Year 6 Blog - Friday 26th September 2025

Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 8:01am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog!

Thank you for all the Harvest donations that have been brought in this week! We are still collecting donations for the food bank next week. 

If you have any spare, small plastic bottles at home, please could these be bought into class for a Science investigation next week?

This week in Year 6

English

In English, we have completed our work on the Nowhere Emporium. All of Year 6 have worked so hard on their amazing fantasy stories, including editing them into a final version. The children have also used their knowledge and skills from the topic to create their own independent stories about a new wonder - they definitely brought their imaginations to their work! 

Maths 

This week, we have learned about lots of strategies that we can use to solve addition and subtraction questions. We have worked hard on a range of number line strategies, such as compensation and bridging. Year 6 have also used a formal method to add and subtract whole numbers and decimals.

RE

In RE, we have shared Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’ and thought carefully about what message he taught us in this letter. We have recognised that we are stewards of creation and that we need to look after our beautiful word. The children wrote some beautiful prayers inspired by this letter.  Year 6 have also worked hard to create some amazing posters to show how we should look after creation, making links to Laudato Si’ and the second story of creation.

Topic 

In French we celebrated the European day of languages and learned all about why it is important to speak different languages. 

In PE we are practising our netball skills. We have been learning how to shoot and use a chest pass to get into position. We have also been looking at how to defend our opponent from side on and attacking forward into a position. 

In Music we have been recapping the notes E,,B,D and F. We have also been learning how to play the Autumn song on the glockenspiel. 

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 from the Y5 and Y6 spelling list: 

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

Maths Challenges: 

Sumdog 

Counting: Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?

Which is quicker, counting up to 40 in ones or counting up to 4,000 in hundreds?

Which is quicker, counting up to 10 in ones or counting up to 1,000,000 in hundred-thousands?

Which is quicker, counting up to 20 in ones or counting up to 140 in sevens?

Which is quicker, counting up to 25 in French or in English?

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

Maths Practise: This week's learning is to continue 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  - Ebba

Super Learner -  Holly W 

Superstar Writer - Casper 

Bookworm - Eliza W

Marvellous Mathematician - Henry 

Special Mentions - Bella - for being a good role model to others. 

Have a wonderful weekend Year 6!