Year 6

Year 6 Leavers Mass

Yesterday, we all celebrated our Year 6 children’s journey at St. Jude’s with a very special Year 6 Leavers Mass. A lovely way to begin our farewells to Year 6.

Mass with Reception and Y6 Buddies

What a special morning our buddies had! Reception attended their first mass at church accompanied by their Y6 buddy who attended their last weekday mass as a pupil of St. Jude’s.

Year 5 & 6 – RNLI Water Safety

The RNLI visited school to teach classes about the importance of staying safe around water. We learned about identifying risks of playing in and around water, how to save someone who is in trouble in water and different risks at the beach, as well as the meaning of the RNLI flags at the beach.

Y6 Maths

Year 6 have been learning about the Fibonacci sequence in maths. The children explored the numerical sequence and then drew out the spirals and designed a pattern to go with it.

Y6 First Aid Training

This afternoon, Y6 took part in some first aid training with Carmel from Red Cross. The children learned how to check for a response from a person, to check if an unresponsive person is breathing and then how to put them into the recovery position and how to perform chest compressions.

The children also learned how to recognise the signs that someone is choking and how to help them.

Y6 Art

Year 6 have continued their art journey inspired by the work of James Lawrence Isherwood. 🎨✨

This week, the children explored and practised a range of techniques that will help them create their own artwork in Isherwood’s distinctive style. They developed their understanding of perspective drawing and experimented with blending oil pastels to create different effects and atmospheres within their work.

As part of their learning, they investigated how colour can influence mood. Warm colours such as red, orange and purple were used to create energy and excitement, while cooler colours like blue, green and yellow helped to convey a more subdued or gloomy feeling.

We can’t wait to see these skills come together in their final pieces! 👏🖌️

Y6 Trip to Animate

On Tuesday, Year 6 visited Animate Youth Ministries in St Helens to take part in a transition day designed to help them prepare for their move to secondary school. 🌟

The children enjoyed a variety of fun and engaging activities throughout the day, including a music quiz, a mystery blindfolded dip, hook a duck, and a lively game of over/under. They also worked creatively to design a superhero whose special powers could help support and improve their community.

The day ended with a peaceful meditation, reminding the children that God is always with them, especially during times of change, challenge, and uncertainty.

It was a wonderful opportunity for Year 6 to reflect, have fun, and build confidence as they look ahead to the next stage of their journey. 😊🙏

Y6 PE ⛳️

Year 6 have been developing their throwing skills in PE this week through a fun game of Throlf (throwing golf)! 🎯🏌️

The children practised controlling their aim, judging distance, and improving their accuracy as they worked their way around the course. It was fantastic to see them challenging themselves, refining their technique, and celebrating each other’s successes throughout the lesson.

Well done, Year 6! 👏🌟

Achievers Assembly ⭐️

A huge congratulations to all the children who achieved a certificate this week! 🌟 Your hard work, dedication, and positive attitude have truly paid off. Keep up the fantastic work—we are so proud of you all! 👏🏆

Holy Communion Presentation

We presented our Holy Communion children with prayer cards and holy medals today to commemorate this very special sacrament. What a wonderful way to mark this special occasion!

Achievers Assembly ⭐️

What a fantastic start to our final term of the school year! Well done to all the achievers this week ⭐️

Holy Communion

Recently, some of our children celebrated the special sacrament of First Holy Communion.

It was a wonderful occasion filled with faith, joy and celebration, and we are incredibly proud of the children for reaching this important milestone in their spiritual journey. Thank you to their families, parish and staff for supporting them throughout their preparation.

Congratulations to you all on such a special day — may God continue to guide and bless you always.

Y6 end of SATs

Year 6 worked in groups to make their own marble runs using the paper from all of their hard work preparing and revising for their KS2 assessments. There are definitely some future architects and designers in the making!

Y6 Buddies

Year 6 were really pleased with the cards that their Reception buddies kindly made for them during SATs week.

Assembly Achievers ⭐️

What wonderful work we have seen at St Jude’s this week! Well done to all our achievers this week.

Assembly Achievers ⭐️

After another fantastic week at St Jude’s, here are all of our achievers this week. Well done , everyone!

Whole school singing

We’re enjoying learning ‘As I kneel before you’ and ‘Immaculate Mary’ this week. 💙

Achievers Assembly ⭐️

Well done to all the achievers this week! You have all worked really hard

Achiever’s Assembly ⭐️

First week of the summer term and already the children are working incredibly hard. Well done to all the achievers this week!

Y6 Stay and Pray

Thank you to the parents who joined us for our Celebration of the Word for the Feast of the Annunciation.

Homework Coffee Afternoon

As always, we were delighted to welcome families into school to celebrate and share all the fantastic effort children have put into their homework projects. Thank you for supporting your child to be creative and share their learning. We were so impressed with each and every project.

Mass and Confession

Y3, Y5 and Y6 attended mass today with the parish. Y3 have been learning about the Liturgy of the Eucharist so they brought up the offertory whilst Y5 and Y6 said the readings and bidding prayers. After mass, children were then invited to confession as part of their Lenten journey.

📚✨ Reception and Year 6 Buddy Time – World Book Day ✨📚

Our Reception children had a lovely time celebrating World Book Day with their Year 6 buddies.

The older children spent time with Reception, talking about their fantastic costumes and the characters they had chosen to dress up as. It was wonderful to see the children confidently sharing their ideas and explaining who they had come as for the day.

The buddies also enjoyed sharing stories together, with the Year 6 pupils helping to read and talk about the books. Reception loved listening and joining in, and the older children were fantastic role models.

It was a really special time for both year groups, helping to build confidence, friendships and a shared love of reading. 📖

Thank you to our wonderful Year 6 buddies for making the day so special! 👏

Y6 and Reception Reading Buddies for World Book Day

Year 6 loved having buddy time with Reception to read some stories during World Book Day.

World Book Day Y6

Children from Year 6 enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day and taking part in the online World Book Day Footy and Booky quiz organised by the National Literacy Trust with questions asked by authors and footballers!

Y6 Maths

Year 6 have been leaning how to solve and form algebraic equations. They were finding patterns in numbers by moving different coloured frogs on the iPads to form their equations

Safer Internet Day 💻

Today, the whole school took part in an assembly lead by Mr Parry for Safer Internet Day. They discussed how AI can be used to help us but also has its limitations.

Big Lent Walk 🚶🏼‍♂️✝️

Year 5 and Year 6 made a start on their contribution to schools efforts for the Big Lent Walk and completed a circular walk around the local area.

Sacrament of Reconciliation 🙏🏼

The children who made their Confession as part of the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Thursday received a certificate in school to celebrate and commemorate this special moment.

Achievers Assembly

Well done to all our achievers this week. Keep up the great work ⭐️

Y6 PE orienteering

Y6 were working in teams using compass directions and following different routes to spell words in their PE lesson.

Achievers Assembly

On Friday, we had another very successful week! Well done to all our achievers ⭐️

CAFOD Workshops

CAFOD volunteers, Jim and Doreen, spent time in KS2 speaking to the children about the work of CAFOD. They focused on the Catholic Social Teaching principle of Solidarity and how ‘A Better World Needs all of Us’. The children had a fantastic morning learning about how everyone can play a small part to help our global family.

NSPCC Number Day

Year 6 enjoyed dressing up with numbers and as rockstars for NSPCC number day. The children enjoyed taking part in some TT Rockstars!

Assembly Achievers ⭐️

Congratulations to all of our assembly achievers this week! What a wonderful way to end the term.

Sharing what we have

Reception have been learning all about when Jesus fed the 5000. We discussed how the little boy shared what he had with Jesus so that he could feed everyone who had come to see him. The children wanted to share food with others just like the boy in the story. We decided to invite our buddies to share sandwiches, sharing our bread, cheese and lettuce before cutting the sandwich in half to share and eat! The children also made cards for the resident of a local care home “to cheer them up” and “spread God’s love.”

Y6 Meditation

On Friday, Y6 took part in a meditation focusing on being still and putting trust in God. We listened to the scripture “Peace, be still.” (Mark 4:39). We reflected on our faith and trust in God, how we share peace with others just as Jesus did and how we live in peace with others 🧎🏻‍♀️‍➡️

Assembly Achievers

Well done to all the achievers this week!

Achievers Assembly

Another fantastic week at St Jude’s. Well done to all the achievers this week! ⭐️

Achievers Assembly

What another fantastic week! Well done to all the achievers. Keep up the great work ⭐️

Y6 Dodgeball

In PE this term, Year 6 are working on developing their stance skills so they can balance with minimum wobble and maintain a good posture. Today they have practised catching a ball thrown at knee height and above the head whilst continuing to balancing. They then had a go at applying this skill in a game of dodgeball.

Y6 Celebration to end the Jubilee Year

As a way to commemorate the end of the Jubilee Year of Hope, Year 6 took part in a Celebration of the word. We read scripture from Romans 15 and reflected on the promises we had made to spread hope throughout our year-long journey.

Y6 The Promise 🌱

Y6 received a letter this week based on the book “The Promise” by Nicola Davies. With the letter, was a bag full of acorns. The children had a go at writing their own letters for the next keeper of the acorns; making sure to use modal verbs.

Y6 The Himalaya 🏔️

This term, Year 6 are learning about mountains and are focusing on the Himalayan mountain range. They began by identifying different mountain ranges around the world and then used the atlases to locate the countries that the Himalayas pass through. They found that they span across 6 countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China.

Assembly Achievers

Well done to all the achievers this week. What an excellent way to start the new year and term!

Christmas Party Day

The children in Year 6 had lots of fun playing party games and dancing at the Christmas Party.

Y6 Science

Year 6 have been investigating how angles of reflection can help them see things that are behind them like a periscope using mirrors and working together.

Y6 Science- Investigating shadows

As part of our Science topic on light, the children in Year 6 were creating their own shadow puppets. They had lots of fun experimenting with the different images that they could make by blocking the light with their hands! They also measured how the height of a shadow changes as the distance between a light source and an object changes.

Blessing the crib

Nursery, Reception and Year 6 all joined together for a very special Celebration of the Word. Father Michael came in bless our cribs. Each Reception child had made a manger and during Advent we have been adding hay to get it ready for Jesus’ birth. After the blessing, Receptions Year 6 buddies gave them a baby Jesus to put into their mangers they had made.

Mass

The whole school went to Mass today. Father Michael told us the story of Saint Nicholas.

Art workshop

Years 4, 5 and 6 had the amazing opportunity to attend an art workshop at The Edge today. We talked about Jesus and designed crowns inspired by Him being the Light of the World. 👑 💫

Homework coffee afternoon

A huge well done and thank you for all of your amazing homework projects. We can tell how much effort has gone into them. 🏅

Achievers Assembly

Well done to all the achievers this week!

Achievers Assembly 14.11.25

The children at St Jude’s have worked incredibly hard this week. Well done to all the children who earned a certificate this week.

Achievers Assembly 7.11.25

Well done to this week’s achievers. Keep up the great work!

Y6 Judaism

Year 6 have been learning about the Jewish celebrations of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. As part of Rosh Hashanah, Jewish people eat apples with honey which the children really enjoyed too!

Wigan Family Parish Logo designs

Year 6 have been designing logos for the Wigan Family of Parishes. The children learned about the life Saint Carlo Acutis, who was recently canonised and has been chosen as the saint for the parish family.

Achievers Assembly

What a wonderful half term we have had at St Jude’s! It has been a joy to share all of the hard work the children have accomplished over the last 8 weeks.
Here are this week’s achievers. Keep up the great work everyone and we look forward to celebrating everyone’s success next half term ⭐️

Achievers Assembly

Congratulations to this week’s achievers!

School Council

🧠 💛 World Mental Health Day 2025 💛 🧠 On Friday, our School Council spoke to the whole school about World Mental Health Day and why we were wearing yellow – to show support and raise awareness for mental health. They also launched a Kindness Challenge, encouraging everyone to be extra kind to others throughout the week. It was a lovely reminder that even small acts of kindness can make a big difference

Y6 PE

Year 6 have been developing strategy and teamwork skills through invasion games.

World Mental Health Day

Year 6 took part in World Mental Health Day by wearing something yellow. We also discussed about how to look after our mental health and why it is important. The children produced posters to show their understanding.

Achievers Assembly

Congratulations to all of our achievers! We love celebrating all of the hard work that has taken place throughout the week.

School Council

Meet our new school council for 2025 – 2026. Congratulations to all the children selected. Our first meeting will be held next week ⭐️

Achievers Assembly

Well done to all the achievers this week!

Achievers Assembly

Congratulations to this week’s achievers. Keep up the great work!

Buddies

On Friday our Year 6 children welcomed their buddy into our school with a special Prayer and Liturgy. Reception parents were invited to share in this celebration. Year 6 presented their buddies with a seed which they will plant together as they support their buddy to ‘Learn, love and grow with Jesus.’

Year 6 music technology

Year 6 have begun to create their own musical compositions using computing software.

Y6 library

Year 6 enjoyed browsing through the new books in our school library and have all chosen a brand new book to read!

Achievers Assembly

On Friday, we celebrated our first Achievers Assembly of the new school year. Well done to this week’s achievers! Keep up the great work ⭐️

Creation Prayer and Liturgy

Year 6 participated in a class prayer and liturgy in our school spiritual garden on creation.

Back to School Prayer and Liturgy

Mr Wilson led our back to school Prayer and Liturgy. We each thought about how we can shine our light this new school year.

Y6 and Reception buddies.

Year 6 have spent their last lunch at St. Jude’s with their buddies from Reception.

Ice cream treat.

Year 6 have enjoyed a visit from the ice cream man 🍦 this morning as part of their end of year treat!

Year 6 and Reception Prayer and Liturgy

Year 6 and Reception have taken part in a Prayer and Liturgy together in our Spiritual Garden. The children reflected on the times they have spent together this year and how they are now ready for their next step as Reception move into Y1 and Y6 move up to High School.

Year 6 Pizza Party

As an end of year treat, Year 6 have enjoyed a pizza party while signing shirts to celebrate their last day in school uniform!

Y6 visitor

Y6 enjoyed a visit from an optometrist to learn about our eyes and the role of an optician. We learned about different eye conditions and were able to try on the special glasses that are used during eye tests.

Y6 food tasting

The children in Y6 have enjoyed trying some Chin Chin that George kindly brought in after we read about it in our class novel Boy in the Tower. Chin Chin is a sweet and crunchy fried dough snack popular in Nigeria and other West African countries.

Y5&Y6 Town Sports- 24.06.25

Well done to the children who took part in the Wigan Town Sports event at Robin Park Arena today. We are extremely proud of all the children for trying their best and cheering each other on! A big well done to John who has made it to the final for the 80m sprint, good luck John!

Animate trip

Year 6 have had a great day at Animate Youth Ministry in St. Helens. They took part in lots of different activities to develop teamwork, resilience and perseverance.

Y6 Boy in the Tower

Y6 have started to read the novel Boy in the Tower and have been designing posters based on the book.

Oliver Twist

Children had a fantastic time watching Oliver Twist this afternoon.

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A treat for all the children at dinner time today! 😃

An End to SATs Week

We could not be prouder of our incredible Year 6 children.
They have shown such dedication and hard work – they are simply AMAZING! ⭐️

As a reward for their excellent efforts this week, the children had a day of fun: playing games, watching a movie and enjoying some tasty treats. ⚽️📹🍩

Y6 Day of Hope

Year 6 enjoyed creating self-portraits of themselves and also of the people who they feel inspire hope in others.

Year 6 Big Lent Walk

Year 6 have walked around the local area to the canal as part of our Big Lent Walk enjoying the glorious sunshine.

Mother’s Day 💕

A fabulous Prayer and Liturgy to celebrate all of the amazing ladies in our lives.

Y6 Big Lent Walk

Year 6 took part in a class prayer and liturgy in our school spiritual garden before going on a walk around the local area to observe signs of spring linked to the creation story.

Achievers 28.2.25

Our amazing achievers this week!

Y6 Residential

Day 3 – The children ended their time at The Anderton Centre on the XL paddleboards. They worked together as a team to complete some fun games and then took a dip in the very cold reservoir. After lunch, the children returned to school and enjoyed sharing their adventures with the families 🏄🏻‍♂️💦🦆

Y6 Residential

Day 2 – Another active day! In the morning, the children spent time climbing trees followed by an afternoon adventure in canoes across the reservoir to explore Liverpool castle. After their evening meal, the children then took part in a bushcraft activity with a fire, hot chocolate, toasted marshmallows and stories 🌳🚣🏼‍♀️🔥

Y6 Residential

Day 1 – After a safe arrival at the Anderton Centre, Year 6 went for a walk in the woods, built a shelter and engaged in an afternoon of fun activities. They had a go at archery, low ropes and high all aboard. In the evening, the children participated in some team games and visited the tuck shop.

Number Day

Year 6 have been working on TTRS and solving interactive maths puzzles for Number Day.

Y6 Electricity

Year 6 have been investigating how different voltages affect the way that components work in a circuit.

Y6 Prayer and Liturgy

Some pupils from Y6 took an active role in our class prayer and liturgy on the baptism of Jesus.

Christmas Buddies

Reception and Year 6 have enjoyed spending some time together with their buddies, sharing Christmas cards that they have made for each other and eating lunch together.

Y6 Homework Projects

This term, Y6 were asked to make a model of a mountain or a mountain range. We had an incredible display of homework projects to show off at our coffee afternoon. Don’t they look spectacular! 🏔️👏🏻

Christmas Cards for the Community

As the choir were going to sing at the local retirement home, Year 6 made Christmas cards to give to the residents. The people of St Clements Court were very grateful for the kind gesture.

Y6 Science

Year 6 have been investigating the angle of reflected light using mirrors to create a human ‘periscope’.

Y6 Computing

Y6 have been coding with Edublocks to create patterns using different algorithms. Children have inputted loops and conditionals while experimenting with RGB colour selections to complete their work.

Y6 Fairground Rides

This term, Year 6 will be learning to make mechanical fairground rounds in Design and Technology. They have been exploring everyday objects and fairground rides that rotate and have been investigating how motors are used in a circuit. This week they have had a go at creating strong structures and framework for a fairground ride.

Y6 Science investigating shadows.

This week, Y6 have been investigating shadows as part of our light topic.

Y6 balancing and counter balancing in PE.

Year 6 have been working together to solve physical challenges using a variety of balancing techniques.

Buddies Assembly

Year 6 welcomed their buddies from Reception to St Jude’s Catholic Primary School during assembly.

Y6 Art

Year 6 have been making abstract sculptures out of clay to represent the natural world. Their designs have been inspired by the work of Barbara Hepworth and Zaha Hadid.

Y6 Music

This week Year 6 worked with Carmel from the Wigan Music Service to identify and play rhythm patterns using ½ beat (quavers) , 1 beat (crotchets), 2 beat (minims), 4 beat (semibreve) notes.

Y6 throw tennis

This week, the children in Year 6 were developing their reactions in PE and then applied this to a game of throw tennis.

Y6 Geography

Y6 were using atlases to find the location of different mountain ranges from around the world, particularly the Himalaya which is what we will be learning about this term.

Tag Netball

This term, Year 6 will be focusing on ball skills in PE. Today, we have been developing our reaction and response in a game of tag netball.

Year 6 Science

Today in Science, Y6 have been investigating the impact of exercise on their heart rate by measuring their pulse before and after 5 minutes of exercise in the glorious sunshine.