Year 6 Autumn 2025-26

Mrs Gibbs        Mrs Stevens-Ward      Mrs Dalton-Cole
 Hello everyone, and welcome to Year 6! 
This Autumn term, we have lots of exciting learning to be doing! Here's a brief run down of what you can expect:
Maths
 
We will be following White Rose maths a lot of the time. Our first blocks will be:
- Place Value
- The 4 operations
- Fractions
- Geometry
 
How can you help at home?
- Times table and division fact knowledge is incredibly important in Year 6. Practise them weekly! Remember you have your log-ins for TTRS
- Practise the 4 operations- column addition, column subtraction, column multiplication and bus stop method division. You can use the weekly arithmetic tests to help with this. We will complete them in school each Monday and will send them home once we've marked them and noted down the scores. Just let us know if you need any help with any of the methods we teach - no question will seem too silly!
English
 
We are studying Once by Morris Gleitzman, Rose Blanche and the Arrival across the Autumn Term. These books will enable us to produce a wide variety of texts, but the focus will often be on descriptive language.
 
The text types we will produce include:
Letters
Narrative
Poetry
Explanation texts
Non-chronological reports
Topic
 
We are studying 'The World at War', in which the focus is World War 2. If you would like to bring in memorabilia or family keep-sakes to share or display in the classroom, feel free!
Science
 
We will be learning about light in our first science topic. We will explore the following:
  • How we see things
  • How light travels
  • Reflection
  • Refraction
  • How to make a rainbow
  • The colour spectrum
Art and Design Technology
 
In art, we will be learning to draw things that fly including birds and WW2 planes. We will produce other artwork linked to WW2.
 
In DT we will create Anderson shelter models out of wood and corrugated card.
ICT
 
We will first be using Purple Mash to complete a coding unit of work which will be challenging and very fun.