Year 6 Project Ideas for After SATs

Creative Year 6 Project Ideas

Create a Podcast with 2Cast

Use the brand new 2Cast to create a podcast with your class. Pupils will need to think carefully about what they want their podcast to be about. Can they come up with ideas that allow them to record multiple episodes on the same theme?

Some ideas include:

• Storyteller's Corner - Writing and performing their own short stories or fairy tales
• Little News Anchors - Presenting news relevant to their school, or topics they find interesting
• Junior Explorers - Researching and sharing information about places, animals or cultures they're curious about
• Time Travellers - 'Travelling' to different points in history and talking about what life was like
• Dream Big Podcast - Sharing their dreams and aspirations for the future

Compose a School Song with Tracklab

Another new tool is Tracklab - students could form musical groups and write and compose a brand new song about their primary school, or their time spent there. Songs could include lyrics, background vocals, a range of instruments and even sound effects!

Complete the Taskmasher Challenge

Can your students become the ultimate Taskmasher? Complete a range of silly tasks designed to get children thinking in different ways, then unleash their imaginations and think up the ultimate Taskmasher challenge! Submit it to the competition board to win some fantastic prizes including having their challenge brought to life in a special video starring none other than Little Alex Horne!

Solve the Catching Blueprints Mystery

If you're wanting a fully-resourced 5 day project with videos that develops creative writing skills, then look no further! Catching Blueprints is one of our Videos for Creative Writing series, where pupils watch an engaging, task-setting video each day and then complete the corresponding activities.

Writing Projects for Year 6

Primary Memories Blog

A really lovely way to share all their memories from primary school is for students to add to a memories blog using 2Blog. Watch the video to see how:

Year 6 Leavers Yearbook

Year 6 students can also fill out their own yearbook using this template. There are useful prompts to guide children to add photos and comments of their classmates, and there's also a teacher page at the back.

Interactive School Guide

To show how well they know the school, why not get your Year 6 students to write an interactive guide to the school for new starters? This can be done in 2Create a Story, with photos, voiceovers, animations and links between the pages being added.

Animated Book Writing

Sticking with 2Create a Story, your Year 6 pupils could also come up with some stories to write for younger year groups. They could then write, illustrate and animate them in 2Create a Story, adding sound effects and animated sprites. These could then be read to the younger classes.

Computing Projects for Year 6 students after SATs

Design and Create a Game

2DIY 3D gives students the ability to create multi-level 3D games. They may want to start with the Computer Game Planner and play some of the examples before they start creating their game. This project can be developed further in the following ways:

• Use Tracklab to create background music for their game
• Use 2Paint a Picture to create backgrounds and characters
• Use the App Marketing template to think about how to market their game
• Get their classmates to play the game and complete a Computer Game Review.

Games could also be created using Purple Chip, which allows students to program external devices such as phones or tablets. Find out more about Purple Chip here.

Learn Python coding

This year, Python in Pieces has been integrated into Purple Mash, meaning that you can now extend your students further with coding. You'll find resources to guide the lessons in the Year 6 Computing Scheme of Work under 'Moving On'.

Code with micro:bit

Another fun idea is learning to program micro:bits, and there are 3 units that Year 6 pupils could use, depending on their experience with micro:bits. New users should start with Unit 3.10 (Year 3) and then move on to Units 4.11 (Year 4) and 5.10 (Year 5), all in the Computing Scheme of Work.

These tools and resources are all included as part of a Purple Mash subscription, plus so much more! If you'd like to explore all that Purple Mash has to offer, you can get a free trial.