Our class blog

Week commencing: 13th October 2025

 🎨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 plaster. This technique helped the paint soak in and become part of the wall itself. But guess what? The Last Supper is not a fresco! Leonardo experimented with a different technique - he painted onto dry plaster instead. Sadly, this didn't last as well over time, but it still became one of the most famous paintings in the world!

Inspired by Leonardo's creativity, we had a go at working with plaster ourselves. Each pupil made their very own Plaster of Paris disc, and once they were dry, we painted them with acrylic paints. The results were stunning - a beautiful collection of vibrant colours and designs. It was a fantastic hands-on way to learn about art history and try out some new materials at the same time.

Well done, Year 6 - who knows, we might have some future Renaissance artists among us! 🖼️✨

Week commencing: 6th October 2025

 🐌🕷️🦋 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, which means they don’t have a backbone! We were amazed to discover that around 97% of all animal species are invertebrates! We learnt about different types, including insects, arachnids, molluscs, crustaceans, annelids, echinoderms, and cnidarians. We used pictures and classification keys to help us identify different invertebrates. Independently, we also researched two invertebrates of our choice. Some groups looked at bees and butterflies, while others explored jellyfish and octopuses. We found out amazing facts – like how an octopus has three hearts and how bees communicate by dancing!

It was a fun and fascinating lesson, and we can’t wait to celebrate our learning next week in our assessment! — Year 6 Scientists 🧬

Week commencing: 29th September 2025

🧠 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 on:

1. Whether they’re the subject (doing the action) or object (receiving the action), and
2. Whether they’re singular (one) or plural (more than one).

In English, word order tells us who is doing what. But in Latin, it’s the endings that matter!

For example:

• Equus magum videt – The horse sees the wizard.
• Magus equum videt – The wizard sees the horse.

See how “equus” becomes “equum” and “magus” becomes “magum” depending on who is doing what?

We’ve been practising with fun games and silly sentences—and it’s helping us understand how languages work, even our own! Next, we’re learning more Latin verbs. Wish us luck—vale! 👋

Week commencing: 22nd September 2025

✍️ 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 story to life through our writing. To do this, we used a whole toolkit of writing techniques that we had revised from year 5 learning.

Pupils worked hard to not only draft their recounts, but also to edit and improve them in pairs. We read each other’s work, gave thoughtful feedback, and looked for ways to tighten our sentences, choose stronger verbs, or add extra detail to paint a clearer picture for the reader.

The results? Absolutely brilliant.

We’re so proud of the creativity, effort, and collaboration in Year 6 writing this week. These budding authors have shown that with the right tools—and a little inspiration—anything is possible. Keep those pens moving, Year 6! 🖊️📚✨

Week commencing: 15th September 2025

🎨 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 the world. The pupils have been experimenting with sketching hands and eyes, just like Leonardo.

One of the most exciting techniques we’ve learnt is sfumato—the soft blending of tones and edges that Leonardo used to create a lifelike quality in his paintings. Pupils have practised creating smooth transitions in pencil shading, using this to add depth and realism to their sketches.

We can’t wait to develop our drawings even further and try more Renaissance-style artwork later this term! Ben fatto, Year 6—true artists in the making! 🖼️✨

Week commencing: 8th September 2025

📚 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 up to 10 million, understood how digits change in value depending on their position, and practised rounding, comparing, and ordering large numbers. The best part? The confidence that’s growing each day as pupils realise: yes, we CAN do maths!

We’re so proud of the resilience and teamwork shown this week. Keep it up, Year 6—this is just the beginning of a brilliant year in maths!

Week commencing: 1st September 2025

👋 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 into fascinating subjects like World War II, evolution, and even learning some Latin! We’ll also be working hard to build our confidence in maths, reading, and writing—getting ready for secondary school and beyond. But it’s not all hard work! This year includes fun trips, a residential adventure, roles of responsibility around the school, and of course, the Year 6 production at the end of the year!

We can’t wait to see everything this amazing group will achieve. Let’s make it a year to remember! 💫

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