It has been a lovely week in Year 6 – not least because of the sunny weather! Back in class, we have enjoyed writing persuasive speeches about endangered animals. Drawing on lots of techniques, the children chose an endangered animal and wrote some fantastic speeches, which included information on how or why the animal is in danger of extinction, what the impact could be and what we can do to help.
In maths, we are working in a carousel rotation, each day practising arithmetic and reasoning questions. There is time to discuss the different style of questions and work closely with the children to unpick the strategies they need to successfully solve them for maths Papers 2 and 3.
In topic lessons, as part of our new Asia theme, we learned about the Himalayas and how they were formed, millions of years ago. The children then drew a series of pictures to show the process and wrote information to explain.
Our new Spanish topic is ‘El Fin de Semana’ – The Weekend. We started off with a session revising time – no easy feat and will go onto learning how to say different leisure activities.
Amethyst have thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to visit St Albans Boys School – where we got to dissect owl pellets – a few pictures below. Magenta will visit for the next 2 weeks.
Please see below the timetable for the SATs, which are just around the corner:
| Monday 11th May 2026 | Grammar & Punctuation test – 45 minutes
Spelling Test – 20 minutes |
| Tuesday 12th May 2026 | English Reading Test – 60 minutes |
| Wednesday 13th May 2026 | Mathematics Arithmetics (Paper 1) – 30 minutes
Mathematics Reasoning (Paper 2) – 40 minutes |
| Thursday 14th May 2026 | Mathematics Reasoning (Paper 3) – 40 minutes |
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 6 Team
