Year 6 Blog - Friday 23rd January 2026

Date: 22nd Jan 2026 @ 12:04pm

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have continued reading and learning about Macbeth. We have explored the scene in the play where Macbeth returns to the witches and they tell him more prophecies. We wrote some amazing diary entries in role as Macbeth recounting this scene. We applied our learning to our independent diaries, which we wrote in role as Macduff. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned all about how to calculate co-ordinates on a blank axis, translate and reflect shapes. 

RE

In RE, we have begun to learn about the miracles that Jesus performed. We shared the story of the wedding at Cana and thought tracked how the different people at the wedding felt. We also shared the story of the healing of the official's son and wrote a thank you letter in role as the official to Jesus. 

Topic 

In PE, we began to develop our gymnastic sequences using apparatus. We have been thinking of how we can make our movements flow.  

In Computing, we investigated what makes a good website in preparation for designing our own websites. 

For History, we explored what crime and punishment is and worked on our chronology skills. 

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. 

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 3: Multiplication  

English - Topic 6: Nouns and Pronouns  

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

Star of the Week  -  William

Super Learner -  Leo H

Superstar Writer - Eliza W

Bookworm -  Milana

Marvellous Mathematician - Agatha

Special Mentions - Maisie - for always being kind and helpful

Have a great weekend Year 6!