Year 6
Dear Parents,
This year, Year 6 will be taught by, Miss James, with the support of Miss Kehoe. Our PE days are Wednesday and Friday. On these days, please ensure your child is wearing their full school PE kit, including wearing suitable footwear.
Year 6 is a busy, exciting and fun time as the children embark on their last year of Primary school and begin to look ahead. The termly newsletters will outline the curriculum coverage, the expectations for homework and other useful information.
On this page you will find spelling and reading resources and other useful information to support your child at home.
Autumn Newsletter 2026
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| Year 6 Termly News for Parents Autumn 2026 | |
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CGP Free SATS Ten Minute Online Tests
Links for class forms
Individual Health Care Plan (if required) - Year 6 Individual Health Care Plan 2026/27 – Fill out form
Collection from school - Year 6 Collection Form - Parental Permission 2026/27 – Fill out form
Annual consent for educational visits - Year 6 - Annual Consent for Educational Visits 2026/27 – Fill out form
Photo/ Social Media Consent- Photograph and Social Media Consent Form Year 6 2026/27 – Fill out form
Autumn Curriculum Overview
Religious Education
In RE this term we will be studying the following topics:
Autumn 1: Creation
- Creation and Science: conflicting or complementary?
- Make clear connections between Genesis 1 and Christian belief of God as creator
- What do people believe about life, the world and the good life?
- How does what we believe influence the way we should treat the world?
Autumn 2: Is God made man, a good way to understand the Christmas story?
- What is Incarnation?
- Why is Christmas important to Christians in light of the Crucifixion and Resurrection?
- How do Christian beliefs link to Bible texts?
- What does Christmas symbolise?
- What are the differences between Hindu and Christian incarnation?
English
To link our writing with our new topic for this term, we will be studying the following books either as extracts or in their entirety ;
Writing
This term we will be developing our writing skills through focusing on sentence structure and vocabulary. When writing, the children will need to think about the audience and the purpose of the text, and choose sentence types and ambitious vocabulary for effect.
Our focus texts are :
Shark Caller by Zillah Bethell
Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carrol
Reading
Many of our reading skills work will be based on the Reading Rainbow, answering questions using specific lenses. We will be looking at how authors use language, layout and inference to involve the reader. We will use many of the above books as sources of inspiration.
We will have two Guided Reading sessions a week focusing on comprehension, inference, author choice and meaning of words.
It is crucial that your child reads everyday and that they are choosing books that not only challenge their understanding but their vocabulary. Please refer to the recommended reading list on the class page of the website
Great writing skills begin with reading. Reading is a great stepping stone to great writing by helping expand children’s vocabulary and demonstrating different ways of using words to generate engaging sentences and makes it easier for them to use these words in their writing.
Spelling
This term we will be investigating spelling patterns and rules.
- ance/ence
- ibly/ably
- cious/tious
- que
- cial/tial
- unstressed vowels
- sh/ch - makes 'k'
Maths
Maths
Over the next term, we will be studying the following topics:
- Place Value Multiply and Divide by 10, 100 and 1,000
- Choosing Effective Mental Calculation Strategies
- Problem Solving with Four Operations Application of Factors, Multiples and Primes
- Equivalent Fractions Comparing and Ordering Fractions Adding and Subtracting Fractions
- Fraction and Decimal Equivalents Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Calculating Percentages
- Formal Written Method of Multiplication
- Area of Parallelograms and Triangles
- Formal Written Method of Short Division
- Properties of Shape
Each lesson begins with a 10 minute fluency session where children will practise a range of calculations. It is important that they are confident with all multiplication facts (including division) up to 12 x12
Science
Autumn 1
Living things: Classifying big and small
Children broaden their knowledge of how vertebrates, invertebrates, plants and micro-organisms are grouped using shared characteristics. They discover how Carl Linnaeus developed the Linnaean and binomial systems for classifying and naming living things. Pupils use and produce branching and number classification keys to sort and identify organisms.
Autumn 2
Energy: Light and reflection
Proving that light travels in a straight line, children use this information to explain observations of reflection and shadows. Pupils investigate the effect of moving an object away from the surface it casts a shadow on and the relationship between the incoming and reflected rays on a mirrored surface. Exploring real uses of mirrors allow children to apply what they have learned about light throughout the unit.
Design and Technology
DT - Automatated Animals
In this unit children will have the opportunity to develop their understanding of mechanical systems.
Children will learn about controlling movement with a cam mechanism as part of an automata animal.
They will develop their designing skills through using information sources to research ideas about animals which are then incorporated into the design criteria and designs.
They will make a simple cam mechanism to formulate an understanding of how different shaped cams can be used to produce different movements.
