Y6 Friday Blog - 30.01.26

Date: 29th Jan 2026 @ 3:08pm

Welcome to the Year 6 Blog!

Important Information

As all children seem to be at different points in their CGP booklets, we will not be able to go through answers in school. Use the answer section in the back to self mark at home :)

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 5th February

Spellings

Lesson 17: Words with the suffixes ‘-ent’ and ‘-ence’

excellent
excellence
silent
silence
evident
evidence
convenient
convenience
different
difference

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...

Each side of the triangle is 5cm

Each side of the square is 10cm

Perimeter = 50cm

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...

This week, we have started and finished our modelled writing. Using snippets from Holes, alongside paragraphs from our short writing earlier in the term, we have written an introduction, build-up, problem and resolution to an alternate version of Holes. Each day, we have built on our previous writing, using (but not overusing) our grammar skills of semi-colons and dashes to separate main clauses.

Next week, we do our first independent write of 2026, and I am expecting something amazing!

Maths - Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

We have successfully learned how to convert between fractions, decimals and percentages. Once you understand that the denominator of a fraction has to be a power of 10, ideally 100, it becomes simple. After that, we have spent a couple of days on finding the percentage of an amount.

To find 41% of 600, you must first identify what 100%, 10% and 1% is - all of these can then be manipulated to find the answer

100% = 600

10% = 60

1% = 6

of 10% = 60, then 40% = 240

1% = 6

So, 41% = 246

Not a great one for Tiny this week...

Weekly Awards

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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.