Year 6 - Looking Back and Forth - Friday 6th March 2026

Y6 – Friday 13th February 2026 – Looking Back & Forth in Year 6

Looking back:

It’s not often that we wander into class to be greeted by a wolf and a granny!  But this week, we did.  It’s not often that you find Year 6 munching on Doritos, cheesecake, cookies and whoopie pies during lessons.  But this week, we did!  Another fantastic week has passed by in Year 6 and we have enjoyed learning new facts and figures as the week has progressed.  We have begun to find out a little more about the characters in our new class text – ‘A Story Like the Wind’ by Gill Lewis.  Maths has seen us calculating a range of measures – see our family questions for more info.  Our afternoons have involved further work on the United States of America; digital online learning and safety; rounders; buddies; and so much more.

Thank you to everyone who supported World Book Day either by dressing in character costumes; popping on pjs and slippers; or who enjoyed the day is uniform.  There are some great photos on the school’s social media accounts and also our Y6 webpage – do check out the photos to see what has been going on in school.

 Year 6 – Pupils’ Highlights:

  • JB Calculating the area of a parallelogram
  • HN World Book Day
  • IHA The Oregon Trail
  • LM The Cake Sale
  • OJ PE
  • IB Buddies
  • FH Our grammar test
  • EJ Being a part of the Playground Pals team
  • TB Our State Bakes
  • HH The Trail Games
  • LD Reading our new story for English
  • GH Drawing Tom Gates pictures on World Book Day

This week, we have written short descriptive texts about "The Lone Boat at Sea".  Some of our pupils wanted to share their favourite sentences with you.  What effect do these have on you as a reader? We hope you enjoy reading them (and maybe would like to read a little more!)

HN  Amongst everyone, there were two children, protected by their parents. They left everything. They left everyone. They left....

IB  Inside the huddle of hopeful individuals, sits an elderly man, grasping a tired, shivering dog; the only thing either of them have is each other.

AB Amongst the cluster of unfortunate souls, the old man cradles the white dog as the dog shivers in the cold air.

JB The lonely boat drifts gracefull along the hum of the waves as we stare endlessly at the never-ending ocean.

JR It is late at night, the moon is shining its candescent light, illuminating the ocean below it.

SL The moon watched over the early night sky as the wind blew cold, unfriendly gusts.

IHA The wailing whisper of the moonlit sea, starts to swell like miniature whirlpools, reaching as far as the eye could see.

ML Beneath the illuminated clouds, floats a lone, insignificant dinghy: a bullied craft that has been drifting - solitary - for days.

TB It is dark, the only thing that guides us from our misery is the twinkling stars in the shadows of the moon's violent beam.

GH It used to be just them - him and his mum - and their shackle, their house, their lives - but now everything is gone...forever.

Family discussion questions:

  • What are the mathematical formulae for finding the area of a rectangle, a triangle, a parallelogram, and the volume of a cuboid?
  • How many humans are in the boat in our new text, and what are their names and relationships. Who does the little white dog belong to, and what is her name?
  • What is The Oregon Train?

Looking forward:

  • We will be visiting the Mother’s Day Shop next week – please ensure that pupils have their money in a named envelope, purse or wallet and that they bring in a good carrier bag – thank you. Year 6 will be visiting on Monday afternoon.
  • Wednesday 11th March – free dress day for Harding
  • Please note that bookings for our spring term parents’ meetings will go live on Monday 16th March at 7:00pm and will close on Friday 20th March at 7:00pm

 

Year 6 Homework

(This is available to download for Mrs T and Mrs C from the website.  If you require a copy of Miss Atkins’ homework, please ask one of your Year 6 adults)

Mrs Timmins

Spelling Shed – online and paper task (my apologies for not uploading the Spelling Shed sheets – they got missed this week!)

Miss Atkins

Arithmetic Sheet set – 10.03.26;  due – 12.03.26;