Welcome to Year 6

Year 6 Easter SATS Homework

Your children have been provided with a pack for the Easter holidays in replace of their booster homework.  The pack contains 10 minutes a day work for Maths (arithmetic and reasoning), grammar, punctuation and spelling and reading. It should only take 10 minutes for each activity. Every day that they complete the work, they will ask you to check and sign the table that I have provided.  This work is help prepare them for their SATS in May.  We appreciate your support in this.  They will then hand in their work on 22.04.2025.  They will be rewarded for their efforts.  Have a lovely break with your children.

Year 6 Summer_1_2025

Dear parents,

Welcome back after the Easter break ready for the summer term.  Year 6 are going to continue to prepare for their SATS in May, so it is vital your children are going to bed on time during the week, which will allow them to come to school ready to listen and learn.  Please continue to encourage good bedtime routines this half term leading up to and including the SATS week.  We thank you for your support in this matter.

We will continue to remind children about our school values of Respect, Good Manners, Patience, Perseverance and Honesty , as well as abiding by our British Values.  We will use our reward system 'Brookhouse Monster's University' to recognise good behaviour and attitudes.  If your child is in the winning University team, they will be given a reward at the end of the term. Additionally, they are now collecting dojos for themselves, which they will be rewarded for by receiving a certificate if they reach their targets. PSHE will also play a key role, this will take place through class and assembly sessions.  The PSHE topic for the summer term is called 'Keeping Safe'.  The year 6 summer 1 topic is called 'Beside the Seaside'.

English

We will be covering Discussions and Debates this half term.  We will do this through the use of ‘Talk for Writing’ strategy of imitate, innovate and invent.  As well as this, we will be focusing on the skills needed to invent our own piece of writing and look at cross-curricular writing through other subject areas.  Whole class reading will continue to take place every day, through which we encourage children to focus on new vocabulary in the text and the comprehension of the text.

To further support your child's skills in reading comprehension, the school has purchased a subscription with an online reading resource called Reading Plus, which improves pupil's reading age but it does rely on the children using this resource on a regular basis.  So please make sure they are using it at home. Please support your children in their reading of school books, at home for ten minutes every day.  We will continue to encourage children to improve their Oracy skills.

Mathematics 

Maths lessons will provide pupils with the opportunity to learn using concrete, pictorial and abstract models. They will then learn to apply this knowledge to reasoning and problem solving.  We will be covering a variety of topics in preparation for out SATS tests in May.  There will also be opportunity for online learning via Purple Mash and Learning By Questions for which your children have logins and can use at home. 

Science

This half term we will be covering a physics topic: electricity.  By the end of this unit they should be able to make electrical circuits and demonstrate how variation in the working of particular components, such as the brightness of bulbs can be changed by increasing or decreasing the number of cells or using cells of different voltages. They will learn how to draw circuit diagrams, a range of simple series circuits, using recognised symbols and learning how to incorporate a switch into a circuit.  Further more, they will learn how to to turn the switch on and off, change cells and components in a circuit to achieve a specific effect. Also, they will communicate structures of circuits using circuit diagrams with recognised symbols and devise ways to measure brightness of bulbs, speed of motors, volume of a buzzer during a fair test.

Physical Education

In Year 6, P.E will take place every Monday so please make sure your children come to school in their full P.E kit - yellow P.E shirt with the school's logo, black joggers, shorts or leggings and their school green sweatshirt. In their P.E lessons we will be looking at athletic skills of running, throwing and jumping.

Music

This term our topic is called 'Music and Me'.  By the end of the unit pupils will be able to talk about the music of featured artists using musical vocabulary.  They will talk about musical connection with previous knowledge and understanding.  Furthermore, they will talk about their planned composition - which options they chose and why, the key themes of in their lyrics, the tools they use and what they like or dislike.  Finally, they will present their performance in an interesting and engaging way.

Computing

In our computing topic this half term the strand is called computer science and the topic is 'Text Adventures.'  They will find out what a text adventure is and use 2Connect to plan a story adventure.  Pupils will make a story-based adventure using 2Create a Story.  Through the topic they will read and understand the given code for a text adventure game.  Finally, they will debug and improve a text adventure game.

Geography

This half term in their geography, pupils will be able using a wide range of maps, OS maps and digital maps to study a seaside town (e.g. Blackpool, Fleetwood, Southport) within the UK and identify its physical features.  Through looking at the maps they will identify, describe and analyse human features on the OS maps and say how humans have impacted the geography of the seaside towns.  Using maps they will follow routes on OS maps describing what can be seen as they travel from Blackpool to Blackburn or vice versa.  Pupils will learn how to use four to six figure coordinates to locate key features of a seaside town on an OS map.  They will also calculate distances between Blackburn and seaside towns in the northwest using wider range of OS symbols including 1:50k symbols.

History

Our history topic will be studying British history - through our 'Beside the Seaside topic.   They will compare and contrast holidays through periods of History to the present day.  Pupils will name landscape features of seaside resorts in the Victorian Era and how they were developed.  Through researching they will be able to say what the Bank Holiday Act is and how it affected transport, with links to the Industrial Revolution.  Pupils will compare similarities and differences between Victorian seaside destinations. Finally, they will say how changes in culture and society has changed our view of seaside destinations.

RE

This half term the pupils will be learning about Ascension and the Pentecost.  They will learn how Christians believe people’s lives can be inspired and transformed by the Holy Spirit and how the events of the Ascension and Pentecost are connected to distinctive Christian beliefs.  By the end of the topic, they should be able to: retell the stories of Ascension and Pentecost, connecting them with Christian beliefs, describe what Christians believe is the impact of the Holy Spirit on people’s lives and talk about the ways in which these events help answer questions about God.

This is an extremely important half term for your children and it is vital that they are punctual in the mornings and they attend school every day, as much as it is possible.  Boosting sessions will continue this half term for the next three weeks, starting back up on Tuesday 22nd of April.  Maths boosters will take place on a Tuesday 3-4pm and the reading boosters will take place on a Thursday 3-4pm.  Please encourage your children to attend every week and complete their homework on time, handing it in so it can be marked ready for their booster session.

The SATs week is week beginning 12th May 2025 during which there will be a breakfast club for all of year 6, starting at 8:00 from Monday to Thursday.

Any queries feel free to talk to us in the morning or at the end of the day or arrange an appointment through the school office.

Thank you in advance for your continued support, it is much appreciated.

Mrs S Hussain (Year 6 Teacher and Upper School Leader)

Mrs F Patel (HLTA) 

Mrs R Esmail (TA)

Mrs J Read  (SSA)