--- title: "Highlights from Year 6" url: "https://www.thepalmeracademy.com/news/2019-10-24-highlights-from-year-6" school: "The Palmer Academy" --- # Highlights from Year 6 ![](https://files.schudio.com/thepalmeracademy/images/news/DSC_0150.JPG) 24 October 2019 What a fantastic start to the year we’ve had in Year 6. Without doubt, Year 6 have settled-in well to their new routines and have stepped-up to being the new school role models impressively. We’ve appointed our House Captains: **Anning** *– Divine and Hanifa* **Hawking** *– Andrew and Daria* **Jenner** *– Annali and Obed* **Turing** *– Chloe and Fatima* This half term, our topic has been World War 2 and we started it off with a workshop in school where we explored many different elements of WW2. We completed a fact hunt, looked at first aid in WW2, tried our hand at fire-fighting with stirrup pumps, had a go at extinguishing ‘a bomb’ with sand bags and transporting it to a safe place with a shovel and hoe. During the day we got to listen to a **real** air raid siren and handle many artefacts that are normally kept behind glass. --- We carried on with the same theme in Science and learned about how light reflects by making our own periscopes. --- In the third week of October, some of our Year 6 children went on a residential trip to PGL Liddington. It was enormous fun! They learned how to use harnesses and work as a team to break through barriers and achieve their personal goals. Many of our children pushed themselves to the limit and flourished with newfound independence. 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