Welcome to Year 6! 

Townsend Class - Miss E Saville/Mrs N Godfrey

Eaton Class - Mrs L Saint/Mrs N Godfrey

PPA cover - Mrs L Hammond

Teaching Assistants – Miss Davis, Mrs Cooke, Mrs Jackson

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

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Autumn Term 2025

It's lovely to be back in school with all of our fabulous Year 6s.

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 start our Place Value unit whilst having 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 Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwock. After revisiting previous sentence types, we will be creating our own version of the Jabberwock using a ferocious Bandersnatch or a cunning Jubjub Bird.

Holes will be our first Book Study book of the year. This tends to be a favourite amongst the children (and many of the adults!). Although it may be tempting to watch the film, please refrain until we have finished the unit. We will show clips of the movie throughout the unit to support the understanding of what we have read. There may also be the opportunity to watch the film closer to Christmas time to compare similarities and differences to the book. 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)

Children will be in Spellings group soon and we will send weekly spelling lists home for them 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 all things light and electricity. In Light Up Your Life, we will recap how shadows are formed, understand how light helps our eyes to see and experiment how the distance from an object changes the size of shadows. During our electricity topic, Could You Be The Next Games Master?, we will make electrical circuits, draw circuits with scientific symbols and understand conductors and insulators. We will then use this knowledge in DT to make quiz boards.

PRIDE and British Values are key parts of our Remembrance Unit of Learning and PSHE where we look at Being Responsible. Anti-Bullying week's theme this year is Power for Good.

Latin continues to focus on sentence construction using our ever expanding vocabulary and range of sentence types.

  Young Voices

Our Young Voices concert is always a fabulous experience and we look forward to learning our new repertoire of songs.

The concert is on Thursday 29^th January and we'll send further information shortly for those of you who want to buy t-shirts, tickets etc. through school. The order window is very tight and is usually by the final week of September. The experience for the children is fully funded and we strongly encourage all children to attend.

It is always FAB!