Oak Class Year 6
Welcome to Oak Class
Here you will find everything you need to know about our class, our expectations and updates on what we've been learning about.
For more information about the curriculum, please head over to our dedicated Curriculum page.
Class Bulletin
English and History - Visiting Scrooge's grave as part of our ghost tour round Shrewsbury (including our very own ghost stories inspired by the Christmas Carol)
D&T, Science and History - Our Victorian / Christmas fairground
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Learning we are proud of
Autumn Term 2024-25
RSHE, Citizenship and Science - Exploring the emotion disgust, including disgust at littering and sharing our ideas for creating a better world with Year 2
History and English - Imagining life in the workhouse, from laundry to oakum picking, to inspire our diary writing
Science and Technology - Building circuits and solving problems
Citizenship, Geography and RE - Reflecting on the plight of refugees and what we can do to support justice
Art and History - Exploring emotion in colour inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Science (and sweets) - we classified our sweet population into individual species... then ate them all!
RE and Drama - Creating silent movie style retellings of the Good Samaritan
English and Science - Beginning our English unit by drawing on the tables!
Class of 23/24
We took part in the Shrewsbury Academy Dance Festival - Mrs Breeze, Miss Morgan and Miss Frederick were all very proud of us!
Science and D&T - Building our own lemon batteries
History, Geography and RE - Exploring Ancient Faiths by building our own biscuit henges
Maths and Computing - Organising our own bake sale including a local shopping trip!
Art, Citizenship and Science - Sharing our Climate message through sculpture
End of Assessments - We are so proud of ourselves!
Forest School Friday - English, RE and Science: Finishing our term with myths around the campfire and telling the story of Easter using puppets.
D&T, Geography and History - Creating woven samples inspired by traditional weaving and the work of fashion designer Jonathan Cohen
History, Geography and Maths - Planning and building Maya temples (and trying not to eat the sugar!)
Dance and Geography - Creating our own dances, inspired by the Haka, to intimidate and show strength
History and Geography - Exploring Victorian Shrewsbury at the Archives
Geography and Citizenship - How can our consumer power help producers?
RE and Science - Increasing our biodiversity inspired by St Therese's 'little ways' of showing love
Geography, History and Citizenship - How have events through history affected trade?
Art, Geography and History - We created art inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat then we each chose a word to describe either that art or how they think the art is supposed to make us feel.
RE and Computing - The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Class of 22/23
RSHE - Positive Affirmations
D&T and Science - Observing the effect of lever arm length and pivot position on the flight of an object.
RE - Year 6 Leaver's Mass
Citizenship, Art and Science - Recycled Human Impact Structures
We completed our Assessments!
Science - Did you know that there is approximately 10 pints of blood in a human body?
We made 10 pints of blood using different objects to represent the different components. This included cotton balls for white blood cells and rice crispies for platelets! Can you guess what the cereal hoops were?
Maths and History - Maya Temples
Science and Design Technology - Can we see around corners?
World Book Day - The Borrowers and recycling
Maths and RE - Creating mini altars using cuboid nets
PE and Science - Planning and completing circuits with circuit diagrams
Maths, Geography and D&T - Baking South American inspired cupcakes
RE and Art - Frida Kahlo inspired art celebrating Neurodiversity
History and Art - Drawing in Perspective at the Flaxmill
History and Reading - Our visit to Shrewsbury Library
Class of 21/22
Computing and RE - Creating stop motion to explain Confirmation
Surviving SATs - We completed our KS2 assessments
History and Maths - Aztec Calendars using our knowledge of angles
RE - Prayers and Liturgy "Love One Another"
Science and Light - You're never too old for bubbles!
History and D&T - Making Miniature Looms
Buddy Time - Bedtime stories
