Welcome to Year 6. Our class teacher is Jillian Brown and she is assisted by Ashleigh Crowley . You can find out more about them on our Meet The Staff page
Below are a selection of documents with information about our Year 6 class.
Year 5 6 National Curriculum word list
Year 6 Long Term Overview 2025-26
This term, our P.E. lessons will be on Tuesday and Friday afternoons. The children will begin the half term with rounders sessions before moving on learning cricket skills. Each child will need their P.E. kit in school for every session and will need a pair of PE shoes as part of their kit. As the weather improves, we will be going outside as often as possible for our PE lessons, so you may wish to add a sweatshirt/tracksuit top to your child’s P.E. kit for these lessons.
Literacy
In literacy this term, we will be reading Holes by Louis Sachar. We will be developing and improving our writing using the skills that we have learned in previous years. The children will be further practising their grammar skills this year and will have the opportunity to apply each aspect learned to their writing.
Numeracy
In maths lessons, we will be following White Rose maths. The class will be working on improving their knowledge of shape, including calculating angles in a range of shapes and looking at the properties of circles. A quick recall of times tables will really help with our maths topics this term. In class we are working hard on this and recommend that children practise at home using TT Rockstars. Children on the top 5 leaderboard each Friday will earn money for their class bank account.
Science
Our science topic this half term will be Evolution and Inheritance, and the children will focus on understanding how living things change over time and how characteristics are passed down through generations
Foundation subjects
In our geography topic this half term, the class will be comparing a local city (Newcastle) with a city in a South American country.
In French lessons we will be learning about how to talk about visiting countries around the world. The children will learn vocabulary based on travelling and will learn more about which countries have French as a main language. We have a French lesson once a week and spend an extra five minutes each day revising key concepts.
Every child in Year 6 has a Duolingo account so they can practice at home either on the Duolingo app or on the Duolingo for school’s website. Let me know via Tapestry if your child has forgotten their login details and I can send them again.
In DT, the children will be looking at textiles and making a waistcoat.
Our topic in PSHE will be Rights and Respect.
How you can help your child
We believe that any work you do at home with your child should be simple and purposeful. We would ask you to support your child in the following:
Reading- We will send home a reading book assessed at your child’s current reading level but reading any text with your child will help improve their fluency and knowledge. Children will get money to add to their class bank account each time they read to someone at home and get a signature in their planner.
Number skills- Basic number skills are a great way to help improve your child’s confidence in maths. We would ask that you support them to play Numbots/ Times Table Rockstars as this will help to improve the basic skills that will support them in all areas of numeracy.
Spellings- Each week the children will have a new list of spellings based around our sound of the week. The children will write the spellings for the next week in their planners on a Friday. The spellings will also be shared on Tapestry every Monday. Spelling games such as letter scramble (mix all the letters up and then put them in the correct order) or hangman are a good way to practise at home.
All children in Year 6 have a Duolingo account and can complete levels online to help support their French learning in school.
As children are in their final year of primary school and preparing to move to secondary school, we are promoting independence. I am sure with your support this will enable children to be more than ready for the transition to secondary school. If there are any problems, please do not hesitate to contact the school for an appointment.
