Year 6

Welcome to Year 6!

The Year 6 teacher is Mr Naylor and the teaching assistant is Miss Penman. As well as class teacher, Mr Naylor leads English, P4C and French.

Our curriculum – An Overview

Below is a summary of the areas of learning for children in Year 6. More detailed information can be found on our curriculum pages.

Reading

Our reading texts this year are Holes, Wonder and The Nowhere Emporium. We also use non-fiction and poetry texts to help support our reading and writing curriculum.

Writing

Some of our writing will be linked to our class texts. We will cover a wide range of genres including character/setting descriptions, explanation texts, biographies and poetry.

Maths

In mathematics we will cover:

Place value, the four operations, fractions, converting units of measure, ratio, algebra, decimals, fractions decimals percentages, area, perimeter, volume, statistics, shape and position and direction.

Science

Electricity, light, animals including humans, living things and their habitats, and evolution and inheritance.

Foundation subjects

History – Ancient Greece and slavery/the Civil Rights Movement.

Geography – South America, world trade and map field work.

Art and Design – Painting (Amy Sherald), drawing (Jean Michel Basquiat) and sculpture (Richard Deacon).

Design Technology – Mechanisms, textiles and food.

French - Revisiting me, homes and houses, investigating sports, at the fun fair, cafe culture and performance.
PE – Netball, tag rugby, gymnastics, dance, cricket and athletics.

RE – Hindu Dharma, Christianity, the way of the Buddha, the Islamic, Sikh Dharam and the Jewish Faith.

PSHE - Feelings and emotions, being responsible/keeping healthy, computer safety, the working world, a world without judgement, growing and changing.

Computing – computer systems and networks, media, programming, data and information.

Music – Pop/Neo Soul, Jazz, improvisation and composition, Classical, 70s Ballard and Pop, Classical. We will also create our own music inspired by our own identity.

Useful information

Please note that our PE days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Please bring both indoor and outdoor kit.

Reading records will be sent home to log reading at home. Please return these on Thursday each week.

Homework is sent out on a Friday and due in the following Thursday.