Welcome to Year 6

Welcome to Year 6!

We are incredibly excited to be teaching our wonderful Year 6 cohort this year. Although Year 6 is a very busy and important year, including preparing them for their transition to Secondary School, the children have lots of exciting topics, trips and activities to look forward to. At the end of the year, the children can look relax and enjoy a 'Hawaiian' themed fun day to round off and celebrate their hard-work and learning journey.

Our topics this year are as follows:

Autumn:  Avengers Assemble,  

                South American Carnival 

Spring:   Walk Like an Egyptian 

Summer: We’ll meet again! (WWII) 

Science themes to be covered: Evolution & Inheritance, Electricity, Light, Living things & their habitats, Animals including humans. 

PE days:

We will continue to ask the children to come to school in their P.E kits on their designated days.  

This will eliminate the need to share changing rooms.  

• Year 6 P.E days: Monday and Wednesday 
• Please ensure that your child comes appropriately dresses in warm clothing when the weather begins to change – tracksuit and hooded jacket.

Homework:

English and Maths Homework is set on alternate weeks on a Friday. This needs to be returned to school on the following Thursday and will be placed inside each child’s homework folder which will remain in school. 

Children are expected to read x5 times per week at home – and logged in their RED journal which will signed weekly in class and logged as evidence for SATs. A signature will be required weekly to acknowledge that your child has completed independent reading.  

Autumn Term

Get ready, get steady, it's time to delve into the best franchise around - MARVEL!

Year 6 will be studying and researching superheroes and villains galore combined with exciting writing tasks including high level descriptions, comic strips, script work, persuasive letters, anatomical art sketching as well as superhero boot camp. Can you rise to the challenge Year 6?

#Avengers assemble!

In order to achieve ‘Expected’ in Writing for SATS, Year 6 must achieve a particular level of continuous cursive handwriting in order to be awarded this standard. Children will be awarded a pen licence when they have shown that they can continuously meet this expectation. They are then permitted to write with a black 'frixion' pen in English and Theme work.  

There is a link to our weekly spellings at the bottom of our class page. 

This document has lots of different fun ways to practise spellings. Lots of these we have already tried in classes, and lots are new! Please try to practise spellings, or the Year 6 'Common Exception Words' daily.