Welcome to Year 6! 

In Year 6, the class teacher is Miss Ginn. 

If you have any questions, please come and speak to Miss Ginn. If she is not around at the beginning and end of the day, you can contact the school office and request an appointment. 

Keep referring back to this page for regular updates about the children's learning. 

Update - Friday 13th March 2026

WOW, what a busy week we have had in year 6!

English

We finished our narrative this week, you'll be pleased to know the children's characters all survived The Nowhere Emporium. Next week, we are doing the last round of practise SATs. This will help guide the learning for the final few weeks.

Maths

We completed an assessment on fractions, decimals and percentages this week, the children got the highest scores yet! Well done Y6! We will be continuing our recap on area, especially the triangle rules.

Computing

This half term we are focusing on spreadsheets. We had a very interactive lesson playing rock,paper,scissors then inputting the data onto a spreadsheet. The children especially enjoyed all the special colours and formulas you can use. 

Update - Friday 6th March 2026

WOW, what a busy week we have had in year 6!

English

This week we have been creating our characters for our narrative. I am very excited to see how Donut Dave and Bobby Breadstick will survive the wonders of The Nowhere Emporium.

Maths

We finished our unit on fractions, decimals and percentages this week. The children used all their new knowledge to answer word problems, as always they smashed it!

PE

This half term we are focusing on balancing - the children had great fun creating partner balances. In netball, we have been practising our passing skills.  

Update - Friday 27th February 2026

It's the end of another week in year 6...

English

This week we have been revising word classes and different clause types. We have had lots of fun creating silly sentences using relative clauses to add information. 

Maths

The children's recall of previous learning of equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages has been incredible. Next week we will be putting their knowledge to the test by introducing word problems.

Guided reading

Each week, we are going to look at a different text type to ensure the children are accessing all types of genre and vocabulary. This week has been the autobiography of Michelle Obama, the children found her story incredibly inspiring. 

PSHE

This half term, our focus in PSHE is healthy me. The children discussed how they can keep their mind and body healthy. They each created 2 ideas of improvements they would like to make to routines to become more healthy. 

Update - Friday 13th February 2026

WOW! I can’t quite believe that we have reached the end of another fantastic half term in year 6. The children continue to make me very proud each day and know that they will continue doing so. 

English

This week has been looking at past SAT papers to guide our learning for the next half term. The children scored incredibly well on a very tricky paper, which shows their dedication to their learning. Well done team! In the next few weeks we will be creating lots of independent pieces to showcase all they have learnt.

Maths

As with English, it has been SAT's week. The children responded well to the question types, which we have been practising in class. The arithmetic scores were a real joy to see! Next half term we will be returning to percentages, decimals and fractions.

Art

This week we produced our final outcome art piece - a soap sculpture, just like the Inuit people make. It was very messy but very fun! 

PSHE

This half term, our focus in PSHE has been dreams and goals. The children picked a charity they would like to raise money for, and created presentations to persuade others to join the cause.

Week 5 update.

Writing- This week we finished our diary entries from the point of view of Ernest Shackleton. The children amazed me, as always, with their vocabulary choices that created a adventerous, yet scary, atmosphere.

Maths - We began our topic of decimals this week. It has been tricky, but the children has been resilient. 

Week 5 spellings:

potential, residential, confidential, essential, substantial, torrential, sequential, partial, spatial, influential

I will continue to test the children on Friday mornings.

Week 3 and 4 update.

Writing

The children have been working hard becoming experts on creating an atmosphere in their writing, ready to write a diary entry from the point of view of the explorer, Ernest Shackleton. The plans that they have made are incredible, particulary the vocabulary choices. I cannot wait to read them all.

Maths

Year 6 are now ratio and algebra whizzes! They have worked so hard and used all of their prior learning to help them. We complete an arithmetic test every Friday, the scores are going up each week - keep it up year 6.

Week 2 update:

Writing:

The children are now experts in the life of an Arctic fox, including their very funny hunting skill of nose-diving into the snow! We are now starting a new learning journey diary writing - the children will write a diary from the point of view of Ernest Shackleton's journey to Antarctica. 

Maths:

The children completed an end of unit assessment last week on a previously learnt topic - converting units. They all had great scores, which shows how far they have come with their recall skills.

Guided reading:

We are working on our speed and underatanding when reading to ensure we can be effiecient in our SATs.

Spring 1 - week 1 update.

It was lovely to see the children back after the holidays. We have tackled ratio this week in maths, begun our Arctic animal research for our writing tasks (we have watched some amazing videos from Sir David Attenborough) and started a new guided reading book - A kind of spark.

SATs booster club will be on a Monday with me, we will be concentrating on maths reasoning this half term. 

Update - End of Autumn term.

First of all, I would like to say thank you to all of the children for making this term so wonderful. They have really grown into their own year 6 personalities and become the 4 R's champions; ready, responsible, respectful and resilient.

Maths

We have finished off the year with consilidating all of our learning and revisiting tricky topics to secure understanding. I will be starting SATs booster clubs after Christmas, and will send home arithmetic worksheets to help the children with their confidence. 

English

In true Miss Ginn style, we brought The Grinch and The Nightmare before Christmas to life in the classroom. The children had the challenge of persuading Jack Skellington to give back Christmas to Christmas Town. As always, the children rose to the challenge, with hilarious results - apparently 95% of adults like their job- and I am pleased to say Christmas has been restored to its rightful place.

Next term

Our key topic next term is Frozen Kingdoms - If the children want to get in some prior learning, Blue Planet by David Attenborough is incredible to watch.

Update - wb Monday 17th November 

English 

This week we had a mysterious gift arrive from The Grinch! He is retiring and has asked year 6 to help him write a set of instructions for his new recruits of The Grinch Training Academy! The children are enjoying using imperative (bossy) words to explain exactly what needs to happen.

Maths 

We went on as measuring mission around the school to check we could convert between mm, cm and m. They came up with plans of how they could estimate the weight of the whole school. I heard many bizarre comparisons, including knowing the weight of an elephant and then estimating how many elephants could fit in our school!

Update - wb Monday 10th November 

English 

This week we have continued our look into atmospheric setting descriptions, using The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe as our key text. The children have been enjoying looking at how the book compares to the film, and how the author used powerful language to set the mood. 

Maths 

In our Maths work this week, we have been continuing our fractions journey. We have moved onto multiplying fractions, which is tricky, but the children have risen to the challenge as always!

Reading

This week we are concentrating on retrieving and infering from our text - The Nowhere Emporium. The children are enjoying finding out more about the characters, and guessing how the story will end.

Week beginning 20th October.

It has been a busy week in year 6, as always, the children have risen to the challenge.

Writing

This week we have finished our retelling of the story 'Unspoken' by Kwame Alexander. The children had to use figurative and emotive language choices to convey to the reader the struggle the African slaves went through during the transatlantic slave trade era. 

Guided reading

We have continued to use our inference skills to understand the authors word choices. We will be looking at vocabulary after the half term, to ensure the children are fully understanding what they have read.

Maths

This week we have been continuing our deep dive into the world of fractions. The children have been learning about how to recognise equivalent fractions and how to convert improper fractions into mixed number. To help them with this, they have used practical maths resources such fractions chart and bar models.

Please continue to help them with the formal methods of addition and subtraction at home, as this is our next arithmetic focus. 

Topic learning

In RE, the children created a poster to inform others on how a Muslim shows their commitment to their God. In History, we looked at Britain's involvement in slavery. In science, the children were able to explain how blood becomes oxygenated and deoxygenated.

We have been immersing ourselves into the life of a slave during the time of  Triangular slave trade. The children have created beautiful figurative language to describe how the slaves felt and what they saw. 

The children have taken on this challenging subject with maturity and pride. 

The past few weeks of half term have flown by! The children have amazed me (as always) with their incredible story telling skills. They all created a biography of the Olympian, Simone Biles, with a Chiltern twist - it was written in the style of a fairytale. 

In Maths, the children have been absorbing all their new learning and putting into practice in their reasoning. 

We are continuing our topic of the circulatory system by making blood! Photos to follow.

I am looking forward to having the class back together after the residential week, and getting stuck into some SAT's practice. 

Have a lovely week :)