Year 6 Blog - Friday 5th December 2025

Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 12:36pm

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have started a new novel, 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens. We have explored the characters in the story this week and we have worked hard to create a character description of Scrooge and of Marley's ghost!  

Maths 

In Maths, we have been learning all about different angles. We have investigated how alternate angles and opposite angles are equal. We also learned that angles inside a triangle add up to 180° and used this fact to determine missing angles within triangles, including isosceles triangles. 

RE

In RE, we have learned about the important women from the Old Testament. We have worked hard to create a book all about these women by researching them.  

Topic 

In DT, we have been busy designing a felt Christmas ornament for a Christmas tree. We thought about our design criteria and sketched our products.

In Computing, we continued our work on Tinkercad and designed a name badge. We had to combine and rotate objects on the workspace. 

We have also been working hard in Science, where we have investigated how shadows change over a day. We discovered that a shadow is longer in the evening and morning and shortest in the middle of the day. This is because of the angle of the sun in the sky. 

Please complete the following tasks by Thursday: 

Reading - Use your home reading to read every night for 30 minutes. You also have a reading diary that must be used for the title of the book and any challenges chosen. 

Books may be changed on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Please practise these spellings this week. The rule to practise is adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer.

All spellings are on Sumdog to practise for our test on Friday.  

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: 

This week I would like you to practise counting up and down in different powers of 10. Start counting in one power of 10. After 5 counts, change your power of 10. How high can you go?

Choose a starting number and see how high or how low you can go! 

Times Tables: This week there are 100 times table questions to practise on Sumdog!

Maths Task: This week's practise is all about angles. 

Well done to all our award winners in Golden Assembly this week! 

Star of the Week  -  Libby

Super Learner -  Leo H

Superstar Writer - Ebba

Bookworm -  Zach O

Marvellous Mathematician - Tommy

Special Mentions - Bella, Xabier and Zach M: for doing a great job recording results in our class Science investigation!

Have a great weekend Year 6!