In Year 6, we want all pupils to feel part of an inclusive and positive learning environment where they are motivated to work hard and take pride in their work. Kindness and collaboration are also key values in our classroom. Everyone in Year 6 should feel like a valued and respected member of a class that works together as a team. Our Academy rules encourage the children to be ready, be safe and be respectful. 

English: Over the course of the year, we will be using Jane Considine's "The Write Stuff" teaching units. As part of this, we will be using our "Writing Rainbows" to create excellent pieces across a range of genres. This will help us improve our vocabulary, sentence structure and writing composition. We will be writing both fiction and non-fiction pieces, including a diary entry about our 'perfect day', a non-chronological report about a fictional creature and a newspaper article about the creature we have created. 

Maths: Throughout the year, we will be working with numbers up to 10,000,000, recognising the value of the digits and securing the four operations before moving onto fractions, decimals and percentages.

PE will take place on Monday and Friday afternoons. Children must arrive at school wearing their school PE kits. Earrings must not be worn for P.E. so the children can take part in all of the lesson.

Autumn 1: Lacrosse and Gymnastics 

Autumn 2: Football and Dance

Spring 1: Hockey and Leadership skills

Spring 2: Gymnastics and Health-Related Fitness

Summer 1: Team building and Tennis 

Summer 2: Cricket and Swimming

 

Science: This is taught every week. Within the lesson, the children will be expected to work scientifically, write predictions, test their ideas and write their own conclusions.

Topics that will be covered over the year are as follows:

Living things and their habitats. 

Electricity 

Animals including humans 

 

History: This term, we will be studying the unit Mighty Maya. In this unit, we will be learning all about the ancient Maya civilisation. As part of this topic, we will start by looking at the physical and human geography of Mesoamerica and the foundations that the Maya built upon. Throughout the topic, we will be learning about the many inventions of the Maya, their beliefs about their Gods and the afterlife, their architecture and daily lifestyle to support us in answering our key history essay question: savages or civilians, what were the Maya really like?

Music - We will be working with our specialist music teacher mastering the African drums as well as singing, composing and using a range of musical instruments. 

Geography: They will be learning about world trade and, from this, holding their own enterprise week. 

Homework 

Our approach to homework this year is building on children's basic skills. As a result, children should be accessing TT rockstars and reading their AR reading books every day. Homework will be set on our new home learning platform, Atom Learning, where they will have one piece a week. This will be released every Wednesday, and they will have a week to complete it. 

Reading at Home

We would like all children to read at home as much as possible. At Welland, we want to encourage a love of reading for our children - please encourage them to read a wide range of books to support their reading but also for their own personal enjoyment. We will send the children home with AR books from our library.