In Science we have been learning all about hygiene. We found out that germs are so tiny that we can’t see them with our eyes. The French Scientist Louis Pasteur discovered that germs travel from person to person through touch. To test this out, we covered our hands in germs ...

Today, Year 6 continued their learning about classification by putting their classification key skills to the test! We began with a rather tasty-looking challenge: Dolly Mixtures! 🍬 The children carefully observed the different characteristics of the sweets, considering features such as shape, colour and layers, before using these differences to ...

As part of our learning about living things and their habitats, the children recapped their previous knowledge of vertebrates and invertebrates, remembering that vertebrates have a backbone while invertebrates do not. We then revisited the five main groups of vertebrates: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. The children discussed the ...