To get in touch with the Year 6 team, email : year6@parkspringprimary.co.uk
Teacher– Miss Wood
Teaching assistant – Mrs Foulds
Teacher– Miss Benson and Mrs Higgins
Teaching assistant– Mrs Turner
Reading records go out every Monday and need to be returned to school the following Monday. Your child must read 5x a week and an adult must date and sign their record for every occasion read.
PE: Tuesday (come to school in PE kits)
Cojos: Friday (come to school in PE kits)
Spelling test: Friday
Multiplication tables: All times tables but especially the trickier ones – 6,7,8,9,11 and 12 multiplication tables.
This will be set on a Monday and returned on a Thursday. A further will be set on a Thursday and returned on a Monday.
Our two main focuses of learning this term are WW2 and the Circulatory System.
For our history topic, we will be learning about the WW2. Here is the lozenge for this topic which shows what the children are learning
Y6-History-Lozenge-WW2-Leeds
In Science we are learning about the Circulatory System. Here is the lozenge for this topic which shows what the children are learning
Y6 Aut 1 Science
Our class reader this half term is Letters From the Lighthouse.
Our author for this half term is Malorie Blackman.
Week 1
Well done for a fantastic first week! They have show that they are ready for Year 6, showing maturity, positivity and determination to do well. Well done to every single individual person in Year 6.
Week 2
This week the children started their Science topic by learning about the circulatory system by finding out what the important parts are and the functions. They matched up jigsaw pieces and drew their own circulatory system. Here are some of their amazing pieces of learning.
On Friday 6b had a PJ day thanks to Mrs Horan and our attendance. When we spun the wheel a PJ day was our reward. Here are some photos from Friday.
Week 3
This week year 6 have been creative and loved making models of the heart. We learnt about why the heart is important and what all the different parts of the heart out. We then created a 2d model of the heart showing all the different parts.
Week 4
This week in Science we have been making blood and learning about the components of our blood. We used
orange juice for plasma, red jelly for red blood cells, white marshmallows for white blood cells and honey hoop
cereal for the platelets. We found out what the function of each part was and have created some lovely posters.
Week 5
This week we have been learning about some WW2 artists: Victor Lundy, Lillian Yonally, Henry Moore, Eric Kennington and completing some research on them as well as trying to recreate some of their work.
Mr Singh came to visit Y6 and discuss their new topic all about Sikhism in RE. He discussed some of the core values of Sikhism and shared the 5 Ks of the religion. The children Read more…
This week some of the children in Year 6 have been lucky enough to complete their level 1 and some their level 2 for bike ability. Children that have not completed it (but signed up) Read more…
We had a very special visitor this week; Amanda Harper from Look North. We got to hear about her job, hold a camera and microphone, look at Look North scripts and tell her about the Read more…
The children made roast potato wedges to celebrate the end of SATS. We have sent a recipe home in case they want to make them.
Today we had a lady from West End Theatre to do a Jungle Book dance workshop. The children performed the story of Jungle book and had so much fun doing it!
A special visitor came to speak to all of the Year 6s this week. John Hussey, the great-nephew to Leonard Hussey, came to talk about the Endurance expedition which ended in catastrophic failure. He shared Read more…
June 30, 2025
