Friday 2nd October 2026

We have had an enjoyable week in year 6. Our big highlights were creating Anderson shelters as part of our History topic on WWII. We used cardboard, paint and outdoor materials to create these and they look great:

In Science, we used our understanding of how light reflects to create periscopes using mirrors and cardboard boxes. This was a fantastic learning experience and required consideration of the angles of the mirrors to work. 

English 

We completed our mystery stories this week, focusing on a range of descriptive skills, including using expanded noun phrases, using the senses and figurative language as well as using prepositions to add to our description.  We have really enjoyed writing these and look forward to editing and improving and publishing them.  

Maths 

In Maths, we have built on our understanding of prime, cubed and squared numbers and applied our understanding to reasoning and problem-solving questions. 

Friday 25th September 

What a fantastic week of learning in Year 6 this week! In Science, we enjoyed exploring how light reflects and investigating the angle of reflection and incidence off mirrors.  We drew diagrams to explore our findings.

In History, we wrote diary entries about what it was like from the perspective of a child during the Blitz. 

In Art, we explored Henry Moore's air raid shelter paintings during WW2 and practised our watercolour skills to create mood through the use of hue, tint, shade and tone. 

           

In Maths, we have been revising our understanding of addition and subtraction through games and word problems – we have really enjoyed these. 

In English, we have been planning our own mystery stories. Olive and Cliff (the main characters in Letters from the Lighthouse) have discovered a secret code/ map/ letter and have been on an adventure to find the end/ clue to their mystery. 

Friday 18th September 

We have had a good week this week. We have enjoyed continuing our learning about the Blitz and what it was like for families using Anderson shelters. In Science, we enjoyed investigating light and how it travels in straight lines. 

English

In English, we have been working on our diary entries. We have written some fantastic entries which empathise with our main character. We will be finalising these next week. 

Maths 

In Maths, we have focused on negative numbers and related these to real-life word problems. 

We had a fantastic afternoon at the allotment planning for how it should be developed through the year. 

 

Friday 11th September 

What a fantastic start to Year 6 this has been! It has been great getting to know each other over the last ten days, and we have made an excellent start to the year. We have been really proud of the children’s resilience and effort in taking the 11+ exam this week – well done.

This term, our history topic is based on the key question: What was life like for children in World War II? We have begun to delve into our topic and have looked at how, as historians, we can look at primary and secondary sources to build our understanding of the past. Our first lesson looked at when WWII was on a timeline compared to the other history topics that we have learnt in our school journey, how WWII  started and what life was like in the cities compared to in the countryside during the war.

Linked to our history in English, we are reading the class book @Letters from the Lighthouse' by Emma Carroll. We have immersed ourselves in the book and begun to explore the different characters. Our main character Olive and her brother Cliff have just been evacuated to Devon. We are in the process of planning and writing diary entries about this.

Further linked to our history, in art, we have begun to look at war art with a focus on drawing figures from different perspectives.

In science, we will be exploring light. We have started by recapping our prior learning and exploring how we see and what light sources are. In PE, we have begun our cricket lessons with a cricket specialist and outdoor adventure activities focused on challenging collaboration.

In Maths, we have begun the term by consolidating and extending our knowledge of place value with a focus on comparing and ordering numbers, identifying numbers on a number line and rounding numbers.