Year 6
Welcome to the Year 6 class page – Mr Zoumides and Miss Michalska are looking forward to working with you this year!
Our Class Saint – Saint Maximilian Kolbe
St. Maximilian Kolbe is the patron saint of journalism, the media and the family. St. Maximilian Kolbe was born on January 8, 1894, in Poland. He was a Polish Franciscan friar and a martyr in the German death Camp of Auschwitz during World War II. He is a martyr as he gave up his life the safe the life of another man in the concentration camp in Auschwitz.
Home Reading
Reading helps children with their knowledge, understanding and language. The children are taught to read in school; however it is important that you encourage your child to read at home daily for 20 minutes and listen to them read a couple of pages of their book every night.
Reading books will be changed regularly and every week the children will also choose a library book to read over the weekend.
Click the video link below for tips on how to support your child with reading at home.
Parents, you must sign your child’s reading diaries, so that your children can be rewarded with a stamp for their efforts.
Homework
Children will be given 1 piece of maths and 1 piece of grammar homework each week. Homework will be handed out every Tuesday (to be completed by the following Monday)
Children also have logins to Times Table Rockstars and Emile and are expected to practise their times-tables and spellings weekly.
Click the link below to access our school login in page. Then log on using your child’s username & password will also be stuck in your child’s reading diary.
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/12628
https://emile-education.com/log-in-to-emile-resources/
What will we be learning this Term?
Autumn 2 (2025)
RE
This half term we will be studying two units in our RE lessons:
Followers of Christ
- We will consider the call of the disciples by Jesus.
- The children will learn about the demands that the call of Christ placed on these first disciples and they will think about ways in which people answer the call of Christ today through the life of the Church.
Advent
- We will be developing our knowledge and understanding of the two parts of the season of Advent.
- We will be preparing for Christ to come again.
- Through some parables of Jesus, hymns and prayers, we will be preparing for Christmas.
English and Reading
Reading for pleasure: Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll
We will read the story of Olive, an evacuee who is trying to discover what has happened to Suki. Suki disappeared during an air raid in London which has led to many unsolved mysteries. Will Suki, Olive and Cliff ever be reunited?
We will use our class book as inspiration for our own writing. We will learn key language and grammar skills to help us to write a variety of different texts.
Ongoing throughout this and each term will be a strong focus spelling, punctuation and handwriting. Please help your child to practise these skills at home.
Road to Freedom
We will use this text to explore key reading skills whilst also enjoying this fascinating story. We will focus our reading skills around the following:
- summarising ideas from more than one paragraph
- making inferences using evidence to support ideas
- predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
- exploring a range of poetry and non-fiction texts to further enhance our learning
Maths
This half term we will focus on:
Fractions
- Equivalent fractions
- Simplifying fractions
- Adding and subtracting fractions
- Adding mixed numbers
- Multiplying proper fractions
- Finding fractions of amounts and quantities
Science
Electricity
Our science unit of work this half term will cover the following objectives:
- Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram.
- Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches.
- Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit.
Geography
Our World
Our unit of work will be covering the following objectives:
- Identify and describe the geographical significance of longitude, latitude, Equator, Northern and Southern Hemisphere, the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic, and Antarctic Circle and time zones (including day and night).
- Begin to understand and describe how countries and geographical regions are interconnected and interdependent.
- Identify trade links around the world based on a few chosen items; e.g. coffee, chocolate, bananas.
- Discover where food comes from.
- Discuss and debate fair trade.
- Describe aspects of geographical diversity across the world, comparing and contrasting geographical locations of the seven climate zones.
- To understand the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.
DT
Food - Vegetarian Pies
- Writing a recipe for a healthier pie, explaining the key steps, method and ingredients.
- Following a recipe, including using the correct quantities of each ingredient.
- Evaluating a recipe, considering: taste, smell, texture and origin of the food group.
- To understand that it is important to wash fruit and vegetables before eating to remove any dirt and insecticides.
- To understand what happens to a certain food before it appears on the supermarket shelf (Farm to Fork).
Computing
We are Toy Makers
Children will be designing and developing their own toys using Micro:bits and other software.
French
French Football and Champions
- Try two methods of memorising and learn at least four of the new words.
- Learn and pronounce most of the new words, remembering the vocabulary from the previous lesson.
- Translate some player profiles.
- Construct the sentence, ‘I come from [a place]’ in French.
- Understand comprehension questions based on the topic of football and show some competence in answering them.
- Complete part of a player profile.
- Deliver an oral presentation with a reasonable standard of pronunciation
PSHE
Celebrating Difference
- Understanding what it means to be 'normal'.
- Discussing our differences and how these make us unique.
Music
Gospel
Our focus this half term is Gospel music. We will develop an understanding of the influences of Gospel music and understand the indicators of a piece of music being Gospel. We will compose instrumentals and call and response melodies and learn to sing in harmony.
PE
Gymnastics (Wednesdays and Fridays)
Children will be practising their gymnastics skills in PE this half term.
Please ensure that your child’s P.E kit is in school on these days.
Useful links to websites that could help at home:
Arithmetic practice
https://myminimaths.co.uk/year-6-arithmetic-practice-papers/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
https://www.mathswithamouse.co.uk/
This is an excellent site, providing revision help for KS2, KS3, KS 4 and KS5. This covers all subjects through activities and tests.
http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/children_sats.htm
A wide range of KS2 SATs questions, from both past papers and their own team of teachers.
https://www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/
The following link is to a website that is full of maths activities: https://www.themathsfactor.com/