Y6 Friday Blog - 06.02.26

Date: 5th Feb 2026 @ 2:07pm

Welcome to the Year 6 Blog!

Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings / homework and lots more.

Every Friday, the blog will be shared with the class to recap our learning and make them aware of their homework. Throughout the week, we will be learning about the spelling rule in preparation for the quiz on Thursday. EdShed can be used for practise, along with the spelling strategies shared on the blog below. Log in details for EdShed or TT Rock Stars can be found on the inside cover of your child's Reading Record book.

Homework

CGP booklets - Homework in CGP booklets is really effective because it helps children practise what they’ve learned in class. The explanations are easy to understand, and the questions get a little bit trickier as they go along. It also means children can work at their own pace. Please complete the next page of your CGP book.

Reading - Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Asking questions improves key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference. E.g. "Why do you think the character is unhappy?"

Please note that reading books will be changed when completed. Please write a note in your child's reading record book when a book has been completed and sign the relevant parent signature box. Thank you in advance.

Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below and a link to Spelling Shed.

Please note that our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 12th February

Spellings

Lesson 18: Challenge Words

muscle
identity
prejudice
accommodate
available
suggest
determined
competition
rhyme
existence

Maths Problem of the Week

Each week, a new maths problem will appear on the blog... Can you solve it?

The answers will be posted in next week's blog!

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Perimeter of the pentagon = 25cm

Current sides = 5.3 + 5.5 + 8 = 18.8cm

Missing sides = 6.2cm

Both missing sides are equal, so they will both = 3.1cm

Our learning this week in Year 6

English

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Our first English book of the 2026 is 'holes', a story about a very unfortunate boy, who is wrongly sent to a juvenile detention camp...

Last week, I suggested that I would witness something amazing for our independent writing, and Y6 did not disappoint!

While we couldn't simply rewrite the story of Holes (it wouldn't be independent!), it was important that we stuck to the same general ideas. And so, we changed the idea of Camp Green Lake. We had fat camps, thin camps, fitness camps, military camps, happy camps, skateboard camps, gaming camps, sports camps, swimming camps and a whole load of others!

And here is the beauty of it all... they all had a similar feel to the modelled write, using sections which worked, and tweaking sections which didn't

They look amazing!

Maths - Area and Perimeter

An interesting mathematical week this week. It started easy (counting the squares inside a rectangle), got harder (area of compound shapes), got fiddly and faffy (counting squares with missing corners in a triangle), and finally, back to mathematical (multiplying the height by the base of a triangle)

It is always interesting to see how shape affects people. Some people love it, and can see all the different patterns which a shape can make. Some people (and I do not mind classing myself as one of these) struggle to visualise how a shape works, without a mathematical formula to work with. Luckily, in SATs, it would be very unlikely to get a 'count the squares' type of question!

Another error...

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Storytelling Week 2026

A big thank you to Mrs. Lago and Mrs. Mearns for reading to us during Storytelling Week. We had a good session of Bluey, chosen by Y6 of course, before being inspired by Mrs. Mearns' story about how she came to be so passionate about creating hats! It was a fabulous story which took us right through her childhood and adult life.

My Happy Mind

We are about to finish our Celebrate topic in My Happy Mind, where we have learned all about 'Character' and how we can use our character strengths to be the best we can be!

Safeguarding - morning routine

If you are dropping off your child at the classroom door / KS2 entrance door and need to pass a message on to a member of staff please do so by speaking to the staff member who monitors the door in the morning. If you need to enter school for any other reason, adults can only enter the school building via the main school entrance and seek assistance from the school office team. If you are attending a meeting with a member of staff, you must sign in at the front desk as a visitor and have an ID lanyard.

Safeguarding - home time routine

At the end of each day, Y6 will line up on the playground football pitch. Each child will be dismissed individually, only when a member of staff has seen the adult who is collecting. If they are signed up for OSC, the children will need to be collected from the front office, so OSC can sign in, and sign out, the children they are expecting.

If you need to speak with the class teacher at the end of the day, please allow them to dismiss the class first.

Thank you for your continued support in keeping our school and children safe.

Safety in PE

We would like to remind all parents that for the safety of all children and following guidance from Chorley SSP, jewellery is not to be worn during PE. This includes earrings, bracelets and watches. All children will be asked to remove their jewellery at the start of every PE lesson. This will ensure their own safety during the lesson and the safety of others. If a child is unable to take out their own earrings, adults in school will not be able to do it for them. This will mean they will have to take another role in the lesson such as observing, coaching or officiating.

For this reason, if your child is not confident taking out earrings, please do not put them in on our PE days. This year, our PE lessons are on Tuesday and Friday, however we may also have extra lessons on other days throughout the year.

Thank you for your support in keeping our children safe.