Year 6

🌍 How Maps Help Us Understand the World 🗺️

In Year 6 geography, we used atlases to explore global issues. We learned that wealth and food are unevenly distributed around the world. We discovered that wealthier countries like the U.S. and Europe have much higher GDPs than places in Africa or…

🎨Art Adventures - Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci!🎨

This week in art, we've been learning more about Leonardo da Vinci - and his incredible mural painting, The Last Supper. We discovered that during the Renaissance, murals were usually frescos, which meant they were painted directly onto wet…

🐌🕷️🦋 Invertebrates! 🐌🕷️🦋

In Science this week, Year 6 learnt about invertebrates as part of our topic on classifying living things.

We started by recapping vertebrates – animals with backbones like mammals, birds, and fish.

Then we discovered that most animals are actually invertebrates,…

🧠 Year 6 Latin Lessons: Learning Noun Endings! 🎓

This term, Year 6 have been diving back into the world of Latin! Our focus for this half term is to understand subjects, nouns and objects in Latin.

This week and last week, we’ve learned is that Latin nouns change their endings depending…

✍️ Becoming Authors: Inspired by The 1,000 Year Old Boy 📖

This week, Year 6 have been stepping into the shoes of a thousand-year-old boy! After reading Chapter 1 of The 1,000 Year Old Boy by Ross Welford, we’ve been hard at work crafting our own narrative recounts of the events—bringing the…

🎨 Exploring the Art of the Italian Renaissance🖌️

This week, Year 6 have begun to study the incredible art of the Italian Renaissance. We’ve been exploring Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical and optics drawings, and learning how he used detailed sketches to understand the human body and how we see…

📚 Diving into Place Value with "Can Do Maths"! 🔢

What a fantastic start to the new term it’s been for Year 6! This week, our mathematicians have been diving deep into place value—and doing it with enthusiasm, energy, and a brand new maths programme called Can Do Maths.

We’ve explored numbers…

👋 Welcome to Year 6! 🎉

A big warm welcome to all our new Year 6 pupils—and their families! We’re so excited to begin our final (and best!) year of primary school together.

Year 6 is a special year full of new challenges, exciting topics, and plenty of opportunities to shine. We’ll be diving…