Year 6
Key Information
Welcome to the Year 6 class page.
Class Teachers
6RG - Miss Gurney
6JG - Mr Gourley
Learning Facilitators
Mrs Chouhan
PE days:
- Wednesday
- Thursday
Kit consists of black shorts or joggers and a white t shirt. If needed children can also wear a black hoody. These should be plain without logos.
Home Learning
In Year 6, homework is as follows:
Reading:
We ask that children read three times per week (as a minimum), with their reading journal signed by an adult to acknowledge this.
Maths:
Maths homework tasks will be assigned on Learning by Questions - see your child's teacher if you need support accessing LbQ.
Spelling:
Spelling lists will be sent home weekly in spelling books on a Thursday. The words will be tested on the following Tuesday.
Newsletters
Spring 1 English
This half term, the theme of our English texts is Protest and activism. We will firstly be reading 'Suffragette: The Battle for Equality' which was written by David Roberts and published in 2018 to mark the anniversary of women receiving the vote. It is an illustrated information book which works chronologically through the history of suffrage, though in this sequence of learning we focus on some key events and use these to eventually plan our own campaign for a law that should be changed.
Following that, children will read ’Resist’ by Tom Palmer, which the author himself says, "The main subjects are WW2 and what civilians did to stand up to oppression, but also dance, facing your fears and how outside events affect a family."
Spring 1 Topic
This half term, we will be using a variety of tools to build our own automata toys in Design Technology. After that, we will being our history topic that focuses on Ancient Greece, and reflects on how their beliefs and practices shaped the modern world.
SATS
The dates for the Year 6 SATs are:
Monday 12th May 2025 - English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (Papers 1 and 2)
Tuesday 13th May 2025 - English Reading
Wednesday 14th May 2025 - Mathematics (Papers 1 and 2)
Thursday 15th May 2025 - Mathematics (Paper 3)
More information about SATs will be shared later in the year.
Useful Links
Mathsbot - https://mathsbot.com/primary/ks2Mini
Rollama - https://www.rollama.com/
Top Marks - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing
TTRS (login details required) - https://ttrockstars.com/
LbQ (login details required) - https://www.lbq.org/Task