Year 6

Welcome to the Year 6 Class page.

AUTUMN TERM 2026

Welcome to Year 6, where we are looking forward to a very exciting year ahead! There will be such a lot happening in this final year of primary school including fun trips and our residential to Bewerley Park, preparation for secondary schools and lots of learning!

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)

Miss Riley (teaching assistant on Monday to Wednesday)

Mr Barrick (teaching assistant on Thursday and Friday)

Miss Booker (Wednesday)

Mrs Richardson (Friday)

During the Autumn term, our class topics will look at the two world wars, during which we shall learn about how this fascinating period in history affected people of all ages, faiths, cultures and origins, and how it changed the map of Europe. We shall learn about key figures and events including how the wars started; the advancement of warfare; how the wars affected people both on the front line and at home; the end of the wars and what happened in the years afterwards. 

Our whole class novels this term will be 'An Eagle in the Snow' by Michael Morpurgo and ‘When the Sky Falls’ by Phil Earle. Both books are thought-provoking stories – based on true events – which lend themselves to in-depth discussion about the effects of actions taken during warfare and provide our pupils with stimulus for their own writing. These stories will be read to the class by Miss Dunkley and pupils are welcome to bring in their own copies to read alongside.

Curriculum Information for the Autumn Term

Maths: Place value, calculations, fractions and converting units plus arithmetic, times tables practise and reasoning.

English: Reading comprehension, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, oracy and handwriting teaching every week.

Writing opportunities: retelling poetry as fiction, soliloquies from the trenches, recounts (diaries and letters) and narratives.

Science: Animals Including Humans + Evolution and Inheritance

History: World War I and II

Computing: Blogging, networks, graphing and online safety

Art: Drawing and sketching

Design Technology: Drawstring bags and sewing

Music: Musical genres and playing the ukulele

French: Getting to know you

PE: Football and team games (Mondays and Tuesdays each week)

RE: What do religions say to us when life gets hard?

PSHE/SCARF: Me and My Relationships

 

Home Learning

Home learning will be communicated each week via Google Classroom and will primarily consist of opportunities to support times tables, reading, spelling and other learning done in the classroom throughout the week.

 

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