Quizzes, Fire Drills and Fantastic Learning – Year 6 Get Started!

Miss Deakin • September 5, 2025

Quizzes, Fire Drills and Fantastic Learning – Year 6 Get Started!

Miss Deakin • September 5, 2025

A brilliant start to Year 6 filled with fun quizzes, exciting topics, and impressive determination during unexpected challenges.

TLDR:

  • Year 6 made a fantastic start, showing hard work and determination.
  • New learning tool Blooket made quizzes exciting.
  • Topics include WWII, Skellig, E-Safety, art with pastels, and science circuits.
  • Pupils impressed during maths tests, even with a fire alarm!
  • The class are ready for an exciting and challenging year ahead.

What a wonderful start to Year 6 we have had! I am so proud of all the hard work and determination the children have put in these first few days.

Year 6 is always an important year and I am looking forward to journeying through this new year group together!

As part of our curriculum, we do some fun quizzes at the beginning and end of each topic. We are using a new piece of software called Blooket – the children loved this and incorporated the fun into the learning!


Our topics for this term:

English – setting descriptions and persuasion.

Maths – calculating using knowledge of structures.

Reading - Skellig

History – World War Two

Computing – E-Safety

PDL – Water safety and zones of regulation

Art – Discovering pastels.

French – My class

RE – Rituals

Science – Circuits


As we are Year 6, the tests have started already. As part of maths we do an arithmetic test, which is that quick thinking skill. Even though the unexpected fire alarm went off during this, children were fabulous. I am super impressed with their determination and ability to put across those skills!

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