Year 6 2024 - 2025
Ms Dickenson
Welcome to the Summer Term 2025
HOMEWORK: PLEASE SEE THE BLUE BUTTONS AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE.
Ms Dickenson, Mrs Stokes and Mrs Foy welcome you to the Year 6 page!
We have lots of exciting things planned for this term and we can't wait to get started.
Key Dates for Year 6:
19/6/25: Non-swimmers week 4
30/6/25: Interhouse rounders
2/7/25: J6 day at Alsager School
3/7/25: Non-swimmers week 5
4/7/25: St Gabriel's 50th Anniversary Garden Party
8/7/25: SATs results day
10/7/25: Optional parent/teacher consultations
16/7/25: End of year awards assembly (invitation only)
17/7/25: Non-swimmers week 6
18/7/25: Leavers' Assembly
18/7/25: Break up
21/7/25: INSET
22/7/25: INSET
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Please see below for an overview of our learning this term. For more detail, please see the Welcome Letter which will be sent home within the first few days of term. This letter will also be available in the files section below once term begins.
Curriculum for the summer term
Religion
Summer One - The Transforming Spirit
- To know about the Ascension
- To understand what happened at Pentecost
- To deepen our understanding of Peter the Apostle
- To understand the transformation that took place in Paul
- To understand that the popes are successors of St Peter
Summer Two - Called to Serve
- To understand that God made everyone in His image
- To know how some people responded to God's call
- To understand the sacrament of marriage
- To understand the sacrament of Holy Orders
Maths (more detail in maths overview in files section below)
- Fractions, decimals & percentages
- Imperial measures
- Ratio and proportion
- Arithmetic
- Times Tables
- Algebra
- Perimeter, area & volume
English
Key texts: Darwin's Dragons by Lindsay Galvin
Reading comprehensions: a variety of texts including modern classics.
Writing - Descriptive narrative; diary entry, information text, letters & explanation
Spelling - Revision of 3/4/5/6 statutory words; Year 6 spelling patterns
Grammar: Revision of term one grammar; punctuation; verb tenses
Whole class guided reading - Funny, Frightening, Fantastic
Science
Spring One - Evolution & Inheritance
- To identify and compare inherited characteristics
- To learn about Charles Darwin
- To learn about theories of evolution and natural selection
- To learn about how plants and animals are adapted to extreme environments
- To learn about the life and work of Mary Anning
Spring Two - Living Things and their Habitats
- To group animals according to certain characteristics
- To learn about Carl Linnaeus and his work
- To learn about the Linnaean system of classification
- To understand and create a branching diagram of classification
- To classify micro-organisms
- TRIP TO TRENTHAM GARDENS TO STUDY CLASSIFICATION
Geography
Natural Resources
- To identify some of Britain's natural resources and explain how they are used
- To identify some ways in which natural resources are used to produce energy
- To identify clean and renewable natural resources used to produce electricity
- To learn about wood production across the world
- To know where and how steel is produced
- To know where and how glass and concrete are produced
History
Local History
- To understand what makes a building special
- To understand that there are many reasons why building are 'listed'
- To reach a decision on whether a building is worth saving
- To learn about the history of Alsager
- To learn about the history of the Potteries
Computing
- Online safety
- Blogging
- Text Adventures
Art
3D Sculpture
DT
Automata
Games for the Garden Party
