Week of 9th March 2026

This week in class was assessment week and the children approached their papers with great determination and resilience. They worked hard and showed a positive attitude throughout despite the challenges. 

On Monday, we also started our new PE topic: netball, which the class were very pleased about. Everyone showed great enthusiasm as they began learning and practising the key skills of the game.

It was also Odd Socks Day this week, helping us celebrate and raise awareness for Young Carers. The children loved wearing their colourful, mismatched socks and learning about the importance of supporting others in our community.

On Friday, we took part in an exciting maths Zoom session with a mathematician, where the children explored the concept of averages, focusing particularly on the mode and the median.

We ended the week with a real treat in our English lessons – a hot chocolate for everyone to celebrate all of the children’s hard work and effort this week. Well done to the whole of year 6 for showing such perseverance and positivity!

Week of 2nd March 2026

What an exciting and imaginative week we have had in class!

At the beginning of the week, we had some very unusual visitors... aliens from a planet called Zrag! They had come to find out what life on Planet Earth is like before returning home. When we came back from assembly, we discovered mysterious slime and alien figurines in our classroom, which confirmed that our visitors had arrived!

In Maths, we used our alien theme to complete our ratio and proportion topic. The children created their own alien and UFO themed ratio and proportion questions to challenge one another.

 

 

In Art, we designed some fantastic alien space artwork. Using oil pastels, the children blended colours together with tissues to create vibrant space scenes. The finished pieces look amazing and we used them to create a display on our class door. 

   

On Tuesday, we had an important and interesting Home Fire Safety talk delivered. We learnt how important it is to check that smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms are working properly to help keep us safe if a fire ever occurs in our homes.

Later that afternoon in Computing, we played some fun space-themed timetable games. We then ended the day with a fantastic Space Dome experience, which was an immersive learning session all about space. We explored the different planets, learnt about our galaxy (the Milky Way), and discovered more about the first man to land on the Moon. 
  

   

    
On Wednesday, we continued helping our alien visitors by researching what life is like on Earth. Miss Burling discovered a website that was actually a school for aliens! Inspired by this, we collected information and created our own information leaflets to help the aliens learn about Earth before returning to Z-Rag. See our door display of our wonderful work.

                                                              

On Thursday, we enjoyed a lovely afternoon trip. In the glorious sunshine, we walked to Davenant to watch a performance of the Shrek musical. It was funny, entertaining and a wonderful experience for everyone.

We ended the week on Friday with World Book Day, which also had a space theme in our class. The children made a huge effort with their costumes and we designed our own space-themed book covers. We also visited the Year 1 children and read them stories of their choice, which everyone really enjoyed.

It has been a fantastic week full of creativity, curiosity and fun!

Have a lovely weekend everyone ⭐📚🚀

   

 

      
Week of 23rd February 2026

Welcome back! We hope you all had a restful half-term. It has been a busy start to the term, and the lovely weather has certainly helped us ease back into school life- fingers crossed it continues!

In Maths, we began our new topic on ratio and proportion. The children have been learning how to read and write ratios (for example, 3:4 is read as 3 to 4) and understanding how ratios can represent relationships between quantities. We then moved on to proportion, exploring how ratios can also be shown as fractions of a whole.

In DT, we completed our dreamcatchers and they look absolutely beautiful displayed in the classroom. The children showed great care and creativity in their final pieces.

       

In PE, we are coming to the end of our gymnastics unit. This week, the children began applying their skills by creating group sequences. They incorporated tension balances with partners, rolls, balances, jumps and controlled travelling, using apparatus to increase the level of challenge. We will be performing these sequences on Monday before moving on to netball in Week 3.

       

In Geography, we explored the physical and human features of the United States. The children learnt that physical features are natural (such as the Grand Canyon), while human features are built by people (such as the Statue of Liberty). We then researched the Statue of Liberty in New York City. The children were fascinated to learn that it was a gift from France in 1886 and that it was originally a shiny copper colour before turning green due to oxidation over time.

                                            

In Science, we consolidated our learning about light by making periscopes. The children learnt that a periscope uses mirrors set at 45-degree angles to reflect light, allowing someone to see from a concealed or protected position — commonly used in submarines.

                                        

It has been a fantastic first week back and we are looking forward to another busy and productive week ahead.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

Week of 9th February 2026

Final week of this half-term, and, as always, it's been a busy one. The week started with an assembly from Marion at MIND, all about belonging. We then completed a task where we decorated leaves for a new Belonging Tree. 
 

In English, we wrote our Native American quest stories and edited them too. We will write up good copies when we return after half-term.

In Maths this week, we continued with algebra, looking at many possibilities, eg:

x + y = 7

We also explored the nth term, so being able to work out the 1,000th term in a linear sequence, without having to count on!

We're looking forward to more new maths learning when we come back: ratio and proportion!

We created shadow art in Science, in the style of Vincent Bal, a famous Belgian shadow artist. 

Another quick week and it's half-term already! We wish you all a great break-hard to believe we're now 1/2 way through year 6.

See you when we're back on the 23rd! 
 

Week of 2nd February 2026

We started the week feeling refreshed as we finally stepped into February and out of the long month of January; what a fantastic and full week we have had!

🌟 Rock Kidz Visit

We started the week with an exciting visit from Rock Kidz. Their high‑energy sessions taught us important messages about kindness, including others, and ‘Living It Loud’. The children had a brilliant time singing, dancing and taking part in the activities—there were smiles all round!

    

📚 English – Native American Myths

In English, we have begun exploring Native American myths. These traditional stories were passed down orally through generations and often explain:

• how the world began,
• why nature behaves the way it does,
• and how people should treat one another.

The children worked in groups to analyse a myth, rehearse it and then share it with other groups around the classroom. Their teamwork and storytelling skills were wonderful to see.

🔢 Maths – Introducing Algebra!

This week, Year 6 stepped confidently into the world of algebra.
We talked about how algebra is something we actually use all the time without realising—it's simply a way of using symbols to represent unknown numbers.

For example:
7x + 3 = 24
The children enjoyed working out by reversing the operations:
24 − 3 = 21
21 ÷ 7 = 3, so x = 3.

They have shown great enthusiasm and curiosity-what a fantastic start!

🎉 NSPCC Number Day

We ended the week with one of our favourite events of the year: Number Day, raising money for the NSPCC.
The children came dressed in brilliant number‑themed outfits and took part in a whole range of activities, including:

• working with Nursery children on practical number challenges
• heading outside for lots of ‘Do Its’ with each other and Year 1
• enjoying board games with classmates (with Uno remaining the undisputed favourite!)

A huge well done to all the children for their effort, kindness and teamwork throughout the day.

                                    

🌼 Looking Ahead

It has been a wonderful week of learning, fun, and collaboration. We are excited for the week ahead before we all enjoy a well‑deserved rest and recharge ready for Spring 2.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Burling and Mrs Holland

Week of 26th January 2026

Well here we are, coming towards the end of January! It's been another busy week in Year 6 - Assessment Week. More practice for us all to test ourselves, improve our pace and show how much we have learnt. We have already shared Scaled Scores and progress is looking really good. The children are taking fantastic ownership of their learning and taking pride in their progress. It was wonderful to see the classes show such maturity this week.

Once we finished our tests on Thursday, we were lucky enough to have an extra PE session - football skills with a Specialist Teacher. We were dribbling the ball whilst keeping control and then overlapping in pairs. We also looked at how to change direction to get past a defender. It was a great session and everyone enjoyed it.

In DT this week, we created a design for a dreamcatcher - we will making our very own dreamcatchers very soon!

Have a great weekend everyone and see you next week - Rock Kidz on Monday and Number Day on Friday!

 

Week of 19th January 2026

In Maths this week we moved on to look at Position and Direction and focused on coordinates. In our first lesson, we brought chalk onto the playground and drew life-size grids so that we plot and place ourselves on certain points.

We continued through the week by translating shapes - moving shapes around the four quadrants and again, being accurate with our coordinates.

In Computing we continued our work on Bletchley Park and looked at brute force hacking. This was to show how easily a computer could guess our passwords and reinforces the importance of a very strong password. The children used a Scratch emulator to write code that tried to guess a 4-digit number.

Having planned our explanation texts, we got to write them this week in English, all about dreamcatchers. We have been creative in our presentation and know that they will look fabulous once they are finished.

Finally, some of us got to Young Voices at the O2 and we had a super time, singing our hearts out!

Week of 12th January 2026

We have continued to work on % in Maths - lots more practice for fluency as well as moving on to problem solving. This has been a great challenge for both classes - real life Maths to really stimulate our brains. Next week, we will move onto a very different area of Maths - coordinates and translating and reflecting shapes.

In English this week we have been learning about the indigenous people of North America - the first people to settle in these lands. We will be writing explanation texts next week about these fascinating cultures and have been busy doing our own research. 

'Electric' fun continued in Science with our investigation into whether adding cells to a circuit will increase the brightness of a bulb, the speed of a motor or the sound of a buzzer. It was a busily fun time and on the whole, most were correct with their predictions.

On Thursday, Georgia from Accent Catering, held a healthy eating workshop for us. The focus was on eating a rainbow of fruit and vegetables and the children made (and ate!) fruit kebabs. It was a really informative session and we all came away with some great ideas about how we could incorporate more healthy alternatives into our diet.

The week has flown! Have a great weekend everyone and see you again next week.

Week of 5th of January 2026

Happy New Year! A new year and a new term, spring although it’s definitely feeling very wintry!

Our first full week back and we continued where we left off before Christmas with maths: fractions, decimals and percentages and finding a percentage of an amount. Lots of practice this week and more to come next week; we will also move on to problem solving with percentages.

A new term means a new topic in English: North and South America, a geography focus that will prompt our English. So far we have learned about the North American continent and then looked more specifically at the USA: we have located the 50 states and compared the USA with the UK. Do you know how many counties there are in the UK? We now know!

In Science, we have continued with our Electricity topic and have been learning about the international symbols for the different components of a circuit and next week, we will be building circuits and investigating voltage.

Have a great weekend.