Welcome to the Year 6 page!

Autumn Term

We would like to say a huge welcome back to you and the children after the summer holidays. This will be their final year in primary school and they have lots of new and interesting topics they will be learning about this term.

Core Subjects

English -

This term, we will be reading Cogheart by Peter Bunzl which is an action-packed story about a young girl Lily who is searching for her missing father with her mech-animal sidekick Malkin. We will explore the evil character of Miss Kracken and also show our creativity by designing our own mech-animals. In addition, we will explore character description, explanation texts, narrative retellings and poetry. We will also be reading Matilda by Roald Dahl and enjoy exploring the fabulous characters such as Miss Trunchbull and Miss Honey. We will focus on the basics of grammar such as word classes, tenses and parenthesis in preparation for our SATs tests. In reading we will be working on our retrieval and vocabulary skills.

Maths -

This term, we will begin consolidating our knowledge of place value and the four operations- addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will be working on our fluency in these key methods and also applying our learning to reasoning problems that show the children how they might use their skills in everyday scenarios. Times tables knowledge is a key element to mathematical success and we will be including these in our daily teaching. We will be using Times Table Rock Stars to support this. Any additional work they can do at home would be of great help in the run up to SATs.

Science - Our topics for science this term will be Electricity, where pupils will explore circuits and then they move onto delving deeper into Animals, including humans.

Foundation Subjects

History & Geography - In our history topic, pupils will be learning about a variety of British Monarchs throughout history. Whilst in Geography, pupils will be studying the physical processes of earthquakes, mountains and volcanoes.

Art & DT - This term our art topic will be drawing and painting where pupils will explore enlarging an image from a sketch, as well as combine colours to create tones and tints for effect and purpose. Our DT projects will involve cooking street foods from different cultures and pupils will investigate mechanisms, designing and make their own gears product.

The Difference Between Sketching and Drawing

PSHE & R.E. In PSHE we will be learn how we can maintain good mental health and wellbeing. Our values this term are resilience and kindness. With these key values, we will be learning about important cultural and social issues that might be experienced in the wider world. In R.E. we will be learning about Christianity.

Resilience word on wooden card with dried flower on wood. Resilience stock images, royalty-free photos and pictures

PE

PE takes place for the following classes on;

6AC – Monday and Friday

6H – Tuesday and Thursday

6P – Monday and Friday

Please make sure your child wears the appropriate kit (i.e. black shorts, white top, trainers etc) to school on these days.

Homework

Each week, we will set work for English, Maths and Spelling to support learning in class. Homework is given out on a Friday and should be completed by the following Friday.

Homework is an integral part of learning in Year 6. To help support the children who find completing this at home tricky, we are happy to support with this in school.

If you have any questions or queries please let us know and we will be happy to help as best we can.

Thank you,

Year 6 team - Miss Andrews, Miss Caldicott, Mr Pusharski and Mr James.

Please click on the link below for KS2 SAT's information.

KS2 SAT's Information for parents