Year 6 2025 - 2026
Ms Dickenson
Welcome to the Summer Term 2026
HOMEWORK: PLEASE SEE THE BLUE BUTTONS AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE.
Ms Dickenson & Mrs Hall 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:
13th April: Back to school
27th April: Interhouse Competition
4th May: Bank Holiday
11th May: SATs week
12th May: Athlete visit
18th May: Visit from Alsager Staff
19th May: Forest Schools Day
20th May: National Numeracy Day
21st May: Break up
22nd May: INSET DAY
1st June: Back to school
2nd June: Sports Day
3rd June: Cross-country afternoon
9th June: Reserve sports day (in case of bad weather on 2nd)
15th June: Town Sports
22nd June: Reserve Town Sports
29th June: Interhouse rounders
1st July: J6 day at Alsager School
9th July: Optional parent/teacher evening
13th July: Trentham Gardens
16th July: WOW sports day
17th July: Leavers' assembly
17th July: Water fight
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: To the ends of the Earth
LO1: Jesus appears to Mary of Magdala
LO2: Jesus appears to the disciples
LO3: Mission to the world
LO4: Stephen, the first Martyr
LO5: Irene Sendler
LO6: St Teresa Benedicta
LO7: Blessed Miguel Pro SJ
Summer Two: Dialogue & Encounter
LO1: The Common Good
LO2: World Views
LO3: Promoting Unity & Love
LO4: Dialogue of life, action and religious experience
LO5: Hinduism
Maths (more detail in maths overview in files section below)
Unit 9: Decimals
Unit 10: Percentages
Unit 11: Perimeter, area & volume
Unit 12: Statistics
Unit 13: Geometry - Properties of shapes
Unit 14: Position & Direction
Unit 15: Problem solving
Also: Weekly arithmetic, times tables & TTRS
English
Key texts: Pig Heart Boy/Darwin's Dragons/The Final Year
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 - The Eye of the Wolf & Funny, Fantastic, Frightening
Science
Summer One: Inheritance & Evolution
LO1: Identify inherited characteristics
LO2: Identify characteristics in males and females
LO3: To learn about Charles Darwin
LO4: To learn about theories of evolution and natural selection
LO5: How are plants and animals adapted?
LO6: Mary Anning
Summer Two: Living Things and their Habitats
LO1: Ways of classifying living things
LO2: Using questions to classify
LO3: Carl Linnaeus
LO4: Micro-organisms
Geography: Natural Resources
LO1: Identify some of Britain's natural resources
LO2: Natural resources and energy production
LO3: Pros and cons of renewable resources for energy production
LO4: Wood production in the world
LO5: Steel production
LO6: Glass and concrete production
History: Local History
LO1: Population data in Alsager
LO2: Historically significant sites in Alsager
LO3: The Mere
LO4: The railway in Alsager
Computing
- Spreadsheets
- Micro:bits
Art: Sculpture & 3D, Making Memories
LO1: Exploring Self
LO2: Relief sculptures
LO3: Memory Museum
LO4: Memory Sculpture
DT: Structures - Automata
LO1: Automata exploration
LO2: Frame assembly
LO3: Experimenting with cams
LO4: Finishing touches
