Year 6

Key information for 2025/26 Year 6 parents:

Year 6 children are to arrive at school at 8:40 am. The end of school is 3:15 pm.
On a Monday and a Thursday please can all Year 6 children attend school in their P.E kit which includes their hooded jumper, this is the day they will have both sessions of P.E.
Reading books in Year 6 will be changed each Monday. Diaries are checked regularly throughout the week.
Homework is set every Friday and homework books should be returned the following Friday for marking.

Our class teacher is Miss Heath and our classroom support includes

Mrs Forrest, Mrs Garnett and Mrs El-Hashahar.

Year 6 Cricket Workshop

Year 6 had great fun this morning taking part in a cricket workshop with Coach Ben.

D&T Automata Toys

SCIENCE WEEK 2026

HAPPY EASTER

B R E A K T H E R U L E S D A Y

RED NOSE DAY 2026

Year 6 Spring 2 Artwork

Drawing: Expressing Ideas

Mental Health Week in Year 6

This week, Year 6 have been thinking about the importance of 'BELONGING'.

It is important for us to feel a sense of belonging because when we belong we feel:

Included
Nurtured
Valued
Loved
Safe
Happy

Year 6 feel a sense of belonging in many different places including:

Home
With family
Sports clubs
School
With nature
With friends

On Wednesday, Year 6 took part in the Picture News Children's Mental Health Live Assembly! We continued to focus on what it means to belong and have somewhere we can call 'Our Place'. The children enjoyed listening to a story based on belonging and looking after our mental health.

SAFER INTERNET DAY 2026

Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed investigating the world of AI today. We took part in the BBC Safer Internet Day AI live lesson and went on to further explore the benefits and the potential risks of both using AI and encountering AI technology in their day to day lives. The children created an AI top tips poster to inform other people about their findings; they analysed the use of AI in different scenarios and concluded the day by creating a class charter to ensure their own safe and responsible use of AI.

N - U - M - B - E - R D - A - Y 2 - 0 - 2 - 6

Year 6 have enjoyed celebrating Number Day 2026 by solving challenging ratio problems and playing a couple of games of exciting (and tense!) games of bingo!

Year 6 Investigate Adaptation

Art Calendars - February

Science - Evolution & Inheritance

Year 6 were excited to begin their new learning in Science this week. Our new topic is based on the theme, 'Evolution and Inheritance'.

This week, the children have been researching and learning all about 'variation'.

Variation occurs when there are differences in characteristics between individuals within a species.

Variation within a species occurs due to two reasons: environmental factors and inherited features. Some characteristics may be affected by both the environment and inheritance.

The children enjoyed working in their scientific enquiry teams to identify signs of variation in a variety of species. Well done, Year 6!

M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S

F R O M

Y E A R S I X

DE S I G N & T E C H N O L O G Y

S T E A D Y H A N D G A M E

Y E A R 6 M U S I C

YEAR 6 GEOGRAPHERS

Year 6 have been working on six figure grid references today. Following this, they investigated population distribution and density across the world. Did you know that over 50% of the world's population live in Asia?

WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY

10 OCTOBER 2025

Children's Mental Health Day 2025

World War Two Experience Day

PSHE - R*E*S*P*E*C*T

This week, Year 6 have been discussing the importance of respect. We discussed that respect should always be regarded as a 'two-way street'. The children learnt the importance of mutual respect within all types of relationships. Take a look at the colourful bank of ideas the children created to show respect and how they expect to receive respect within a variety of relationships.

Science in Y6

What is an organism and how are they classified using the Linnaean System?

Great work in Science this week, Year 6!

The children thoroughly enjoyed our quiz lesson where they competed against each other to define the term 'organism', describe the work of Carl Linnaeus and organise their own diagram to show the Linnaean system - SUPERB SCIENTISTS!

Activism in Print

In Art this week, the children have been learning about Activism in Print. They spent time thinking about what matters to them and what message they'd like to share with the world. Using their carefully created stencil and a selection of paints, the children transferred their design and typography on to a canvas tote bag. We were incredibly impressed with their meaningful messages and artwork.

A Fantastic First Week in Year 6

We have been extremely impressed with all of the Year 6 children who have had a FANTASTIC first week in Year 6!

Well done Year 6. We are absolutely thrilled with you all and can't wait to see you all again on Monday. You should be very proud of yourselves. What a tremendous start to Year 6 you have made!

Welcome back Year 6!

We hope you had a lovely summer.

We are looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

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Geography Fieldwork Enquiry

Where is the best place in our school grounds for a solar panel?

Year 6 have been busy this week planning a full geographical enquiry investigation.

Firstly, they studied contour lines to fully understand what the brown lines and numbers on an OS Map mean. We discussed the importance of understanding contour lines when planning to find the best place in our school grounds for a solar panel.

The children said that,

'Higher ground is the best place to place a solar panel because there is less chance of shadows so the solar panel will receive the maximum amount of sunlight.'

Secondly, the children used Digimaps to generate an aerial photograph of the school grounds which they used to hep them draw a detailed sketch map of the potential solar panel locations.

Following this, the children considered the following questions:

* Which area in our school grounds gets the most sunlight?

* Are any shadows created in this spot?

* Is this area safe enough to erect a solar panel?

* Which direction would the solar panel face?
Who would be able to see the solar panel?

* What do those people think about the prospect of a solar panel being positioned in their view?

* Would the solar panel disturb wildlife?

After a walk and close inspection of their potential sites, the children decided to conduct an interview to gain the opinions of those who may be affected by the solar panels.

Standon Bowers

Spring Term 2025

R E D N O S E D A Y 2 0 2 5

W O N K A W I N N E R S

Congratulations to our lucky Wonka chocolate bar winners - Lois, Leonardo, Leo C and William.

We thoroughly enjoyed our hot chocolate treat and are looking forward to our own clothes day next week!

Y E A R S I X S T E M W E E K

Year 6 have had a fantastic week this week taking part in exciting STEM activities!

At the start of the week, the children completed a D&T project where they created their own Steady Hand Game!

The children were able to:

Explain simply what is meant by ‘form’ (the shape of a product) and ‘function’ (how a product works).
State what they like or dislike about an existing children’s toy and why.
Learn about skills developed through play and apply this knowledge in a survey of one or more children’s toys.
Identify the components of a steady hand game.
Design a steady hand game of their own according to their design criteria, using four different perspective drawings.
Create a secure base for their game, with neat edges, that relates to their design.
Make and test a functioning circuit and assemble it within a case.

We used our scientific knowledge of circuits and components and applied this knowledge to make a functioning toy. The children relied on their buzzer component in the circuit to alert the player when he/she had created a complete circuit by touching the metal handle with the metal wire shape.

Take a look at our toys!

On Tuesday, we took part in a wonderful workshop led by Dr Phil and the team from the Royal Stoke Stroke Unit.

Our session began with a talk from Dr Phil, where he taught us about the brain. Our brains are responsible for our memory, thought processing and controlling and co-ordinating everything that our body does. Our brain is made of 86 Billion brain cells! Unlike other parts of our body, the brain can't store energy so it requires a constant blood flow to survive. If the blood flow to the brain is stopped, it cannot function and the body suffers from a stroke.

Following our informative and interesting talk, we were able to gain some hands-on experiences as we made our way around a carousel of practical activities delivered by our expert scientists.

How the brain is affected by stroke

Following a stroke, some people suffer from visual neglect. This can make people eat food from only half their plate or shave only half their face because they are unaware of the other side. Therapy and rehabilitation can help retrain the brain to recognise the neglected side and people normally recover fully over time. The children were taught how to recognise if someone had suffered a stroke using the FAST acronym.

Imaging

To diagnose a stroke, a patient requires an MRI scan. This scanner takes images of the brain using a magnet that is more powerful than the Earth's magnet! As a result, the children learnt that you cannot go into an MRI scanner wearing anything that is made of metal. The children were fascinated by the MRI scans that they were shown. They were able to identify the blood clot on the various brains by identifying the white area. The other expected features of the brain are displayed in colour on the images . We were intrigued to learn that the red parts of the image showed brain tissue that had died and could not be saved whereas the green areas showed tissue that could be saved following a stroke if the team acted quickly. A clot can either be treated using medication known as 'clot busters' or by removing the clot with a catheter.

Occupational Health

This team help people recover physically from a stroke. We had an incredible time:

* Getting dressed using one arm

* Playing pool-noodle and balloon chair tennis - this helps to strengthen muscles, improve co-ordination and reaction times as well as promoting mental wellbeing

* Walking-aid obstacle race

Neuro orthopaedics

This team treats the various musculoskeletal dysfunctions caused by a stroke. The children were amazed to watch the NeuroTrac machine in action, as it stimulated the nerves in the arm causing them to move. This will improve the patients movement and strength.

Nursing Team

Following a stroke, some patients struggle to swallow food. The team of nurses showed us how a feeding tube would be inserted into a patients stomach. This gave the children a great opportunity to revise their knowledge of the digestive system.

What an amazing opportunity for our children to be a part of. We would like to say a huge thank you to Dr Phil and his wonderful team of expert scientists for opening up this field of science for our children to learn about.

Next up was our much anticipated 'Parent and Pupil Tower Challenge'. The children were organised into teams and provided with a short list of resources which they were required to complete the STEM challenge with.

'Build the tallest but strongest tower that you can in just 30 minutes'

Easy?

Not when the tower was required to be strong enough to hold a 400g tin on top for a whole 60 seconds!

Did our children and parents rise to the challenge? YES!

Did our children and parents demonstrate bucket loads of resilience, competitiveness, teamwork, problem-solving skills, engineering skills, mathematical thinking, technology and scientific knowledge? YES!

Take a look at the amazing towers that our 'engineers' constructed during the challenge.

Congratulations to Paige, Millie, Zack, Jack and the parents for their impressive 142cm tower that held the 400g tin without even the slightest wobble for well over the requested 60 seconds!

S A F E R I N T E R N E T D A Y 2 0 2 5

Y6 have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about internet scamming during our Safer Internet Day. The children designed their own posters using the acronym S-C-A-M to inform people about how to avoid being scammed online. The children took part in the BBC Safer internet live lesson as well as a Scam Knowledge Quiz which they all exceeded in. Well done Year 6! A very useful and informative day!

Art - 2D Drawing to 3D Making

This week, the children have worked extremely hard during our Art afternoons. The children have used the grid method approach to enlarge a 2D drawing. Following this, the children manipulated their image to create a three dimensional object - a tiger sculpture.

Autumn Term 2024

MERRY CHRISTMAS

FROM YEAR 6

World War II Tea Party

D&T - Anderson Shelters and Cooking

WORLD WAR TWO EXPERIENCE DAY

DIWALI CELEBRATIONS

WW2 Poetry - The Blitz

WOW! Look at the incredible 'Blackout Poems' that Year 6 have created this week.

Science

Year 6 worked extremely hard today during their Scientific Enquiry lesson. The children focused on 'Identifying, Classifying and Grouping'. They organised the layout and then designed appropriate questions for their own classification key to classify different plants. Excellent work Year 6!

Geography

For our Revisit and Review task this week, the children used the atlases to locate different parts of the UK. Their next step required them to add the percentage population distribution for those areas. Great map work, Year 6.

Activism in Print

In Art this half term, the children have been learning about Activism in Print. They spent time thinking about what matters to them and what message they'd like to share with the world. Using their carefully created stencil and a selection of paints, the children transferred their design and typography on to a canvas tote bag. We were incredibly impressed with their meaningful messages and artwork.

Fieldwork Fun - Planning and Data Collection

We've had a super week this week working on our fieldwork enquiry,

'How is population impacting our environment?'

Our fieldwork investigation followed a full enquiry structure which saw the children carefully plan out their investigation. Using two local but different enquiry sites, the children planned to collect three sets of data in two locations.

The first location was in Market Drayton. Here the children predicted that by having a larger population number, the environment would not be as pleasant. Our geographers conducted a traffic survey, average noise pollution recordings using a decibel meter and they also spoke to members of the public to gain their opinions on the environment by using a Likert Scale.

Our second fieldwork location was in Loggerheads, just outside of the school gates. This area was much less populated as the children predicted. Data was collected here to discover if this much quieter location has a better quality of environment than the more densely populated Market Drayton.

By comparing our traffic surveys, decibel meter recordings and public opinions recorded on our Likert Scales at both locations, we will analyse and present our overall findings to answer our enquiry question, 'How is population impacting our environment?'

We can't wait to present and share our findings next week!

Calendar Painting

Year 6 enjoyed this morning painting their 'September' calendar entrees. We are extremely impressed with the artistic flair and attention to detail shown to depict autumnal scenes.

Year 6 appraise the work of Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music.

RUGBY MEGA FEST

Year 6 loved their session with Eccleshall Rugby Union Football Club today. A lot of the children expressed an interest in continuing their rugby training following today's exciting challenges. All children are invited to take part in a weekly training session which takes place at 10am every Sunday. Call Chris Roberts on 07703233739 for more details.

Well done Year 6. You demonstrated fantastic teamwork and listening skills during your session. We were very impressed!

Our first week in Year 6 has flown by! We've had a great week learning all of the Year 6 routines and finding out about our new topics. Miss Heath and Mrs Forrest have been incredibly impressed with everyone's positivity and effort this week. Well done Year 6!

Welcome back Year 6!

We hope you have all had a lovely summer.

We are looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

Summer Term, 2024

Welcome back!

We hope you all had a lovely Easter break.

Calendar Art Morning

Wonka Bar Film Afternoon

Letters of Complaint

The children have worked really hard this week planning and then writing a fantastic letter of complaint to a restaurant manager.

Art

Mini World Light Boxes

Year 6 Theatre Workshop

Red Nose Day 2024

World Book Day 2024

Spring 2 Week 2

This week, Year 6 have started their exciting new topic in art - BRAVE COLOUR.

The children have been introduced to a new, exciting artist Yinka Iloria.

Yinka Iloria is a multidisciplinary artist and designer with a bold

bright visual language influenced by his British-Nigerian heritage.

Three components that feature heavily in Yinka’s work are pattern,

colour and storytelling.

The children loved exploring Yinka's designs and having a go at creating similar brave, colourful designs of their own!

Spring 2 Week 1

We've had a busy first week back in Year 6. The children have enjoyed the start of their new topics and were particularly thrilled to get started with their new Rock and Roll music focus! Yesterday, the children started to learn the dance moves to Hand Jive and the lyrics to Rock around the Clock. It's shaping up to be a fun half term!

Hopefully everyone has received their invitation to our new SATs club, which commences from Monday 4th March.

Have a lovely weekend :)

Year 6 Week 4

Microorganisims

This week, Year 6 investigated the question, 'Is yeast a living thing?'

We revisited the seven signs of life and decided that as yeast gives off carbon dioxide when it consumes sugar, that this could possibly be respiration!

We conducted an experiment to see if this was true!

Spring 1 Week 3

Year 6, Super Scientists!

Classification keys

A key is a set of questions about the characteristics of living things.

You can use a key to identify a living thing or decide which group it belongs to by answering the questions.

This week, we investigated and explored CLASSIFICATION KEYS. With the help of a large bag of Liquorice Allsorts, we worked in small groups to make a variety of Classification Keys. Great fun!

Spring 1 Week 2

We've had a great week in Year 6 this week!

English

I have been particularly impressed with the children's writing in English. They have produced some fantastic letters which were written to the Selfish Giant. The children expressed their disgust with the Giant for banishing the children from his garden. Using the subjunctive form, the children informed the Giant on what they would do if they were him. They also made suggestions on how he can rectify his poor decision! Excellent work Year 6!

Maths

This week the children have spent time revisiting and revising their work on fractions. Their fluency when adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying with fractions has greatly improved! We have also started our unit on Ratio which will continue into next week.

Art

On Thursday we took part in an Art afternoon which was great fun. The children are really enjoying their new topic, 'Activism in Print'. They have been thinking of messages that they would like to share with the world, based on their own thoughts and opinions. The children have been really sensible in thinking about the things in life that really matter to them. We can't wait to start our screen printing and adding our messages on to our very own tote bags!

Computing

Our blogging unit is well underway now. The children have generated their own blogging topic and spent the afternoon designing and making a start to their actual blog! There are some fantastic blogs in production, including those on mountain biking, dog breeds, World War 2 and numerous football teams, to name a few. The children used their skills of saving and uploading images to enhance their blogs and to add visuals to their text. Once complete, their blogs will go 'live' so that classmates can take a look and even comment!

Science

Our new topic, 'Living Things and their Habitats', has been great fun this week in our double science lessons. We have enjoyed grouping and classifying animals based on their skeletal structure and their nutritional needs. This afternoon, we worked in small groups to sort animals by 2, 3 and even 5 categories.

Here are the key questions that we have been focusing on this week:

Can you name the 5 broad groups of animals?

What is an invertebrate animal?

Do all animals have a skeleton?

What is an exoskeleton?

Can you decide on the criteria to sort these animals?

How could you classify animals according to their nutrition?

Welcome back - Spring Term 2024

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Mrs Forrest and I would like to thank you all for our lovely Christmas gifts and cards. They were very gratefully received and appreciated.

We've had a great first week back in school. The children are very enthusiastic and excited about our Spring Term topics which they have been introduced to across the week.

In English, we will be exploring Oscar Wilde's 'The Selfish Giant' and will continue to work towards the Year 6 Mastery Keys within our writing. Features such as expanded noun phrases, subordinating and relative clauses, sentence and paragraph openers, as well as demonstrating a range of punctuation, shall continue to be worked on within a range of text types.

In Maths, we have spent the week working on metric measures. The children have used metric measures to calculate, convert and solve problems successfully.

Well done everyone!

Year 6 Celebrate Christmas

What a fantastic end to our extremely busy Autumn Term!

Year 6 celebrated the start of the festive period in style! It all began when the children entered the classroom on Thursday and were treated to a 'North Pole Breakfast'. The children enjoyed helping themselves to a delicious breakfast, which included: pain au chocolate, reindeer crumpets, hot, buttered scotch pancakes, nutella, fresh fruit, a selection of biscuits, cereal, fruit juice and, of course, chocolate coins!

Following that, and with full bellies, we headed off outside and were greeted by two beautiful reindeer and the big man himself, Santa!

Our afternoon involved a movie with hot chocolate, squirty cream, marshmellows, candy canes, popcorn and a selection of crisps! As if that wasn't enough, we then joined the rest of the school for a superb festive Christmas singsong!

We certainly do wish that everyday could be Christmas!

What a way to spend our last Hugo Christmas <3

D&T Electrical Systems: Steady-hand Game

Year 6 demonstrated great talent and enthusiasm during our latest D&T project. We learned all about function and form and used our new learning to design and then create our own steady-hand game! By applying their previously taught knowledge of circuits, the children worked in teams to create a circuit with a buzzer within a game! Every time contact was made with the metal loops, the circuit became complete and the dreaded buzzer rung out for all to hear! Once function of the product was perfected, the children then turned their focus on the less important form (design).

Great work Year 6!

World War 2 Experience Day

Food and Nutrition - Come Dine With Me

It was the turn of our 'dessert' children to create a delicious wartime dish this week and what fantastic bakers they turned out to be! All of the group are extremely proud of their dessert and we are certain that they will taste as fantastic as they look! Enjoy them after tea with a scoop of ice-cream or a drizzle of custard!

All that is left for us to do now is to review the wonderful creations that the children have made over the past three weeks. We will be making our own three-course wartime menu based on our learning and cooking experiences from this half term and scoring our dishes based on appearance and taste.

What a fun few weeks we've had! Well done Year 6.

Food and Nutrition - Come Dine With Me

It was the turn of our 'mains' children to create a wartime dish this week and what a super job they did! All of the group whipped up a delicious cheese and potato dumpling dish. We hope you enjoyed tasting their creations at home. We are looking forward to next week when the 'dessert children' will be serving up an apple crumble!

Food and Nutrition - Come Dine with Me

This half term, as part of our Design and Technology topic, we are linking our cookery lessons with our current WW2 topic. We have investigated the rationing system that occurred during the 1940s and have even devised our own wartime recipe book using basic ingredients!

This half term we will:

Find a suitable recipe for their course.
Record the relevant ingredients and equipment needed.
Follow a recipe, including using the correct quantities of each ingredient.
Write a recipe, explaining the process taken.
Explain where certain key foods come from before they appear on the supermarket shelf.

Today, it was the turn of the 'starter' children to use their ingredients, equipment and recipe to make delicious cheese pinwheels. The children demonstrated superb culinary skills and thoroughly enjoyed their time creating their wartime starter. Well done to you all. Next week, the 'main course' children will be serving up a hearty cheese and potato dumpling dish - we can't wait!

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Nelson Mandela

Show Racism the Red Card

Fieldwork Fun - Planning and Data Collection

We've had a super week this week working on our fieldwork enquiry, 'How is population impacting our environment'. Our fieldwork investigation followed a full enquiry structure which saw the children carefully plan out their investigation. Using two local but different enquiry sites, the children planned to collect three sets of data in two locations.

We can't wait to present and share our findings next week!

A VERY Energetic Week!

This week in Year 6, we have been lucky enough to take part in FOUR active sessions! We have enjoyed our two usual PE slots as well as experiencing a special taster tennis workshop (which was fantastic) and a scientific experiment where we measured our heart rate!

The children have been continuing to enjoy our end of day novel, Letters from the Lighthouse, which is introducing them to the ways of life for three children during World War Two, ready for our Autumn 2 History topic.

There has also been some fantastic spelling work taking place this week. The use of dictionaries and spelling rules when adding suffixes is helping us to improve on our accuracy when spelling longer and trickier words.

Well done everyone!

A Busy Week in Year 6

We've had a very busy week in Year 6 this week!

Every single child earned the Bee Active Star of the Week award this week due to their amazing teamwork and resilience during our Invasion Games lesson with Jamie. The children showed great technique and listening skills as they continued to master their ability to 'switch the play'. I was really impressed with their tactics and ability to play the long ball to their fellow team members in order to make three continuous passes. Well done to the yellow team who were the overall team winners this week.

Geography

This week, the children have been using atlases to identify population density across the world. The children were also able to interpret a pie chart to determine which areas of the world have the greatest/lowest population distribution. Some fantastic locational knowledge was demonstrated.

French

Our new French topic focuses on 'Going to School' (a l'ecole). We all enjoyed learning what the different subjects are called in French and discussing the importance of which determiner to choose.

An excellent week for all! Well done, Year 6!

Our First Week in Year 6

What a fantastic start to Year 6! The children have settled into their new class brilliantly. We have been really impressed with their positive attitude and super maturity. They have all come back to school ready to learn and this has been fantastic to see!

It has been a busy start to Year 6 with us getting to grips with numbers up to 10, 000, 000 in Maths and the workings of our circulatory system in Science. In Geography, we have made a start on our topic based on population change and in PE the children have started to work on their invasion games skills.

I'd like to say well done to everyone for completing their first set of Year 6 homework and for taking the time to learn their spellings this week. Keep it up!

We can't wait for next week.

Y6 SATs support for students

Click on the links below to support your learning in preparation for your SATs in May:

Spelling games

Pure determination & grit!

This week Year 6 have shown excellent resilience and determination as well as maturity when tackling a series of problem-solving and reasoning and application questions, independently. They have shown what they know and what elements of their learning they may need further practice on or clarifications they need. This may be in terms of the methods they may use or the process/terminology they need to further understand.

In Music, the children have began learning about how Music teaches us about our community. This Unit of Work celebrates a wide range of musical styles. During this unit the children will: be listening, singing, playing, composing, and performing. The Musical Spotlight is ‘Exploring Notation Further’. The children will continue to learn about all the Foundational Elements of Music with a focus on notation, while working implicitly with all the other elements of music as they go through the steps of the unit. Notation was formally introduced in Year 3 and the children will perform their own composition at the end of the unit- we look forward to hearing their pieces performed

RE- Our Easter visit to our church

Year 6 took part in a pilgrimage retelling the story of Easter with actors telling their version of events in and around the church grounds. The children collected souvenirs along the journey and made an Easter garden from biscuits and sweets - yum!

Geography fieldwork- 4 and 6 figure grid references

The children have conducted a Geographical fieldwork in and around the school grounds. They found twelve eggs in varying locations and write the four and six figure grid references related to our school map.

British Science week at Hugo 🧪 🧫 🧬
Oh no! There's been a robbery! Someone has broken in and stolen all our science chemicals!

Luckily, the fantastic Forensic Scientists in Year 6 were on duty to solve this mystery.

Firstly, our highly skilled teams used chromatography to identify which suspect's pen was used to write a threatening note found at the crime scene. After narrowing our potential suspects to just two, fingerprint analysis of prints 'lifted' from the chemical shelf provided conclusive evidence that Mr Williams - the Science Teacher - was the guilty party. He is currently awaiting trial and thanks to our teams efforts we are hopeful of a conviction.
#BritishScienceWeek2023

Art- Activisim

This term in Art Year 6 have explored how artists use their skills to speak on behalf of communities. They have made art about things they care about and done this through:

Seeing how artists use their skills to make art which speaks about things which matter, often on behalf of whole communities.
Exploring how they can find out what they care about, and find ways they might share their ideas with us.
Seeing how their classmates may have different things they care about, or share things they care about, but they are all valid.
Creating visuals and text which communicate their message.
Using line, shape and colour to make their artwork.
Using typography to make their messages stand out.
Combining different techniques such as print, collage and drawing
Reflecting and articulating about their own artwork and artwork made by their classmates

World 🌍Book📚Day

Children's Mental Health Week

Throughout the week, year 6 pupils have been completing activities aimed at promoting their mental well-being. In these activities, children have had to consider: things that promote their well-being; the things which may affect their mental health andd how to cope with feelings of anxiety, stress, and nervousness. They have also focussed on the importance of spending quality time doing the things they enjoy and reflecting on the various things which make them, them! Pupils have also looked at how our school values can positively impact upon their mental health, as well as how a growth mindset allows them to develop and aspire to achieve their very best.

Safer Internet Day

Across the day children completed a series of activities, they completed a quiz to test their knowledge of internet safety in a fun and interactive way. They read the story 'Hanni and the magic window' and reflected on the magic window story, thinking about how they can ask for help and support when accessing the internet. They also conducted a role play where they were given a series of scenarios which allowed them to consider how to approach difficult situations, consider how to find support and think about the people who are there to help them. Finally, they designed a poster of how to stay safe online. The children got a lot out of the day using the knowledge they acquired to provide helpful information to help their peers to navigate difficult situations which they may be presented with online.

Geography- We are Britain - Human Geography

This week Year 6 have learned more about how humans have changed

the landscape of the United Kingdom. Children investigated their local area and highlighted the various human changes. They drew a range of human features in the UK and described each feature giving reasons why.

Key Questions that children investigated:

How have humans changed the UK landscape in the past?
How can humans sometimes damage the UK's landscape?
In what ways can human activities sometimes improve the
UK's landscape?
How might humans affect the UK landscape in the future?

Maths - Fractions

Key learning this week:

Equivalent fractions and ordering on a number line
Comparing and ordering fractions according to their numerator
Comparing and ordering fractions according to their denominator
Adding and subtracting simple fractions
Adding and subtracting mixed numbers

Year 6 have been working on completing questions to do with fractions (see above) and have worked on some tricky fraction problem-solving. They have also been recapping various mental arithmetic methods and improving their speed when completing the maths blasts and maths hammer questions, applying what they know to various scenarios.

Can you solve the following problems?

English - Classic narrative - The Selfish Giant

This week the children contributed to discussions and asked questions to improve their understanding, they used the image of the front cover and the book to make predictions and provide justifications using reasons from what they could see. They then wrote a short description of what they could see in the image using expanded noun phrases and appropriate prepositions as well as precision language from the text. After this, they discussed what was so special about the giant’s garden, why the children loved playing in there, and read the picture - finding all the attractive elements of the giant’s garden. We then looked at the vocabulary in the text and explored how the author described the garden, the type of vocabulary, and then the more formal descriptions e.g. delicate blossoms of pink and pearl compared to a more informal description e.g. bright pink flowers. After our discussions children wrote a classic poem using their noun phrases by finishing the line: This is the garden where… e.g. This is the garden where delicate peach trees blossom and the flowers shine out from the grass like stars in the night sky.

Geography - We are Britain

The children discussed the United Kingdom and how it includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as each country in the UK's capital city: London (England),Edinburgh (Scotland), Cardiff (Wales) and Belfast (Northern Ireland). we located the UK in the continent of Europe ad where we were in the UK, discussing the division of counties and how Loggerheads is in the county of Shropshire (although it has a Staffordshire postcode). We are located in Staffordshire in the middle of England. We then used atlases to recognise that the UK is an Island and is surrounded by Oceans/seas: The North Sea, The Atlantic Ocean, and the English Channel. Using all this knowledge we firstly labelled the countries, cities, and oceans of the U.K and then the counties

Christmas 🎄 reindeer craft 🎅🏼

Year 6 Christmas 🎅🏼 dinner 🎄!

Shelters galore and more!

This half term in Design and technology focussed on a unit called ‘Structures’. It explored and extended children’s knowledge of structures through the brief of designing and making a small scale shelter that was the following:

to be stable and sturdy
to be waterproof
to be weatherproof
to be attractive
to house people/creature
to have a strong foundation
to be durable

They then investigated the use of simple joining methods to creating frameworks with art straws, sticks and square section wood. Through this brief the children were challenged to investigate the different ways and techniques in which to join and make their shelters as well as consider what other methods and materials they would need to ensure it was weather and waterproof. Children used glue, string, cardboard, wood, lollipop sticks and laminated sheets to create their shelters. Take a look below to see them in action…

Early 🎄 Christmas 🎅🏼 fun!

What a fantastic morning Years 6 had watching and enjoying Aladdin at the Festival Centre in Market Drayton today! Oh, yes it was!!!
There was fun and laughter, singing and dancing and lots of silliness and obligatory shouting and cheering thrown in (all at the right times of course). It was British pantomime at its best! Thank you to our amazing PTFA for funding the coaches making this festive tradition a little more affordable 👍🏻🎄

This week we also enjoyed celebrating the beginning of advent with our Open the book team, making Christingles and paper candle folds 🕯️ to represent Jesus the light of the world 🌎.

Resilience and application is key...

This week Year Six has been focused and very resilient when completing a number of assessments, particularly in Maths and Reading. it has been great to see many children applying their learning so far this year but also to see what we need further help and support on. We have also been using our non-fiction learning from our literacy pathways unit, using the skills to write fact files not only about endangered animals in English but also to answer the historical question - what was the impact on the West Midlands region in World War II? Take a look below to read some of our fantastic fact files where you will find information about how our locality was affected in World War II and key information, particularly about Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire and Reginald Mitchell.

Celebrating our uniqueness

To kick off Anti-bullying week we came to school with odd socks. This was where adults and children wore odd socks to celebrate what makes us unique. We discussed the four different types of bullying and conversed about different scenarios and what we would do to combat the bullying and how we would act. This week has also been Road Safety Week- in these sessions we learnt about how to stay safe as a pedestrian, the different road crossings and what they meant as well as the green cross code.

We ended the week raising money for Children in Need. A charity that

Runs activity centres where children with difficulties can try new sports
Who give special care for families who child has died,
Provide help to children with disabilities
Run centres where children with many needs can stay. To give carers a bit of a break
Support families who do not have enough money for clothes and food

Our Year 6 assembly - Remembrance and WWII

Today we came together as a school to mark our respects with a minute’s silence for those who died in military conflict.

During the afternoon, we took a moment to remember through song and then we shared our learning of WWII and what life was like as an evacuee. We ended our remembrance on a time of reflection with a number of poems and prayer for those who have fallen.

Year 6 assembly

Science - The Circulatory system and heart dissection

The blood circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the entire body of a human. It includes the cardiovascular system, or vascular system, that consists of the heart and blood vessels. This week in Year 6, the children got to see a real life heart and we’re taken through a short dissection showing each area of the heart and what it does.

The dissection was lead by our very own Mrs Hollins, a former secondary Science teacher.

Heart dissection - Year 6

A short snippet of the heart dissection performed by Mrs Hollins

Our World War II workshop

This week, Year 6 took part in an informative and active World War II workshop. They learnt about what it was like to be an ARP warden during the war and how to administer first aid in the field. They also learnt how to put out fires 🔥using WW2 equipment, suffocate a firebomb and how to dispose of it safely! They also got to see many artefacts and see and feel these first hand. Take a look to see many of us hard at work! 🪣🪖💦

WW2 workshop

Computer Science - Coding

This half term Year 6 have focused on coding. In this unit so far they have learnt to:

Design a playable game with a timer and a score.
Plan and use selection and variables.
Understand how the launch command works.
Use functions and understand why they are useful.
Understand how functions are created and called.
Use flowcharts to create and debug code.
Create a simulation of a room in which devices can be controlled.
Understand how user input can be used in a program.
Understand how 2Code can be used to make a text-adventure game.

Key additions to our coding knowledge:

Some key questions we have been focusing on during this unit:

How can you use Tabs in 2Code Gorilla? What is a function in coding? Can you give an example that you have used in 2Code Gorilla? In 2Code Gorilla, how can a program receive user input?

We look forward to seeing what children come up with on Monday when they design their own games using the 2Code program.

English

Over the last few weeks Year 6 has got stuck into their new first text, a historical fiction book called 'Star of Fear. Star of Hope' which is based on WW2.

Once we had investigated the book and how it linked to our History unit WW2 pupils wrote a description of the scene using dialogue and expanded noun phrases to describe the atmosphere in the café. After this they participated in discussions, drawing inferences (characters feelings, thoughts and motives); justifying with evidence from the text and provided reasoned justifications for their views.

The children then used expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely and integrated dialogue to convey character and advance the action through reported speech in their diary entry.

After this, children discussed the feelings of each of the characters – Madam Eleven O’clock, parents, Lydia and Helen, discussing each character on a scale of 1 to 10, one being relaxed and calm to ten feeling petrified again justifying their reasons and giving an explanation using evidence from the text. We then looked at the text together and looked at how the author followed the rule ‘new line for a new speaker’ consistently. We looked at some of the dialogue used and how it moved the action forward. They then investigated Madam Eleven O’Clock’s dialogue and we looked at a range of techniques in the text, these included – adverbials, conjunctions, repetition, tense choices, ellipsis, and the use of a variety of nouns and pronouns. All of these will then be used in their writing next week during a recount from Helen's point of view.

French

In French, this term Year 6 are learning all about school - L'ecole.

In this lesson we consolidated the new school subject vocabulary from last week and then extended what we were able to say by introducing a wider range of opinions. Children were introduced to the vocabulary in the normal style with lots of visual support. We concentrated on the target question ’Est-ce que tu aimes…?’ (‘Do you like…?’) and taught children how to answer by incorporating the school subjects and a selection of opinions:

Key Language Est-ce que tu aimes…? = Do you like...?

Oui, j’aime... = Yes, I like...

Oui, j’adore... = Yes, I love...

Non, je n’aime pas... = No, I do not like...

Non, je déteste... = No, I hate...

Amusant = Fun Utile = Useful

Intéressant = Interesting

Facile = Easy

Ennuyeux = Boring

Difficile = Difficult

Inutile = Pointless

Parce que c’est = Because it is

Car c’est = Because it is

Et = and

Year 6 enjoyed using their key vocabulary to share in pairs which subjects they enjoyed and which ones they didn't particularly like using the prompts and example provided (see below).

Maths

This week Year 6 have got into the swing of a 'normal' routine of learning. In Maths this week they have recapped their Year 5 learning by exploring numbers up to 1,000,000, understanding that place value columns follow consistent patterns – ones, tens, hundreds, then (one) thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, before reaching millions – this was key. They have used Place value charts, Gattegno charts and place value counters/drawings to support understanding of the relationships between columns and the construction of numbers. We have also revised partitioning and explored both standard and non-standard ways of composing numbers. Children have also wrote large numbers in words, following a 3 part sentence to help them.

Key mathematical questions

Where do the commas go when you write one million in figures?
If 1,000,000 is the whole, what could the parts be?
How else can you partition the number?
What is the value of each digit in the number?
Which columns will change if you add/subtract 10, 100, 1,000, … to/from the number?
When do you use placeholders in numbers?

At the end of their week they also learned more about Queen Elizabeth II and how her qualities as a leader link to our school values and our school vision - "Life in all its fullness'

For example: The Queen said

“I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.”

Her whole life was devoted to serve the people of the UK and the crown. She always put her country first – incredible devotion to the people she loved and cared for. Linking to our value - Loving and caring.

We then shared our findings and links to our values during our special celebration assembly, where a selection of pupils from Year groups presented their work.

Our first week back...

We have had a fantastic, first week back here at Hugo. We have been getting reacquainted and quite frankly it's like we never left each other! Year 6 have hit the ground running and have really shown what they are made of this week, completing a number of grammar hammer activities, maths challenges, Magic 96, reading assessments and guided comprehension, to name but a few. They have also begun learning about school (a l'ecole) and the various subjects in French and they have also completed their Year 6 front page in Art (see below for examples). We look forward to beginning our week with Computing and Science on Monday morning. Well done Year 6, lots more of this next week!

Key information for Year 6 parents:

Year 6 children are to arrive at school at 8:50 am and line up sensibly on the yard. The end of school is 3:15 pm.
On a Friday please can all Year 6 children attend school in their P.E kit which includes their hooded jumper, this is the day they will have both sessions of P.E.
Reading books in Year 6 will be changed and diaries will be checked each Wednesday.

Welcome to Year 6, our teacher is Mrs Adcock and our class room support is Mrs Hollins. Please find below our classroom!

To contact Year 6, please use the form below.

Alternatively, you can email us directly at year6@hugomeynell.staffs.sch.uk

Friday 8th July, 2022

The highlight of the week for Year 6 was our fabulous trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, where the children had fun on rides, shopped on the promenade and ate fish and chips on the sea front. A fantastic day was had by all and some very special memories were made.

A huge well done to all of the children who behaved impeccably and made us all very proud. Please see the school webpage for photographs of the day.

Friday 24th June, 2022

Despite the heat this week, Year 6 have had some fun singing, acting and dancing their way through the Leaver's Assembly rehearsals. They are really enjoying seeing how the production is coming together. Alongside all this creativity, they have also found time to begin to explore our local significant historical figure, Charles Darwin. We combined our computer skills and historical research skills to find out about his life and his major discoveries and the impact on the way we see the world. They also learned about how he clashed with the Church over his controversial ideas around evolution and the legacy he left for the world when he died.

We have also been busy consolidating our Maths reasoning skills, by solving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division arithmagons.

On Thursday, Year 6 had a visit from Mr Dale from Madeley High, who talked through any worries the children had about transition to Year 7. We found out some really interesting and important information to add to our transition fact files.

Friday 11th June, 2022

On Tuesday, Year 6 had an art day, to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. They practised drawing with proportion, mixing paints to create highlights and lowlights and painted some fabulous portraits of Queen Elizabeth 11.

This week, we have started our new Science topic, Evolution and Inheritance, by learning about how offspring inherit certain characteristics from their parents. We also explored variation and created some of our own species of animals by considering the many possible combinations of characteristics the animals could inherit. They came up with some very interesting inventions!

In PSHE, the children have discussed gender stereotyping and how it affects people choices and actions in every day life, especially in the work place.

In RE, the children learned about Pentecost and took part in some very interesting workshops, including drama, clay and art, throughout the day.

The children have also started to learn their lines and practise songs for our Leaver's Assembly.

A very busy, but fun week had by all!

Tuesday 24th May, 2022

Today, Year 6 spent the day learning about diversity, by taking part in 4 workshops across the day. They investigated migration and the reasons, both positive and negative, that people move to different places in the world. They then took the British Citizenship test (which was surprisingly hard!) and learned about the lives of refugees and Asylum Seekers from around the world.

During the Woman In Black workshop, the children explored Islam and why some Muslim ladies choose to wear traditional dress such as the Burka or Hijab as part of their religion. The children then spent a very creative afternoon, learning to write and speak Urdu and mastering their Chinese calligraphy skills.

Diversity Day

Friday 20th May, 2022

This week, Year 6 have started one of their post SATS projects, and have produced some fantastic work. They have written biographies of Queen Elizabeth 11 and learned all about her duties as Monarch. They have researched and written about the Commonwealth and compared it to Queen Victoria's Empire. Using atlases, they have located the Commonwealth countries and labelled their capital cities. They have also researched the flags of various Commonwealth countries. On Tuesday afternoon, Year 6 had a DT afternoon and learned how to make pasta and a tomato sauce from scratch. Everyone agreed the end product was delicious. In PE they have enjoyed the sunny weather and practised their cricket and athletic skills on the top field.

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