Year 6

Welcome to Year 6

Spring Term 2024/25

Spring Term 2024/25

This term, year 6 have been working hard to prepare for their upcoming SATs (commencing 12th May 2025). We have completed 2 rounds of mock exams (using past SATs papers) under exam conditions to gain a good understanding of expectations and the time allowance for each paper.

Our aim this term has been to recap key areas that the class found tricky from these test papers. This consisted of the following:

SPAG and ENGLISH:

Looking at 'word classes' such as:

Antonyms (opposite) and synonyms (similar or same meanings)

Determiners (words that introduce a noun to)

Prefixes and suffixes (letters added to the beginning and end of words)

Modal (showing possibility) and imperative (bossy/command) verbs

Brackets, dashes and commas for parenthesis (extra information)

Recognising the subject and object in a sentence and deciding whether a sentence is active or passive.

READING COMPREHENSION:

Year 6 have been reading a wide range of literature (fiction and non-fiction) both as a class and independently and answering comprehension questions to prove our understanding. These questions require the children to find answers directly from the text as well as use their inference skills to give an opinion or interpretation using evidence from the text. 

We have discussed the importance of reading all sections of the extracts (including captions, written imagery such as signs and the preamble) to answer all questions accurately. We have researched unfamiliar words to broaden our vocabulary and used context to help answer tricky questions.

MATHS:

Year 6 have found regular arithmetic warm-up activities to be helpful this term, allowing us to spend the majority of the lesson decoding and answering worded reasoning problems. This term, we have focussed particularly on: algebra, measurement, fractions, decimals and percentage questions.

As always, we encourage children to practise their times tables regularly with the help of TT Rockstars. In addition to these, practicing their weekly spelling words and completing homework to cement their understanding in lesson is a great way to ensure children achieve their full potential in their SATs.

Year 6 

Autumn Term 2023/24

Welcome to Year 6!

We are extremely excited to begin a new academic year. This term we will be revisiting and depending our knowledge of some of the topics started in Year 5. We have lots of exciting lessons and activities planned this term and we can’t wait to get started! 

Science

In science, we will be investigating materials this term, beginning by predicting, planning and carrying out a range of experiments to understand materials, solubility and filtration.

History

We will be studying World War II this Autumn, looking at how and why World War II began and the lives of evacuee children. 

Geography

This term, we will be learning all about population change. Studying migration, refugees and the reasons behind population change in the world.

Art

Through the work of many different photographers, we will be exploring and producing our own amazing photography!

D.T

This term will be all about structures, we will investigate, explore and create different playground structure models using a range of materials and equipment. 

R.E. 

Our exploration will take us on a comparative journey, comparing and contrasting a range of areas and looking more deeply at what religion is and what it means to people around the world.

English

In English we will be starting our new topic as a school, looking at the book ‘The Fate of Fausto'. We will work with the rest of the school to learn a range of writing styles, and will use all of the skills that we have already learned in year 5. 

Maths 

In Maths we will be recapping the skills that we have learned in Year 5 as well as pushing ourselves to deepen our learning. We will be looking at lots of arithmetic and reasoning questions to become familiar with the format of these questions. 

SATs Homework Links:

Please read the information below to support your up coming applications to secondary school.