Friday 11th September 2026

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.