Valley Primary School
Year 6
Welcome To Year 6
Reading for pleasure at Valley
Curriculum Information & Website Links
Life Skills Activities
Half Termly Life Skills challenges as part of our drive to develop good future citizens:
Weekly Brain Boosters and Curious Challenges as part of our Feel Good Friday initiative:
Home Learning Activities
- Year 6 Summer 2 Newsletter
- Year 6 Summer 2 Topic Home Learning
- Year 6 Summer 2 Spellings
- Year 6 Summer 2 KIRF
Short Term Absence Tasks
- Year 6 English Tasks
- Year 6 Maths Tasks
- Year 6 Wider Curriculum Tasks
- Year 6 Additional Wider Curriculum Tasks
Sharing Our Learning. . .Year 6 Photo Gallery
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As part of our final express event, we took place in a protest around school, which ended with us protesting in the playground to stop deforestation and save the Amazon Rainforest.
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In Maths, Year 6 have been consolidating their statistics knowledge.
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We have talked about physical and human features in geography and why both are important in geography.
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To begin our topic, Amazing Amazonia, we have been learning about where the rainforests are located and developed our knowledge of the countries that are in South Africa.
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Year 6 researched and designed a vegan or vegetarian meal .They enjoyed cutting and grating their ingredients and then enjoyed eating them! They did a fabulous job!
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Part of our writing sequence includes editing our work. Here we are making changes to our writing.
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To celebrate the end of our Topic, we held an Express Event where we showcased our learning and performed our 'I Have a Dream' speech.
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During PE we practised our jump, balance and rolls and created a sequence using all 3.
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We enjoyed celebrating the coronation by creating a portrait of the new King Charles, using a cereal box.
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In PE we enjoyed playing the game of Jump Ball, where the aim was to knock the balls off the cones using a smaller ball.
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We used calligraphy to create a piece of art in the style of Screen Prince.
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In PE, we learnt how to pass the ball to play a game of Tag Rugby.
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We were lucky to have a visit from Lingotots today, where we had a workshop about how we travel to places.
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On Wednesday, we had a visit from a company to do a Science workshop with us.
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As part of our Engage event, the children found out what discrimination is and showed an understanding of how people would feel when they were discriminated against.
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As part of our Express event, Year 6 and Year 5 held an art gallery to show their pieces of art.
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In PE we have played games of dodgeball, which really made our heart rate increase.
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Year 6 made collages in the style of Derek Gores. Each picture had a message to share with the audience.
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During Topic sessions, we have been enjoying researching vegan meals using the iPads.
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In English, we have enjoyed working with our peers to edit our work.
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We have been learning about how light travels in Science. We experimented with how shadows are made and how to change the size of a shadow.
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During our computing lessons, we were creating quizzes for new members of year 6, based on our previous learning during Science and Topic.
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Year 6 enjoyed their visit from Lingotots
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In PE, year 6 have enjoyed learning the game Bean Bag Raid. The aim is to get as many bean bags as you can into your team's hoop.
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Year 6 were excited to welcome their parents in to our Maths Workshop.
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During Topic lessons, we have learnt about different types of renewable energy sources and made presentations to the class.
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We take part in Activate to wake our brains up to get ready for work.
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From reading our book, 'The Song From Somewhere Else', we made freeze frames of key parts in the book before completing our writing based on the character's experiences.
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As part of our Engage day, we made large collages out of materials that could be recycled.
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During Computing, we have been learning about digital footprints and thinking about how these can be positive and negative.
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Activities Day 2 - Part 2
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Activities Day 2 - Part 1
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This evening, Year 6 enjoyed a lovely camp fire and learnt how to light a fire using a fire flint and striker to ignite a piece of cotton wool.
20/08/2024
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Year 6 have arrived at Mount Cook and completed their first activities!
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After making our mug cakes we investigated where plate boundaries are and the different geographical features that are found near the plate boundaries.
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As part of Year 6’s Wow Day, they used their D&T skills to make melt in the middle mug cakes.
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During Computing sessions, we are looking at keeping safe online.
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As part of our new Science topic, we worked together to show our current understanding of the human body.
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As part of our Topic Express Day, Year 6 created informative posters to answer our historical question: What did the Ancient Egyptians achieve and what did it enable them to accomplish?
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Year 6 used clay and paint to complete their Canopic jars. They did a fabulous job!
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On Black History Day at Valley, Year 6 learnt about the Black Lives Matter movement and incidents of racism around the world.
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During assemblies we have been thinking about who has the power in bullying situations.
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In RE, we have thought about the commitment a Muslim makes during their daily lives.
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On the European Day of Languages we had a visit from Lingotots, who worked on some French with us.
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Farah 6 enjoyed singing along to Happy by Pharrell Williams in music.
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In Topic, Year 6 used their D&T skills to build Egyptian temples.
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In Maths, we have been working on using Place Value to answer Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division problems.
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In English, we have worked on building our description writing skills.
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In Science, Year 6 investigated how the brightness of bulbs in a series circuit changes depending on how many components are in the circuit.
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In RE, Year 6 have been learning about Zakah/Zakat, where Muslims give to charity as one of their religious duties to show their commitment to god.
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During Science lessons, we have used practical resources to discover the components an electrical circuit needs to have to work.
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In English lessons, we have been working hard to edit and improve our writing, acting like an author would before their writing was published in a book.
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Year 6 have designed their own Canopic Jar, using wire and modroc they created the armaments of the Canopic Jar, ready for decorating at a later date.
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During PE sessions, we have been learning the game of throw tennis.
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Year 6 have enjoyed the start of their new book ‘The Last Wild’ and enjoyed using their imagination to devise a way for Kester to escape.
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In PSHE, Year 6 identified their strengths and goals for this year and the future, discussing their fears and worries.
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Year 6 enjoyed learning about the geography of Egypt, thinking about why different cities and monuments were built in different places, the use of canopic jars and going caving to discover King Tutankhamun's tomb like Howard Carter did.
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In Science, Farah, Ennis and Simmonds 6 explored electrical circuits and their components.
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During PSHE sessions, we follow the Jigsaw charter.
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Ennis 6 enjoyed going on a scavenger hunt to find important areas of our classroom.
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Transition Day was fabulous, smiles and laughter were plentiful. Everybody is looking forward to September now!
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