Year 6

Welcome to Year 6

Miss Peacock and Mrs Okon make up the Year 6 staff team this year.

Autumn Term 2026

English

This half-term the children will be focusing on enhancing their narrative writing. We will be exploring Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell and using the structure to inspire us to write our own stories. Throughout all aspects of writing, we will be focusing on sentence structure, grammar and punctuation. In the second half of the Autumn term we will be focusing our skills on writing a historical narrative based on Berlie Doherty's book 'Treason'

Maths

In Maths, we will be looking at numbers up to 10,000,000. Recognising the place value of each digit as well as looking at decimal fractions. We will also be exploring multiplication and division and learning about the different parts of a circle. In the second half of the term we will move on to look at fractions and percentages. 

Theme

We begin our new term with a focus on P.S.H.E, where the children will be exploring their aspirations for the end of Year 6 and for their future. The children will be attending a careers fair in school, having the opportunity to speak to various people in a variety of different professions. These include GMP, a town planner as well as an NHS nurse.

We will then turn to our Geography investigation as we explore the city of Paris. We will be looking at both physical and human features as well as examining how the city has changed over time.

In the second half of the term we will be studying History, with our main focus on Henry the VIII, we will be examining different types of evidence, working on our retrieval skills and investigating the reliability of sources. 

Science

In the first half of the autumn term we will be looking at Living things- classifying big and small. In the second half of the autumn term we will turn to examine energy: light and reflection, 

 

 

Useful Websites

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/
www.resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/  
www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/0/
www.topmarks.co.uk
www.ttrockstars.com
www.spag.com
www.readtheory.org