Key dates for the year group (Autumn term):

Thursday 12th September - Hampshire Fire and Rescue Visit to Y6

Wednesday 18th September - Hampshire Police visit to Y6 to discuss online safety

Wednesday 25th September - Climate Conference

Friday 11th October - World Mental Health Day

Wednesday 16th October - Harvest assemblies

Friday 18th October - Whole School Outcome event 2.30pm

Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd - Parents evenings

Monday 4th November - INSET day

Friday 8th November - Y5 & Y6 Reading cafe 9-10am

W/b 11th November - 'It's Cool to be Kind' week (activities in school)

Friday 15th November - Children in Need (own clothes for a donation)

W/b 18th November - Road Safety week (activities in school)

W/b 2nd December - Bikeability week

Wednesday 18th December - Christmas lunch (details to follow nearer the time)

Welcome to Year 6!

The Year 6 Team

This year in Year 6, our teachers are Mrs Hagger (Year 6 Team Leader), Mr Finklaire and Miss Grainger. We are also supported by our dedicated Learning Support Assistants (LSAs): Miss Grant-Berry, Mrs Formala, Mr Norgrove, Mrs Deas and Mrs Togwell.  They support us throughout the day in and out of the classroom.

PE

Each week, the children will have two sessions of PE - one indoor session (Wednesday) and one outdoor session (Monday). Children should come in to school wearing their PE kits on these days.  

Please follow the link below to find out more about our PE uniform expectations:

Home Learning

Each week we will set a reading, maths and Grammar task for home learning.  The tasks will be set on Purple Mash.  

Home learning will all be set on a Thursday and then due back in on the following Tuesday.  As we are trying to develop the independence of the children, it will be their responsibility to complete their work on time.

If your child is having problems completing the home learning, please speak to their class teacher.

Maths - An arithmetic task will be set, consisting of questions linked to the arithmetic worked on in class.  A maths task will also be set linked to that week's maths unit.  This may be a maths quiz or playing a game that revises key skills. 

Children will not be set times tables this term but are welcome to use the TT Rockstars website to practise their times tables. 

English Grammar - There will be a grammar task that is linked to the Grammar covered in the English unit that week.  

Reading - Reading stamina and fluency are key and your child should read for at least ten minutes per day.  If your child can read aloud to an adult at least once a week, they are able to improve their reading fluency.  The reading home learning will be set on the Purple Mash system, under the reading section and the Serial Mash link.  Children will have a short chapter of a scheduled book (that can also be listened to by clicking the audio tab).  There will be 5 to 10 questions to answer linked to that chapter. 

Spellings - Spellings home learning will continue to focus on the statutory year 3/4 and 5/6 lists of spellings. This will not be set as a task on Purple Mash.  Children will have a test on the Year 3/4 list spellings in December. 

Topics

Our Topic for Autumn 1 is the Industrial Revolution.  In History, we have looked at the social and economic aspects, as well as some of the inventions.  We looked at the impact of the Industrial Revolution on Basingstoke - did you know there were two workhouses in our local area?

In English, we have read the book 'Street Child' by Berlie Doherty which looks at the plight of a young Victorian child.  The children really immersed themselves in the characters and wrote amazing diary entries, as well as informative non-chronological reports about workhouses. Our science has seen classes investigating electrical circuits and we have used our understanding to help us build motorised vehicles in DT.

We are looking forward to showcasing our hard work to you all at our outcome afternoon on Friday 18th October..

In Autumn 2, our topic will be Globalisation.  In Geography, we will look at the impact of globalisation on the way we communicate and trade as well as its impact on food and fashion.  Our English and Guided Reading units will be based around books linked to difference and how we treat others, including the books 'Wonder' and 'The distance between me and the cherry tree'.  We will investigate sound as our Science topic, while the Art unit will look at Pop Artists, including

Andy Warhol. 

For more information about our curriculum, please follow the link below:

Follow the link below to the 'If you like...try...' book suggestion lists.

SATS Week 2025

SATS week for this academic year is during the week commencing Monday 12th May 2025. 

Further information about this week will be sent to parents nearer the time and the Year 6 staff will hold informal drop-in sessions for parents in the Spring term to give further details.

What have we been up to?

Thursday 12th September saw a visit from Hampshire Fire and Rescue to teach Year 6 about fire safety.