Year 6

Welcome to the Year 6 homepage. Year 6 is one of the most exciting years and we have a lot to look forward to. In this final year, we will be working hard together to get ourselves ready for the transition to secondary school. Alongside all the hard work, we can also look forward to the Christmas production, Shakespeare and school journey!

Please enjoy looking at our class blog!

The Year 6 Team

Class teacher: Ms Sun

TA: Mr Freemantle (part-time) 

Timetable

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
		Homework due in	Children to come in wearing their PE kit	Homework sent home
		Reading folders to be brought in. Please ensure that your child reads at home every night. Reading records to be checked	.

Summer 1

This term, Year 6 can look forward to continuing our writing of an explanation text based on animal adaptation, as well as tackling topics such as statistics and angles of a shape in maths. In RE, Year 6 will be learning about how the Christian message has persevered over so many years, and in science, we will be building on our prior learning on light.

Towards the end of the half term, Year 6 will also start their rehearsals for this year’s Shakespeare performances. We are looking forward to showing everyone the final product of our fantastic time here at Holy Trinity & S. Silas. 

 

Spring 2

This half term, Year 6 will be learning about youth culture in post-war Britain in our history unit. We will be immersing ourselves in music from the 1950s to the 2000s. In writing, we will be writing narratives based on a short, wordless animation film. Later on in the half term, we will be writing an explanation text about an animal.

It will be British Science Week this half term, therefore our learning during science will be based on this year’s topic. In RE, Year 6 will be exploring the story of Easter and thinking about how this festival offers hope to Christian believers. 

 

Spring 1

Year 6 will begin 2025 with a new text in both writing and reading, called Floodland. We will explore the apocalyptic setting of the book and write our own setting descriptions, as well as creating some persuasive writing. We build on this further in geography, where we will be thinking about our world and the environment. 

In science, Year 6 will be tackling electricity as our topic. Here, we will learn about circuits and how they work. This half term we will be learning about Buddhism in RE, and we will develop our understanding of what it is to be a Buddhist. 

We are lucky to be participating in a series of workshops called ‘Breathe’ in PSHE this term, which will help us develop our mindfulness and understanding of how to take care of ourselves. 

Autumn 2

In writing this half term, Year 6 will be diving into real-life stories of survivors. We will be writing a narrative based on the story of Juliane Koepcke, a 17 year old girl who survived a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest. In geography, we will build on our knowledge of the Amazon and explore what it is like to live in the Amazonian rainforest.

In science, we are learning about the circulatory system and the importance of the heart. Our learning in RE is on the importance of Christmas for Christians, and we will be exploring how this festival is advertised by the church as well as other organisations.

We will also finish this term with our final Christmas show – we can’t wait to show you what we have done!

Autumn 1

Year 6 are starting the year by learning about the effects of World War 2 on Britain as part of our whole-school local history focus. To enrich our understanding of what it was like to be a child during World War 2, we will be reading Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo as a class, which we will use to inspire our writing. During the autumn term, we will be writing non-chronological reports, recounts, diary entries, balanced arguments and biographies based on the our chosen core texts and also linking to Black History Month, when we will explore the experiences of black and minority ethnic people in South Africa during Apartheid.

In maths, we will consolidate our understanding of place value and learn how this helps us to read, write and compare large whole numbers and decimal numbers.  We will learn how to partition and combine numbers in different ways, which will expand our repertoire of calculation methods. We will further develop our understanding and build our skills in using the four operations to solve problems.

In science, our focus is ‘living thing and their habitats’. We will be learning about the variation of habitats and the traits animals have specific to their environment. In RE, we will be learning about ‘the journey of life and death from the perspective of a Christian’. We will be looking at the Rites of passage, events and transitional times in a Christians life.

This term, we also start our rehearsals and preparation for the Christmas show!