Year 6

6H and 6D

Welcome to Year 6 – Your Final Adventure!

We are absolutely thrilled to be working with your children in their final year of primary school. Year 6 is a very special time: a year packed with hard work, exciting challenges and new opportunities as we prepare our pupils for the next stage of their learning journey.

Meet Our Year 6 Team:

  • 6H: Miss Hick (Teacher), Mrs Frith (Teaching Assistant), with additional support from Mrs Johnson

  • 6D: Mr Dring (Teacher), Miss Shaw (Teaching Assistant), with additional support from Mrs Cashon

  • Miss Pyrah will also be working across both 6H and 6D, ensuring every child gets the help they need to thrive.

Our team is dedicated to making this year full of learning adventures. We can’t wait to see the children grow in confidence, resilience and independence as they take on the exciting challenges ahead.

PE Timetable:

  • 6H: Outdoor PE – Tuesday | Indoor PE – Thursday

  • 6D: Outdoor PE – Tuesday | Indoor PE – Friday

High School Applications & Open Evenings:
The deadline to apply for high school is 31st October, so don’t forget to submit your applications on time. If you need any support with this, please speak to your child's teacher. To help you and your child make the right choice, here are some local school open evenings:

  • Dixons Academy: Thursday 18th September, 5-7PM

  • Leeds City Academy: Thursday 25th September, 6-8PM

  • Leeds West Academy: Wednesday 1st October, 6-8PM

  • Farnley Academy: Thursday 2nd October, 5.30-8.30PM

Autumn Term 1 – Learning Highlights:

  • 📚 English:  We will be writing thrilling warning stories inspired by The Caravan, focusing on description of settings. Our reading lessons, based on The Final Year will complement and support our writing.

  • ➕ Maths:  A focus on securing place value up to 10,000,000 and mastering addition & subtraction strategies.

  • 🦠 Science: Exploring living things and their habitats, investigating how organisms survive and adapt.

  • 🏺 History: Discovering Ancient Greece – daily life, mythology, and the origins of democracy.

  • 🎨 Art: Taking creativity from 2D drawings to 3D sculptures and learning new techniques.

  • 💻 Computing: Developing programming skills and using technology to solve problems.

  • 🏐 PE: Outdoor netball to build fitness and teamwork, indoor team-building challenges.

Autumn Term 2 – Learning Highlights:

WOW. What an amazing first half term in year 6 for all children and we hope you enjoyed a restful half term. 

All the children have settled so well and have already created some fantastic pieces of work. All staff were particularly impressed with their work on Greek Gods, and they have produced some brilliant information texts based around their own creation of a Greek soldier. 

This half term will end with both Year 6 classes having their residential trip to Lineham Farm. The children will hopefully love their days away and it will give them life-long memories to share with friends. A reminder that 6H will go Monday to Wednesday (15th - 17th December) and 6D will go Wednesday to Friday (17th - 19th December).

In Maths, we will start our work on Fractions as well as continue to recap the four operations from Autumn 1. In Science, we will look at Electricity, different types of circuits and plan a voltage experiment.

In the wider curriculum, we will continue our exploration of Ancient Greece and graffiti designs in Art. We will challenge ourselves in Pilates and continue coding our own games in computing. 

A reminder that homework is to include 5 reads on Reading Plus and 15 minutes on TT rockstars. Additionally, My Maths homework will be set every week; if a log in is needed please ask a member of staff.