Year 6 - Autumn 2 - Week 1
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 8:42pm
What a fantastic week we’ve had! After a well-deserved half-term break, it was wonderful to welcome everyone back and hear all about their family adventures and activities over the week off. The classroom has been full of energy and enthusiasm and it’s great to have everyone back together and ready for another exciting half term!
In Maths, we explored common factors, common multiples and prime numbers. The children showed great perseverance and teamwork as they tackled plenty of reasoning and problem-solving activities, including tasks on Learning by Questions (LBQ). There were maths games aplenty, both team-based and individual, featuring 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' style quizzes, Blooket challenges, a competitive game of Boardmasters and...catching Pokemon! Alongside all the fun, we have continued to work hard to improve our arithmetic scores, showing real progress and determination throughout the week.
In English, we began our new focus text, 'Star of Fear, Star of Hope', a powerful story set during World War II. To get to know the story, we made predictions about what might happen and used drama to bring the opening scene to life through role play. The children also practised writing dialogue to advance the action, using a “speech sandwich” to structure their work carefully. It’s been a thoughtful and creative start to our new unit, and the class have already shown great empathy and imagination in their writing.
In History, we have moved on from learning about World War I to exploring World War II, and the children are completely hooked! They’ve shown fantastic curiosity and enthusiasm, with many bringing in extra research from home to share. It’s been wonderful to see how eager everyone is to discuss what they’ve discovered and to make links between the two world wars.
In RE, our topic this half term is ‘How do Christians prepare for Christmas?’ We began by sharing our own experiences and family traditions during the festive season, before exploring how many of these celebrations and symbols are rooted in religion. The class were fascinated to discover the meanings behind familiar Christmas symbols (for example, candy canes representing a shepherd’s crook) and how each one links back to the story of Jesus’ birth. It was a thoughtful start to our new topic and really helped us reflect on the true meaning of Christmas.
A great week it has been to kick off the new half term! A special highlight was the TSP Community Firework Event on Wednesday. A huge thank you to Team TSP and especially Laura Gaskill for organising such a brilliant evening. It was wonderful to see so many families coming together to celebrate. Here’s to another exciting and successful few weeks ahead!
Reminders:
-Spellings have been shared on Google Classroom and the children will be tested next Friday (14th).
-Maths and English homework has been set via the SATs Companion platform (Mr McCabe's Group) and sent home in books (Mr Hirst's Group). This is due to be completed on or before next Wednesday (12th).