Year 6 2025 - 2026
Ms Dickenson
Welcome to the Autumn Term 2025
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:
1/9/25: INSET
2/9/25: INSET
3/9/25: School reopens
15/9/25: ASM Team Building day
16/9/25: Play leader training
17/9/25: Play leader training
26/9/25: MacMillan Coffee Morning
29/9/25: Trip to the Imperial War Museum North
6/10/25: Bikeability
7/10/25: Bikeability
13/10/25: Mini Medics
14/10/25: Mini Medics
24/10/25: Break up for half term
3/11/25: INSET
4/11/25: School reopens
11/11/25: Remembrance Assembly
17/11/25: ASM - Interhouse Football
19/12/25: School closes for Christmas
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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 Autumn Term
Religion
Autumn One: Creation & Covenant
- The Story of Creation
- Original Sin
- Laudato Si
- Sacrament of Baptism
- The Nicene Creed
- Science & Religion
Autumn Two: Prophecy & Promise
- Sarah
- Miriam
- Deborah
- Hannah
- Esther
- Mary, Mother of God
- Missionaries of Charity
Maths (more detail in maths overview in files section below)
Unit One: Place Value within 10,000,000
Unit Two & Three: Four Operations
Unit Four & Five: Fractions
Unit Six: Imperial & Metric Measures
Also: Weekly arithmetic, times tables & TTRS
English
Key texts: Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll
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
Science
Autumn One: Light
L.O.1: To investigate the fact that light travels in a straight line
L.O.2: To understand angles of incidence and reflection and how they are important in optical devices such as periscopes
L.O.3: To explain how periscopes work using scientific language.
L.O.4: To understand what refractions is and be able to explain instances of refraction in everyday life
L.O.5: To understand how shadows are formed and undertake a shadow investigation.
L.O.6: To understand what the colour spectrum is and how to separate light into its seven colours.
L.O.7: To learn about and research the life and work of Sir Isaac Newton, in particular his work on white light and the colour spectrum.
Autumn Two: Electricity
L.O.1: How has electricity impacted our lives compared to the past?
L.O.2: Which famous scientists made important discoveries about electricity and what were they?
L.O.3: What is voltage and how does it affect electrical circuits?
L.O.4: What symbols do we use in circuit diagrams and how do we draw circuit diagrams accurately?
L.O.5: How can we use our knowledge of circuit diagrams to create and improve our own circuits?
L.O.6: How can we use our knowledge of circuits to create our own working electrical game?
Geography: Extreme Earth
L.O.1: To find out about the Earth’s climate and areas of extreme temperatures
L.O.2: To find out about the water cycle and the distribution of water across the world
L.O.3: To find out about extreme weather conditions across the world
L.O.4: To find out about earthquakes and what causes them
L.O.5: To find out about tsunamis and how they are caused
L.O.6: To find out what volcanoes are and how they are formed
History: The World at War
L.O.1: To investigate the causes of WWII
L.O.2: To understand the different roles and experiences of those who contributed to the war effort
L.O.3: To understand the impact of rationing during WWII
L.O.4: To find out about the Blitz and the communities affected by it
L.O.5: To understand people’s experiences of evacuation during WWII
L.O.6: To understand the significance of the Holocaust
L.O.7: To use historical enquiry skills to research and draw conclusions about the past
Computing
- Online safetyL.O.1: Message in a gameL.O.2: Online behaviourL.O.3: Screen time
- CodingL.O.1: Designing and making a more complex program
- L.O.2: Using functions
- L.O.3: Flowcharts & Control Simulations
- L.O.4: User Input
- L.O.5: Text-based Adventures
Art: Make My Voice Heard
L.O.1: Experimental mark-making
L.O.2: Symbolic Imagery
L.O.3: Chiaroscuro
L.O.4: Street Art
L.O.5: Powerful Imagery
DT: Steady Hand Game
L.O.1: Developing through play
L.O.2: Game Plan
L.O.3: Base building
L.O.4: Electronics & assembly
