Welcome to Year 6
Summer Term in Year 6
The inspirational texts on our bookshelf will inspire our learning across the curriculum.
During the Summer Term in Year 6, we will read a variety of inspirational texts where we will explore the character traits of kindness, citizenship, integrity, curiosity, bravery and gratitude.
In our first text – When the Sky Falls – we will explore a story following an evacuee and his experiences in a new school (a new, unexpected setting) where they develop their own integrity. When reading The Final Year, we aspire to write a leaflet for the current Year 5s explaining what they will experience in life during Year 6, which will naturally cover all of our character traits. We will further our exploration of the traits curiosity and citizenship when reading The Lost Book of Adventure where we will be able to make key links to The Explorer from our Spring bookshelf: covering rainforest survival within a different genre. Finally, we will end the year by using a graphic novel of Lord of the Flies to pull together all of the character traits we have been learning about this year in an exciting yet challenging text.
Our Science topic is adaptation. In History and Geography, we will be investigating key turning points in British history and comparing the human geography between the Bahamas and Wales. In Art, we will be studying the work of famous animation studios to create our own drawings, sculptures and digital animations.
Year 6 Summer Term Highlights!
- Leavers’ assembly
- Year 6 production
- Year 6 disco
- Sports Day
- Tom McLaughlin author visit
Meet the Year 6 Team
Miss Blomfield – Class Teacher
Mr Gillard – Class Teacher
Mr Ives – Class Teacher
Miss Hughes – Learning Support Assistant
Important Information
- Children will come into school in their PE kit on their PE days (Thursday and Friday)
- Please make sure your child’s book bag, containing their reading books and reading record, is brought into school every day.
- Reading books will be changed as the children finish their book.
- In UKS2, we encourage children to read independently at home and sign their own reading record. Parents and carers can then monitor this weekly to ensure children are reading as much as possible. You know your child best and if you would like to sign their reading record, please do this.
- Home Learning will include daily reading, weekly spellings, and a maths or SPAG task each week.
- Your child’s class teacher will be available every day before and after school to receive messages, celebrate successes and discuss answer any questions.
As always, there will be lots of learning and exciting activities going on in Year 6 this term!
As always, there will be lots of learning and exciting activities going on in Year 6 this term. Please speak to our admin team for access to the Year 5 Instagram feed @chps_year_6