It feels like it’s been a nice calm week in Year 6. The mood is positive, ahead of the SATs next week and we are really proud of how the children are approaching the tests. In Science, which closely links to our English topic, the children enjoyed researching an endangered animal and creating a series …
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Year 6 – Amethyst and Magenta
May 01 2026
Poems, Posters and Parenthesis
This week in English, we read a poem by William Blake – The Tyger – written in 1794. Inspired by his words, the children wrote poems, in a similar style, about endangered animals. We continued with our maths revision work books this week, working hard to practise key skills and everyone seems to be doing …
Apr 24 2026
Persuasion, Practice and Pellets!
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 …
Mar 27 2026
RAF Museum
Year 6 had a brilliant trip to the RAF Museum in North London on Wednesday. We couldn’t think of a better way to conclude our studies of World War 2. We spent time on a self-guided tour around the hangers, spotting and noting down all of the planes used by the allies and axis during …
Mar 27 2026
SATs, Science and Spanish
This week has mostly been taken up by our mock SATs practice, which the children approached in a very positive manner – we couldn’t be more proud of them. As a reward, there will be no homework this week! In science, we explored types of energy, both renewable and non-renewable and the advantages and disadvantages …
Mar 13 2026
Safety, Suspense and Circuits
We continue to enjoy our class book – Boy in the Tower. This week, we have started writing our own suspense stories in a similar style. We will complete these before Easter to find resolutions to some of the terrifying threats that have been identified. Over the last 2 weeks, we have been revising and …
Mar 09 2026
Books, Bulbs and Boy (in the Tower)
World Book Day dominated this week. We had a lovely day enjoying all things book related. Following a thoroughly enjoyable quiz – delivered by the one and only Mrs Bland, the children made some brilliant bookmarks, created their own book covers and read with children lower down the school. We also got to experience a …
Feb 27 2026
Invading, Investigating and Inspiring
It’s been a week of investigations in Year 6. Following some revision on both multiplication and division (to 2 decimal places), children set about using their own examples to prove whether a statement was always, sometimes or never true. In English, we have started our new class book, Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen …
Feb 13 2026
Algebra, Arctic and Amazing Assembly
We finished our class book, Leila and the Blue Fox this week and the children have really enjoyed writing an extended blog post based on her adventures in the Arctic and what the main character has learned. We have started our new class book which is ‘Once’ by Morris Gleitzman and it links in nicely …
Feb 06 2026
Periscopes, Propaganda and the Passive Voice
We finished our class book, Leila and the Blue Fox, today and thought it was right to wave her off, whilst enjoying the main character’s favourite sweet – a Werther’s Original. We have dabbled in different styles of writing this week, using descriptive techniques such as personification, similes and metaphors and everyone enjoyed writing a …
