Year 6 Blog - Friday 30th December

Date: 29th Jan 2026 @ 8:20am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog.

This week in Year 6

Well done to the athletics team who made it through to the finals next week! 

English

In English we have continued reading and learning about Macbeth. We shared the scene together where Lady Macbeth begins to sleepwalk and wrote a dialogue of this scene. We had to work hard to choose appropriate vocabulary and punctuation! We then wrote an independent dialogue about the end of the play, where Macduff and Macbeth fight together. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned all about calculation. We have explored when it is appropritate to use a mental method, jotting or written method for an addition or subtraction. We have also learned how to use a column method to multiply. 

RE

In RE, we have continued learning about the miracles that Jesus performed. We have shared the story the healing at the pool in Bethesda and the feeding of the 5000. We created some fantastic artwork to show what the feeding of the 5000 taught us about Jesus. 

Topic   

In PE, we explored how to create a counter balance or a counter tension balance in groups of four. 

In Geography we began our topic all about mountains. We learned what a mountain is and explored the seven summits by using atlases. 

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 13/02/26, after Robin Wood. 

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 Tuesday: 

Maths - Topic 5: Order of Operations & Number Systems

English - Topic 7 Adjectives

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

Star of the Week  -  Eliza W

Super Learner -  Dominic

Superstar Writer - Eliza M and Darcey

Bookworm -  Theo

Marvellous Mathematician - Freddie

Special Mentions - The athletics team

Have a great weekend Year 6!