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 half term, we will be focussing on equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages, ratio and how to calculate using decimals. After the half term, children will focus on interpreting statistics, converting units of measure, identifying shape and using coordinates to describe position and direction in a grid. Lessons will focus on Maths mastery following the White Rose scheme.

Science

In Science, we will be learning all about evolution and inheritance. Children will have opportunities to identify hybrid species and variations in offspring and learn how animals have adapted in order to survive. As well as this, children will learn about the work of Charles Darwin.

Geography

This half term, our geography 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 physical and human geography of the Americas and focusses on well-known mountain ranges, rivers and capital cities.

Art and Design

Our Art and Design topic for this term is Trailblazers, Barrier Breakers and will be taught later in the term. This project teaches children about significant black artists and their work, and provides opportunities to analyse and create artwork inspired by them.

Computing

This term we will be exploring the use if blogging and creating our own class blog. Children will also be learning about how to stay safe online as well as how to create a text adventure using computing software.

Music

This year we will be using the award-winning Music learning scheme, Charanga. Children’s learning will be focussed around one song from Benjamin Britten’s Friday Afternoons: A New Year Carol. Children will have many opportunities to listen to and appraise music as well as study lyrics and rhythm, and research the life of the composer Benjamin Britten.   

R.S.H.E.

The children will focus on specific topics including belonging to a community, media and digital literacy and money and work.

R.E.

This half term, the children will be focusing on the key question – How do beliefs and ideas about land shape the way human beings live? Lessons will enable pupils to identify the Christian and Muslim worldviews on creation and identify sacred spaces for pilgrimage.

Foreign Languages

This term children will be revising 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.