Year 6

Please use the link below to see all the fantastic work completed in our Spanish Lessons.

Happy Easter!

Hope you are all having a wonderful Easter break... thought you might like to see some updates from what I've been up to. I see that none of you managed to find the wedding!

Your pictures went down a treat! Thank you for all of your hard work and lovely designs...

Have a great break.

See you in two weeks!

Mr Tunstall (and Mrs Tunstall)

Week ending: Friday 28th March 2025

The last two weeks have been brilliant in Y6. Last week, we started by enjoying a wonderful money management session with Mr Soutter. This is always such a highlight for the children and staff! 
 

We have done lots of work on fair trade over the last two weeks too… and finished this by making some cakes out of distance products, and selling these at the Mother’s Day event today. Thank you to all of those who came in to spend time with their children. 
 

In maths, we’ve looked at volume, as well as completing our statistics unit. We looked at dual bar charts, line graphs, pie charts and the mean! It really has been a hard working week.

In English, children enjoyed finishing their balanced arguments: these are brilliant. 
 

In reading, we continued to read the Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom. It’s been so lovely to hear the children laughing so much at a book - it’s a fantastic read! We won the AR trophy for this week so keep up the great work!! 
 

We also enjoyed doing art this week, as well as geography, science, PSHE, intentional studies and PE. 
 

We finished the week with a fantastic netball session. Well done to all of the team… you’ve improved so much in recent weeks!

Well done to all of the children on their hard work recently. They’ve really worked their socks off! 
 

Homework was put on today (three pieces) and this will be on SATS companion for the children to try next week and over the holidays. Please ensure any other homework is caught up on too.

Have a lovely weekend… and pray for sun for next weekend!!

Mr Tunstall

Week ending: Friday 21st March

Week ending: Friday 14th March

Year 6 have worked really hard this week. Well done! We finished our learning on fractions, decimals and percentages, and moved onto area and perimeter. The children have been brilliant!

In English, we looked at balanced arguments and had a go at writing some paragraphs using debate vocabulary. The children were so creative with their responses!

In Art, we looked at drawing using a grid to help us with proportion as we get ready for our final pieces. In Science, we were looking at reflection and learned about how light reflects clearly off smooth, shiny surfaces, but light rays are scattered when they reflect off dull, rough surfaces.
 

In PE, we have enjoyed doing netball and some football.
 

The children have been brilliant this week. Well done Year 6! 

Week ending: Friday 7th March

What a joy it was to see all of the children dressed up for World Book Day! There were so many fantastic costumes so thank you all for your effort and support for this. It was a great day and we did lots of activities around reading. We looked at the book The Great Kapok Tree and explored the message of the book, and also who we would recommend the book to.

In maths this week, we have been looking at percentages and finding percentages of amounts. We have really had to show resilience through this but it has been wonderful to see it all clicking in lots of the children's heads as we have grown in confidence doing this. Homework next week will be around this so keep on the look out! It was also wonderful to welcome a number of children to the 40 club this week, with all children doing fantastically well on their arithmetic.

In art, we continued looking at Maya art. We finished out History topic on the Maya also this week and moved onto Geography - we will be looking at different settlements over the next half term.

In PE, we have done dodgeball, football and netball. It's been great to see lots of children's understanding of each of these games improving.

In RE, we completed a reflection task around our unit of work on the Exodus and finished by writing prayers to God to ask for help for those people in the world who do not have freedom.

Well done to all of you this week; you have worked really hard.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mr Tunstall

Week ending: Friday 28th February

Happy St David's Day!

It was nice to see the yellow team dressed up today to honour their saints day.

What a first week back! The children have absolutely worked their socks off. I'm so proud of all of their efforts in our assessments this week. They've been challenging and the children have showed such brilliant perseverance during them!

This week, we have spent time looking at the Exodus story and the importance of it to both Christians and Jewish people. We looked at Maya writing in history and then made historical comparisons between the Maya, as well as the Greeks and Egyptians. We've been enjoying looking at Maya art during our art lessons and has a go at sketching some people from Maya murals after practising some different sketching skills - the children did a fantastic job. In PE, we have enjoyed doing dodgeball, as well as some netball, tennis and football.

We also enjoyed doing some pancake flipping this week! Well done to Sienna who won the prize for the flippiest flipper... what an achievement!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mr Tunstall

Week ending: Friday 14th February

Happy half term!

A huge well done to all of the children on a fantastic half term. You’ve worked so hard and should be so proud of yourselves!

This week we’ve worked really hard on our independent writing and it’s been fantastic to see so much progress in all of the children’s writing. 
 

We’ve also spent time looking at decimals on maths, as well as reading our class reader.

We enjoyed doing some art this week as we looked at the type of art the Maya would’ve used. We also finished off our memory boxes! 
 

We finished the week with an emotional goodbye to the wonderful Mrs Felton… followed by some intense games of dodgeball and benchball in PE. 
 

It was lovely to see you all at parents evening on Monday and Tuesday. Thank you again for your continued support. 
 

Last but not least… a huge well done to all children today on their arithmetics. We had a fantastic feel in the classroom as everybody beat their previous high score, and we had a number of new members of the 40 club. 
 

Well done everybody ☺️

Week ending: Friday 7th February 2025

This week we have worked really hard. It's been great to have Josh, an ex-pupil, with us on work experience.

We have been busy completing some maths assessments this week - the children have made great progress. Aside from that, we have been continuing with our work on algebra and have completed two step equations. The children were brilliant at these!

In English, we have begun to plan and write our flashback narrative based around 'Story like the Wind'. The children have started brilliantly and Mrs Gillies and I are very excited to read the final pieces.

Our book in WCSR, Other words for Home, is a brilliant one and is such an easy one to just keep reading and reading. It's a page turner, but not in the thriller way. It's just the type of story where you want to know more and more. We've enjoyed reading this and have explored, talked and answered some questions around the text.

In Science, we looked at the advantages and disadvantages of different types of fuel. In History, we looked at Maya culture, focusing on festivals, priests and sports. We're looking forward to creating pages about Maya culture next week. 

In DT, we decorated our memory boxes and the children did a superb job with this. We will be finishing them next week!

With lots of other things going on, we really have had a crazy week! Luckily, we've managed to work hard in between.

A huge well done to our Futsal team who were brilliant at this week's competition.

Have a great weekend. 

Mr Tunstall

Week ending: Friday 31st January

What a busy week! It’s been so good to see the children making great progress with their arithmetic skills and scores… a number of new members to the 40 club!

We also started algebra this week. The children have shown real skill and resilience as they’ve worked through this. New learning can be tricky to pick up but the children have taken it in their stride!

In English, we’ve taken time to write and edit our flashback paragraphs and are looking forward to applying these into our writing in the coming weeks. We’ve also had a large grammar focus this week, focusing on correctly punctuated sentences. 
 

The chats we have had from our new book - Other words for Home - have been brilliant. We are really enjoying reading it!

In history, we learned about bloodletting. It’s rather gruesome! Ask the children to retell you the story of the Maya Lady Xook. It’s not a nice one!! The children enjoyed looking at Maya beliefs and Maya gods. 
 

With Wednesday being Chinese New Year, we also spent some time looking at this and had a good chance to investigate which years we were born in, as well as our family members and teachers. The children were overjoyed to be able write “Mr Tunstall is a rat” in their book… they may laugh but we year of the rat folk did win the great race! We also made Chinese paper lanterns for you to put up in your own homes.

Well done this week Y6.

Mr Tunstall

Week ending: Friday 24th January 2025

A huge well done to all of the children this week - we have been so impressed with your work ethic! 

Above this message you will find some important statutory information regarding the end of KS2 tests that your children will be taking. A hard copy will be sent home next week.

In maths this week, we continued our work on ratio and proportion. We have spent time looking at scale factors, looking at proportion and looking at recipes and how to use ratio to help us scale up or scale down the amount of ingredients we might need. The children really impressed with this!

In English, we have written setting descriptions based on our new text. The children were tasked with creating a really tense and stormy atmosphere, describing the setting of being out at sea during a raging storm. The children were brilliant at choosing words that created a war-like or battle-like atmosphere that really made the boat seemed vulnerable, and the storm seem strong. We can't wait for you to read some on parents' evening!

In reading, we FINALLY finished Malamander. It was a brilliant ending to the book and, in the end, we were sad to see it end. It's been great to see a number of children eager to read the follow up novels too! We began out new text, Other words for Home, which has already captured our attention.

A huge thank you to Mrs Gillies (miracle worker) who helped us to move forwards with our memory boxes in DT. We are now all at the decorating stage... the product is almost finished! The children have worked really hard on these.

In History, we have been exploring the Mayans and looking on maps at where they lived, and identifying which modern day countries their cities were in. We're looking forward to getting properly into the topic over the next weeks!

A reminder that homework is set on SATs Companion and there are some due in for Monday.

A separate reminder regarding Robinwood... please could all payments be made by the end of Spring term.

A final thank you for all of your kindness on my birthday! It was great to celebrate with the children. I may have snuck some donuts into class for our end of the day party... 

Have a lovely weekend,

Mr Tunstall

Week ending: Friday 17th January

Wow! How has it been two weeks of spring term already? We hope you all

had a wonderful Christmas. 
 

Mrs Gillies commented how hard working the children were in our first week back - and they certainly kept it up second week back. We are so proud!

During the first week of term, we enjoyed a science week with all sorts of fun science activities going on. We learned so much from all of our visitors! We also enjoyed a pantomime at the end of the week, which was a lovely way to finish the week off. 
 

This week, in maths, we’ve started to look at ratio and the children have picked it up so well. this is brand new learning that they have taken in their stride. We will be continuing next week!

In English, we’ve began our new topic writing flashback narratives, based on our stimulus text “A story like the wind”. We’ve enjoyed getting into the text, exploring vocabulary and making some predictions. 
 

In reading, we have very much been focused around Malamander and trying to finish it! We are so close. We’ve had lots of weird and wonderful moments, as well as lots of laughs, as we’ve read this brilliant book. We’re very excited to find out how it finishes next week!

We’ve also spent time this week doing PE - volleyball and dance are our topics for this half term. We also began our new topic in RE on the Exodus - the children had amazing questions and were really invested in the learning. So good to see!

Our Christian value for this half term is Creativity and we’re hoping to see lots of that this half term. 
 

Well done on a great first two weeks of spring term Year 6!

Week ending: Friday 20th December

Merry Christmas! A huge well done to all of the children for a fantastic half term. You’ve worked so hard and we are really proud of you. 
 

We’ve had a fantastic last week - lots of fun and chaos! 
 

Thank you to all parents and children for your kindness and generosity; it’s so appreciated. 
 

Have a wonderful Christmas, 

Mr Tunstall and Mrs Gillies

Week ending: 29th November 2024

This week we completed our autumn assessments - well done to all children who really gave them their best efforts. They’re not easy but many children showed real resilience. We are really proud of you! 
 

This week we have also continued our learning in English, with the children planning and beginning to write their discovery narratives. 

A special mention to all of those involved in the indoor athletics competition. You did such a fantastic job! Well done on your second placed finish. 
 

Have a great weekend!

Week ending: Friday 22nd November 

Well done to everyone in Y6 over the last couple of weeks, you have really been brilliant!

In maths, we have been learning all about fractions. We’ve been practising adding and subtracting fractions, including mixed numbers. Finding the common denominator to make the denominators the same has been fun! You’ve really worked hard and it’s been great to see your confidence increasing - well done!

In English, we’ve been reading our vehicle text: Darwin - Origin of Species and writing a discovery narrative based on Darwin’s experiences on his travels. We’ve enjoyed writing a setting description and thinking about how we can convey character in speech. We also put some work into researching our chosen discovery animal and immersed ourselves in jungle life with the help of David Attenborough. This will help our writing to be more real to us! 
 

In reading, we have continued reading Malamander and things are all starting to make sense… apart from the mystery of the who or what the malamander is. We are looking forward to catching up with Herbert Lemon next week!

In DT, we designed our own memory boxes to scale, getting ready for the making process in the coming weeks. In Geography, we explored natural resources and where these are found in the world. In Science, linking with our English work, we looked at inheritance and inherited characteristics. We’ve also enjoyed PE, PSHE and Spanish this week. 
 

Last but not the least, a visit from Mr Soutter is always a highlight for the children and we were overjoyed when he taught us today. The children were learning about the world of work and took away some valuable lessons… they also laughed a lot!

Well done this week everybody.  

Week Ending: Friday 15th November

Thank you to all of the children for their efforts with our Ukraine appeal. Your support is so appreciated!

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM - Friday 25th October 2024

What a fantastic trip - a really great learning experience for all of the children! Happy half term ☺️

LOWRY ART WORKSHOP - WEDNESDAY 23rd October 2024

WHAT A SHOW! Y6 Btales - Tuesday 22nd October 2024

What a fantastic show. Great teamwork on show all day and a really enjoyable performance. Thank you to all who came to support us.

Friday 11th October

Well done to all children this week on all of your learning. We’ve really been working hard on our writing and it was a real joy to read all of the children’s diary entries based on the story of Rose Blanche. Great progress made by all children!

In maths, we have looked at factors, multiples and long multiplication. We also looked at squared and cubed number and children enjoyed making these using cubes. 

We very nearly finished Hana’s Suitcase. The book has really allowed us some meaningful reflection times as we have navigated and read about the sad and hard times, but also times to reflect on the hope that we have and why it is important to learn from the past.
 

In History, we explored the Battle of Britain and wrote news reports based on this!

In Art, we looked at pencil sketching techniques and analysed some Lowry artwork to see which one’s he liked to use. We then tried to produce a pencil sketch of our yard in Lowry style, using some of these techniques. 
 

WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY 2024

On Thursday, we took a step back during PSHE to focus on wellbeing and the importance of looking after all parts of our health. It’s OK not to be OK. 
 

Please come and speak to us if ever there is something that you need to speak about. 
 

Have a great weekend, 

Mr Tunstall

Friday 27th September 2024

Well done to all of the children this week - you have worked really hard. 
 

It’s been great to see so many children making progress with their maths arithmetic scores… making improvements from last week! We had our first 39 this week… nobody in the 40 club yet though! 
 

In English, we continued our work around Rose Blanche and completed a modelled write. We are looking to forward to planning and writing our diary entries next week. 
 

In reading, we have enjoyed continuing Hana’s Suitcase. The children have been really gripped by the narrative! It’s also been wonderful to see children to passionate about independent reading - this has been something that has made Mrs Gillies and I smile a lot! We also won the reading trophy this week… good job team. 
 

We have spent some time practising for harvest festival also. Thank you to all who came to celebrate it with us!

Probably the highlight of the week was European Day of Languages. We had a wonderful time in collective worship and the children did some great work exploring all things Germany. They also enjoyed trying some German treats! 

Friday 20th September

Year 6 have continued to work really hard over the last couple of weeks. Well done everybody!

We have absolutely loved getting into our learning all about World War 2. Our reading lessons on Hana’s Suitcase, our English learning based on Rose Blanche and our history learning have all had us engaged and excited about learning. 
 

In maths, the children have shown great enthusiasm and have really shown fantastic retention with their place value learning, retaining lots of information from previous year groups. Keep practising those times tables!

In English, we have all enjoyed our grammar challenges this week! Ask your children what their favourite grammar song is… then ask them to play it… it’ll never leave your head! A complete ear worm. 
 

https://youtu.be/FK2Gyto5gTQ?feature=shared
 

In Art, we created some visual notes all about Lowry and inspired by his style. The children really enjoyed doing this and their artwork was exceptional! 
 

We enjoyed creating a page all about the Blitz in history. We thought about IP addresses in Computing and in RE we thought about Rites of Passages and those real significant moments in life.
 

We are looking forward to celebrating harvest next week and have enjoyed practising some lines and songs for our service next Friday. We hope to see you there!  

Friday 6th September

Welcome back! 
It is has been so lovely to welcome our wonderful Year 6 children back to school this week. Already we have seen them stepping up, taking on leadership roles and showing a great work ethic. 
 

It has been fun to catch up on what their summer holidays brought and talk about the year ahead. We have done a number of tasks to try and settle back into school life and also started our new history topic: Britain at War. 
 

We have enjoyed reading the start of our new text too. Hana’s Suitcase is an emotional read which will really help us with our learning about WW2.

In maths, we have done some recapping of our Year 5 learning and did have a go at some Year 6 arithmetic work today. The children showed lots of great attitudes and it was lovely to see things coming back to children that they had forgotten. 
 

We finished the week with some tag rugby in the sun. Well done everybody!

PE this year will be on Tuesday and Friday. 
Homework and spellings will be set on a Monday and will be in for the following week. 
 

Thank you,

Mr Tunstall

Welcome to Year 6! 

This is the home of Mr Tunstall and Mrs Gillies and also our wonderful Year 6 children. 

We are really looking forward to the year ahead and all the new and exciting learning, adventures, residential and trips to support our learning with our KEYS Curriculum.

With our Christian Vision “I can do everything through God who gives me strength” Philippians 4:13 I know we will strive to do our BEST.

All the information your child needs will be given on their return in September. 

Enjoy the summer holiday and I look forward to seeing you in September.

Thank you for your continued support,

Mr Tunstall