Welcome to Year 6
nurturing bright futures
Meet the Team
6P Class teacher - Mrs Fox
6P Teaching Assistant - Mrs Riches
6G Class Teacher - Miss Sankada
6G Teaching Assistant - Mrs Hall
6P Email: 6p@potttersgreen.org.uk
6G Email: 6g@pottersgreen.org.uk
Welcome to Year 6! We are all looking forward to continuing and sharing in new adventures together as you all develop within your education in your final year of Primary School. We hope you all enjoy your time in Year 6 and if you do have any questions, please contact your class teacher using the class email address.
PE
PE for the Spring Term will be every Thursday and Friday. Throughout the term children will develop skills in Quicksticks, Football, Netball and Tag Rugby. Children will need PE consisting of jogging bottoms or shorts, t-shirt, jumper/hoody and trainers. Please ensure all PE kits' are named and in school on the day that your child has PE
Home Learning
Home Learning will be set each Friday on Seesaw and is due to be completed by the following Thursday. Home Learning on Seesaw will consist of a Maths, Reading or Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG) task relating to the learning completed in class that week. Seesaw logins can be found in the front of your child’s Reading Record Book.
As well as this children are expected to read to an adult three times each week, practice times tables using TTRS and practice spellings in their RWI Log Book. We ask that adults at home sign and date their child's reading record when they have been heard read. Children need to bring their reading book and RWI Log Book into school each day.
Reading Eggs is a great way for your child to continue improving their reading and comprehension skills. Logins can be found in the front of you child's Reading Record book.
Times Table Rock Stars is a great way for your child to practise their times tables and number skills. Logins can be found in the front of your child's Reading Record book.
Our Autumn Term Curriculum
English
This half term, we will be using the book A Monster Calls to learn how to write a horror narrative. Following this we will be focussing on writing a traditional tale using the book Hansel and Gretel. In the second half of the term, children will learn how to write a recount using the text Letters from the Lighthouse. Children will then use research from learning in Science to write a biography about Michael Faraday. Our class reading book this term is The Arrival written by Shaun Tan.
Maths
This half term, we will be focussing on using the language of ratio, finding ratio and calculating with decimals. After the half term, children will focus calculating with fractions, decimals and percentages as well as finding area, perimeter and volume. Children will also focus on statistics; interpreting data from a range of tables and charts.
Science
In Science this half term, we will be learning about Evolution and Inheritance. Children will learn how animals and plants are adapted to suit the environment they live in as well as learning about variation in offspring. Children will also research the work of Charles Darwin and learn how some species have evolved over time.
Geography
This half term, our topic is The Americas and children will work towards answering the enquiry question 'How are the continents of North America and South America different?' This unit teaches children about the countries that make up North and South America, the climate zones of the two continents and the physical and human features of North and South America.
Art and Design
Our Art and Design topic for this term is Trailblazers and Barrier Breakers and will be taught later in the term. This project teachers children about the work of significant black artists and children will have opportunities to analyses artist's work and create their own pieces with meaning.
Computing
This term we will be learning about blogging and children will learn how to create their own blog and add to the a class blog. Children will also further learn about how to stay safe online.
Music
This year we will be using the award-winning Music learning scheme, Charanga. Children’s learning will be focussed on learning a 'New Year Carol' and the pop song 'You've Got a Friend'. Children will have many opportunities to listen to and appraise music as well as studying lyrics and rhythm.
R.S.H.E.
The children will focus on the topics: Belonging to a Community, Media Literacy and Digital Resilience and Money and Work.
R.E.
This half term, the children will be focusing on the following two key question – is it better to express your religion in arts and architecture or in charity and generosity and what matters most to Christians and to Humanists? Lessons will enable pupils to learn in depth from different religious.
Foreign Languages
This term children will be learning how to use adjective and prepositions to describe where they live. Children will also revisit the days of the week and months of the year in French.
SATs Information for Parents
SATs stands for Standard Assessment Tests and they are administered by primary schools in England to children in Year 6 to assess children’s progress from KS1 to KS2. The setting and marking of SATs are carried out in UK schools by the Standards & Testing Agency.
Test Timetable for 2024
In May 2024, your child will sit statutory tests in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar, Reading and Maths. These are the dates set for the assessments by the Standards and Testing Agency and it is vital that your child attends school throughout all of SATs week.
Date | Tests |
Monday 13th May 2024 | Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar – Paper 1 Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar – Paper 2 |
Tuesday 14th May 2024 | English Reading |
Wednesday 15th May 2024 | Mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic Mathematics Paper 2: reasoning |
Thursday 16th May 2024 | Mathematics Paper 3: reasoning |
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Tests.
The Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) tests are presented to children as two test papers. Paper 1, a written, short answer paper, tests knowledge of grammar and punctuation taught across Key Stage Two. Pupils have 45 minutes to complete paper 1. Paper 2 is an aural spelling test of 20 words which tests the spelling rules, prefixes and suffixes taught from years 3 - 6.
English Reading Test
The English Reading test focuses on comprehension and includes a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts. The test consists of one reading booklet, which has three texts for the children to read, and a separate answer booklet. Pupils have one hour to read the three texts in the reading booklet and answer the questions.
Mathematics Test
The Mathematics assessment is presented to pupils as three test papers. Paper 1 assesses arithmetic and pupils will have 30 minutes to give the answers to calculations. Papers 2 and 3 assess reasoning and will consist of a wider range of problem-solving questions. Papers 2 and 3 will last for 40 minutes each.
Writing Assessment
There are no statutory tests set to assess writing. Instead, your child’s writing will be teacher assessed. To do this, teachers will be using the Teacher Assessment Framework for Writing for pupils who have completed the Key Stage Two National Curriculum programme of study. A range of different pieces of writing, which have been completed in class as part of your child’s English lessons, will be used to judge each pupil as: working at the expected level, working at a greater depth or working towards the expected level. To be working at the expected level children need to show evidence of all the National Curriculum statements for writing.
Results and Reporting to Parents
Scaled scores are used to report SATs test results for each subject tested. The numerical scores (raw scores) from the SPaG, Reading and Mathematics tests will be converted into a scaled score. A scaled score of 100 shows that a child is working at the expected Year 6 level, a scaled score of 110 or above shows that a child is working at a greater depth and scaled score of below 100 shows that a child is working below the expected level for Year 6. Parents will receive their child’s SATs results and Teacher Assessment judgements at the end of this academic year in July 2024. All test papers are marked externally not by school staff.
If you have any further questions about the SATs tests, revision guides or if your child becomes anxious about the SATs, please talk to a member of the year 6 staff who will be happy to help.