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Welcome to Year 6

   

Dolphins - Mrs Rose/Mrs Eades & Mrs Milner                

Jaguars - Mrs Pridmore & Mrs Wright 

Welcome to the Year 6 class page.  We are so excited to have you here for your final year in primary school – we cannot wait to see you flourish.  Year 6 is full of learning, fun and new challenges as we get ready for secondary school.  Keep checking this page for updates, news and all the exciting things we will be doing this year!

Our Autumn 2 will be… Waverley Wanderers

    

In English, we will be linking our writing to our mentor text ’When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’ by Judith Kerr – a story about a Jewish family who fled Berlin on the eve of election of Adolf Hitler.  We will also be linking our writing to our school trip to the National Holocaust centre.  Both of these will inspire us to create a newspaper recount based on the events of Kristallnacht (the night of broken glass).  We will also produce a biography based around the life of Judith Kerr who escaped Germany in 1935 and came to Britain to escape persecution during the rise of the Nazis.

In Maths, we will be looking at fractions.  We will be using our factors knowledge to simplify fractions.  Additionally, we will be looking at how to add and subtract fractions with different denominators as well as mixed numbers – equivalent fraction knowledge will prove very useful this half term.  We will also look at how to multiply and divide fractions.  Once again, we would like to reiterate how important times tables knowledge is – quick recall and confidence with these is essential.

In our topic lessons, we will be learning about ‘a road trip around the UK’.  This will see us learning about the difference between the United Kingdom and Great Britain.  We will also investigate the seven natural and man-made ‘wonders’ of the UK.   Consideration will be made to environmental factors when travelling.  The end goal will be for the children to plan their own road trip around the UK.

In science, 

Key vocabulary pupils will learn through this topic can be found in the table below:

 

Counties

Peninsula

Man made

Carbon footprint

Countries

Mainland

Architecture

Sustainability

 

Our P.E days are Wednesday and Thursday.

Please make sure your child’s P.E kit is in school on these days and labelled with their name and class.

Spellings – we will test the children on the spellings every Friday.  Scores will be recorded in their planners.

Times tables and Arithmetic – We will test the children on their times tables and arithmetic every Friday.  Arithmetic scores will be logged in planners.  This score will be out of 40.  We would expect to see an improvement to these scores as we approach the SATs tests.

 

Dates for your diary

Autumn 1 - Craft Afternoon - Tuesday 14th October 1:30pm

Autumn 2 - Christmas Concert - Tuesday 9th December 2:00pm 

Spring 1 - Parent Workshop (SATs) - Monday 12th January 9:00am

Spring 2 - Parent Workshop (residential) - Tuesday 24th February 9:00am

Summer 1 - Craft Afternoon - Tuesday 19th May 1:30m

Summer 2 - Graduation - TBC

The KS2 SATs week will take place on the week beginning Monday 11th May 2026.  This will end on Thursday 14th May 2026.

 

Home Learning

Each half term we will send out a home learning bingo grid with tasks for you to complete at home. Here are this half term’s challenges for you to try. 

Other home learning activities for Autumn 1 are

  • Reading at least 4 times a week
  • Testing yourself on 10 past spellings each week
  • Using TT Rockstars for 20 minutes (or spending 20 minutes each week revising timestables)
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