Year 6 Blog - Friday 19th September

Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 2:59pm

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

We have had individual and sibling pictures taken today, with everyone looking very smart in their autumn uniforms. They should take a couple of weeks to come back to us, if you would like to order any.

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have continued with our work on  'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross Mackenzie. We read the story 'The Wonder' in class to inspire us to think of our own wonders that we could use in our own stories and we generated some amazing vocabulary! We have also begun writing our own stories. We have thought carefully about building a sense of anticipation for the reader through our writing techniques. 

Maths 

This week we have begun our new topic about the four operations, starting with addition and subtraction. We have been learning about the mental that we can use to help us add and subtract numbers, such as partitioning using a number line. 

RE

We have continued with our 'Creation and Covenant' topic in RE this week and have been learning about the meaning of the second story of creation. We shared the next part of the story together, where Adam and Eve are tempted to eat from the tree of knowledge, and used watercolours to paint our favourite part of the story! We also learned all about Georges Lemaître, and how he contributed to our understanding of the universe, but also had faith.

Topic 

For Science this week, we have learned how to classify leaves. Together, we gathered leaves from our forest school area and investigated how to classify them like Scientists. We enjoyed gathering our samples and sketching them in our Science books!  You can see us working hard on our galleries.  

This week in History, we learned about how Hitler rose to power. We evaluated historical sources and thought about what they taught us. 

In Computing, we learned about respecting boundaries online. We created respect charters to remind us how to treat others with respect and how to have self respect ourselves.  

Home practice

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, which are homophones and other words that are often confused: 

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

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: Try to count in powers of 10 (1000, 10,000, 100,000 etc). You could do this out loud or write it on a piece of paper.

You could draw a numberline to help you. Can you count up and down in powers of ten? How far can you go?  Challenge yourself by choosing different starting numbers and practising your exchanging. 

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

Place Value: This week's learning is to practise questions on addition and subtraction. 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  - Darcey

Super Learner -  Xabier

Superstar Writer - Dominic 

Bookworm - Milana

Marvellous Mathematician -  Theo C

Special Mentions - Eliza M - for great enthusiasm in her writing this week!

Eddie - for being kind and looking after a Reception child. 

Have a wonderful weekend Year 6!