Welcome to Year 6

Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely holiday and enjoyed spending time with your loved ones.

We have an exciting half term ahead. During this next half term, our focus continues about adventure. Lessons will consist of exciting and engaging content from the entire curriculum. To help explore this theme, the topic book for the second half term is: Sky Chasers by the brilliant author: Emma Carroll. An encounter with a boy dangling from the sky changes pickpocket Magpie's life forever. Like her, the boy dreams of flying over the rooftops of Paris. His family, the Montgolfiers, are desperate to be first to discover the secret of flight. Together with Pierre, Magpie is soon caught up in a world of inflatable bloomers, spies and a trio of unruly animals in a race to be the first to fly a hot air balloon - in front of the King and Queen of France. You will need to read on to find out more...

We will also be following our Maths - No Problem! scheme of work, which incorporates lessons linking to real-life problems. Furthermore, it ensures that topics are covered from previous years so that children have a great understanding of maths and how it can be applied. 

Alongside all of this, we are very much aware of the importance of children being happy, safe and secure in school and to help us do this, we follow our Hearts and Minds curriculum. More information about our Hearts and Minds curriculum can be found using this link: Hearts and Minds.

Thank you for your continued support. It is going to be a great year!

Continuing the Learning Journey...

Week Beginning: Tuesday 22nd of April 2025

Maths: We will be revising the curriculum in preparation for SATs. We will also experience some past papers. 

English:  We will be revising the SPAG curriculum in preparation for SATs. We will also experience some past papers. 

PE: Tuesday: outdoor. Friday: outdoor - cricket. 

Hearts and Minds: My Happy Mind. 

Science: Evolution and inheritance. 

History: To understand why Baghdad was vital during the Islamic Golden Age. 

RE: To understand the significance of attending a non-religious event as a Humanist.

Art: We will be researching various artists and exploring how they show identity in their work.

Music: To identify performance markings on staff notation and apply these to a performance.

Key Dates:

SATs week: Monday 12th of May - Thursday 15th of May. 

Anglesey: Wednesday 21st of May - Friday 23rd of May. 

Weekly Reminders:

• Homework is set on a Tuesday and due in on a Tuesday for Atom Learning: Maths, Reading and PAG. 
• Please ensure your child is filling in their reading diary on a daily basis.
• Practise timestables on a daily basis using Times Table Rockstars.
• Children to come in PE kits for the whole day on Tuesdays and Fridays for their PE lessons. PE will be outdoors (where possible) for both days, so please wear appropriate kit. 
• If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to write in your child's reading diary and it will be responded to ASAP. 

Here is a link to the book that I recommend you purchasing to help your child with the Year 6 grammar, punctuation and spelling expectations:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Primary-Grammar-Punctuation-Spelling-Dictionary-dp-0192776568/dp/0192776568/ref=dp_ob_image_bk 

Renaissance Link for reading click here. 

In order to find year group expectations for maths, please click here, scroll down and click on the overview. 

For year group expectations for English, please click here, scroll down and click on the overview. 

The expectations for science and the foundation subjects can be found by selecting the relevant heading from here.

To access the Atom Learning homework platform, please click here. 

Don't forget to visit our Think Like an Engineer website regularly, to see what we're all busy doing: 

https://thinklikeanengineerproject.com