Welcome to Year 6!

Who's Who?

Miss Dumestre- Class Teacher

Mrs Artingstall- Teaching Assistant

Ms Evans - Teaching Assistant (Monday-Thursday)

Reading

Children should be reading regularly to an adult at home - a minimum of 3 times per week. Children are responsible for changing their own reading book at any suitable time throughout the week. Reading records are checked weekly and the number of times your child has read is noted down. Reading is rewarded with a reading certificate and gold coin after every 30th read. 

Homework

Year 6 children will take home a spelling sheet each Tuesday with their weekly spellings. They will be tested on these spellings the following Monday.

All children have access to Times Tables Rockstars and should be practicing for 10 minutes each day.

Below is our Year 6 Autumn Homework Grid which includes spellings for the term as well as extra pieces of homework- children should choose two per half term, to complete at home and bring in to school.

PE 

PE lessons will take place every Monday afternoon. Children should come to school wearing their full PE kit (navy/black joggers or shorts, house colour/white t-shirt, and dark jogging top or blue school jumper). If children arrive in the wrong (or no) PE kit, they may be asked to change into a spare school PE kit.

Forest school 

Forest school will take place every Tuesday afternoon. Please ensure appropriate kit is brought in to be changed into. Kit should ideally either be clothing that can be put on over uniform, or may be worn under uniform.

Autumn Term - 2025

English

This term, we are reading 'The Man with the Yellow Face' by Anthony Horowitz. We will be writing a character description of the main character and our own short suspense story. In the second half term, we will be reading Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick and writing a diary entry and balanced argument.

Maths

This term, we are learning about place value for numbers up to 10,000,000. We will then move on to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division where children will use the formal method, practise mental strategies and solve multi-step problems. After that, we will focus on fractions, which will include finding equivalent fractions, comparing and ordering fractions, and adding and subtracting fractions.

Science

This term, our unit is Light. Children will learn that light travels in straight lines and use this idea to explain how we see objects, how shadows are formed and why they have specific shapes and sizes. Next half term, our unit is Electricity. Children will link brightness and volume to the number and voltage of cells, explain how components work, and use symbols to draw simple circuits.

Geography

This term, our unit is Awesome Earth. Children will locate countries and cities, explore volcanoes and earthquakes, understand global coordinates, and use maps and digital tools.

RE

This term, we will be exploring how beliefs and ideas about land shape the way human beings live. Next half term, children will explore the Kingdom of God through biblical texts and relate these ideas to their own lives and communities.