Year 6 2024 - 2025

Daily Routine:

Doors open at 8:30 am and lessons begin straight away.

Doors close promptly at 8:45 - If your child arrives after that time, please go through the school's main entrance and sign your child in. If children are late on a Friday and their class has already left for swimming, they will unfortunately miss their session. Swimming and water safety is part of the national curriculum PE programme of study for England, as such all children are legally entitled to participate in swimming lessons.

Break is at 10:30.

Lunch is at 12:40.

Children are dismissed at 3pm. Please ensure you provide your child’s teacher with written permission ( if you would like your child to walk home alone.

This term Year 6 will have P.E. on a Wednesday morning with Mr Tyson and 6A will attend swimming lessons at Bootle Baths with Mr Kaitell and Miss Hussain on Fridays. Next term, this will swap so that 6S will have swimming lessons. Both classes should have their full PE kit in school every day just in case any additional PE slots become available.

What will we learn about in the Autumn Term?

Maths

• Place value to ten million (including rounding, comparing and ordering numbers)
• Addition and Subtraction (4+ digit addition and subtraction, word problems)
• Multiplication and Division (long division and multiplication, multiples, factors, primes, square and cube numbers)
• Fractions (comparing, ordering, converting improper to mixed and mixed to improper, multi-step problems)
• Comparing Units of measure

English

• During Autumn term, year 6 will be reading Holes by Louis Sachar and Letters from the lighthouse by Emma Carroll for our class novels.
• Spelling, punctuation and grammar
• Writing at length based on the books ‘Flood’ and ‘Letters form the Lighthouse’
• Formal and informal letter writing
• Narrative based on ‘Rose Blanch’
• Discussion text based on evacuation
• Non-fiction text based on our history topic World War II

Music

• Body percussion

Art

• Self-portraits in the style of Aurélia Durand

DT

• Food technology

Geography

• Map skills
• Reading and using coordinates

History

• Bootle in the Blitz

PSHE

Living in the wider world:

• Why is it important to be critical of the media?
• How do people manage money? (tax, loans, interest, debt)
• Gambling

PE

• Swimming (6A)
• Ball handling skills – Netball and Football

Religious Education

We follow the come and see curriculum:

• Domestic Church- Family: Loving
• Baptism and Confirmation- Belonging: Vocation
• Judaism week- belonging and values: Rash Hashanah and Yom Kippur
• Advent/Christmas- Loving: Expectations 

Computing

• E-safety
• Coding
• 3D Modelling

What are the homework expectations in Year 6?

1. Times Tables Rock Stars practice – at least 30 minutes per week (ideally 10 minutes-per day to build speed and fluency). Children have a 3-minuteTTRockstars test each day (60 questions) and times tables are used in most maths lesson, so accessing this at home will be extremely beneficial to them.
2. Spelling and grammar assignments on Spelling Shed (30 minutes per week).
3. Reading each night with a parent/carer. Please note a parental signature is required in reading records. Children will read at breaktime as per school policy if they are not reading at home.
4. Homework will be given on a Thursday to be returned on a Monday. Children will usually receive one piece of maths work, one piece of spelling or grammar and a reading comprehension based on what we have been doing in class that week. We have provided children with a homework folder to ensure that their work stays neat and tidy when being transported to and from school. If children misplace homework, they should let their teacher know as soon as possible and we will provide a replacement. If their homework folder is lost, they will be given a plastic wallet as a replacement. If children do not return their homework on time, they are given a warning and reminder and will miss Monday break time. If it is still not returned on Tuesday, they will complete all missing homework at break/lunch time.

Attendance and Punctuality:

Please ensure that your child is in school on time. Learning starts promptly at 8:30am, as do many important interventions to both stretch and support the children. If children are late then they will miss these important sessions, which affects their progress. Being in school every day and on time gives them the very best chance of success.

If children are in everyday for a week, they are entered into a class raffle were they can choose which prize they would like, from a menu of prizes chosen by the children.