Welcome to Year 6

nurturing bright futures 

Respect    Responsibility   Resilience 

​Meet the Team

6P Class teacher - Mrs Fox

6P Teaching Assistant - Mrs Riches

6P Email: 6p@potttersgreen.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 Summer Term will be every Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. On Wednesday, children will be participating in outdoor athletics and for these days children will need outdoor PE kit consisting of consisting of jogging bottoms or shorts, t-shirt, jumper/hoody and trainers. On Thursdays, children will have their weekly swimming lesson and will need to bring swimming kit and a towel. 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 and is due to be completed by the following Friday. Home Learning on paper based and is to be kept in your child’s Home Learning folder that they have been provided with. Home Learning will consist of a Maths, Reading or Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG) task relating to the learning completed in class that week.

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 Summer Term Curriculum 

English

This half term, we will be using the book Holes to learn how to write setting and character descriptions, a persuasive leaflet and an adventure narrative. Following this, we will be focussing on Greta Thunberg; learning how to write a speech. Following this we will be using The Journey to further develop narrative writing skills.

Maths

This term we will be revising all areas of Maths in preparation for the children's SATs tests in May. Following this, children will have opportunities to apply their Maths knowledge to problems solving projects such as budget planning and mathematical investigations. 

Science

Our Science topic is Healthy Bodies. Children will be learning about the impact of diet and on the body and describe how nutrients and water are transported around the human body. Children will also learn about the circulatory system and how to keep their hearts healthy. As well as this, children will also be taught about the harmful effects of drugs and substances on the body. 

Geography

This half term, our geography topic is Mountains and children will work towards answering the enquiry question ‘How do mountains across the world differ?’ This unit teaches children about how mountains are formed and children will locate and name major mountains and mountain ranges around the world. Children will learn about the positive and negative aspects of tourism and explain what live is like for humans and animals who live on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. 

Art and Design

Our Art and Design topic for this term is Distortion and Abstraction. This topic will focus on abstract art including abstraction by line, colour and shape. Children will learn about the significant artists – Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay. 

Computing

This half term, children will be using a variety of Purple Mash tools to create quizzes on different topics and for different audiences and will have the opportunity to share them with others. Following this, children will be learning about the binary system which involves the children writing digital data that involves just 0’s and 1’s.

Music

This term children will be completing the unit Music and Me which focusses on inspirational women working in music. Following this, children will complete the unit Reflect, Rewind and Replay where children will have opportunities to listen to classical music, compose their own music and improvise with voices and instruments.  

R.S.H.E.

The children will focus on the following units: Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing, Growing and Changing and Keeping Safe. 

R.E.

This half term, the children will be focusing on the key question – How might your worldview lead you to do hard things for good reasons? 

Foreign Languages

This term children continue to revise the use of adjectives and prepositions with the French language as well as the days of the week and months of the year. Children will then apply this to planning a holiday to France using the internet to research holidays, create presentations and perform to an audience applying their French speaking skills.