Welcome to Year 6!

2026-27

In Year 6, our teachers are Mrs Webb (Class 10), Mr Davison (Class 11) and Miss James (Class 12). We are also supported by our dedicated Learning Support Assistant (LSA): Miss Smith-Banton

If you have any questions, please get in touch with your child's teacher. If they are not around at pick-up, you can speak to them by phoning the school office and requesting an appointment.

Keep referring back to this page for regular updates about the children's learning. 

Curriculum Newsletters

Year 6 Autumn 2 Curriculum Newsletter

Year 6 Autumn 1 Curriculum Newsletter

Update - Friday 23rd October 2026

Year Six Have a Fantastic Fun-Filled Week!

What an amazing week it’s been for our Year Six pupils who stayed at school during the residential! They’ve had a blast taking part in a whole range of exciting activities  and the smiles have been non-stop!

From building dens and baking delicious cookies to making pizzas and creating colourful slime, the week has been packed with hands-on fun. The children have also shown brilliant teamwork through boat-building challenges and team games, before letting their creativity shine with incredible art projects and inventive board games of their own design. To top it all off, they even became actors - putting together and acting out scenes fit for the West End 

It’s been a week bursting with laughter, imagination, and teamwork. We’re so proud of how enthusiastically Year Six embraced every challenge - proving that amazing adventures can happen right here at school too!

     

      

Update - Friday 16th October 2026

English 

This week in English, Year Six have brought their abolition speech unit to a close by writing and performing their own powerful and inspirational speeches calling for the abolition of slavery.

After weeks of carefully developing their persuasive writing skills, the children produced some truly outstanding pieces. Their speeches were filled with emotive language, rhetorical questions, powerful vocabulary and passionate arguments, demonstrating a mature understanding of the injustice and suffering caused by the transatlantic slave trade.

To celebrate their hard work, Year Six gathered in the hall to perform their speeches to one another. The children delivered their words with incredible confidence, passion and expression, using changes in tone, pace and volume to make their messages even more impactful.

We were incredibly proud of the maturity, empathy and courage shown by every child. The quality of both the writing and performances was exceptional, and it was wonderful to see Year Six discover just how powerful words can be in inspiring change. A truly memorable end to a fantastic English unit!

      

Art 

This week in Art, Year Six have completed their incredible final pieces inspired by black trailblazers in art, bringing together their learning from Art, English and Black History Month.

After researching influential Black artists and exploring how artwork can communicate powerful messages, the children created their own pieces inspired by the abolition of slavery and the importance of freedom, equality and justice.

The children carefully considered how to use colour, symbolism, imagery and composition to express emotion and tell a story through their artwork. Their finished creations were not only beautifully presented but also incredibly meaningful, reflecting the maturity and understanding they have developed throughout their learning.

It has been wonderful to see Year Six making such thoughtful connections between their powerful abolition speeches in English and their creative work in Art. The final pieces are truly impressive, demonstrating that, just like words, art can be a powerful voice for change!

Update – Friday 9th October 2026

This week in English, Year Six have been developing their understanding of semi-colons and learning how they can be used effectively to improve their writing.

The children explored how semi-colons can link two closely related independent clauses, before experimenting with using them in their own sentences. They then began to apply this new skill to their abolition speeches, carefully considering where semi-colons could help their ideas flow and make their arguments even more powerful.

It has been fantastic to see Year Six combining their growing knowledge of grammar and punctuation with persuasive language. Their abolition speeches are beginning to take shape, and the children are working hard to make every sentence as powerful, passionate and convincing as possible!

This week in Maths, Year Six have started learning about BODMAS and the importance of completing calculations in the correct order.

The children explored how brackets, orders, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction can all appear within the same calculation and discovered that changing the order can result in completely different answers! They worked carefully through a range of examples, learning when to tackle each part of a calculation.

Year Six then put their new knowledge to the test with some challenging BODMAS problems and reasoning activities, explaining their thinking and spotting mistakes in calculations along the way.

It has been fantastic to see the children tackling this new concept with such determination and developing their mathematical reasoning – even when the calculations tried their best to catch them out!

Update – Friday 2nd October 2026

This week in art, Year Six have been learning about trailblazing Black artists and exploring the incredible impact they have had on the world of art.

The children each chose an artist to research, discovering more about their life, influences, artistic style and achievements. They explored examples of their chosen artist's work and considered what made their artwork distinctive, as well as how they challenged expectations and helped to inspire future generations.

Year Six then brought their research together by creating their own colourful fact files and scrapbook-style pages, combining information, images, sketches and creative presentation. The finished pieces look fantastic and really showcase both the children's research skills and artistic flair.

It has been wonderful to see Year Six celebrating such a diverse range of artists while discovering how art can be used to express identity, culture, experiences and ideas.

    

This week in English, Year Six have continued their work on abolition speeches by exploring the power of inspirational and motivational language.

The children examined a range of powerful phrases and considered how carefully chosen words can persuade, inspire and challenge an audience. We then took part in a walking read, where the children moved around the classroom reading and performing different phrases aloud.

The real challenge was to bring the words to life. Year Six experimented with their tone of voice, pace, volume, pauses and emphasis, discovering how the same words can communicate a very different message depending on how they are delivered.

It was fantastic to hear the classroom filled with passionate and confident voices! The children are now ready to use these techniques to make their own abolition speeches both powerful and persuasive.

   

Update – Friday 25th September 2026

This week in English, Year Six have completed their fantastic stories inspired by the incredible true survival story of Juliane Koepcke, who survived a plane crash before finding her way through the Amazon rainforest.

Over the course of the unit, the children have worked hard to create vivid descriptions, powerful suspense and exciting action, carefully choosing ambitious vocabulary and varying their sentences to keep their readers hooked. They thought carefully about how Juliane may have felt as she faced the dangers and uncertainty of the rainforest alone.

The finished stories have been fantastic, with some beautifully crafted descriptions and wonderfully tense moments. Year Six should be extremely proud of the creativity, effort and resilience they have shown throughout this unit – much like Juliane herself!

New unit 

Year Six have started their exciting new English unit, which will eventually see them write and perform their own powerful abolition speeches.

To begin the unit, we explored Black History Month and discussed why it is important to learn about and celebrate Black history, achievements and experiences. The children then studied a selection of inspirational anti-racism speeches, thinking carefully about both the messages being shared and the techniques speakers use to make their words powerful. We even watched some of history's great speakers, like Greta Thunberg and Martin Luther King Jr.

Year Six had great fun bringing some of these speeches to life themselves, practising how intonation, volume, pace, expression, and emphasis can capture an audience's attention and communicate an important message.

The children approached the lesson with maturity and enthusiasm, and it was fantastic to hear them speaking with such confidence and passion. This has given us a strong foundation as we begin exploring the abolition movement and the power words can have to create change.

    

Update - Friday 18th September 2026

This week in History, Year Six stepped up to a secondary-school-style challenge as they investigated the fascinating Kingdom of Benin.

Rather than simply being given the answers, the children worked like real historians. They examined a range of written sources, historical pictures and artefacts, carefully searching for clues and making their own inferences about what life may have been like in the Kingdom of Benin. They considered what the evidence could tell them about areas such as wealth, trade, religion, art, buildings and everyday life, while also thinking about how reliable different pieces of evidence might be.

The children then brought all of their discoveries together on their own sugar-paper presentations, making connections between different sources and explaining the evidence behind their conclusions. The finished pieces were informative, thoughtful and beautifully presented.

We were incredibly impressed with the maturity Year Six showed throughout the investigation. They didn't just learn about history – they worked like historians!

   

This week in Geography, Year Six have been developing their map-reading skills by learning how latitude and longitude can be used to pinpoint exact locations anywhere in the world.

The children practised reading and plotting coordinates on maps, using lines of latitude and longitude to locate different countries, cities and landmarks. We then explored how this links to the technology we use every day by discovering how GPS works and how satellites help devices determine our location on Earth.

Year Six then put their new knowledge into action, using coordinates to track down mystery locations and solve geographical challenges. It was fantastic to see the children making connections between traditional map skills and modern technology while developing their accuracy, problem-solving and geographical understanding.

Update - Friday 11th September 2026

This week in History, Year Six have been developing their understanding of Africa and its diverse countries as they prepare to begin their new unit exploring the history of the transatlantic slave trade.

The children researched a range of African countries, discovering more about their geography, cultures, landmarks, languages, and traditions. They then used their research to create detailed and informative country fact files, presenting their findings in some beautifully designed pieces of work.

This learning has given Year Six important geographical and cultural context before they explore the history of the Maafa in greater depth. We were particularly impressed by the care, creativity, and pride the children showed in presenting their finished fact files. A fantastic start to an important new topic!

 

This week in Geography, Year Six have been building on their knowledge of longitude and the Prime Meridian by exploring how time zones work across the world.

The children discovered why different countries experience different times of day and investigated how time changes as we travel east or west from the Prime Meridian. They then put their understanding to the test by plotting different locations around the world and calculating what the time would be in each place.

There was plenty of fantastic geographical thinking as the children worked out whether they needed to move forwards or backwards in time. Year Six showed excellent problem-solving skills and are developing a brilliant understanding of how our world is connected.

Update – Friday 4th September 2026

What a brilliant first few days we have had in Year 6! The children have settled into their new routines incredibly well and have already shown a fantastic attitude towards their learning. It has been wonderful to see everyone getting to know their new classroom, working together and embracing the exciting challenges that Year 6 will bring.

Geography 

We have wasted no time getting started with our new geography learning! This week, we have explored the features of the Earth, developed our understanding of the globe, and begun to investigate lines of latitude and longitude. The children have been learning how these imaginary lines help us locate places around the world accurately. 

English 

We have also launched our first English unit, which has already captured everyone’s attention! We are learning about the incredible true story of Juliane Koepcke, who survived a plane crash over the Amazon rainforest and then faced an extraordinary journey through the jungle. The children have begun exploring her remarkable story and considering how we can use powerful vocabulary and descriptive language to bring the Amazon rainforest and her experience to life in our own writing.