Year 6 Blog - Friday 12th September 2025

Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 10:18am

Welcome to the Year 6 Blog.

Year 6 have all enjoyed their first Friday play with their Reception buddies this week - well done Year 6 for being such amazing role models! 

This week in Year 6

English

For English, we have continued to be inspired by 'The Nowhere Emporium'. This week, we have been thinking about the character of Daniel and what we can infer about his thoughts and feelings. All of Year 6 wrote some amazing diary entries in role and worked hard to edit their writing. We also debated if the character of Lucien Silver would be good or evil using evidence that we could find in chapters 5 and 6. 

Maths 

This week we have continued to improve our place value knowledge in Maths. We have learned how to round whole numbers up to 10,000,00 and decimals with up to three decimal places. We have also learned how to find powers of 10 more than and less than a given number. 

RE

In RE we have continued to focus on the second story of creation. Together, we have explored the symbolic meaning of the story and understood what important message it teaches us. We have learned that this story teaches us that we need to live in a community with each other. We also discussed what original sin is and how we can sometimes be tempted by things! 

Topic 

In Year 6, we are really enjoying our new WW2 topic! This week we compared Germany in 1937 to Germany today. We also learned about the differences between a democracy and a dictatorship and investigated which countries in Europe were dictatorships and which were democratic in 1937.

We have continued our Science topic, which is all about classification. We have learned about classification keys and how these can be used to categorise different animals. 

In French, we have been reviewing our prior learning on greetings, numbers 0-50, age and colours. 

Home practice

As mentioned in meet the teacher, homework has been set for this week. Please complete the following tasks by next 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. 

Spelling -  

Please practise the following spellings this week from the Y5/6 spelling list: 

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

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: This week we have had to count in tenths to complete our rounding work. Try to count in decimal steps of 0.1, 0.2 or 0.5. You could do this out loud or write it on a piece of paper.

You could draw a numberline, like we have done in class this week. Can you count up and down in decimal tenths? How far can you go?

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

Place Value: This week's learning is to practise questions on place value. For further Maths work, please visit the 'Maths Training' section, where your child will be able to push their learning further with the skills that Sumdog has given them.

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

Star of the Week  - Ebba

Super Learner -  Imogen

Superstar Writer - Bella

Bookworm - Leo H

Marvellous Mathematician -  Maisie

Special Mentions - All of Y6 for being amazing buddies! 

Thank you to everyone who came to Meet the Teacher on Tuesday. The presentation is attached at the bottom of the blog. If you were unable to attend, please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions regarding the slides. 

Have a great weekend Year 6! 

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