Year 6 blog

• Friday 5 December 2025 How does light help us see? Our science topic this half term is all about light. We have carried out investigations to prove that light rays travel in a straight lines form a light source. We have also shown that light reflects off an object and into our eyes, enabling us to see the object.
• Friday 28 November 2025 Using Light and Dark to Portray 3D objects In art, Year 6 have been thinking about how they can use light and dark to paint realistic images of three dimensional objects. Using watercolours, they developed the skills of mixing colours and layering to achieve the desired effect of making the objects they were paining look three dimensional.
• Friday 21 November 2025 Family Learning Week During Family Learning Week this year, parents joined Year 6 for their English lessons where they were focusing on reading as a writer. The children are currently working on a text by Carol Ann Duffy, entitled ‘The Princess Blankets'. This week, Year 6 have been considering the vocabulary and language used to describe each blanket. They tried to imagine what they looked like from the descriptions and have been thinking about the atmosphere that the author was trying to create. With the help of their parents, Year 6 made visual representations of the Mountain, Forest, Earth and Ocean blankets.
• Friday 14 November 2025 Crucial Crew This week, Year 6 had a fantastic opportunity to learn valuable life skills and discover how to stay safe in a variety of situations. With support from an ambulance crew, the British Transport Police, local police officers, and other community organisations, the children took part in a range of engaging and informative sessions.
• Tuesday 11 November 2025 Remembrance Day Year 6 took part in our Remembrance Day activities by painting beautiful poppies. Using their chosen techniques, the children thought carefully about the effect they wanted to create for the viewer. They explored the size and shape of their poppies, experimented with colour mixing, and considered how different background colours could enhance their artwork.
• Friday 7 November 2025 STEM Challenge With support from the Head of Design Technology and some sixth formers from Hitchin Girls School, Year 6 completed a STEM challenge to design a moon base that the first group of humans could live in to practise for life on Mars. Using recycled materials, they built their bases, incorporating features such as a power supply, living quarters, a social area, a laboratory, an area to grow crops and a launch pad. The children were very engaged in creating their designs and really demonstrated our school values of koinonia and perseverance.
• Friday 24 October 2025 Imperial War Museum, Duxford On Tuesday, Year 6 enjoyed a trip to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. They started the day making documentaries about some of the World War II artefacts in the American Air Museum. It was fantastic to see how engaged the children were, reading about the various exhibits and recording each other to produce their own informative film clips. We visited the Ops Block which was used during WWII to control the aircraft flying in and out of Duxford and saw aircraft, ambulances and air raid shelters in the Battle of Britain hangar. After lunch, we visited the exhibits in the AirSpace hangar and particularly enjoyed going aboard Concorde. Our trip ended with some fun in the playground!
• Friday 17 October 2025 Mould Investigation As part of our Classification topic in science, we have been learning about helpful and harmful microorganisms. This week, we started a mould investigation. We considered what would be our independent, dependent and controlled variables, in order to carry out a fair scientific investigation and predicted what might happen. We set up our experiment and have been checking every day for mould growth on our bread.
• Friday 10 October 2025 Evacuated to Hitchin! This week, Year 6 experienced what it would have been like to have been an evacuee during World War II. During their visit to the British Schools Museum, they put themselves in the position of a child who had just been evacuated from Battersea to Hitchin. The day started with gas mask practice and then each of the children wrote a letter to their mother to let them know that they had arrived safely. The arithmetic lesson was quite a challenge, trying to add ounces, pounds and stones! We saw so many interesting World War II artefacts and a real highlight was going down into the shelter when we heard the air raid siren. The day finished with 'drill' in the playground. The children now have a much better understanding of what it would have been like to have been an evacuee and, having experienced wartime lessons, they now realise that their own teachers aren't that strict after all!
• Friday 3 October 2025 Tag Rugby Festival On Thursday afternoon, the whole class took part in a tag rugby festival at Letchworth Rugby Club. Three teams of Year 6 children competed against children from 12 different North Herts primary schools. Lots of fun was had by all and the children really demonstrated our St Andrew's values of koinonia, perseverance and respect.
• Friday 26 September 2025 European Day of Languages Friday 26th September 2025 is European Day of Languages. To celebrate this day, Year 6 were lucky enough to have two visitors who came in to teach them some French and Spanish phrases. Mrs Dye also taught us how to say ‘Hello' and ‘My name is….' in Polish. The children then created posters which will be entered into a European Day of Languages competition.
• Friday 12 September 2025 Meeting our Buddies This week, the Year 6 children were introduced to their Reception class buddies. Before meeting them, they considered what qualities are needed to be a good buddy. They thought about how they will be good role models, leading by example, showing kindness and respect, being helpful and, most importantly, having fun with their buddies! Each day this week, they have supported the Reception children with their lunch and have enjoyed playing with them in the EYFS playground. We are looking forward to seeing how these special relationships develop over the year.
• Friday 5 September 2025 Welcome to Year 6 This week, we welcomed our new Year 6 children back for their final year at St Andrew's. We have been talking about all of the new opportunities and challenges that lie ahead of them. The children thought about their hopes and aspirations for the year and what they will need to do in order to achieve them.
• Monday 21 July 2025 Goodbye and Good Luck! In their final week at St Andrew's, Year 6 have been busy making memories. We were all rather emotional during their Leaver's Service at Holy Saviour Church where they shared some of their favourite moments from primary school. On Friday afternoon, they enjoyed a teddy bear's picnic with the buddies that they have supported so diligently throughout the year. Then, on Tuesday, the children had a splashing time in the pool with water pistols and inflatables. What an incredible class they have been. We are going to miss them so much but they are ready for new adventures and we wish them all well. Goodbye and Good Luck to the class of 2025!
• Friday 11 July 2025 Duck and Dash! Once again, our Year 6 children showed their amazing leadership skills as they helped to organise our annual 'Duck and Dash'. Having spent most of the morning supporting our younger children, many of them still had energy left to compete either in the swim and run or for eight brave children, a triathlon.
• Thursday 10 July 2025 What a Show! Once again, Year 6 excelled themselves this week, this time on the stage! We were treated to two amazing performances of Shrek the Musical. Every single member of the cast gave 100% and showed us just what talented young people they are. It was a true demonstration of our school values: koinonia, courage, perseverance and friendship.
• Thursday 12 June 2025 Dinosaurs and much much more.... Our last full day on the Isle of Wight and what a busy one it was! Fossil hunt, dinosaur museum, chair lift, sand shapes, glass workshop, sandcastle competition.... the list goes on. Hopefully, the photos speak for themselves!
• Wednesday 11 June 2025 All Aboard the Steam Train This morning we enjoyed a scenic ride through the Isle of Wight countryside on the Havenstreet Steam Railway. The children enjoyed exploring the 'Train Story' Museum. After a picnic lunch we headed off to Tapnell Farm Park, where we visited the animals, played in the hay barn, drove go-karts, enjoyed the slides and trampolines and had fun on the bouncy pillow.
• Tuesday 10 June 2025 Fun in the water! What a fun filled day! After a short visit to the park, we made our way to Osbourne House. Having explored the house and the grounds, we treated ourselves to ice creams on the beach. This evening, the children had the best time ever doing water sports.
• Monday 9 June 2025 Day 1 on the Isle of Wight Year 6 are happily settled into their new 'home from home' after a fun day visiting HMS Victory and the Naval Museum. After a breezy trip on the ferry, we arrived at our hotel where we enjoyed a tasty dinner before heading to Sandown Beach. The brave souls amongst us (the children) ventured into the water before playing games on the beach or building sandcastles. We then headed back for biscuits and a bedtime story.
• Friday 6 June 2025 Sports Day Once again, Year 6 demonstrated their leadership skills, this time as Team Captains on Sports Day. Every one of them supported the younger children in their teams, encouraged them during the carousel of activities and ensured that everything ran like clockwork as they guided their teams from one station to the next. They then set up all of the obstacle races, organising the equipment quickly and efficiently. At the end of the afternoon, they even had energy left for the relays and the endurance race. Congratulations to all of you! Finally, our Phoenix and Apollo House Captains proudly lifted the trophy - the first time there has ever been a dead heat at St Andrew's Sports Day.
• Friday 23 May 2025 Careers using History & Geography
• Friday 16 May 2025 We Smashed SATs! Year 6 has smashed their SATs week! The children really brought their A-game, showing off fantastic concentration and adaptability as they whizzed through the assessments. We couldn’t be prouder of how hard they’ve worked and how resilient they've been. To top off their incredible achievements, they enjoyed scrumptious chocolate brownies baked by Mrs Evans, and were also treated to some refreshing ice lollies. What a lovely way to celebrate!
• Friday 16 May 2025 Writing for Pleasure This week (apart from the SATs), the Year 6 children had a fantastic chance to indulge in writing for pleasure. The classroom was buzzing as they expressed their creativity. From comics and poems to exciting World War II stories and lively cartoons, the variety of writing outcomes was impressive. After our writing session, we shared our creations, fostering a wonderful sense of community. It was a delightful reminder of the joy that comes from freely expressing oneself through words!
• Friday 9 May 2025 VE Day Celebration
• Friday 2 May 2025 Fun with Cubes
• Friday 25 April 2025 ESA's Biomass Mission This week, Year 6 were lucky enough to hear, first-hand from the scientists at Airbus in Stevenage, about the launch of the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission. The satellite, which will be launched on Tuesday 29th April, aims to weigh the earth’s rainforests from space and to understand how deforestation and changes in land use are affecting carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. Year 6 made posters about the launch and considered the importance of the mission’s work.
• Friday 4 April 2025 Happy Easter This week, Year 6 have been reflecting on the Easter story. As they walked through the 'Stations of the Cross', they thought about the journey that Jesus took during Holy Week and the sacrifices that he made for us all. In our whole school Easter service at Holy Saviour Church, they considered what the crucifixion and resurrection must have been like for those close to Jesus. As a fun way to end the term, Year 6 assisted the Easter Bunny with our traditional Easter egg hunt. We wish you all a happy and restful break and look forward to welcoming Year 6 back after Easter for their final term at St Andrew's.
• Friday 28 March 2025 Happy Mother's Day This week, Year 6 researched the origin of Mothering Sunday and thought about what makes our own mums so special. The children wrote Kennings poems and used watercolours to paint images of flowers for their Mother's Day cards. Year 6 led our whole school service at Holy Saviour Church and were delighted to see so many mothers in the congregation. We wish you all a very 'Happy Mother's Day' and hope that you enjoy some special family time this weekend.
• Friday 21 March 2025 French Language Day To celebrate French Language Day, Year 6 designed posters advertising Paris. They used their independent research skills to learn about the attractions and culture on offer in Paris and to answer the questions: 'Qu'est-ce qu'il y a à Paris?' (What is there in Paris?) and 'Qu'est-ce qu'on peut visiter à Paris?' (What can you visit in Paris?'). They presented their posters to adults in school in an attempt to persuade them to visit Paris.
• Friday 14 March 2025 British Science Week During British Science Week, we have been considering the concept of 'Change and Adapt'. In Year 6, we have been looking at selective plant breeding which is a fantastic example of human-influenced plant adaption. Over the next few weeks, we will be choosing the best of a crop to help improve the next harvest. We started this project by collecting our own seeds from a variety of different tomatoes. A fun, but messy, activity! We will work over time to observe changes and record the results. Hopefully, we will also end up with some tasty produce.
• Friday 7 March 2025 Just Dance Have you ever wondered what else Year 6 do in class apart from learning? Just Dance! It's such a fantastic way to get those little legs moving and energise their minds! A few minutes of dancing not only lifts Year 6 children's spirits but also helps with concentration afterwards. Plus, who doesn't love a bit of a boogie? It’s a brilliant way to combine physical activity with learning, keeping everyone engaged and happy!
• Friday 28 February 2025 STEM Discovery Centre
• Friday 14 February 2025 Safer Internet Day Safer Internet Day is celebrated globally in February each year to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. This week, Year 6 explored what is meant by the word scam and looked at simple steps to protect themselves and others from online scams. They also considered the dangers of social media and how to stay safe.
• Friday 7 February 2025 RE Week During RE Week, Year 6 students engaged in an enlightening exploration of Sikhism, centring their discussions around the Big Question of 'How do Sikhs put their belief about equality into practice?' Through various activities, including group discussions and creative projects, the children deepened their understanding of Sikh teachings on equality, fostering respect and appreciation for diverse beliefs within our school community. To finalise the RE Week, we considered how we could show equality and self-service to others, in the same way as the Sikhs would do. As a result, we worked on a 'Selfless' project in small groups. Finally, with the help of the Year 5 children, we voted for the favourite project which we hope to deliver in the summer term!
• Friday 31 January 2025 How Our Bodies Work We’ve been having a fantastic time in our Science lessons, exploring the wonders of the circulatory system and the heart. The children really embraced the topic and each wrote delightful stories about a little red blood cell on its journey through the body. It’s amazing to see their imaginations at work!
• Friday 24 January 2025 Responsibility and Kindness This week, Year 6 have been demonstrating responsibility and kindness, particularly towards the younger members of our school community. On Wednesday, they escorted their Reception class buddies to our whole school service at Holy Saviour Church, ensuring that they walked safely and sensibly on the way there and back. Over half of the class have volunteered to give up some of their free time to help out in the dining room. Their duties include serving puddings, sweeping up, wiping tables etc. The staff supervising lunchtime are very grateful for their support. As usual, Year 6 have also enjoyed spending time this week reading to their Reception buddies.
• Friday 17 January 2025 North Herts Writing Project Once again, St Andrew's School is taking part in the North Herts Writing Project. This year's book is called 'Starbird', a story about a caged bird, a powerful Moon King and a young princess who will never stop fighting for freedom. Year 6 have been thinking about the concept of freedom. The children considered how an author portrays characters. They used the subjunctive mood to express the language of possibility and modal verbs to write advice for a character in the form of a song. Next week, we will be writing the final competition piece.
• Friday 10 January 2025 Our Christian Vision At the start of the new term, we have been thinking about the school's Christian Vision: 'Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.' Year 6 considered what this vision means for us at school, at home and in the wider community. We have also been considering this month's values of Perseverance and Courage. The children wrote acrostic poems about Perseverance.
• Friday 20 December 2024 Happy Christmas After a very busy term, we would like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year!
• Friday 13 December 2024 Christmas Games This week we have been designing and creating our Scratch games. The challenge was to include a timer and a scoring system. Some of us even designed games for two players! There are certainly future game designers in Year 6 class!
• Friday 6 December 2024 Fun with Fractions This week we have been learning to add, subtract and multiply fractions. Although it all may sound complicated, we realised that there are various strategies to solve each calculations. That is why we have been testing and trying different methods to choose the one that suits each child best.
• Friday 15 November 2024 No Outsiders
• Monday 11 November 2024 Remembrance Day To reflect and remember all those who fought for our country, Year 6 children created poppies using various medium, such as oil pastels, water colours or acrylic paint. The children have used their knowledge or light and dark to create flowers with depth. Furthermore, everyone wrote a poem about the realities of war and conflict, and the hope for peace.
• Friday 8 November 2024 Why do artists use light and dark in paintings? This week the children have practiced creating depth in their sketched and paintings. They explored how to create different tints, shades and tones by mixing appropriate colours. In sketching spheres, the children looked carefully at where the shadow is created by shining a torch on the tennis ball.
• Tuesday 8 October 2024 Duxford Museum
• Friday 13 September 2024 Reading Buddies Year 6 and Reception buddies have enjoyed their Friday afternoon reading some picture books.
• Wednesday 4 September 2024 Welcome in Year 6 Welcome to all Year 6 children! It has been a great start to all - everyone has been so engaged and enthusiastic. There is plenty of new learning to be embraced and new roles and responsibilities to be fulfilled.
• Friday 7 June 2024 One Point Perspective At the end of a packed week (which included re-writing a traditional tale as a detective story and calculating costs per portion of pizza) Year 6 ended with developing the art skill of drawing with a one point perspective.
• Friday 24 May 2024 Natural History Museum Year 6 represented the school magnificently at the Natural History Museum in Tring. Their discussions in the adaption workshop were highly praised by the staff at the museum. After lunch, the children enjoyed exploring the exhibits.
• Friday 17 May 2024 Friday, Glorious Friday Year 6 did themselves proud during the SATs. Their effort was fantastic and they should be extremely proud of themselves.
• Friday 10 May 2024 Almost There Year 6 put in a last, impressive effort this week. They have worked really hard in English and Maths and should be proud of the effort they have put in so far.
• Friday 26 April 2024 Hard, grey eyes like polished stones In between attempting past English SATs papers, the class began reading 'The Princess' Blanket'. We reached the point a stranger, dressed in black arrived at the palace.
• Friday 19 April 2024 Pizza and Paintings The first week of term was predictably busy.
• Thursday 28 March 2024 Happy Easter The term ended in the typically busy manner with the Easter Service, Easter Egg Hunts and the Stations of the Cross among the big events.
• Friday 22 March 2024 Thank you for the music
• Saturday 16 March 2024 Week 3
• Monday 11 March 2024 World Book Day The children were incredibly busy last week. They worked hard to create prepare for the Mothering Sunday service and make their cards. The service went well with the children speaking clearly and giving heartfelt messages.
• Friday 1 March 2024 Kicking off with K'nex The week began with the children taking part in a K'nex STEM challenge. STEM was prominent throughout the week with the children beginning the unit involving the heart in Science. Children also listened to a live online talk about Trees and the diseases that could affect them. The children asked some really good questions in the question and answer part. They ended the week designing and using microbit to make products to help encourage people to exercise.
• Friday 9 February 2024 Year 6 - Week 5 Year 6 continued to work on persuasive letters in English before moving on to begin looking at a Tale from the Caribbean.
• Friday 9 February 2024 Year 6 - Week 5 Year 6 continued to work on persuasive letters in English before moving on to begin looking at a Tale from the Caribbean.
• Friday 2 February 2024 Dodge, duck, dive. The highlight of the week for a number of children may have been the Dodgeball tournament. The teams performed well coming 6th and 8th out of 19 schools. There was also a Sportshall Athletics competition, which a number of Year 5s and 6s participated in.
• Friday 26 January 2024 Another week whizzes by Another busy week in Year 6 saw the children work on their poems for the writing competition; identify rules for sequences and learn about algebra in Maths; make predictions and test them in Science and explore what happened to the British Empire in History. They also composed music in, well Music, and looked at using spreadsheets in Maths.
• Friday 12 January 2024 Next stop 'The Apprentice' It was a fantastic start to the new term for Year 6. They came up with some fantastic expanded noun and adverbial phrases in English. In Maths, they were introduced to ratio and proportion and made fantastic progress.
• Friday 12 January 2024 Next stop 'The Apprentice' It was a fantastic start to the new term for Year 6. They came up with some fantastic expanded noun and adverbial phrases in English. In Maths, they were introduced to ratio and proportion and made fantastic progress.
• Friday 1 December 2023 Figurative language, fractions and Phase Year 6 began the week reading poetry and giving reasons that they liked a poem more than others. They compared two of the poems before generating ideas for a poem of their own. There have been some terrific ideas with different types of figurative language, for example, similes, metaphors and personification being trialled.
• Friday 3 November 2023 Autumn 2 - Week 1 Year 6 began reading Twitch - our CLPE recommended text - which we will be using to help us with our English this half-term. In Maths, we continued to try to improve our ability to multiply and divide by a 2-digit number.
• Friday 20 October 2023 Sunshine and rain Year 6 got their first look at the SATs reading and GPS papers. They had a go in class (at the 2016 papers) and should be really proud at the effort they put in. In Maths, they looked at solving problems involving multiplication including multiplying 4-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers.
• Friday 13 October 2023 On Your Marks Year 6 had another full week. As well as their regular lessons, Phase came in and delivered the first 'On Your Marks' workshop.
• Friday 6 October 2023 Recounts, repeated addition and rugby Year 6 had another productive week, working hard to plan and draft their recounts. In Maths, they looked at finding common factors and multiples as well as rules for divisibility. The highlight of the week for some children may well have been the tag rugby festival.
• Friday 29 September 2023 Back into the routine Year 6 admirably slipped back into the routines they had been establishing in the first two weeks of term.
• Thursday 21 September 2023 Final Day Fun Better weather allowed group 2 to canoe on Lake Windermere. In addition they were also treated to a fly past by RAF jets in training.
• Wednesday 20 September 2023 Koinonia and caving Today was group one's opportunity to have a go at canoeing. Not only did they show excellent paddling skills but they worked together as a team and demonstrated their value of Koinonia.
• Tuesday 19 September 2023 Wires and Water "The day has gone so fast."
• Monday 18 September 2023 Bendrigg - The Arrival After a very long journey, where we were kept fully entertained by the children's singing, we arrived in the beautiful setting of Bendrigg. Our first activity was orienteering where every team worked well together and was very successful.

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