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Year 6

To contact Miss Jordan please email mjordan@cashesgreen-pri.gloucs.sch.uk 

Reminders:

P.E. - Our P.E. lessons are every Wednesday this term (term 3). If they are in school, children need to come to school dressed in their P.E. kit with suitable footwear on this day.

Reading Records - Signatures will be counted each Thursday.  Children can read to themselves but the record must be signed by an adult. 

Forest School - We have Forest School every Thursday this term.  We will be going out whatever the weather so please ensure coats and suitable footwear (e.g. wellies) are in school. 

Homework - Homework will be set on a Friday after school and needs to be submitted online (SeeSaw) by the following Thursday at 9am.

Term 3 - Virginia Wolf - Kyo Maclear

Our third topic for this year is based around the book Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear.  We have a whole school mental health focus this term.  Please see below for a synopsis of the story and an overview of what we will be learning in each subject this term.

Virginia Wolf Synopsis 

Vanessa’s sister, Virginia, is in a “wolfish” mood — growling, howling and acting very strange. It’s a funk so fierce, the whole household feels topsy-turvy. Vanessa tries everything she can think of to cheer her up, but nothing seems to work. Then Virginia tells Vanessa about an imaginary, perfect place called Bloomsberry. Armed with an idea, Vanessa begins to paint Bloomsberry on the bedroom walls, transforming them into a beautiful garden complete with a ladder and swing “so that what was down could climb up.” Before long, Virginia, too, has picked up a brush and undergoes a surprising transformation of her own.

Class News

Friday 16th January 2025

We have had a busy start to the new year with our learning and have been working really hard.  We began our new topic by exploring the pictures from our new text Virginia Wolf and came up with suggestions on what we thought the story was about based on what we could see.  We then read the story and found that some of our suggestions were correct.  In English we have started on our persuasive unit of work where we are going to be writing a letter of advice to Virginia to help her improve her mental health.  In Maths we are currently learning about ratio and scale factors.  We have been doing incredibly well and have been using our knowledge of multiplicative relationships to help us.  In Computing we are learning all about spreadsheets and have so far created two spreadsheets for data which we have collected.  We will soon move on to learning about how to create formulae for these.  Last week we did an online safety lesson where we were looking at ways that we could look at after mental health and wellbeing when online.  We created posters to give people advice about how they could take care when online.  In Art with Mrs Dawson we have begun to explore the work of Brazilian artist Romero Britto.  At the end of the unit of work we will be creating a piece of our own artwork in his style. 

Term 2 - The Last Bear - Hannah Gold

Our second topic for this year is based around the book The Last Bear by Hannah Gold.  Please see below for a synopsis of the story and an overview of what we will be learning in each subject this term. 

The Last Bear Synopsis

There are no polar bears left on Bear Island.  At least that's what April's father tells her when his scientific research takes them to this remote Arctic outpost for six months.  But one endless Summer night, April meets one.  He is starving, lonely and a long way from home.  Determined to save him, April begins the most important journey of her life...

Class News

Thursday 18th December - Finished D.T. Projects

Following on from last term's D.T. successes we have been busy this term working on another project and have been putting of hand sewing skills to good use.  We began our project by exploring existing Christmas decorations and looked closely at the design and how they had been joined together.  After this we designed our own Christmas decorations.  Once designed we then got to making our Christmas decorations and, we have to be honest, they've turned out pretty amazing!  Check them out in the gallery below. 

Friday 14th November 2025 - Cotswold Wildlife Park visit

On Monday we visited Cotswold Wildlife Park to see all of the animals and to take part in a classification workshop which is our focus in Science for this term.  Please see below for photographs of our visit. We had a super, albeit very wet, day!

Term 1 - Who Let the God's Out - Maz Evans

We have had a super start to the year with our new Year 6s.  They've started the year off really well and are ready to learning.  They are already being good role models as they are now the oldest children in the school.  

Our first topic this term is based around the book Who Let the God's Out by Maz Evans and our primary focus is Ancient Greece.  Please see below for a synopsis of the story and an overview of what we will be learning in each subject this term. 

 Who Let the God's Out Synopsis

When a shooting star crashes to earth, it lands Elliot smack bang in the path of Virgo - a young Zodiac goddess on a mission. But when the pair accidentally release Thanatos, a wicked death daemon imprisoned beneath Stonehenge, they’ve got nowhere to turn for help but to the old Olympian gods.

These gods are used to getting their own way and they’re more than capable of creating a little chaos themselves. After centuries of cushy retirement on earth, are Zeus and his crew up to the task of saving the world - and solving Elliot's problems too?

Class News

Friday 3rd October 2025

Thank you to all that could attend our class assembly today, we really enjoyed performing for you all.  We retold the story of Theseus and the Minotaur as this has been a focus for our English lessons over the last few weeks.  We used the basis of that story to help us develop our own Greek myths.  These are now finished and we have published our favourite parts of our stories which will be going up on display outside our classroom very soon. 

D.T. Update

In D.T. we have started our textiles unit of work.  We spent the first lesson looking at a range of different textiles that exist and exploring the different ways in which pieces of fabric had been joined together.  We then moved on to having a go at a number of different stitches ourselves - running stitch, back stitch, cross stitch, zig-zag stitch and a blanket/whip stitch.  We all even managed to successfully secure a button to a piece of fabric.  Check out the photographs of us below having a go at our stitching.  In our latest lesson we have learnt about pattern pieces and looked at how to create a pattern piece of our upcoming project.  Next week we are going to be creating our own drawstring bags.  We will be using the sewing machines for these.  We will come back to our hand stitching next term!