Year 6

Welcome to Year 6!

All the staff are excited welcome you to Year Six! We look forward to working with you and your children, supporting them through their SATS and beyond. To ensure the best success for your child, we provide additional support, including subject support from Mr Combe. 

Presentation for new Year Six Parents -- July 2025

Year 6 Events

• 5 Dec 2025
  Year 6 National Child Measurement Program
  
  

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Year 6 Curriculum 

  

Curriculum Overviews

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Latest Year 6 News

• Monday 3 November 2025 Year 6's Ancient Egypt Topic Year 6 have been working incredibly hard on their Ancient Egypt topic this half term! The children created fantastic projects at home, showcasing their creativity and knowledge. Every child made a wonderful effort, and it was fantastic to see their projects proudly displayed in the hall for everyone to enjoy.
• Friday 19 September 2025 Year 6 explore advertising This term, Year 6 have been exploring the world of advertising in preparation for creating their very own E-safety adverts. The children began by reviewing a range of adverts, considering what makes them effective, memorable and persuasive.
• Friday 19 September 2025 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' Assembly! On Friday, Mr Perna and some Year 6 children led the assembly on 'Talk Like a Pirate Day'. We discovered some fierce pirates from the past, such as Black Beard and Anne Bonny. We then learned (and practiced) some classic Pirate Lingo such as 'Ahoy!', 'Shiver me timbers!' and 'Matey!'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 6 News 2024-2025

• Monday 23 June 2025 Year Six's Fiver Challenge! This half term, we took part in the Junior Enterprise Project and completed work towards our Fiver Challenge! We had to make a profit from £5, which was provided by the school. We made our business, created our business name, designed a logo, presented our sales pitch and sold our product on our stall during the Fiver Challenge Fair. It was such an enjoyable experience raising money for our end of Year 6 party! Along the way, we learnt a lot about finance helping us with life skills and how we can use these skills well beyond primary school!
• Thursday 12 June 2025 Year 6 have Another Visit from Project Zero "Last week, Year 6 were lucky enough to be visited by our friends at Project Zero again! We also got the opportunity to meet special guest, local rapper Kitch. He told us the inspirational story of his life with a stammer and how this impacted his education and mental health. We heard how he used writing as a means of communication when he felt that his voice was not enough to express what he was feeling. We also got to find out more about the beginnings of Project Zero itself and it's ambitious aims for the future of young people in Waltham Forest. We can't wait to see them again at the end of the school year!"
• Friday 6 June 2025 Year 6 explore a most fascinating concept in biology- evolution! This week in Science, Year 6 have been exploring one of the most fascinating concepts in biology- evolution! The children have been learning about Charles Darwin and took part in an exciting Science experiment called ‘Battle of the Beaks'. As part of their learning about evolution and adaptation, the children used different tools to represent bird beaks and tested how well they could pick up various foods like seeds and raisins.
• Wednesday 21 May 2025 Year 6 are Fairground Designers! "Following a busy SATS week, Year 6 have been hard at work on an exciting Fairgrounds-themed maths project ready to build their own next half term! As part of their learning, they took on the challenge of designing their own fairground attractions while working out real-world calculations like building fees, running costs, and potential profits. Using their maths skills, they budgeted carefully to make sure their rides were fun, affordable, and financially successful. It was a fantastic way to link maths to everyday life, and the students showed great creativity and problem-solving along the way."
• Friday 16 May 2025 Year post SATS fun! After weeks of hard work, focus and determination, our amazing Year 6 pupils completed their SATs- and what better way to celebrate their efforts than with a well deserved trip to the park!
• Thursday 8 May 2025 Year 6 explore Computing Using Micro:bits
• Thursday 1 May 2025 Year 6 Have Fun Revising for SATs Year 6 have been combining their knowledge and creativity as part of their SATs revision in Maths. To revise the properties of different 3D shapes, the children built their own models using art straws. Once built, they investigated key properties: counting vertices, edges and faces, and checking whether the faces were congruent.
• Monday 17 March 2025 Year 6's Careers Week 2025 As part of Careers Week, Year 6 were lucky to welcome a Creative Director, to tell us about his exciting career. Stuart works on advertising campaigns and events, film direction, photoshoots and event space design.
• Friday 7 March 2025 Year 6 Learn and Perform a Shakespeare Play in a Day! This week, Year 6 had the exciting opportunity to work with a company called SPLATS to learn and perform Shakespeare's classic play, Romeo and Juliet. In just one day, the students worked hard to master their lines, stage directions, and characters, bringing the famous story to life in a truly impressive performance!The students showcased their talents in front Years 4 and 5, as well as their proud parents. It was a fantastic experience for everyone involved, and the Year 6 students did an amazing job, demonstrating teamwork, creativity and confidence. Well done to all the performers and a big thank you to SPLATS for making this experience so memorable.
• Friday 31 January 2025 Year 6 Explore the Tudors Year 6 continued to explore their fasinating new Tudors topic last week in a very dramatic manner by re-enacting a divorce! The children were provided a short scene between the tyrannical Henry VIII and his beloved wife Catherine, exploring the complexity of the emotions between the two; using their own historical knowledge to get into character. First they simply read the lines out to one another and then they were allowed to include a singular chair as their prop to increase the tension in the scene using different levels and types of body language.
• Friday 10 January 2025 Year 6 make their own 'Green City'! Taking inspiration from London and Curitiba, Year 6 made their own ‘Green City’ with sustainable materials to show how to make urban living better for everybody! The children completed their projects at home as an ending to their topic in Geography. They are all fantastic and it will be very hard to choose the winner!
• Wednesday 27 November 2024 Year 6 participated in the Institute of Imagination's 'Wild Cities' Workshop "Last week Year 6 participated in the Institute of Imagination's 'Wild Cities' Workshop where we learned all about sustainable architecture and buildings across the world that have been inspired by different animals. We used what we learned to then create our own sustainable buildings made out of Lego and junk materials. We used the animal and building type cards to create a frog inspired school, butterfly hospital and shark football stadium. We can't wait to use these buildings are inspiration for making our own cities based on Brazil!"
• Friday 22 November 2024 Year 6 Choose Respect For Anti-bullying week, Year 6 were lucky enough to take part in a live lesson taught by the BBC.
• Monday 14 October 2024 Year 6 Visit the V&A Last week Year Six ventured all the way to South Kensington to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum to observe real Greek Pots! We first completed a tresure hunt where we found out what year the pots were from, the location they were excavated and their key features. Once we had taken note of all of these things, we then sketched our favourites in preparation for making our clay versions.
• Monday 14 October 2024 Year 6 Explore Advertising In Year 6, we have been reviewing existing adverts and promotional films to help guide us in making our own advert to promote online safety. Last week, we sourced a range of media from the internet (taking into consideration copyrighting) and this week we videoed our footage. We are having so much fun creating them and can't wait for you to see the finished videos!
• Wednesday 2 October 2024 Year 6 Recreate the Battle of Marathon! 'Last week year 6 recreated the origins of London's favourite race , the Marathon! We learnt how the heroic Pheidippides ran an entire 25 miles from Marathon to the city of Sparta to inform the soldiers of their victory in the Peloponnesian War - almost as long as the walk from the mobile classrooms to assembly! We created a range of freeze frames and actions that matched the narration that was read aloud to us to improve our speaking and listening skills. Our favourite part was re-enacting Pheidippides' incredibly dramatic death following his announcement! After this, we then heard about the evil deeds of King Xerxes of Persia and how he failed at winning war against the Greeks.
• Friday 27 September 2024 Year 6 are Learning about Ancient Greece In Year 6, we are learning about Ancient Greece. In English, we are studying different Greek myths and we are working towards writing our own. In Topic, we have been looking at the Ancient Greece timeline and this has led us onto looking at different Greek artefacts. We have started designing our own Greek pots and later on we will be making them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 6 News 2023-2024

• Wednesday 3 July 2024 Year 6 had an exciting time at Herts Young Marine Base Year 6 went on their exciting end of year trip to Herts Young Marine Base (HYMB)! We took part in a range of activities which were Bell Boating, Archery, Caving and Raft Building. We had so much fun!
• Wednesday 26 June 2024 Year 6 - Two Action Packed Weeks! The last two weeks have been action packed for Year 6! The week before last we created our Sky Arts weeks videos based on two scenes from the Secret Garden. We were given the choice between either the super creepy scene with the owner of the house, or the joyful garden exploring scene. We chose the lighting, filters and camera angles to make these the most effective for the audience and then used our editing skills even better! Following this, last week we participated in our school wide Quidditch competition where we represented our teams in some (very warm) matches. We used our team working skills to earn as many points as possible for our team captains who bravely announced the scores to the school.
• Wednesday 19 June 2024 Year6 are Junior Entrepreneurs! This half term, we took part in the Junior Enterprise Project and completed work towards our Fiver Challenge! We had to make a profit from £5, which was provided by the school. We made our business, created our business name, designed a logo, presented our sales pitch and sold our product on our stall during the Fiver Challenge fair. It was such an enjoyable experience raising money for our end of Year 6 party! Along the way, we learnt a lot about finance helping us with life skills.
• Friday 14 June 2024 Year 6 Visited Mission Grove School Last week Year 6 went to visit our friends at Mission Grove School as part of Waltham Forest's Junior Citizens programme. We got to hear fantastic range of talks from the people who teach us to be responible citizens such as the Fire Brigade, the Police, Transport for London and Project Zero. The highlight of our trip was getting to roleplay scenarios that could happen on public transport on a real life bus! Additionally, we spoke to Leyton Orient about our feelings towards the transition to secondary school and just how much homework we might recieve! Overall, we certainly feel a little more prepared for life beyond primary school.
• Friday 24 May 2024 Year 6 Explore Islamic Art
• Thursday 23 May 2024 Year 6's Commitment to Sustainability On May 23rd, some of our Year 6 children- who are incredible change agents- lead a presentation to schools around the country and in different parts of the world to tell them all about our commitment to Sustainability and just what our little Sustainable Market means to us.
• Wednesday 22 May 2024 Year 6 have a visit from Project Zero
• Friday 17 May 2024 Year 6 have fun in St Jame's Park It was an exhausting week for Year 6 as the children completed their SATs! They were all well prepared for the tests and have worked extremely hard. The adults in Year 6 are extremely proud of them! As a reward for all their hard work, we went to St James Park just to have fun! Take a look at our pictures which show just how much fun the children had!
• Friday 19 April 2024 Year 6 Learning Challenge! Year 6 had an incredible active learning session on Friday where we combined Science and Maths with PE. We were split into teams of four and had to compete for the most points. We started off by labelling the bones in the skeleton. We ran to get the key words in order to complete the diagram. We then put our problem solving skills to the test. We took part in an orienteering lesson where we had to find numbers around the playground (using our maps) in order to complete the challenge.We had a great session and would like to say a huge thank you to Enrich!
• Wednesday 6 December 2023 Year 6 visit the Olympic park in Stratford Last Wednesday Year 6 took a trip to the Stratford Olympic park to conduct their geography fieldwork study. We assessed the environment and what kind of biomes/landscapes we could see around us. We then compared this to Brazil and noted how different the climates are in particular! We also discussed how the park use sustainable energy sources - much like the cities we are making in our projects.
• Monday 13 November 2023 Year 6 have this been directing and filming their own E-safety videos ‘last week in Year 6 we worked as teams to film our computing E-safety videos after planning them using our storyboards. We all chose a different year group as our audience to educate about the importance of saving safe online and provided tips on the best way to do this.’

 

 

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