Y6 Friday Blog - 13.03.26

Date: 12th Mar 2026 @ 12:55pm

Welcome to the Year 6 Blog!

Important Information

Don't worry! The residential pictures haven't been forgotten. The internet outage this week has set me back slightly, throwing up a lovely error message overnight, but I am making my way through them slowly. Once they are edited and with repeat photos deleted (and when we have working internet!) they will all be uploaded into the gallery section of the class page :)

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 19th March

Spellings

Lesson 20: Words ending in ‘-er’, ‘-or’ and ‘-ar’

computer
superior
customer
soldier
shoulder
interior
calendar
popular
particular
radiator

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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Previous week's answers...

£3.20 in 10p coins, leaving £9.50 remaining.

£10 would be 20, 50p pieces,

so £9.50 would be 19, 50p coins

Our learning this week in Year 6

English

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Our second English book of the 2026 is 'Kensuke's Kingdom', a story about a boy who disappears the night before his 12th birthday, after falling from his parents' boat in the dead of night...

After a quick recap of speech punctuation before the residential last week, we have gone straight into our modelled writing this week... With the grammar focus, of course, being correctly punctuated speech.

In our first model, we looked at setting the scene. No action, no dialogue, no nothing - just description and imagery! After this, we went into our build-up, looking at the moment realisation hit, and Michael realises he has to survive on this island alone. Finally, we hit the problem - the fact that Michael had to venture into the forest for sticks, trying to ignore the terrifying howling noise from within.

Next... Let's write the independent piece and see where we go from there!

Maths - Shape

Possibly the final maths unit of Y6's primary school life (how strange!)

We are looking at angles: missing angles, opposite angles, angles in a triangle, measuring angles etc etc...

Having taught this unit many times in the past, I honestly cannot believe how well Y6 have picked it up! Some of the questions aren't just hard, but absolutely rock solid! We normally hit the greater depth style questions at question 6 and 7, but these came hard from question 4... As you can see below, this was hard!

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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.