Y6 Friday Blog - 09.01.26

Date: 8th Jan 2026 @ 2:56pm

Welcome to the Year 6 Blog!

Important Information

As it is the first week back, a new year and a new teacher, I have given everyone an extra week with their CGP booklets. If you have already completed it, good news - you get a week off! If not, don't worry - you have an extra week to get it done. We will go through the answers together next Friday.

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 15th January

Spellings

Lesson 14: Words with the suffix ‘-ible’

reversible
incredible
possible
horrible
terrible
responsible
legible
forcible
sensible
visible

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!

Previous week's answers...

Our learning this week in Year 6

English

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...

This week has been all about reading. We have made predictions about what might happen in the book, based purely on the image on the front cover. These ranged from lizard-infested holes, to a strange underground monster's lair, ready to conquer the world (sometimes, I think it is better not to ask!)

After the predictions, we read the first chapter, making a vocabulary and phrase bank. This will be there throughout the entire unit, giving us an amazing selection of ideas for our modelled and independent write.

Maths - Decimals

What an easy start to 2026! Decimal place value, looking at digits, ranging from the hundreds to the hundredths columns. We began the week by identifying the value of the digits in each column, before rounding numbers to the nearest integer, tenth and hundredth, finishing with column addition and subtraction (also using decimal numbers)

It may sound like a lot in the first week back, but Y6 absolutely sailed through it!

And the best news... Tiny the Turtle is back!!! He has been sorely missed.

Weekly Awards

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.