Y6 Friday Blog - 27.03.26

Date: 26th Mar 2026 @ 2:48pm

Welcome to the Year 6 Blog!

Important Information

1) Your child will have brought home a pack, with a full set of SATs papers, for over Easter - these include mark schemes and a scale score conversion chart. Please do not feel obliged to complete them all, or even any of them! They are there if you want them, or feel you would like a bit of extra practice.

2) After Easter, homework will change in Y6. Rather than the CGP Reading Tests, I will be sending home a bespoke set of questions, targeting areas which will help your child gain vital marks in their SATs. I will always include a mark scheme, but we will be going over the answers in school - don't feel you have to mark them!

3) Rather than weekly spelling tests, after Easter, we will be focusing purely on the Y5/Y6 statutory spelling words. Any of these could come up in the SATs spelling test, so please study them hard!

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

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...

5 litres per bucket and 7 and a quarter buckets used.

7 buckets = 35 litres

1/4 of a bucket = 1.25 litres

Barrell = 36.25 litres

Our learning this week in Year 6

English

Screenshot 2026-03-26 150438.png What a way to end the term!

From someone who looks at Sir Ranulph Fiennes as an absolute legend in British History, what better link could we make! Our geography unit is all about fold mountains and exploration. Our English unit is all about biographies... So why wouldn't we put those together and celebrate Ranulph Fiennes? Who knows, maybe we will send a few off to him and see if we get a reply :)

Maths

Without sounding too much like a stuck record... Yet again, I threw some tricky maths at Y6 (this time, in the way of quadrilaterals with missing angles). And, yet again, Y6 batted it away like it was an absolute piece of cake. This is filling us with great confidence with SATs coming ever closer!

And, to fill us all with joy, Tiny was back again, making another mistake... Again

To be fair though, this wasn't as easy to explain.

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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.