PE Day - Thursday

Welcome to Year 6

AUTUMN 1 - 2025

Welcome to Year 6! I hope you have had a great summer ready for your final year of primary school! On this page you will find all the information you need for our class including what learning to expect in Autumn 1.

Here are some useful reminders and links to web pages for you:

• TTRockstars for times table practice.
• Reading eggs for online reading and comprehension practice.
• Mymaths for online mathematical activities.

Class Teacher:  Miss Shotton

English

During our English learning this half term, we will begin by looking at a story which links with our topic of WW2 - 'Rose Blanche'. During this unit, we will be completing 2 pieces of writing, a first person recount and a setting description to improve our descriptive writing. 

Key skills we will be focussing on are:

- Using a variety of sentence types 

- Using descriptive language effectively 

- Using brackets, commas and dashes to show parenthesis 
- Having a clear structure to our writing

We will continually be revising all our Year 6 reading skills through our guided reading sessions this year. This half term, we will be focusing on:

- Using the context of a sentence to work out the meaning of a word

- Retrieving key details from a text 

- Make predictions based on details that have been read

Maths

This half term in Maths, we will begin with our Place Value unit where we will begin to work with numbers up to 10 million. Later in the half term, we will begin a unit covering the four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication & division. We will also continue to recap previous learning in our skills lessons as we prepare for SATs. During this unit, we will cover the following objectives:

• Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit
• Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy
• Use negative numbers in context

• Multiply multi-digit numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long multiplication
• Divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long division and short division 
• Perform mental calculations, including with mixed operations and large numbers
• Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers
• Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why
• Use estimation to check answers 

Here are some useful websites:

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games

https://nrich.maths.org/

Science

Our Science topic for this half term is ‘Evolution and Inheritance ’. During this unit, we will be learning to:

• Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago
• Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents
• Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution

Topic

Our Topic for this half term is 'World War Two'. During this unit, we will be focusing on both History and Geography objectives. We will begin by creating a world history timeline so we can see where the war fits in with other periods in History we have learnt about. Throughout the unit, we will cover the following objectives.

• Explore the key events of WW2 and begin to understand the main causes
• Identify the key countries involved in WW2 and their leaders.
• Explore the start of the conflict in Europe
• Understand what life was like during ‘The Blitz’
• Discover children’s experience of war
• Explore how life changed for people during the war
• Understand what happened during ‘The Holocaust’ and the impact it had

RE

Our Topic in RE is Love & Family. During the unit, we will be discussing the meaning of unconditional love and how we show it to others, how God loves and cares for his people even in difficult times and we will begin to understand we don't have to do anything to make God love us. We will also be learning about forgiveness and how it is an essential part of unconditional love.

PSHE and Mindfulness

Inter weaved throughout all of our topics is the importance of self-care and reflection. At home we encourage you  to use a  journal to write down our thoughts, feelings and emotions which is key to regulating how we are throughout each day like we do in class. Additionally, we will post some online meditation and yoga you can practice at home.

Homework

Here are the Home Learning tasks that pupils should complete each week. If you need any support accessing these resources, please do not hesitate to contact me. 

1) Reading - Pupils should be reading for 10-15 minutes every night. Pupils can change their books as and when they need to in the Class Library or the KS2 Library. Year 6 pupils are welcome to bring in books from home. Please help your child to record their reading in their Reading Record. Listening to your child read can support their fluency, develop their comprehension skills, and help them to progress. 

2. Reading Eggs – Children have a weekly comprehension assignment to complete on Reading Eggs.

Reading eggs makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids, with great online reading games and activities. Children love the games, songs, golden eggs and other rewards which, along with feeling proud of their reading, really motivate children to keep exploring and learning.

3. My Maths  - Children have a weekly assignment to complete on MyMaths that will help them to practise the skills we have been learning in school. 

Pupils can also access Mathseeds (using their Reading Eggs login) and TT Rockstars for fluency practice.

4. Spellings – practice daily

Pupils have 10 spellings to learn per week, on which they will be tested every Friday. A PDF copy of the spellings is available below. 

5. Learning logs –  In Autumn 2 (November - December), pupils will have a home learning project to complete. At the end of the half-term, they willl bring in their project to share and celebrate with their peers.