Friday 17th October 2025

Another action filled week in Year 6! We have been focused on propaganda during WW2 and we have looked at the impact that this had on children as well as how this may have differed between the city and the countryside. We have created our own propaganda posters inspired by 'Dig for Victory', 'Mend and Make Do' and 'Keep Calm and Carry On'. 

School Trip

This week, we were extremely fortunate to be invited to the SEALR site so that children could learn about changes in their local area. This was a fantastic opportunity and we felt very fortunate to have been invited. The children have been busy making posters about what they learnt which we will be sharing soon. They were able to walk and see the new road and roundabout, they used a simulator and VR headsets to see how to use and be safe around the machinery used on site, they were shown how the drones are used to support the road building and were able to ask a number of questions. It was very interesting to hear about careers opportunities and understand all of the different essential roles needed to build a road.  

English

Using our Anderson Shelter models, we are creating instructions to explain how to make one. We are focusing on using subheadings, bullet points, ordering adverbials and a range of punctuation to write these.  We are looking forward to sharing these once we have finished editing and improving them next week. 

Maths 

In maths this week, we have started looking at factors, multiples and prime numbers. We have ensured that we can identify them and understand what they are as well as beginning to explore reasoning and problem solving questions around them. 

Friday 10th October 2025

Year 6 have been enthusiastic, determined and extremely hard-working this week. We had a fantastic art lesson completing our Blitz skylines with silhouettes. In science this week, we explored the relationship between light and shadows and looked at dependent, independent and controlled variables in order to experiment with how the shadow size changes as light is moved to greater distances from the object.

English 

In English this week, we have been creating our own model Anderson shelters. This is linked to our WWII history topic but also to writing a set of instructions. We will be reflecting on the process of making Anderson shelters to plan and write these next week.  We have loved making them and have worked fantastically in groups to do so. 

           

          

Maths 

In maths, we have continued practising our arithmetic skills and have focused on answering one and two- step word problems. We have continued to use the CUBES strategy to support our problem-solving. This involves circling key numbers, underlining the question, boxing important words, evaluating to decide on the operation and finally solving the problem.

Friday 3rd September 2025

We have had a great week of learning in Year 6 this week. We have really enjoyed working on making periscopes in science; we have explored how light travels and the angles that light reflects off mirrors at. We worked in teams to build these and evaluate what worked well and what needed to be improved to maximise how much could be seen. We have been really lucky to have an author visit this week, which the class thoroughly enjoyed. In art, we finalised our WWII aircraft and have begun to create a Blitz skyline using silhouettes. 

                                              

Maths 

In maths, we have started to consolidate our understanding of place value through applying it to addition and subtraction word problems. By underlining and circling key information, we are building our skills to be able to evaluate how to solve the problem and ensure that we are answering it with the correct unit of measure. The challenge has been to apply these to two-step problems. 

English

In English and continuing with Goodnight Mr Tom, we have worked on describing a setting and describing a character. These have focused on Mr Tom's house and the newest character that we have been introduced to - Zach. We have been building our skills of using expanded noun phrases and prepositional phrases to do this. We are really proud of our final pieces of work. 

Friday 26th September 2025

What an excellent week! Year 6 have been working hard and have been enjoying our World War II topic. We have learnt about rationing during WWII in our history lessons and in art this week we recreated WWII aircraft, focusing on shading to create a 3D image.  

English

In our English this week, we have focused on empathising with our key character in the story 'Willie'. We wrote a letter to his mother about what it was like as an evacuee child in the countryside and how he was settling in with Mr Tom and Sammy the dog.  The children then replied from the perspective of Mrs Beech to Willie's letter. I am really impressed with the way they have inferred from the text to empathise with these characters. 

Maths 

In maths this week, we have been focusing on negative numbers. We have looked at how we can apply this to 'real life' and have looked at adding and subtracting negative numbers. Towards the end of the week, we have started to look at multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000. 

Friday 12th September 2025

What a fantastic start to the year! Year 6 have shown fantastic resilience and determination with sitting their 11+ this week and we are very proud of them for their efforts in this. They have approached our learning with an excellent attitude and have been trying their hardest in all curriculum areas. We could not have asked for more from them. 

English

To link with our History topic on WWII and specifically 'What it was like for Children in WWII', we have started our class book Goodnight Mr Tom. The class very much enjoyed immersing themselves in the book and learning about the key characters, Mr Tom and Willie.  We have used our knowledge from our history lessons about evacuees to write a first person account from the perspective of a child in WWII. 

Maths 

We have started our first maths unit on place value. Specifically, we have been looking at numbers to 10 million and we have been looking at estimating numbers on a number line when the end and start points vary and when the number of intervals changes. 

Well done Year 6 for a fantastic start to the term.