Year 6R 2025 - 2026

Welcome to 6R

Welcome back and in to Year 6! It’s lovely having the children back in school. They have come back ready to start the year with such positive attitudes.

In English, we will be focussing on different genres of writing where the children have the opportunity to edit and redraft their work; ensuring each piece of writing shows their true potential. We will start by looking at Alma, watching the short clip in class and basing our writing around it. Then, we will be moving on to looking at Holes by Louis Sachar, reading the text and then using the thoughts and feelings of the characters to write a description. We will then move on to looking at instructions and explanations referring to ‘Sue Palmer’s Book of Instructions and Explanations.’

In Maths, we will begin with place value, addition and subtraction. We will then be looking at decimals and fractions. Then we will start to look at algebra. Children will be taking part in Freckles Maths and answer questions that are marked automatically and then are tested at the end. We have a competition between the classes on TT Rock stars, and we will see which class wins just before October half term.

In Science, we will be looking at fossils. Children will get the opportunity to observe some real fossils and discover how they were made. In Geography, we are looking at Journeys: trade and thinking about ‘Where all of our stuff comes from.’ We will be learning about how to look after our environment sustainably. In Art, we will be learning about Lowry focusing on sketching and drawing moving images.

The Christian Value we will explore is ‘Thankfulness.’

This half term, we will be focussing on the contrasting and complementary ideas about science and religion and sharing our thoughts as a class. The children will be answering Big Questions and posing their own.

We are looking forward to an exciting year with Year 6!

Thank you for your continued support, The Year 6 Team!