Valley Primary School
Year 6
Welcome to Year 6
Curriculum Information & Website Links
Life Skills Activities
- Valley Life Skills
- Year 6 Interpersonal Skills Activity Bank
- Summer 2 Brain Booster and Curious Challenge
Home Learning Activities
- Year 6 Newsletter Summer 2
- Year 6 Topic Home Learning Summer 2
- Year 6 Spellings Summer 2
- Year 6 KIRF Summer 2
Special Announcements
Sharing Our Learning . . . Year 6 Photo Gallery
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After we wrote our stories we shared them with a class in a different year group.
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As part of national writing day, we took inspiration from Steven Camden and planned our story using doodles and notes before writing them.
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In English, we created a story map to show Odysseus’ journey.
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During DT lessons, we have designed a stuffed toy. We created a template, cut out the material and began to sew our stuffed toy.
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Year 6 enjoyed a webinar with Matt Goodfellow, the author of ‘The Final Year’, who shared his thoughts on his time working in Year 6 and children’s experiences within Year 6.
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During Reading sessions we are reading ‘The Adventures of Odysseus’ and learning more about his trials and tribulations.
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During Art, we used the computers to create some digital sarcophagi.
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Year 6 welcomed year 2 to their express event.
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After programming our micro:bit, we designed a casing to go into a museum exhibit.
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During Computing, we created a blog to share with Year 2 all about our learning on the Ancient Egyptians.
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After all of our hard work in our SATs, we received out Hoodies and certificates for our fabulous attitudes.
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In DT, we researched the history of the thermometer and then worked on programming a micro:bit to alert us when the temperature got too high or too low.
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Ennis 6 have enjoyed recapping the game of Tag Rugby with Mr Munro.
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The teachers at Valley are so incredibly proud of the resilience, perseverance and positive attitudes of the children during SATs week this year!
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This week, Year 6 have been discussing ways to healthily manage stress and worries. They created a dice to give a range of strategies they could use to help improve their stresses.
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We investigated how mould spores can help with bread decay.
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On Earth Day we learnt about saving electricity to keep the planet healthy. We created posters to remind people of what to do.
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We learnt about how fungi can be useful and then took part in an experiment, seeing the effect water temperature had on yeast.
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We had a discussion about different types of microorganism and their properties.
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In PE lessons, we have been playing the game of jump ball and developing the skills we need to play this game.
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During English we have been collecting vocabulary to develop and embellish our writing.
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We practised creating classification trees to sort aliens.
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We took part in the speed stacking competition.
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Before the Speed Stacking competition, we practised our skills so we can be the best.
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In RE, we debated if Christianity is still a strong religion, giving reasons for our decisions.
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As part of our Science topic of Classification, we sorted vertebrates into different groups based on their attributes.
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Year 6 took part in Science Day and we thought about how changes have happened to the Earth over time.
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As part of our World Book Day celebrations, we learnt about the author Abi Elphinstone and read extracts from her books as well as producing some work based on what we had read. We are looking forward to borrowing them from the library.
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During our PE lessons, we practise a skill as well as learning a game. Here we are practising our balancing.
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Year 6 have enjoyed dressing up as our favourite characters for World Book Day 2024.
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We discussed King Tutankhamun's tomb discovery and decided whether the statements were true or false based on our learning.
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Year 6 had a visit with David Baddiel who spoke to us about his books and his hobbies.
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As part of our Engage day for our Topic, 'Kingdom on the Nile' we found out about King Tutankhamun and the lead up to the discovery of his tomb.
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We used databases to answer questions on a quiz, then made our own questions based on a database.
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We enjoyed a quiz as part of our NSPCC Number Day celebrations.
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As part of our Science lessons, we have been learning about light. We made shadow puppets and performed our creations.
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Year 6 had an author visit with the author, Steven Camden, who told us all about his writing process.
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We worked to strengthen and assemble our cars, adding the elecrrical systems to make them move. We used lots of problem solving skills during this lesson.
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As part of our narrative planning, we used freeze frames to help plan our writing.
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In Art, we created our own collages in the style of Derek Gores.
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We had a virtual meeting with author, Beth Lincoln, who wrote the book The Swifts. She told us how she writes and talked about different word meanings and how she used a dictionary to name her characters.
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We used the glue gun (being careful to not touch the hot glue or the hot parts of the gun) to build the chassis of our electric vehicle.
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In PE, we have been practising our skills during the game of Dodgeball.
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We used collage to create our pieces of artwork.
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Learning about ratio in Maths, we use sweets to discover the ratios and answer questions about them.
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In RE, we have been thinking about if anything is ever eternal.
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In Science, we have been investigating how light travels. We have talked about how opaque objects create a shadow.
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We designed and sketched our own collages in the style of Derek Gores.
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As part of our book, The Song From Somewhere Else, we visualised a scene based on pieces of music we heard and then drew them.
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To begin our Topic, we researched electric cars in DT and the artwork of Derek Gores.
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In RE, we read some stories related to Jesus and his teachings and then created freeze frames to show the main part of the story.
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In Maths, we used iPads to practise our KIRF skills.
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During English, we held a debate to see if Frank should go down into the cellar to find out where the mysterious music was coming from.
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We took part in a speed stacking competition.
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We joined Joshua Siegal (and his cat Bluebell) for an author webinar.
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To begin our next text type, we spotted features of a biography. We can’t wait to research more about Sir Ernest Shackleton and create our own biographies!
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To end Real Life Maths week, we created our packaging and worked out the pricing it would cost to try and convince the shop keepers to stock our product.
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In PE we have been working on gymnastic routines.
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During Anti-bullying Week, we have been learning about the difference between bullying and banter. We took part in some role play and created posters.
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In Science, we have been learning about the components of blood.
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We have begun our lessons developing our gymnastic skills.
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We have been enjoying reading for pleasure.
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We started reading our new book, Ice Trap. We looked at a WAGOLL to begin to write our own job application in the style of Frank Worsley.
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As part of our topic, we focused on map reading as part of our Geography skills.
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Year 6 started their new topic, Ragnorak. We learnt about where the Vikings invaded from and made some Viking bread.
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To mark the end of our Power of Reading text, we did an author Stuart about Piers Torday. The children created word clouds based on their learning.
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Simmonds has a fabulous visit to Birmingham Central Mosque.
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Ennis and Farah spent the morning at the Birmingham Central Mosque.
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As part of our PSHE lessons, we have been discussing the rights and responsibilities of children and potential rewards and consequences.
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During Walk to School week, the Health Heroes have collected their class's data about the way they travelled to school.
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As part of Black History Month, we have been creating poetry based on the Black Lives Matter movement, using our knowledge from Topic lessons.
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In our Art sessions, we have been learning about the work of Screen Prince.
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Year 6 were pleased to welcome our parents in as part of our Express event.
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After looking at series circuits, we extended our knowledge by exploring parallel circuits.
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The children have been challenging themselves during Maths lessons.
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Year 6 were lucky enough to attend a webinar with author, Hannah Gold, and an additional special guest, the illustrator, Levi Pinfold.
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In PSHE, we have been thinking about actions and consequences of actions.
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Year 6 did some freeze framing to show some different key scenes of our book, The Last Wild.
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Year 6 have been coding to identify different aliens using their distinguishing characteristics.
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Year 6 have been enjoygin developing their reactions and then using these skills in a game of Tag Netball.
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We rearranged a narrative so it was in the correct sequence.
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Maz Evans, famous author, provided Year 6 with a fabulous virtual author visit.
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During Science, we have been learning all about circuits, naming and drawing the scientific symbols and making changes in circuits to allow all components to work.
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As part of our art work, we have been looking at complementary colours by creating our own colour wheel.
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Year 6 have been enjoying the game of tag netball.
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At Valley, we love reading. These enthusiastic readers completed the summer reading challenge at our local library!
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We started our Science topic this week and discovered how components work whilst creating working circuits.
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Year 6 have enjoyed developing their skills in PE, working together to move the ball around a court.
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During writing, Year 6 have been learning how to write clear concise instructions.
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Year 6 have been enjoying their new novel by Piers Torday called ‘The Last Wild’.
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We have been using dictionaries to develop our vocabulary.
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As part of our engage event, we looked t barriers people in history have had to face. We created some artwork based on our learning, practising our sketching skills.
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