Year 6
Welcome to Year 6's Page
Our class teacher is Mrs Smith. Our Teaching Assistants are Mrs Sharp and Mrs Edwards.
We hope you find this page useful for keeping up to date with your child's learning in Year 6. We have recently updated our curriculum maps in December 2023 so there may be some variations to the order in which we teach our topics.
Please feel free to use the knowledge organisers to ask your child questions about their learning and whether they know the meanings of any of the vocabulary.
Our recommended reads are chosen from high quality texts that may either be engaging for your child to read or have read to them.
Year 6 Curriculum Map 2023
Year 6 Long Term Maths Plan
Meet the Teacher Presentation
Recommended Reads
Knowledge Organisers
What are we learning in Year 6 this Summer Term?
This half term we will be continuing with our Viking topic in history and lots of our writing will be linked to our knowledge gained from this topic- about the Norse worlds, ways of life and Viking battles. We have already had a fantastic Viking day workshop where we held lots of weapons, ground flour with mill-stones and acted out some battles! Our French will be linked to Vikings too; we will be learning how to describe Viking warriors using French vocabulary. We are also excited to carry out some landscape art based on the Viking realms and carry out a D/T project where we make Viking stew!
In Science we will be carrying out lots of experiments about friction forces- and have already practised using forcemeters to measure force. Next half term we will be learning about evolution and are really excited to use the book series 'Flanimals' by Ricky Gervais to be creative in the topic. In RE we will consider points of view about evolution and consider how to be Christian whilst also understanding the theory of evolution.
After half term our main topic will be rivers and we are excited to make models and go on a field trip to the River Gade. We will also further our learning from the Spring Term on classifying plants. In music we will compose music using a range of percussion instruments to create river imagery and we will read texts that have river settings.
In PE, we will be doing cricket, ultimate frisbee and athletics, and when working towards the end of year production- which will be Joseph and his amazing technicolour dreamcoat, we will create dances, applying knowledge of choreography from previous learning. We also have our residential to PGL to look forwards to where we can develop teamwork, independence and courage.
In Year 6, we have so many fun projects and events to look forwards to but we are trying to focus on enjoying each thing as it comes up!
What have Year 6 been doing?
April News:
This week Year 6 have enjoyed identifying features of Viking warriors and making an example of one using newspaper and paper. They have also written a range of writing types to portray different battles that happened between Saxons and Vikings.
Our penalty-shoot out team, who reached the final, attended the Watford v Hull match at Vicarage Road. Sadly we lost 3-5 but we were so proud to come second!
Spring Term news: Year 6 have loved learning about biomes of the world and the animals that live in them. They have classified animals and considered their adaptations. Their window paintings are great too. They worked hard on Internet Safety Day to put their views across about influencers and they enjoyed tracking technology through time. Year 6 attended an athletics event and came 3rd against some pretty tough competition- they worked so well as a team!
Year 6 have been working hard to learn songs and dances to prepare for Voice in a Million, an event at Wembley Arena with 6000 children making up a choir. When the day finally arrived, they had a fantastic time and did us proud- showing huge amounts of enthusiasm throughout!
On Science Day, Year 6 carried out an experiment to see what conditions yeast liked to grow in best. They also made bread, adding extra ingredients to test out how yeast would react!