This week, we have spent some time practising the songs for the Year 6 production – the singing is really coming along. It was brilliant to see lots of children auditioning for large parts; the teachers had a really tough job allocating the roles. Children should be learning their lines over the half term break …
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Year 6 – Amethyst and Magenta
May 02 2025
Persuasion, Parentheses and Practice
This week in English, we have been researching endangered species and put this work to good use by writing persuasive speeches about the plight of these animals and what we humans can do to help. We made an effort to include persuasive language, parentheses and question tags. We continued with our maths revision work books …
Mar 14 2025
Letters, Litres and (e)Lectricity!
We are really enjoying our new class read, a dystopian story called Boy in the Tower. This week, we have written newspaper articles, a formal letter and a Wikipedia entry about an invasive species of plant. Over the last 2 weeks, we have been revising and learning about measurement and conversion of measure. Volume has …
Feb 28 2025
Periscopes, Poems and Present Perfect
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. They all seemed to enjoy working with the freedom to choose and work through their own …
Feb 14 2025
Blog posts and Brilliant Discussions
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 and what the main character has learned. They can’t wait to find out what our next book will be… Algebra – a much feared topic in maths – …
Jan 24 2025
Measuring, Money and Mood Boards
In Year 6 this week, we have been enjoying our Brave Colour Art unit and children have the task of creating mood boards using images from the magazines which have kindly been donated. It was interesting to see what colours and images appeal to different individuals. On Thursday, 29 children proudly represented Alban City School …
Jan 17 2025
Arctic, Area & Adverbs
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 10 2025
Maths, Miso and Mustard Seeds
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 …
Dec 19 2024
Capacity, Computers and CHRISTMAS!
And in the blink of an eye – it’s Christmas! What a busy last few days we’ve all had. 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 …
Dec 06 2024
Percentages, Planning, Prepositions (and chocolate!)
We are really enjoying our new art project this term. We have chosen an animal, linked to South America and used a technique to upscale and make it bigger. We will back it onto cardboard, collage it and eventually hope to make it stand up! We have had a successful week in maths, revisiting percentages …
