Welcome to Year 6! 

Townsend/Townsbury Class - Mrs Westlake/Mrs Godfrey

Eaton Class - Mrs Saint/Mrs Godfrey

PPA cover - Mrs Hammond

Teaching Assistants – Miss Davis, Mrs Cooke, Mrs Jackson, Mrs Bradley

Whole School Well Being Mentors - Mrs Patrick, Miss Smith and Mrs Fox

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Autumn Term 2025

Happy New Year! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas.

You will notice a few new names on our staff list for Year 6. We have welcomed Mrs Westlake (formerly Miss Jarrett, congratulations!) as our new Year 6 teacher whilst Miss Saville is our Acting Head Teacher. Mrs Bradley has also returned from maternity cover and is supporting Year 6 Maths this term.

PRIDE remains central to everything we do and Y6s should model the behaviours and attitudes we expect of our children. They take the lead in organising the wide-range of activities outside as Sports Leaders, organise the school library and hall seating and are our first port of call to discuss school and learning with the many visitors we have.

  Maths   

Maths   

Maths continues to build on earlier learning in school and sets the foundation for secondary school education. Fluency and accuracy (being quick and being right) as well as being able to reason, problem solve and explain are aspects of every lesson.

We will be moving onto Fractions, Ratio, Algebra and Statistics whilst continuing a weekly focus on speed and accuracy of arithmetic - our mantra is 'not practising until we get it right but practising until we can't get it wrong'.

The following websites may be useful for practise at home, as well as TT Rockstars and Numbots.

https://mathsbot.com/primaryMenu

https://www.primarygames.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://mathszone.co.uk/

English 

The majority of English is taught through our Units of Learning and Book Study with some stand alone units. We have lots of exciting topics upcoming this term. In our writing lessons, we will be studying the Twelve Labours of Heracles, linking to our Ancient Greeks topic. These stories always end up very gruesome... and we love it! 

We will also be completing a recount of our day at Young Voices. The experience is so magical that we just have to relive it twice! 

In Spring 2, our stand-alone unit of writing will be linked to the Malamander and Mermedusa books by Thomas Taylor. Our non-chronological reports will details all the weird and wonderful facts about these mythical creatures that haunt to seaside town of Cheerie-On-Sea (or should we say Eerie- On-Sea).

Our next Book Study will be Number the Stars. The book links with our upcoming PSHE topic of Prejudice and Persecution, in which we explore the poor treatments of groups based on their race and religion. As always, we will use our Inferential Reading Strategies to unpick the text, get the gist and make predictions about what may happen next.

By this point in Y6, most of our Y6s are independent readers and so are encouraged to select books and authors in a range of styles and which cover a range of issues. Sometimes, reading is about challenging ourselves whilst at others, we might prefer something cosy and familiar. Reading can also include comics, graphic novels, online sources and listening to books read aloud. The children should be reading for longer periods of time independently but it is still helpful for them to read aloud occasionally as this supports fluency and prosody (the rhythm of speech/reading)

We will continue to send home weekly spelling lists for children to learn. Spelling Frame is available to use at home to support their learning.

PE

This term our PE days are Monday and Thursday and we have Outdoor Learning on Friday.  Year 6 children should come to school in their PE kits on Mondays and Thursdays ready with uniform in their bag in case we get wet/muddy. Spare shoes should be sent in for Outdoor Learning ready to be changed into. We will text ahead of time if they need spare clothes for Outdoor Learning.

Wider Curriculum

In Science, we will be exploring Animals, including Humans in Spring 1 and the heart in Spring 2. As part of this, we will be writing two pieces based on the journey of a red blood cell - one formal and one informal. In History, we will be focusing on the Ancient Greeks and linking our writing to The Twelve Labours of Heracles. In DT, our new project will be making Automatas - children's toys using wooden rods and card cams to create moving parts. 

Latin continues to focus on sentence construction. We will be learning how to describe ourselves in Latin, how to ask someone's name and expand our adjective vocabulary. 

  Young Voices

We have now learnt all of our songs for Young Voices and we are eagerly waiting for our concert on the 29th January. Children can sing-along to the songs at home using Spotify or YouTube. T-shirts and tickets have been sent home along with consent slips, which must be returned by Friday 23rd January. All the details for the upcoming concert are on the letters but please don't hesitate to ask us should you have any questions. 

Young Voices have released a social story for each venue, detailing what will happen on the day. A link to this can be found below should you want to go through this with your child. 

Home Learning

Please note, homework is now marked on a Monday (previously a Tuesday). We will continue to use the CGP Reading and Maths books as homework, unless your child has been set alternative work. To keep skills sharp, access to TT Rockstars, Numbots and Spelling Frame should be regular. The children were recently sent home with their passwords for the apps so should be able to access this.