What a brilliant first week back we have had in Foxes class! The children have enjoyed getting to know their smaller ‘Year 6 only’ class and they have settled into our new classroom fantastically. It sounds like they have all had a wonderful summer! I am so impressed with the hard work and effort that they have put in all week – they have worked their socks off! 

In English this week, our learning has been centred around our class animal, but not as you would expect! We have met a magical fox, named Starfire! Over the week, the children have produced multiple pieces of writing, including diary entries, fact files and radio adverts. They have also worked on sentence structuring and developing their descriptive writing skills through the use of expanded noun phrases. We are only one week into Year 6 and I am already impressed with the writing being produced in our classroom!

In Maths we began our place value unit of work this week. This has included representing numbers to 10,000,000 in different ways (words, numerals, counters on a place value grid, partitioning) and placing numbers to 10,000,000 on a number line. We will continue our place value work next week.

In History, we have started our first ‘Ancients’ topic this week: looking at the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. So far, our learning has involved discovering how we know about the past and understanding the chronology of Ancient Egypt. In our first lesson, we became Egyptologists and analysed evidence to see what information we could gather about the past. We discussed the types of evidence historians may use and assessed the reliability and importance of different artefacts. In our second lesson, we produced a timeline of key events which took place during the Ancient Egyptian period. We explored the three kingdoms, thinking about what was most important during that time. Next week, we will be learning about Ancient Egyptian childhood.

Homework

Children will be given their first piece of homework next week. This week, we would like the children to focus on practising their spellings, learning their times tables and reading at home. All log-ins have been stuck in their reading diaries.

Spellings

Year 6 Week 1 – Homophones or near homophones

advice

advise

prophecy

prophesy

device

devise

licence

license

practice

practise

Spellings given out: Monday 7th September 2026

I hope the children have had an enjoyable first week in Foxes class!

Please be reminded that we will be taking the children swimming on Monday (14th September). Children will need to come to school dressed in their full school uniform on this day with their swimming kit in a bag.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Baker