Year 6 Blog - Friday 9th January 2026

Date: 8th Jan 2026 @ 7:53am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog and Happy New Year! 

It has been lovely to have all of the children back in school this week after the Christmas break. Year 6 have settled back in well and worked hard this week! 

This week in Year 6

English

In English we started reading 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare. We explored the key characters in the play and thought about whether we think Macbeth will be a good or an evil character. We worked hard to retell the scene where Macbeth meets the witches for the first time from the perspectives of different characters. 

Maths 

This week we have been working hard on our Place Value topic. We have revised how to round whole and decimal numbers and we have also learned how to compare and order negative numbers. 

RE

In RE, we started our new topic 'From Galilee to Jerusalem'. We learnt about the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church. 

Topic 

In Music, we looked at changing the rhythm pattern to suit the style of music. We demonstrated this using the Boom Whackers to follow the rhythm pattern that we created. See the pictures of this in our gallery.

In Science, we started our new topic all about our bodies. We learnt about the circulatory system and created some fantastic comics to explain how this system works in our bodies. 

In French, we started our new topic about our physical description. We learned how to describe our gender, height, eye colour and hair colour. We also translated some character descriptions.

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: 

Y6 now have daily overnight homework, to help with their revision for SATs. Please ensure that your child has their pink SATs revision book in school each day. 

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 5: Order of operations and number systems. 

English - Topic 11: Types of sentences

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

Star of the Week  -  Xabier

Super Learner -  Bella

Superstar Writer - Imogen

Bookworm -  Edison

Marvellous Mathematician - Theo

Special Mentions - Alfie G: for working hard to edit and improve his English work

Libby - for fantastic work on the seven sacraments in RE

Have a great weekend Year 6!