Year 6 Friday Blog - 24th April 2026

Date: 23rd Apr 2026 @ 8:15am

Welcome to the Year 6 weekly blog. 

This week in Year 6

English

In English we have been working hard to revise tense, punctuation, word class and formality! We have been learning how to use test techniques to check our answers and practising past paper questions. We have also started the novel 'The 1000 Year Old Boy' and begun to research about different mythical objects of immortality. 

Maths 

This week, we have learned how to reason with measure and time problems. We have also revised our algebra learning by writing equations and finding values that satisfy an equation. 

RE

In RE, we have started our new topic: 'To the ends of the earth'. We have shared the story of the empty tomb together and written news reports as if we were a reporter at the scene of the empty tomb.  

Topic 

For Science, we have started our new topic about electricity. We have learned how to represent components of a circuit using scientific symbols. 

We have started our striking and fielding unit in PE and we have been learning how to pitch and bat in cricket. 

In History, we learned all about how the laws of the twelve tables from Roman times. 

Please complete the following tasks by Wednesday 29/04/26. 

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 revising the following rules: 

Statutory word list and adding prefixes and suffixes to these
where appropriate.
• Revision Prefixes dis-, mis-, in-
• Revision Prefixes inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
• Revision More prefixes im-, ir-, re-, sub-
• Endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt –cious or – tious
• Endings which sound like /ʃəl/

We will have our test on the 1/05/26

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: 

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 13 Capacity, Mass and Volume 

English - Topic 21 Synonyms and Antonyms

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

Star of the Week  -  Imogen

Super Learner -  Ronnie 

Superstar Writer - Ebba

Bookworm -  Oscar

Marvellous Mathematician - Alfie P

Special Mentions - Milana and Maisie - for always being polite and having great resilience!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!