Year 6

Welcome to the Year 6 Class page.

AUTUMN TERM 2024

In Year 6, we look forward to a very exciting year ahead! There will be such a lot happening in your final year of primary school including fun trips and our residential to Borwick Hall, preparation for secondary schools and lots of learning will be done!

As always, there are lots of adults who are always here to help us in our learning and growing experiences. These adults are:

Miss Dunkley (class teacher)

Mr Barrick (teaching assistant on Monday, Thursday and Friday)

Miss Dwyer (teaching assistant on Tuesdays)

Mrs Smith (PE and PSHE class teacher on Tuesday afternoons)

Miss Ibbotson (RE class teacher on Tuesday afternoons) 

For information about our Daily Routine and learning Timetable, please see the links to the right.

During the first half of the Autumn term, our class topic is 'World War 1: The War To End All Wars' during which we shall learn about this fascinating period in history which changed the map of Europe. We shall learn about key figures and events including how the war started, the advancement of warfare, the involvement of animals, life on the Western Front and at home, the end of the war and what happened in the years afterwards. 

Take a look at the curriculum map via the Year 6 Curriculum link to the write to see other fantastic learning we shall do this half term across the curriculum.

Other information which can be accessed via the links includes:

• Year 6 Daily Routine and Timetable with information relating to PE and learning expectations.
• Year 6 Home Learning

Our whole class novel is 'An Eagle in the Snow' by Michael Morpurgo. This is a moving and though provoking story based on real life events and is inspired by the true story of one man who might have stopped World War II. Set in 194o, our story starts on a train which is under attacks from German fighters. In the darkness, sheltering in a railway tunnel, the stranger in the carriage with Barney and his mother tells them a story to pass the time. And what a story it is! The story of a young man, a young soldier in the trenches of World War I who, on the spur of the moment, had done what he thought was the right thing. It turned out to have been the worst mistake he ever could have made – a mistake he must put right before it is too late…

We shall use this novel and our learning to inspire our own writing of soliloquies from the trenches in the form of letters written from the courageous soldiers to their loved ones back home.

We shall also look at a selection of poems from the anthology 'Poems From The First World War' (selected by gaby Morgan). We shall use these during reading sessions to improve our reading fluency and prosody. We shall have such fun performing these poems aloud to our friends and considering and discussing the messages and learning within them!

Historically, our class novels in Year 6 have been thought-provoking experiences and the pupils have loved having them read aloud by an adult on a daily basis. We recommend that our pupils have their own copy of the books to read along with us where possible. It makes the whole reading experience much richer!

We are really looking forward to this half term and continuing on our primary school learning journey, this time as pupils at the top of the tree!

Miss Dunkley