Year 6 Blog - Friday 13th March 2026

Date: 12th Mar 2026 @ 7:51am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have been revising how to use different types of tense. We have also been continuing our crime fiction unit. We have shared the story 'Saxby Smart and the Hangman's Lair' together. We thought carefully about justifying our opinions with evidence from the text. 

Maths 

This week, we have continued our topic on ratio. We have learned how to solve problems involving ratio. We have also explored how to find percentages of amounts and to find equivalences between fractions, decimals and percentages. 

RE

In RE, we shared the gospel story where Jesus was arrested and brought before Pilate. We debated whether Jesus had a fair trial and discussed what made a trial fair. We also explored the many names for Jesus in the gospels. We created our own signs for the cross, deciding what we would call Jesus by thinking about what he means to us. 

Topic 

We had our last visit from Freddie Fit this week and we really enjoyed being active and learning how to keep ourselves healthy! 

In Art, we continued our portrait topic by drawing portraits of each other! We held a 'portrait club' session in class. 

For Science, we learned what is in our blood and the function of each part. 

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday: 

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 - 

Spellings this week are from the Y5/Y6 and the Y3/Y4 statutory spellings.

We will have our test on the 20/03/26

It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but you could also ask someone to call the words out and spell them out loud. Other ideas include, breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (accommodate). You could look for words within words (accompany) or think of your own ways to remember the word, for example, spell it aloud using a mnemonic or tune.

SATS Revision: 

Today, the children have been given a login for SATs bootcamp. This is a fantastic website, which will really help with the children's SATs revision: https://www.yearsix.co.uk/sats-boot-camp/. 

Please complete the following topics for next Thursday: 

Maths - Topic 7: Fractions 

English - Topic 15: Reading Skills

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

Star of the Week  - William

Super Learner -  Oscar

Superstar Writer - Imogen

Bookworm -  Holly W

Marvellous Mathematician - Bella

Special Mentions - Ebba, Eliza W and Dominic: for great attitude to learning and always trying their best. 

Have a great weekend Year 6!