Year 6
Dear Parents,
This year, Year 6 will be taught by Mrs Asare-Archer and Mrs Opiola with the support of Mrs Dymott. Mrs Opiola will be teaching Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Mrs Asare-Archer will teach on a Thursday and Friday. Both teachers will plan closely together to ensure that there is a smooth transition throughout the week.
Year 6 is a busy, exciting and fun time as the children embark on their last year of Primary school and begin to look ahead. This page will outline the curriculum coverage for the year, spelling and reading resources and other useful information.
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Autumn Newsletter to parents
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| Year 6 Termly News for Parents Autumn 2025 | |
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Religious Education
In RE this term we will be studying the following topics:
Autumn 1: Creation
- Creation and Science: conflicting or complementary?
- Make clear connections between Genesis 1 and Christian belief of God as creator
- What do people believe about life, the world and the good life?
- How does what we believe influence the way we should treat the world?
Autumn 2: Is God made man, a good way to understand the Christmas story?
- What is Incarnation?
- Why is Christmas important to Christians in light of the Crucifixion and Resurrection?
- How do Christian beliefs link to Bible texts?
- What does Christmas symbolise?
- What are the differences between Hindu and Christian incarnation?
English
Writing
This term we will be developing our writing skills through focusing on sentence structure and vocabulary. When writing, the children will need to think about the audience and the purpose of the text, and choose sentence types and ambitious vocabulary for effect.
Our focus texts are :
Shark Caller by Zillah Bethell
Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carrol
Maths
Over the next term, we will be studying the following topics:
- Place Value Multiply and Divide by 10, 100 and 1,000
- Choosing Effective Mental Calculation Strategies
- Problem Solving with Four Operations Application of Factors, Multiples and Primes
- Equivalent Fractions Comparing and Ordering Fractions Adding and Subtracting Fractions
- Fraction and Decimal Equivalents Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Calculating Percentages
- Formal Written Method of Multiplication
- Area of Parallelograms and Triangles
- Formal Written Method of Short Division
- Properties of Shape
Each lesson begins with a 10 minute fluency session where children will practise a range of calculations. It is important that they are confident with all multiplication facts (including division) up to 12 x12
Please log on to Times Tables Rock Stars weekly to help improve the speed and accuracy of recalling times table facts
Science
This term we will be studying the following topics:
Autumn 1
Living things: Classifying big and small
Children broaden their knowledge of how vertebrates, invertebrates, plants and micro-organisms are grouped using shared characteristics. They discover how Carl Linnaeus developed the Linnaean and binomial systems for classifying and naming living things. Pupils use and produce branching and number classification keys to sort and identify organisms.
Autumn 2
Energy: Light and reflection
Proving that light travels in a straight line, children use this information to explain observations of reflection and shadows. Pupils investigate the effect of moving an object away from the surface it casts a shadow on and the relationship between the incoming and reflected rays on a mirrored surface. Exploring real uses of mirrors allow children to apply what they have learned about light throughout the unit.
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Design and Technology
DT - Automata Animals
In this unit children will have the opportunity to develop their understanding of mechanical systems.
Children will learn about controlling movement with a cam mechanism as part of an automata animal.
They will develop their designing skills through using information sources to research ideas about animals which are then incorporated into the design criteria and designs.
They will make a simple cam mechanism to formulate an understanding of how different shaped cams can be used to produce different movements.
Autumn Term Highlights
Religious Education
English
Maths
Science
Art
History
Homework
Each week the class will be set relevant homework through ATOM learning. These tasks will be set on a Wednesday and must be completed by the following Monday.
As well as completing the Atom Home Learning, it is crucial that children read every night and practise learning their times tables. See the termly newsletter for further information on reading at home.