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All about Class Wycoller:

Wycoller is the year six class.  We are taught by Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Hussain

Key Information

PE: This takes place on Mondays and is led by Mr Bowie. Please ensure that you wear your PE kit on these days.  We attend swimming lessons every Wedenesday. Please make sure that your children have trheir swimming costumes. 

Reading: Every child will read to an adult on a regular basis. Children can change books as soon as they have read them; they just need to ask.   If they have read at home and their reading record book is signed, they will receive a new book. 

Library: Our library session takes place on Wednesdays. Please make sure your child brings their book on that day if they want to change it. 

2025 - 2026

Autumn Term:

Flamenco dance:

On Thursday 7th November, we took part in a flamenco dance class. It  was brilliant and we all enjoyed it:

Classification in science:

In science, we have been studying how scientists classify animals according to their characteristics. We created animals and the other chldren had to classify our animals:  Could you classify our animals?

Kensuke's kingdom

In English, we have been studying the book 'Kensuke's Kingdom'.  This is a fabulous book about a young boy who sets off to sail around the World, with his parents. He falls off the boat and is left stranded on a Desert Island. 

On day one, we invesigated some objects to decide what we thought the book might be about. 

2024 - 2025

Spring Term:

English:

In English, our focus will be on the book 'The Arrival'. This fantastic book tells the story of a man who leaves everything behind and journeys alone to a mysterious country, a place without family or friends.  This is a wordless story which allows the children to use thier imagination to think about what life would be like for the main character and the family he left behind. 

Science:

This term, we have been finding out more about electricity. On Thursday, children were given the challenge of creating some given circuits. 

Autumn Term:

English:

We have been reading the novel Wonder; it is a fabulous book and helps us to think about children living with disabilities:

D/T

In D/T, we used our measuring skills, our cutting skills and our sewing skills to create the amazing waistcoats you can see below:

Science:

As part of our topic on Classification, we created and classified our own animals:

We also investigated the growth of mould:

PSHE

Pendle Council invited us to improve a local area. We planted flowers and cleaned up the area. We have also recorded other ideas which could improve this area. We will visit in the Spring to see how our flowers have grown.  Click the photo below to see more photographs.  

Whitehough:

We had a fantastic time at Whitehough. We showed resllience, courage and developed our independent skills.  Select the image below for more images:  

2023 - 2024

Autumn 2 2023

Science

In science, we have been finding out more about the circulation system. We began by making blood to help us understand what blood is made from.

In science, we have also been investigating how our pulse rate can be effected by exercise. We completed different exercises for 1 minute and then checked our pulse rate. Star jumps and running increased our pulse rate significantly. 

HIstory

We had the opportunity to examine and discuss a range of historical arfefacts - linked to Remembrance Day.  See more pictures in the link at the foot of the page. 

We also painted poppy pictures in the style of Monet.

Book club  

This year, we have introduced book club where we talk about, discuss and share our favourite books. Each week, a child gets to choose their favourite biscuit to share with the class.

English

In our novel time. we have been reading the novel - Wonder. Wonder is a powerful story of a 10-year-old boy named August Pullman, who has a facial anomaly. He is an ordinary kid who plays Xbox, is obsessed with Star Wars, but despite the 27 operations done for his face he will never look normal.  The novel has realluy made us think about how we treat others.

Autumn 1 2023

Whitehough Residential Autumn 2023

What a fantastic time we had. We were brave and resilient and our behaviour was fantastic.  See the gallery below for more pictures.

In our novel time and during our English lesson, we are reading the novel 'Running Wild' by Michael Morpurgo.  This is a very sad novel. Ask us a little more about it. 

Computing

Year six have been finding out how messages travel, in packets, between IP addresses. This week, we completed a drama to show how they travelled.

English

We have been reading Running Wild in English,  This week, we thought about the theme of the story. We acted out our ideas and other children guessed the theme. (see the gallery below for more photos)