Y6 Friday Blog - 25.9.26
Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 1:42pm
Welcome to the Year 6 Blog!
Spellings
List 4: Words with the suffix ‘-al’
antisocial
artificial
beneficial
crucial
facial
official
racial
social
special
superficial
Our learning this week in Year 6
Maths - Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division
We are still in the unit of the 4 operations, but we have now moved onto factors and multiples (easy to do - easy to mix up!)
Remember - Factors are numbers that divide exactly into another number.
For example, the factors of 12 are:
1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12
Because they all divide into 12 with no remainder.
Multiples are the numbers you get when you multiply a number by 1, 2, 3, 4…
For example, the multiples of 12 are:
12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72…
Easy way to remember
Factors go IN to a number → What numbers can divide into it?
Multiples go MORE → What numbers do I get when I keep multiplying it?
Now, to be fair to Tiny, he isn't wrong this time... He just isn't 100% right either. He is finding multiples perfectly - he just isn't going to be able to find all of them using this method. Can you see his mistake?
English
This week, we have started our modelled writing based on The Nowhere Emporium.
Together, we have been building and improving sentences, discussing the choices we make and considering how we can use these techniques in our own writing. There has been a fantastic variety of Y6 skills, including: semi colons, parenthesis, dashes, hypenated adjectives, and of course, multi-positioned adverbial phrases.
Next week, we start our independent write - can Y6 write a similar story, but with a change... Daniel is not an orphan after all. Who could be chasing him if Spud Harper doesn't exist? How will the strange man with the grey eyes react if he isn''t an orphan? Oh, the possibilities!
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.
Have a fantastic weekend!
The Year 6 team