Year 6 learning this week
Below you will find our weekly teaching and learning summary to find out how we develop and enrich your child's learning whilst they are with us.
| Week ending | What we have been learning about |
|---|---|
| 28/03/25 |
Year 6 have been having a revision week in further preparation for their mock week next week and SATs after Easter in maths, reading and grammar. On Friday, Year 6 had a foundation day as a break from the revision covering other areas of the curriculum such as computing, religion and history. |
| 21/03/25 |
This week Year 6 have been completing their Mock Assessments in readiness for their SATs. The children have also been revising previous learning in preparation and will continue this into revision week next week in preparation for the next set of Mock Assessments. |
| 14/03/25 |
This week has been Science week so in literacy, Year 6 have been writing biographies about the first African-American Neuro-Surgeon, Alexa Canady, which links to the Science topic Animals including humans as Year 6 have been learning about the human body with a focus on the circulatory system. Year 6 have carried out an investigation on their pulse and recovery rate. All of the wonderful Science was shown to the school during Friday’s Science Fair! In Maths, Year 6 have been doing statistics including learning to interpret and draw line graphs and pie charts. Year 6 have also been learning about units of time, recapping telling the time and reading time tables. |
| 07/03/25 |
This week in Year 6 we have been learning about Fables in Literacy as part of World Book Week. We enjoyed a lovely performance from Aesop’s Fables and learnt that Fables are stories with a moral/lesson. Year 6 have been writing their own Fable based on an event in their own life with a lesson and on Friday, Year 6 performed their Fables to Year 3. Year 6 have also been continuing with their Maths learning focusing on converting between different metric and imperial units of measure. In foundation, Year 6 have done some PSHE around the excitement and disappointment of finding out their secondary school. Year 6 have also continued their Science learning ready for Science week next week - Year 6 have been researching about the human circulatory and digestive systems. Spellings: Suffixes -ent and -ence |
| 28/02/25 |
This week Year 6 have been reading their new class text, ‘Curse of the Maya’ and writing a letter to a friend about how they are finding the book’s story and predicting what will happen in it. Year 6, in Grammar, have been learning about the features of the perfect tense. In Maths, Year 6 have been learning to calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes and calculating the area of quadrilaterals and triangles. In Foundation, Year 6 enjoyed Maya Day on Monday where Year 6 learnt about different aspects of Maya society by learning about their pyramids, sun dials and best of all - chocolate! Year 6 also started to learn about and design their own Mayan masks. Year 6 have also started learning about the circulatory system in Science. Spellings: -ibly |
| 14/02/25 |
This week Year 6 have been writing their Macbeth stories and working hard to include correctly punctuated dialogue, which leads the story along with all of their other writing skills. In Maths, Year 6 have been reading scales and problem solving with these. In foundation, Year 6 have filmed their shadow puppets performing Macbeth and pieced and edited these using I-Movie on I-pads. We have also finished our biomes in a bottle in Geography to show our understanding of different biomes and the threats they face. Spellings: -ible |
| 07/02/25 |
Year 6 have been writing their own narratives of Macbeth and have been truly inspired by the Shakespeare version and the evil of the witches. The inspiration has continued in DT and Computing as Year 6 have created shadow puppet theatres and have filmed their own versions of Macbeth on I-Pads and piecing them together in I-Movie. In Geography, Year 6 have been bringing their learning about biomes to fruition by researching and creating a ‘biome in a bottle’ page of research to present at the Expo next week. In maths, Year 6 have continued with coordinates and have started looking at 3D shapes and nets. Year 6 have also attended a NSPCC workshop this week learning how to speak out about any problems or worries they might have. Spellings: Suffix -ably. |
| 31/01/25 |
Year 6 have been having their assessment week in preparation for Sats in spelling, grammar, reading, arithmetic and reasoning. The children have also been revising prior learning in preparation and will enjoy a foundation / DT day on Friday to finish the week. Spellings: No spellings due to assessment week |
| 24/01/25 |
This week Year 6 have been writing reports about a battle in Macbeth and in Maths, Year 6 have been drawing 2D shapes, describing coordinates and translating and reflecting shapes on coordinate grids. In foundation, Year 6 have been continuing their DT with designing their shadow puppets, learning about the eye and how it sees light in Science and learning about renewable and non-renewable energy in Geography. Spellings: tial suffix: martial, essential, confidential, spatial, substantial, sequential, partial, potential, torrential, influential |
| 17/01/25 |
Tuesday was Macbeth day in Year 6 and the children immersed themselves into the world of Macbeth. There was drama where they acted out the first four scenes of the play using the actual Shakespeare version of the play using all that wonderful Shakespearean vocabulary; there was potion making with the children pretending to be witches creating a spell which links to this week’s Literacy where the children are writing their own potion spell poem inspired by the famous verse in Macbeth, “Double, double, toil and trouble.” And there was also DT where the children started thinking about and designing their own shadow puppet theatre where they will be able to create their own version of Macbeth. Other learning this week includes Maths where the children are learning about angles in shapes and how the properties of shapes affect these; in Geography the children have been learning about biomes and how they are being affected by human activity and in Science the children have been proving that light travels in straight lines. Spellings: -tial suffix: martial, essential, confidential, spatial, substantial, sequential, partial, potential, torrential, influential |
| 10/01/25 | In Year 6, we have been learning how to use parenthesis in our writing in Literacy. We have also started reading this half term’s class text ‘Macbeth’ and writing descriptions of Macbeth and delving deep into his character. Year 6 are particularly looking forward to Macbeth day next Tuesday. In Maths, we have been learning about fraction, percentage and decimal equivalences along with finding percentage of amounts and finding the mean average. In foundation, we have started learning about biomes in Geography and how humans are affecting biomes all over the world and in Science, we have started building a deeper understanding of how light travels and building a greater understanding of the scientific method and how this can help us answer scientific questions. |
| 20/12/24 |
This week in Year 6 the children have been continuing learning fractions in Maths. They have been learning to multiply and divide fractions by integers and solving problems around these. The children have also performed their Christmas Assembly with Year 5 for their parents, siblings and Year 2 this week and they were fantastic. Year 6 have also been finishing their foundation learning, completing their Rosalind Monks inspired artwork; finishing Science, Computing and Music. |
| 13/12/24 |
This week, Year 6 has been learning about fractions: how to compare them efficiently; how to find their decimal equivalent and solve addition and subtraction problems involving fractions and mixed numbers. In Literacy, we have continued to be inspired by our Power of Reading text, The Book of Brilliant Bugs, to write creative narratives incorporating dialogue to convey character and advance action. Furthermore, as the festive period is now truly underway, rehearsals for our performance began as well as decorating our classroom doors inspired by both Christmas and Hanukkah. Spellings: Year 6 spelling words |
| 06/12/24 | This week has been Year 6 assessment week so the children have been doing the 2018 SATs papers as practice in Maths, Reading, Spelling and Grammar. In other moments, the children have been revising prior learning in readiness for the practice papers. After completing their final paper on Thursday morning, Year 6 focused on foundation subjects such as art and RAWV. |
| 29/11/24 | This week in Year 6, the children have been learning fractions: identifying equivalent fractions and simplifying them. In literacy, the children have been writing narratives as a dragonfly or other bug where they are the insect. They have been using all their Year 6 writing skills to describe themselves as the insect, their habitat and how they hunt and avoid being lunch themselves! On Thursday, was the Geography field trip to Bedfont lakes where the children recorded soil compaction, conducted surveys with the public, sketched and researched the habitats on location. |
| 22/11/24 | Year 6 are back in the classroom following their Bristol residential. After great weather last week, unfortunately, the weather decided that Year 6 had been out the classroom enough and rained on the scheduled Bedfont Lakes trip! Instead, Year 6 have been writing instructions on how to build a bug hotel in literacy linked with the text “Brilliant book of bugs” and doing algebra in maths. In foundation, Year 6 have been doing Geography and preparing for the Bedfont Lakes trip by learning how to read map scales and comparing maps of Bedfont lakes over the years. |
| 15/11/24 | This week, the Year 6 children who remained at Echelford, have been researching the various symbols used in OS maps in preparation for their trip to Bedfont Lakes next week. They have also been very busy creating eye-catching posters in order to promote Ashford town to potential tourists. In addition to this, the children had the opportunity to enjoy an afternoon of Forest School, where they learnt to light a fire using a flint and steel and even toasted their own marshmallows! The children have had a great week together and we all look forward to welcoming back the rest of the Year 6 children from Bristol and sharing our different stories about the week. |
| 08/11/24 | This week, Year 6 have been learning about linear sequences and the nth term in maths. In Literacy, we have started looking at our new text for the half term, ‘The Brilliant Book of Bugs’ and have been writing descriptions of bugs and focusing on literary devices to improve our writing. Year 6 have also started our Science topic on Living Things and their Habitats and are learning about classifying different living things and how to create classification keys. |
| 25/10/24 | This week has been foundation week in Year 6 so Year 6 have been finishing their History, Science, Religion and World Views, Music, DT and Computing topics. Mr Green came in on Wednesday and shared with Year 6 his World War 1 & 2 artefact collection including stories behind each one. The children asked wonderful questions and were highly enthused with what he shared with them. |
| 18/10/2024 | This week, Year 6 have been doing practice SATs assessments in spelling, punctuation and grammar, reading, maths arithmetic and maths reasoning. The children have worked really hard and have been fantastic throughout! |
| 11/10/2024 | In Year 6 we have been continuing to learn the long division method of division, utilising prior knowledge of multiples and sharing. We have been using it in different contexts, representing remainders as fractions and decimals and answering problems in different contexts that require interpreting the remainder. In English, Year 6 have been writing a debate based on the class text “Letters from the Lighthouse.” The context of the debate was whether the lighthouse should be destroyed to prevent the Luftwaffe from using it as a waypoint. |
| 04/10/2024 | This week Year 6 have been building up their cohesion of their writing by using adverbial phrases at the start of sentences, colons, semicolons and ellipsis. They have been writing descriptions of a lighthouse and using great vocabulary to do so. They have also written non-chronological reports about lighthouses building towards their DT project. |
| 27/09/2024 | This week Year 6 have been writing letters in English linked to their text “Letters from the Lighthouse”. We have written letters to the main character Olive about the positives of being an evacuee in World War 2 and we have written letters back to Olive in response to her letter. We have also gone into detail on how to edit and redraft writing in order to improve it even more. In maths, Year 6 have been developing their learning on multiplication by looking closer at what multiples and factors are and how they link to multiplication and division. |
| 20/09/2024 | This week Year 6 have been writing acrostic poems inspired by people’s emotions and feelings in the book Rose Blanche. The book is written from the point of view of a German child so the children have been learning to think of things from another point of view. Year 6 have also been learning about literary devices such as similes and personification to improve their writing. This week, Year 6 have been reading their class text “Letters from the Lighthouse” which links with their World War 2 topic as well as Science and Design Technology as they will be creating lighthouses and they will have to wire it up so it is functioning too! Year 6 have continued to work hard in maths building on their knowledge of addition and subtraction strategies with decimal numbers. Year 6 have also enjoyed their first Buddy Reading session with Year 1 |
| 13/09/2024 | This week in Year 6, the children have been excited to start their History topic on World War 2 by reading and studying different historical sources. They have been able to expand on this in Literacy through the class text Rosa Blanche which is about a German child’s experience of the war in Germany. We have studied how different people might be feeling and why, and written descriptive pieces about these feelings from the point of view of the characters. Year 6 also went on a trip to the University of Surrey where they learnt about a small sample of all the different jobs in the NHS such as paramedics, dietitians, nurses, podiatrists, physiotherapists and radiologists. The children’s behaviour was wonderful and they were all so engaged with the workshops and asked and answered great questions. |
