1. Welcome To
Year 6!

2. Year 6- Challenging, rewarding and exciting!
Great attitude means great fun!
Represent our school – uniform, shoes, behaviour, manners.
Appreciate those around you and work as a team.

3. Getting ready for Year 6 Know your times tables Read for pleasure
Note down vocabulary
Get the right equipment for completing homework-
pens, pencils, ruler, sharpener, protractor, dictionary, thesaurus etc.
Have you got your own quiet space to work?

4. Getting ready for Year 6
A pencil case with suitable classroom equipment: pens, pencils, ruler, rubber, glue stick, highlighters, coloured pencils.
A strong folder to keep books/ documents in will be useful.
You need a good school bag for storing all of your things- see Year 6 for examples.

5. P.E Children will need their sports kit in school every day
NAMED indoor and outdoor kits are needed.
You will need a strong bag to store your kit (with a plastic bag inside to keep dirty trainers in)
Kit is taken home every Friday to be washed and brought back every Monday.

6. Homework Timetable Diaries Expectations
Lesson time is precious – be organised!
Keep everything you need in your work bag and it goes where you go

7. Mysterious Worlds/BrightSparks
Autumn Term-
Mysterious Worlds/BrightSparks
Most of the work we do in the Autumn Term revolves around this topic. Some of the activities vary from year to year, depending on the children’s interests, but this year we will:
Investigate Mayan civilisation and customs
Investigate stories from other cultures, write persuasive texts and adventure stories
Electricity and Light; burglar alarms
Visiting the Manchester Christmas markets

8. Spring Term- Urban Antics/It’s Alive!
This year, we have looked at:
Poetry Slam, report writing and
discussion texts
Animals and Humans
Living Things and Habitats
Urban and Rural Landscapes
Graffiti Art

9. Summer Term- All the Fun of the Fair!
This year, we are looking at:
Investigating fairground rides
Writing explanations – cracking contraptions
Designing our own stalls for the Summer Fair
Evolution and Inheritance, including The Wild Roadshow
LONDON TRIP

10. SATs/ Assessments All tests will be level 4 – 6
New format for Maths – paper 1 (purely arithmetic), paper 2 and paper 3 (contextualised questions). No calculator. No mental maths.
No separate level 6 papers at all
Testing before Christmas and mock SATs in March
Writing assessment is ongoing
Science may be tested as part of sampling

11. Key Expectations for Y6
Spelling – must know Y3/4 words as well as Y5/6 and be able to spell them in independent writing
Emphasis on vocabulary in reading and writing
Editing and re-drafting work
Grammatical terminology and apply it in independent writing
Secure formal methods of calculation

12. Being responsible Responsibilities around school and the classroom.
Mobile phones
E-safety
Walking to /from school (trips)

13. Finally…. Come and see us Before school and home time – RM Maths
Leavers’ Party
School Spider
Secondary school applications
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