Year 6 News
Y6 26/09/2025
26/09/2025 · No comments yet
Well done! The children have been resilient and gave their best efforts to their assessments this week. We use these as a benchmark and to identify any gaps in learning we need to cover over the year. We are proud of the way Year 6 have approached this week and given it their best. Read More
Year 6 19.9.25
19/09/2025 · No comments yet
English Year 6 became roving reporters this week and wrote and performed scripts linked to our class text – Kensuke’s Kingdom. They did a great job imagining the television interviews which might have taken place due to the main character’s disappearance in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The children really had to understand Read More
Year 6 12.9.25 – Life on board the Peggy Sue
12/09/2025 · 1 comment
English In English this week we set sail on the Peggy Sue and wrote in role as Michael, the main character from our class text Kensuke’s Kingdom. The children tried hard to include descriptive phrases and the language from the author as they wrote and did a really good job at remembering key details Read More
Year 6 05.09.25 – Welcome To Year 6!
05/09/2025 · No comments yet
What a great week we have had with our new Year 6 classes. Everyone has been on their best behaviour and demonstrating already how responsible they are as they start their final year of primary school. English We have begun reading our class text for this half term: Kensuke’s Kingdom. This week the children Read More
Year 6 2024-2025
18/07/2025 · 1 comment
Goodbye, Good luck and Thank You! Well done everyone – you made it! Congratulations to Year 6 for an incredible year. We have run, leapt, abseiled, caved, canoed, school-o-visioned, SMASHED the SATS exams, and today ended the year on a high with an incredible water fight on the top field. We are so very Read More
Year 6 11/7/2025 – The Final Countdown
11/07/2025 · No comments yet
Another wonderful – and warm – week in Year 6. We kicked off our penultimate week in Year 6 getting our SATS results and were blown away by the utterly incredible scores. What a brilliant set of children we have! In the words of Mr Harris they are ‘sensational’ results and we are very Read More

6J residential Day 3
04/07/2025 · 3 comments
Just a quick blog to finish the week… The children had their final activity this morning. Miss Jones’ group went caving. I believe that almost all of them did the ‘Cat’s Crawl’ which is very challenging. Most ended up in Eglin’s Cave. Mr Harris’ group and Mrs Du Preez’s group did the via ferrata Read More

6J residential Day 2
03/07/2025 · 8 comments
The children slept well (they might say they didn’t) and didn’t get up too early. The weather was gorgeous ‘first thing’ and has been ok, if a bit breezy, all day. The breeze may have helped reduce midges initially this evening. Each group has done two activities today. Groups 2 and 3 did canoeing Read More
6J residential Day 1
02/07/2025 · 18 comments
We are having a very good residential so far. We drove through rain but it held off as we climbed up to Coldstone Cut outside Pateley Bridge. We looked down into the quarry and reminded ourselves about the formation of the limestone 300 million years ago. We arrived at How Stean Gorge shortly after Read More
Year 6 Residential – 6D final day
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6D finished their residential this morning by welcoming the rain as we got ready for our final session of activities. On the agenda: Mr Hemming and Group 1 were off caving and Mrs Dobkin and Groups 2 and 3 were going to try their hand at the via ferrata course. Group 1 caving This Read More