish but most of us found it fascinating.

The Heart

In today’s lesson we had the chance to observe a lambs heart. We looked at the heart to compare how it is similarities to the human heart. We noticed the 4 chambers and the aorta and then we had the opportunity to hold the heart to take a closer look. Some of us used the opportunity to feel inside the heart, observing valves, chambers and veins. Well done Year Six!

I want to be…

In Spanish today we’re talking about what we want to be in the future. We played a game where we had to translate and match the English words to the Spanish ones. We ended our lesson learning about some commands and the actions that are associated with them.

Scientific Demonstrations

Class 6 are demonstrating how the heart sends deoxygenated blood to the lungs where they oxygenate it then send it back to the heart through the left atrium before moving to the left ventricle and pumping it around the body through the aorta. We’re learning how hard our heart is working without us even noticing.

Relaxation

Class 6 are finishing the day with some relaxation in yoga. We used our root chakra bear Mula to introduce ourselves and shared the things that make us happy.

Spanish

In our first Spanish lesson of class 6 today we recapped on our vocabulary skills showing how good our retention skills are.

English Hook

Class 6 today looked at some items in our English lesson today. We had some great class discussions about what we thought the items were and who they may belong to. We’re excited to find out what our story will be…

Diversity Day

Today year 6 have read a book called What do you do with a problem? We talked about different problems we may face and how they can affect us. We then had a discussion about the different ways we can deal with our problems and shared this with the school in our afternoon assembly.

Evening Mindfulness Activities

To finish off our day, we took a walk around the grounds taking in the beautiful views, listening to stories and finishing up with some pupils leading yoga.

Low Ropes and Zip Line

A great time was had by all on the low ropes and on the zip line this afternoon after a delicious lunch.

Via Ferrata

Another group took to the ropes today, taking on both routes on the Via Ferrata, a real test of skill and bravery. Well done everyone!

Paddle boarding

All three groups took to the Menai Strait today to take part in some paddle boarding. Some great team work and communication on display as they navigated the water, encountering some jellyfish and lots of seaweed!

Y6 Residential – Day One

The children have arrived safely at the residential and got stuck straight into their activities. Two groups enjoyed the challenge of Via Ferrata which involved navigating across an iron path. Group three demonstrated excellent team work, on the low ropes and zip wire. Before they go to bed the children are enjoying one final activity as a whole class, completing the night line walk.

Family BBQ

A big thank you to everyone who attended our family BBQ last week. A great time was had by all and we managed to raise over £1000 which will help school funds. We were also able to make a donation to Shy Lowen Sanctuary, where lots of our children have attended over the years. We cannot wait until our next event.

LFC Foundation

Today we were celebrating what we have learnt over the past few weeks. The children all received certificates and were happy to share their experiences on what they learnt. They have high hopes to begin to use these skills in their every day life and especially when they go to high school.

Happy Minds

Class 6 have been taking part in a well-being programme at LJMU for the past 4 weeks. We have been exploring our past selves, present selves and future selves and even left some wise words for our schools future class 6’s.
From arts, crafts to grounding and meditation we have delved deep into ourselves to find out what really makes us tick and how we can regulate our feelings through sight and touch.

Street Art

Class 6 have been learning all about graffiti art and this morning we took a tour to look at some local artwork. We talked about the artwork, the artists and the messages we thought the artwork was giving us. We then created some work in pairs to show which pieces we liked and write our own opinions of why we liked them.

Spanish Cuisine

Today Class 6 are setting out the recipe for Gazpacho in steps. In preparation for when we make it in our future lessons. We talked about the best ingredients to use and watched how a professional makes it for some tips.

Kin-Ball Fun

Class 6 have been enjoying a morning of Kin-Ball at John Moores University. While having great fun, they’ve showed their competitiveness and teamwork skills. 

Diversity Day

For this term’s Diversity Day we read a book called ‘The Little Refugee’ about a boy who showed courage and resilience to help him survive. His hope, positivity and hard work helped him build a happy future for himself and his family. Class 6 talked about their thoughts on the book and we compiled a question ‘Do you need resilience to be patient?’ Where we put our thoughts to paper. We finished the day by celebrating our school and showing why we’re a school of sanctuary.

We can see a rainbow!

Today in class 6 we have been experimenting with prisms and a light source. We observed how the beam from our light source refracted off each face of the prism as it passed through, dispersing into its component colours.

Yoga Time

Class 6 enjoyed some yoga time today after working hard on their SATS.

Diversity Day

This diversity day Class 6 read the book ‘My Princess Boy.’ A story about acceptance and support. This real life story shows us that by talking about our fears of being different, we can set things in motion where we can show (and help others to show) understanding and support.

Compassion takes effort, focus and commitment and the more time we take to understand peoples differences, the better we can support them and help others to accept their differences. We talked about what diversity means to us and discussed our question, ‘do you need to be different to be loved?’

YOGA

Class 6 are enjoying another term of yoga and today we are talking about what made us happy during the term break with the help of Mula the Root Chakra bear.

Computing- Digital Art

Year 6 have been looking using Pro create and apple pencils to make a digital piece of art work. Children spent some time getting used to the application and how the apple pencil worked, selecting different brushes and exploring other additional features. Children then moved onto creating their digital piece of artwork by using an example drawing from their Sketch books.  

We adapted a piece of writing, ready for our recording of our podcasts.

Today in Class 6 we were choosing from our books what topic we would like to talk about in our podcasts. We focused on practicing our speaking against the success criteria and adapting the writing for recording.

Exploring examples of religious art in the Christian faith.

Today in Class 6 we worked in pairs to explore examples of religious art in the Christian faith. We then worked in small groups to learn about how the paintings are inspired by stories from the Bible and Jesus.

Spanish Numbers

Today class 6 are recognising and writing numbers up to 1 million. We worked in groups to talk about our selected number and combined our Spanish skills to write it down before presenting it to the class.

Diversity Day

This diversity day class 6 read a book called ‘The Proudest Blue.’ About a girl who overcome negativity with the support of her family, friends and most of all, pride in herself. She went on to become an Olympic medalist showing us how we can overcome sadness and fear by celebrating who we are.