6. Trips and special events

Bowling

We went bowling to celebrate our time at Leys. We had a great time with our friends. Some learnt to bowl, some scored their first strike and some of us got high scores!!

OUR LEAVERS DISCO!

We had the most amazing time!

Here are our pictures!

Greek Day

Year 6 participated in 'Greek Day'. We took part in a mini Olympics (including archery); food tasting - pitta breads, tzatziki, olives, tomato chutney, feta cheese and more; role play and Greek activities throughout the day.

Here's a look at what we got up to.

Matilda Performance

As our end of year play, we performed Matilda for our parents and to the school! We had a great time practising and then performing! Here are our cast photos!

TfL Workshop

As we think ahead to secondary school, we are preparing to have more independence. This includes using public transport without an adult to get out and about. TfL came and spoke to us about how to use it appropriately and to make plans which involve keeping us and others safe.

Sports Day

Year 6 took part in our final primary school sports day! Lots of friendly competition and sportsmanship shown in each race. Well done to everyone who took part!

Transition Workshop

We had a visit from Joel - the vicar at Dagenham Parish Church who came and led a workshop about our transition to secondary school. We discussed our fears, asked a current student some questions and even practised tying a tie! We were given a workbook for us to complete transition activities in and the thought-provoking statements and comments. Thank you Joel and Daniel for your time to visit us.

ARC Theatre - Oh So Sweet

We had a theatre roadshow come and perform for us about the importance of peer pressure, building relationships with peers and parents and most importantly avoiding pressure to vape and smoke.

National Numeracy Day

We celebrated National Numeracy Day by having conversations around maths in everyday life and where we see numbers all around us. We had a 'Number Natter' discussing favourite numbers and where we use numbers in other school subjects too.

ARC Theatre - Road Safety Performance

We enjoyed a performance based around Road Safety topics including crossing the road, making our journeys to school safe and consequences of our choices. We discussed distractions that may appear to us and how to look, listen, live!

World Book Day

In March we celebrated World Book Day and took part in various activities related to this years theme of 'Love of Reading'. We dressed up as various book characters and shared our reading books. Hawa was our 'best dressed' winner who was dressed as an Egyptian Goddess who had been mummified and came back to life! (From Horrible Histories). Check our her attention to detail with ripped bandages, jewellery for her afterlife and even her own coffin!!

NSPCC Number Day

In February we took part in NSPCC's Number Day. We participated in various activities across the day and took part in the National TT Rockstars battle. We had to dress up as numbers - with some children using read imagination!

Knife Crime Workshops

On 21st and 28th January, year 6 attended a Knife Crime Awareness Workshop. This was led by the Ben Kinsella Trust in Barking. Here we took part in a Choices and Consequences Workshop which involved understanding the ripple effect of carrying a knife and understanding how every choice we make has a consequence. We watched videos of family and friends affected by knife crime as well as meeting a 'prisoner' who was serving a prison sentence as a result of knife possession. We learnt about Joint Enterprise and understand how a small action we take, can affect us the same as the main crime.

NSPCC

On Tuesday 27th January, the NSPCC came in to deliver a workshop for our year 6 pupils based on Speaking out and Stay Safe.

The children took part in follow up activities which took place in class, reminding children to think about their 'safe' things, people and places.

Activity Week

While some children attended the year 6 residential to Trewern, the rest of us took part in activity week visiting St Paul's Cathedral, IFS Cable Cars and making pizzas in school.