Year 6: Blog items
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 4:32pm
We have begun our firness unit in Year 6. Today we took part in a circuit training session, which included squats, plank, running and step-ups. Next week we will begin looking at specific activities and timing ourselves doing them. Over the half term we will continue to time ourselves and see if we can increase the amount of activity we do or if we can faster at certain activties.
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 4:30pm
Today we began our Science unit of Light by recapping all the work the children did in Year 3. This included discussing sources of light and which were natural and which were artificial. We also talked in groups about what we could remember about reflection and shadows.
Date: 7th Sep 2025 @ 12:00pm
During our meet the teacher session this week, we shared information about the Year 6 SATs.
Please find further information below:
Dear Parents/ Carers,
I’m writing to share some key information about the Year 6 SATs (Statutory Attainment Tests) for 2026.
SATs Dates for 2026
- The Year 6 SATs will take place from Monday, 11th May to Thursday, 14th May 2026.
- These tests are a statutory part of your child’s education in England, assessing progress in reading, maths, and grammar, punctuation and spelling.
How You Can Support Your Child Now
- Continue to support learning at home: Encourage your child to read regularly, practise maths, and complete their homework.
- Attendance is crucial: Please do not book any holidays (holidays are NOT authorised during school time) or appointments during the SATs week (11–14 May 2026). Full attendance ensures your child can take all the tests.
- Healthy routines: Make sure your child gets plenty of rest and eats a healthy breakfast each day so they are able to focus in school.
Next Steps
- If you have any questions or concerns in the meantime, please contact your child’s class teacher
- We will be holding a meeting later in the school year for all Year 6 parents and carers.
Thank you for your continued support in helping your child prepare for this important stage in their learning.
Kind regards,
Mrs NC Bunday
Deputy Headteacher
Boundary Primary School
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 12:33pm
Year 6 have begun the year with a tirp to one of Mrs. Hamilton's favourite places - the library. The have all picked new books and looking forward to a year of reading!
Year 6 - Games morning and picnic in the park
Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 7:44am
The weather was kind today and we were able to enjoy our annual trip to Stanley Park. Lots more memories made for our wonderful Year 6!
Date: 17th Jul 2025 @ 7:36am
Pur Year 6 children had a great time at their leavers' disco last night. We hope you enjoy the photos!
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:57pm
Years 5 and 6 had a great hour talking to the Coastguard volunteers. We learned how to stay safe around water and how to look for dangers. We also learned that in an emergency on the beach or in the sea, you should never put yourself in danger and always call 999.
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:56pm
We had a great session today with Josie from Glow Sports. We were split into 4 teams and played a variety of games: basketball, football, hockey and dodgeball. The lights went down and the place lit up!! We've never done sports in the dark before - what a treat!
Date: 24th Jun 2025 @ 1:23pm
As part of our DT journey, we have spent some time looking at careers related to textiles. We watched videos of a fashion designer, wedding dress designer and a tailor. Perhaps one day, one of us will use the skills we have learned in DT to support our career.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 1:48pm
Today Year 5 took over the school! 4 children from Rowan and Hawthorn came across to teach our classes for the morning. They taught Math, PSHE and a gave the children a spelling test. We were all very impressed with out new teachers.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 1:14pm
Today we started our DT journey of textiles. Our first lesson was looking at existing felt products and discussing stitches used, intended user and design. Then we practised previously learned stitches on binca squares.
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 8:12am
As part of our Year 6 trip to Manchester Museaum, we were lucky to meet Dr. Hannah Chalk - the Museum Learning Manager. She told us all about her job, what she did and her route into her chosen career. She said that she felt very privileged to do a job that she loved and explained how she had studied Geology at university before doing a masters degree in Museum Studies.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 4:22pm
Today Year 6 visited Manchester Museum. There were lots of different areas to explore, including Ancient Egypt, Fossils, The Natural World and Ancient Asia. We were able to link our learning in Science to the fossil and dinosaur section as well as looking at how animals and plants have evolved over time. We had a great time and learned lots.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 3:38pm
Year 6 had a great time in Boundary's forest school area today. They completed a variety of independent activities including den building, filling the pond, making bracelets, working with clay and making pesto from nettle leaves! The children worked really well together and demonstrated many of our school characteristics.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:04am
Year 6 have really enjoyed their latest Geography unit - a local area study of Blackpool. We have learned how our town and region fit into the wider world, identified key physical and human geographical features on maps and asked how our region might meet the needs of people. Finally, we used field work to answer the question: Is Blackpool still a fit place for people? The children produced some excellent work and were really inetested in finding out more about where they live.
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:02am
This half term, Year 6 have been focussing on acitvism and art. We have explored the idea of activism and why people protest. We also discussed words and vocabulary linked to activism. Then, throughout our journey we have experiemented with collaging, printing, letter formation in order to create our final piece of work. We put together everything we have learned to create a placard linked to activism. I think you'll agree that our end products are amazing!
Year 6 - Inheritance and Evolution
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 8:01am
This week we have completed our unit on 'Inheritance and Evolution'. Our lessons centred around understanding how genes are passed on from parents to their offspring in both the animal and plant world. We then looked at how plants and animals have adaptedover time to survive in their environments. The idea of evolution took us on a journey of how change happens over millions of years and how we can learn about the past from fossils.
VE Day - 80th Anniversary Celebrations
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 5:28pm
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 9:11am
In our final week before SATs, we took our revision outside for a fun GPS market place activity. 20 questions were placed around the playground and the children had to collect letters as they went. If they were right, the letters created a punchline to a joke.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 9:04am
Inspired by the book 'The Dot' by Peter Reynolds and the work of abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), pupils have created their own artwork using a single colour to create a self-portrait within a dot. This required a variety of skills including sketching, colour mixing and painting. Pupils were asked to consider colour, tone and hue when completing their final piece. Soon, the artwork will be combined with work from other year groups and displayed around the school.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 4:08pm
Today Year 6 took part in a pre-SATs Kooth workshop online. The aim of the event was to talk to children about how they felt going into the SATs and what strategies they could use to help them with any worries or anxities they were having about the tests. The children were also introduced to the Kooth website, which is a support platform for young people. Kooth is the UK's largest and longest established digital mental health service that partners with NHS and local authority organisations to deliver mental health support to young children. If children would like to create their own account then we encourage parents/carers to sit with their children and look through the website.
Date: 9th Apr 2025 @ 4:26pm
Today was No Pen Day and once we again we had a focus on Oracy. We started the day with some discussions topics and talked to our partners about what we thought. We then opened up the discussion to the whole class and used our talk tactics to include everyone, including agree, build and challenge. In Guided Reading we looked at orally answering questions on given texts and challenged each other to give thorough answers. In Reading into Writing, we took part in a teacher model/shared write session on explanatory texts.
Year 6 - School Subjects in French
Date: 9th Apr 2025 @ 4:06pm
This half term we are learning about school in French. We will learn the names for school subjects and how to express opinions about school subjects. We will finish the unit by learning how to tell the time so we can explain what time we study each subject
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:09am
On Wednesday a range of children across school performed in our music concert. We had choir, peripatetic drummers, samba, Shakespeare, peripatetic guitars and School Alive. All the children were wonderful, and should be very proud of their hard work!
