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 …
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Year 6 – Amethyst and Magenta
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 …
Jan 30 2026
SATs, St Paul’s Survives and Spanish
This week, Year 6 have worked really hard and completed another set of past SATs papers. All the children approached the tests with positivity and resilience and we couldn’t ask for more. Back to normal next week! In other news, in continuation of our World War 2 studies, we learnt about the devastating events of …
Jan 23 2026
Athletics, Angles and Asking Questions…
On Thursday, 30 children proudly represented Alban City School at the Sports Hall Games athletic competition. They competed in a large variety of events including relay and obstacle races, speed bounce, soft javelin chest push and long jump to name a few. They did a great job of supporting each other and cheering them along. …
Jan 16 2026
Arctic, Air Raids and Area
In English this week, we have been delving deeper into the Nordic landscape with our book Leila and the Arctic Fox. We practised writing formally, before writing a covering letter, applying for a grant in order to launch an expedition to track the migration of Miso the fox. Following this, we decided we needed to …
Jan 09 2026
Happy New Year!
Well we have hit the ground running in Year 6 this week. Despite the plummeting temperatures outside, in the classroom we have been busy getting started with lots of new topics. In English, we made predictions and then started reading the book Leila and the Blue Fox by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, with beautiful illustrations by …
Dec 19 2025
Bottles, Biomes and the Christmas Break
And in the blink of an eye – it’s Christmas! Everyone will need a rest at the end of this jam-packed term! This week, in science, we carried out an investigation to measure and compare our lung capacities. We look at some statements such as ‘girls have a larger lung capacity than boys’ and using …
Dec 19 2025
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Dec 12 2025
Cacao, Characters and Christmas
Another busy week in Year 6! In English, we have been wearing out our pens, writing the long-awaited Day of the Dead stories. The children have worked hard, focusing each day on a different part of the story. On Monday, we started with the opening, setting the scene and introducing a character; we followed this …
