Year 6

Welcome to Year 6 2025-26 with Miss Burrell and Ms Daly.

We would encourage you to keep an eye on these pages as we like to share aspects of the children’s learning and experiences from Willow and Sycamore classes.

9th October 2025 - River Walk

Years 5 and 6 enjoyed an engaging river walk along the lower course of the Blind Yeo, led by Mr Thurgur who shared his knowledge and gave valuable insights throughout the trip. The children explored the river in detail, observing meanders, strand lines, sluice gates and other key features while completing a worksheet to help them explain and record what they saw.

During the walk, the children considered questions such as which way the river flows and how to tell, how wide the river is and how to check measurements back in school, the purpose of flood plains and estuaries and why paths are higher than riverbanks. They also discussed tributaries, the meaning of the Blind Yeo and the role of the sea wall in protecting the surrounding land. From the top of Poet’s Walk, they were able to identify various river features and even made sketches of what they could see.

A huge thank you to Mr Thurgur and all the adults who accompanied the children to make this trip possible.

2024-2025

16th May 2025 - End of SATS!

We are incredibly proud of the students in Willow and Sycamore who completed their Y6 SATs this week! Their hard work, focus, and determination throughout the year has been incredible. They have demonstrated resilience and dedication every step of the way. We are so proud of them all.

A big thank you as well to the teachers, families, and staff who supported the children along the way. Your encouragement and guidance made a world of difference.

A special thanks also to the HSA, who kindly provided breakfast snacks for the children to enjoy each day this week.

To celebrate completing the assessments, we took part in some fantastic team-building activities on Friday. We set the challenge of building complex structures using spaghetti and marshmallows.

We have also started preparations for the Y6 production and enjoyed some time together on Friday afternoon playing team games and eating ice-lollies.

23rd October 2024 - DT

Year 6 have completed their DT project for this term which involved them creating their own waistcoats! This involved each child developing their own simple design, investigating ways to make their product sustainable, creating their own pattern and then joining fabrics using a range of stitches. The end result was some very well-dressed teddy bears (as we're sure you'll agree) and the children were able to evaluate their designs and suggest things they would do differently next time. Many thanks to our sewing helpers for giving up their time to assist with this project!

10th October 2024 - Science

Year 6 completed this term's science learning about Light, Earth & Space by making and experimenting with periscopes to demonstrate how light is reflected and how objects may be seen . We had great fun making and trialing our periscopes - it's amazing what you can do with an empty cereal box!

24th September 2024 - Mendip Outdoor Pursuits

Year 6 went on a trip to Mendip Outdoor Pursuits on Tuesday 24^th September to take part in some exciting activities. They competed in an archery competition, worked collaboratively in team challenges in the woods and played Frisbee Golf competitively against each other in small groups. The intentions for the trip were to support team building, encourage resilience and enhance their problem-solving. The day was a huge success and the children (and adults) came home exhausted but exhilarated with the challenges they undertook!

13th September 2024 - House Captain speeches

Year 6 are settling excellently into life at the 'top of the school' and have been working really hard in all areas of learning. Today is an important day for as they voluntarily enter themselves into the House Captain elections; lots of our candidates are nervous but also very excited about this leadership opportunity. They will deliver their speeches to their house groups this afternoon (all year groups take part) and then a democratic vote will take place to elect 2 House and 2 Vice-House Captains for Court, Curzon, Pier and Triangle. We wish them all the very best of luck and look forward to hearing who gets elected - announcements to be made in our whole school assembly this afternoon!

Mary Elton Primary School