Welcome to Year 6

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

We have an exciting year ahead. During this first term, our focus is about history and key events that have shaped Britain and the World. Lessons will consist of exciting and engaging content from the entire curriculum. To help explore this theme, the topic book for the first half term is: The Place for Me: Stories About the Windrush Generation by Black Cultural Archives. The book comprises of twelve moving tales of sacrifice and bravery, inspired by first-hand accounts of the Windrush generation. I will not say anything further as you will have to read it 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: Monday 15th of September 2025

English: We will be writing formal letters based on the book we are learning about. 

Maths: We will be using long multiplication to solve problems. 

Hearts and Minds: Online safety and fairness.  

Science: We will be investigating the topic of light. 

History: Exploring the British Empire. 

Art: To explore how I can find out what I care about, and find ways I might share my ideas with others.

Religion and Worldviews: To identify the similarities and differences between some Abrahamic religions.

PE: Indoors on Tuesday and outdoors on Wednesday.

Spanish: Mi escuela (School) 

Computing: Coding my own website using HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

Music: To improvise as a group, using texture.

Star Mathematicians of the week: Charlie and Layla, for displaying an excellent attitude in lessons.

Star Writer of the week: Harry, for writing an excellent information text. 

Key Dates:

Weekly Reminders:

• Homework is set on a Tuesday and due in on a Tuesday for Atom Learning: maths, reading and SPAG. 
• 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 Wednesdays for their PE lessons. PE will be indoors for Tuesday and outdoors for Wednesday (where possible), 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