Year 6: Blog items
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 4:11pm
🌊 Year 6 Reading: Sedna, Goddess of the Sea
This week in Year 6 we read the story of Sedna, the goddess of the sea. We enjoyed exploring the text together and talking about what it meant. We stopped to look at tricky words and worked out their meanings so we could understand the story better. We also practised our prosody – reading with expression, rhythm and tone – to make our voices sound more like storytellers. It was a great way to build our reading skills while enjoying a powerful myth from another culture.
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 4:09pm
👨👩👧 Year 6 Together Time
This week, we welcomed our parents and carers into Year 6 for a special Together Time session. It was a fantastic opportunity to share all the hard work we’ve been doing since September.
To make it fun and interactive, we organised a quiz covering everything we’ve learned in class so far. From maths and reading to history and science, the questions gave our families a real taste of the wide range of topics we’ve explored. Everyone joined in with great enthusiasm, and it was brilliant to see parents and carers working alongside us, testing their knowledge and celebrating how much we’ve achieved. The quiz sparked lots of laughter and proud moments, showing just how far we’ve come this term.
Together Time was a wonderful way to connect home and school, and we’re already looking forward to the next chance to share our learning journey.
Date: 21st Nov 2025 @ 4:04pm
🖊️ Exploring ISPACE Openers in Year 6:
This week in Year 6 writing, we have been learning how to make our sentences more exciting and varied by using ISPACE openers. ISPACe stands for Ing, Simile, Preposition, Adverb, Conjunction, Ed, — six different ways to start a sentence. By practising these, we can avoid repeating the same structures and keep our readers hooked.
We’ve also been working on adding detail to our main clauses. Instead of writing short, simple sentences, we’ve been stretching them out with description, action, and atmosphere. This helps us to build a clearer picture in the reader’s mind, which is especially important as we prepare to write our own crime stories.
Year 6 - Knife Crime Awareness
Date: 18th Nov 2025 @ 3:37pm
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🔪 Risks and consequences – carrying a knife can cause serious harm to yourself and others, and it is against the law.
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⚖️ Legal impact – even having a knife without using it can lead to arrest and a criminal record.
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❤️ Staying safe – the police encouraged pupils to make positive choices, avoid peer pressure, and speak to trusted adults if they feel worried.
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👥 Community role – everyone has a part to play in keeping schools and neighbourhoods safe.
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 9:12am
This half term out Computing unit is 3D modelling using Tinkercad. This week we have learned how to place objects on the work plane, change the size of the shapes and combine shapes together.
Date: 11th Nov 2025 @ 8:58am
Today we planned our poppies in our remembrance garden to honour all the soldiers that have died in wars over the years. We will remember them.
Date: 10th Nov 2025 @ 10:56am
Today the fire service came to visit us. They recapped on fire safety, which they delivered to us when we were in Year 2. The main theme of today's visit was road safety. Now that we are more independent and the nights are darker, we discussed how important road safety is, including waiting at kerbs, wearing more visible colours and not using phones/headphones when walking.
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 3:53pm
Children in Year 6 have been looking at Remembrance and have learnt more about why the Poppy is a symbol of remembrance. We sketched poppies and coloured them in with pencil crayons. The children have also been busy making poppies that have the name of a soldier that they will keep in their thoughts when they plant them during our whole school act of remembrance on Tuesday 11th November.
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 7:59am
This week we began our Yoga unit in PE. This involved beginning the session with a full body scan and relaxing our bodies. We then began recapping on all of the yuga moves previously taught over the years. This included the following poses: cobra, downward-facing dog, tree, mountain, butterfly etc.
Date: 16th Oct 2025 @ 2:25pm
Year 6 have been learning about the many uses of spreadsheets and how they can help us to handle data. Our end of unit lesson was to plan and cost a party including venue, food and entertainment. We learned how to work out the total cost of the party, the cost per person and the budget left over. Some of the children went on to display their data in graphs and pie charts.
Date: 15th Oct 2025 @ 7:10pm
This half term, we have been learning about Christianity and God. We explored the 7 sacraments and discovered how these can be different in various Christian denominations. We also talked about the importance of words, symbols, and actions in Christian rituals and ceremonies.
To finish the unit, we thought about how we have changed over our lives and how we will continue to grow and develop, both emotionally and physically. We linked this to how people grow in their faith and how they can be guided through life by their beliefs.
Date: 9th Oct 2025 @ 4:31pm
This week Boundary Primary School celebrated Harvest Festival. Year 6 led the celebration assembly together with our special guest, Reverend Peter. We talked about being thankful for the food we eat, our good health and the life we live. The children and their families helped by donating food to Vincent House.Thank you to everyone for their support.
Date: 6th Oct 2025 @ 12:46pm
Today we held our first Spelling Bee of the year. Each house was represented by the best spellers from Year 2 - Year 6 and the children were tested on spellings they have been learning in Autumn 1. We are very proud of all the children for being their house representative and spelling some very tricky words in front of the whole school. The overall winners were Chepstow, who managed to spell 12/15 spellings across all 5 years groups.
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 9:20am
In this week's Science lesson we learned all about refraction. The children were amazed by the illusions created by refraction. We learned that refraction distorts images and can even reverse them!
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 9:14am
This week we have begun our new writing journey of news articles. We have looked at a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) and pulled out the features of the genre. We then looked at a range of articles and text marked them with the features we discussed the day before. By the end of the unit we will have written an artcle about the excape of Harriet Tubman, which will link with our work on Black History Month.
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 5:36pm
What are key stage 2 tests?
If you have a child in year 6, at the end of key stage 2 (KS2) they will take national curriculum assessments in:
- English grammar, punctuation and spelling
- English reading
- mathematics
Some people refer to these tests as SATs.
The tests help measure the attainment of pupils in relation to the standards set out in the national curriculum, and help teachers and parents identify where pupils may need additional support in a certain subject area. The test results are also used to report publicly on schools’ performance via the Department for Education’s (DfE) Compare School and College Performance service and to produce national and regional performance statistics.
Your child will sit the KS2 tests on scheduled dates set by the Standards and Testing Agency (STA). If your child is absent on a scheduled test day, they may be able to take any missed test up to 5 school days afterwards. Your child’s school must apply for a timetable variation and receive approval from STA to allow for this.
For the academic year 2025 to 2026, the KS2 tests are scheduled to take place from Monday 11 May to Thursday 14 May 2026:
| Date | Tests |
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| Monday 11 May | English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 1: questions |
| Monday 11 May | English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 2: spelling |
| Tuesday 12 May | English reading |
| Wednesday 13 May | Mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic |
| Wednesday 13 May | Mathematics Paper 2: reasoning |
| Thursday 14 May | Mathematics Paper 3: reasoning |
Are there any other assessments?
There are no tests for English writing or science at the end of KS2, but performance in these subjects will be reported as a teacher assessment judgement. Your child’s teachers will make this judgement based on your child’s overall work and performance in the subject. As with the tests, this will help to indicate if your child needs more support in the subject.
Teacher assessment judgements in English writing may be externally moderated by the school’s local authority. This is a collaborative process between the school and local authority moderator, to ensure that judgements are consistent with national standards.
If your child is working below the standards of the national curriculum in one or more subjects, they may be assessed under an alternative teacher assessment – either the:
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pre-key stage 2 standards, if they are engaged in subject-specific study
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engagement model, if they are not engaged in subject-specific study
Your child’s school will inform you if this is the case.
When will my child receive their results?
Schools can view KS2 test results online from Tuesday 7 July 2026.
Your child’s school will decide how they issue test results and teacher assessment judgements to pupils and parents, but you should receive them by the end of the summer term.
Your child’s school will also discuss your child’s overall performance at the end of KS2 with you before the summer holidays and give you the opportunity to raise any questions or concerns you may have about your child’s results.
Schools will review test papers and submit marking review applications if they believe the marking scheme has not been applied correctly. In the rare cases where revisions to results are necessary, they are made once the review process is complete at the end of the summer holidays.
The secondary school your child is moving to will also be able to access your child’s results. This helps them plan how best to support new pupils on entry.
Date: 24th Sep 2025 @ 12:53pm
Today we were visited by local magistrates who told us all about their jobs and how they play integral roles in the court system. We then took part in a mock trial, which centred around a case of online bullying. Children were given roles to play and words to read out, these included prosecution, defence, judge, victim, court usher and witnesses. The children really got a feel for what goes on in a courtroom and some of us are even considering future careers!
Year 6 - The Slave Trade and Harriet Tubman
Date: 23rd Sep 2025 @ 12:31pm
As part of our work for Black History Month, we learned about the Atlantic slave trade and the life story of Harriet Tubman. Over the next couple of weeks we will be writing an autoboigraphy based on Harriet Tubman.
Date: 22nd Sep 2025 @ 4:23pm
To celebrate European Day of Languages, we held a special assembly. We learned more about the languages spoken in Europe and why it is important to have a special day to celebrate languages. We finished with the 'Boundary European Day of Languages Quiz' and learned how to say hello and goodbye in several European languages.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:30am
In Science, we have been learning that light travels in a straight line. We completed an experiment to prove this by lining up cards with holes in.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:15am
In today's lesson we looked at the key question, 'How did the Maya become so successful?' We looked at a range of evidence and sources to determine what the Maya learned to do over timethat made them able to thrive and survive in their environment. We spent time looking through key vocabulary to enable us to fully understand our learning. Together we decided that the Maya were successful over time because they:
- Solved problems
- Used resources available to make tools
- They had a hierarchal system to ensure everyone played a key role in the tribe's survival
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:42pm
Year 6 had a great PE session today. Our unit this half term is fitness and in today's lesson we focussed on endurance. We completed six different tasks including tests of speed, balance coordination and agility.
Date: 10th Sep 2025 @ 6:43pm
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Thank to School Supplier, Boundary have received a set of acoustic guitars. Children across school will benefit from these instruments!
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In this picture are six of our children who attend guitar lessons through school with a peripetetic teacher. The children work hard every week with Mr Stone to learn a wide range of songs and chords.
Year 6 - Goals and Aspirations
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 7:02pm
In today’s lesson, we discussed our goals. We completed our leaves for Boundary’s tree of goals and then talked about how we could achieve these. We completed a ‘goal’ mountain where we looked at the goal, challenges that may stop us from achieving the goal and who can help us. We finished by discussing the importance of having high aspirations.
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 6:39pm
Year 6 have made a great start to their French unit this half term, which focuses on Grammar. We bagan by exploring the gender of French nouns and using the correct indefinate article. We used bilingual dictionaries to find the correct translation and gender of the nouns.
