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title: "Blog"
url: "https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/index/tag:year-6/page:2"
school: "English Martyrs Catholic Primary School (Litherland)"
---

# Blog

 [![Image of Year 6 enjoying board games](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_1227.jpeg)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-07-15-09-58-year-6-enjoying-board-games)

15 July 2026

#### [Year 6 enjoying board games](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-07-15-09-58-year-6-enjoying-board-games)

Year 6 are enjoying playing board games and chess on their penultimate morning of primary school.

 [Continue reading](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-07-15-09-58-year-6-enjoying-board-games)

 [![Image of Year 6 Leaver’s Mass 2026](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_1225.jpeg)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-07-14-08-21-year-6-leaver-s-mass-2026)

14 July 2026

#### [Year 6 Leaver’s Mass 2026](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-07-14-08-21-year-6-leaver-s-mass-2026)

On Monday morning, year 6 celebrated our first ever outdoor leavers’ mass in our prayer garden. Parents, parishioners and staff were invited to join the celebration.

 [Continue reading](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-07-14-08-21-year-6-leaver-s-mass-2026)

 [![Image of Year 6 Dress Rehearsal preparations](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_1192.jpeg)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-07-09-12-20-year-6-dress-rehearsal-preparations)

9 July 2026

#### [Year 6 Dress Rehearsal preparations](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-07-09-12-20-year-6-dress-rehearsal-preparations)

The backstage crew are preparing for our second dress rehearsal, this time for key stage one. We don’t want to give any spoilers away, but families- you are in for a real treat this evening!

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 [![Image of Year 3 and Year 6 Golf Competition ](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_2904.jpeg)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-06-16-12-06-year-3-and-year-6-golf-competition)

16 June 2026

#### [Year 3 and Year 6 Golf Competition ](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-06-16-12-06-year-3-and-year-6-golf-competition)

Well done to the children who took part in the Golf Sixes competition yesterday at Aintree Golf Centre. Both year groups did fantastic and came second place.

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 [![Image of We can work it out! ](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/image(16).jpg)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-06-11-11-31-we-can-work-it-out)

11 June 2026

#### [We can work it out! ](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-06-11-11-31-we-can-work-it-out)

Today in maths, the children worked in groups to sift through a range of cards to help plan a school trip.

The children had to use lots of different skills to decipher and calculate the information before writing the letter that would be sent out to parents.

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 [![Image of Year 6 DT: Structures and Towers](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_6193(1).jpeg)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-06-03-15-03-year-6-dt-structures-and-towers)

3 June 2026

#### [Year 6 DT: Structures and Towers](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-06-03-15-03-year-6-dt-structures-and-towers)

## How strong is a piece of spaghetti?

For our latest DT topic, we started to investigate how strong a piece of spaghetti is. We worked in groups to build ‘bridges’ and investigated how to make the strongest bridge.

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 [![Image of Discovering Angles in Y6](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_1105(1).jpeg)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-05-20-12-19-discovering-angles-in-y6)

20 May 2026

#### [Discovering Angles in Y6](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-05-20-12-19-discovering-angles-in-y6)

Mrs Boylan’s group had fun today discovering the different types of angles.

We estimated what type of angle they were before estimating their size.

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 [![Image of Celebrating end of SATs](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_1730.jpeg)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-05-15-13-50-celebrating-end-of-sats)

15 May 2026

#### [Celebrating end of SATs](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-05-15-13-50-celebrating-end-of-sats)

To celebrate all the hard work that the children have put in over the past months, we celebrating our final test with a chippy lunch!

bread, butter, curry and gravy!

 [Continue reading](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-05-15-13-50-celebrating-end-of-sats)

 [![Image of Day 3](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_1311.jpeg)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-03-27-10-01-day-3)

27 March 2026

#### [Day 3](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-03-27-10-01-day-3)

The sun is shining and we’re all out for our final activity!

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 [![Image of Day 2 - Morning](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_0887(1).jpeg)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-03-26-11-08-day-2-morning)

26 March 2026

#### [Day 2 - Morning](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-03-26-11-08-day-2-morning)

Great morning taking part in lots of different activities.

 [Continue reading](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-03-26-11-08-day-2-morning)

 [![Image of Easter Reflection 2026](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/Easter-Reflection-24-03-26-YouTube-03-26-2026_10_27_AM.png)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-03-26-10-23-easter-reflection-2026)

26 March 2026

#### [Easter Reflection 2026](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-03-26-10-23-easter-reflection-2026)

We held a wonderful Easter Reflection in church with all of Year 3 to 6 taking part, through prayer, song, drama and spoken word. It was an opportunity to reflect on the love Jesus has for us all and the calling to be part of his family, by following his path and example as Christians and…

 [Continue reading](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-03-26-10-23-easter-reflection-2026)

 [![Image of Good Morning!](https://files.schudio.com/english-martyrs-catholic-primary-school-litherland/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_1311(1).jpeg)](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-03-26-09-20-good-morning)

26 March 2026

#### [Good Morning!](https://www.englishmartyrs.co.uk/blog/2026-03-26-09-20-good-morning)

We’re all fed and watered ready for the day’s activities!

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