Year 6

Key Learning Areas

English: Pupils will develop their skills in persuasive writing, crafting scene descriptions and character development, exploring atmospheric and post-apocalyptic narratives, and mastering narratives incorporating dialogue. Skill development will focus on relative clauses, parenthesis, inverted commas, and semi-colons.

Mathematics: The curriculum will cover place value, decimals, negative numbers, square and cube numbers, multiples and factors, addition and subtraction of integers, written multiplication and division, and fractions.

Science: Children will explore living things, including humans, followed by units on evolution in humans, plants, and animals.

Geography: Topics will include settlements, grid references, and the water cycle.

Physical Education (PE): PE sessions are scheduled for Monday afternoons, focusing on leadership skills and Samba dance. Swimming sessions will take place on Wednesdays.

Religious Education (RE): Pupils will study aspects of Christianity (Incarnation) and Islam (Tawhid).

Computing: The curriculum will involve practical application using Google Sheets and Espresso coding.

Art: Students will engage in drawing and painting, including mixed media techniques.

Design & Technology (DT): This term will include tasting foods in preparation for subsequent cooking and food preparation sessions - stuffed peppers.

Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Education: Key themes will be citizenship and economic well-being.

Music: Music lessons for Year 6 will commence after the Christmas break, following the completion of their swimming sessions.

French: The French curriculum will introduce classroom language, greetings, various ways of asking questions, expressions of well-being, the cedilla, and a revision of numbers 1-31. Pupils will also learn months of the year (including capitalization), spelling strategies, rhymes for remembering days in months, ordinal numbers, the circumflex accent, dates and birthdays, days of the week, classroom objects, dictionary skills, the alphabet, Saint Nicholas’s Day, a revision of adjectives, using the formal and informal 'you', Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and celebrations, plural nouns and irregular plurals, nationalities, languages, postal addresses, and the preposition 'on'.

Important Information for Parents

• PE Kit: Please ensure your child comes to school prepared wearing their PE kit every Monday and their swimming kit every Wednesday.

• Swimming: Your child will need to bring in their swimming kit every Wednesday - this should include a swimming costume (no board shorts), towel and a swim hat - these can be purchased from the school office.

• Reading Expectations: At The Oaks, we expect children to read at least four times a week. Consistent reading is a vital part of their development and will be rewarded. Please ensure all reading is accurately recorded in their planners.

• Homework: Homework is distributed every Wednesday and is due back the following Wednesday. This term, homework will primarily focus on practicing spellings from our CUSP progression and mastering times tables via TT Rockstars.

• Additional Learning: We will consistently provide optional extra learning sheets for children to take home. Engaging with these additional resources will also be rewarded.