As part of our School Vision Week, Year 6 have been displaying how we can all be good global citizens and help people less fortunate than ourselves.

Year 6 put together a presentation about the difficulties and health problems that are encountered in countries with poor sanitation.

We decided that we would raise money to twin a toilet in our school with one in a poorer country.

We are hoping to raise £60 by having a cake sale and asking pupils to come to school dressed in blue for a donation of £1.

Year 6 have lots of exciting activities to share with each class in order to raise awareness for this worthwhile cause.

Congratulations to all our stars of the week and to those children who completed commendation cards.

In Science, we have been testing the transparency of different materials. We needed a light source so some of us made electric circuits to light up a bulb.

In our last Science topic, we learned all about space and the position of the planets. We have had some fantastic representations by pupils who have worked hard at home on this interesting topic.

Year 6 have been working with Mr Fletcher to set out a running course in the playground.  The whole school will run as many laps as they can in a year to achieve a total mileage of 6000 miles!  This is the distance to Tokyo where the next Olympic games will be held.

Our lighthouses are progressing as we used nets to assemble our prototypes. We used our prototypes to think about any alterations or improvements we could make before we construct our final products. We thought about how to make a stable, rigid platform for our lamps to sit on inside the lighthouses. We also drew electric circuits and look forward to testing them out once our models are complete.

Class 1 have been busy looking at 2D shape in maths. They have been using properties of shape to help sort and name them correctly. The children were then able to use the shapes to make some fantastic shape pictures.

Class One have been thinking about how it is good to be different and proud of who we are. As well as enjoying wearing odd socks today, we designed our own – thinking of things we like and are interested in and of course incorporating our favourite colours.

In Geography we are learning about Ordnance Survey maps, co-ordinates and how to read a compass. We made a giant grid to help us understand grid references and map symbols.

Class 3 really got into the spirit of Odd Socks Day by wearing a variety of fantastically odd socks!

Odd Socks Day is part of anti-bullying week where everyone is encouraged to wear a pair of odd socks to celebrate individuality and allow them to express themselves buy showing how unique everyone is.  Odd Socks Day raises awareness of how brilliantly different we all are and that this is something that should be celebrated!