Year 6 2026 - 2027
Ms Dickenson
Welcome to the Autumn Term 2026
HOMEWORK: PLEASE SEE THE BLUE BUTTONS AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE.
Ms Dickenson, Mrs Stokes & Mrs Tennyson-Kee 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:
1/9/26: INSET
2/9/26: INSET
3/9/26: Start of the Autumn Term for children
8/9/26: Forest Schools
14/9/26: Imperial War Museum visit
17/9/26: Start of Year Mass @ 9 am
22/9/26: One Life Music Retreat Day
25/9/26: MacMillan Coffee Morning 9-10:15am
7/10/26: Individual Photos
19/10/26: Bikeability Level 2
20/10/26: Bikeability Level 2
22/10/26: Parents' Evening
23/10/26: Break up for half term
2/11/26: Back to school
4/11/26: After School Art Gallery 3:30pm to 4:30pm
10/11/26: Forest Schools
11/11/26: Remembrance Assembly led by Year 6 10:40am
18/12/26: Break up for Christmas
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
LO 1: The story of creation
LO 2: Original sin
LO 3: Laudato Si
LO 4: Sacrament of baptism
LO 5: The Nicene Creed
LO 6: Science and religion
Autumn Two: Prophecy & Promise
LO 1: Women as protagonists
LO 2: True protagonists of salvation history
LO 3: Mary's fulfilment of God's promises
LO 4: Luke and Matthew
LO 5: The Magnificat
LO 6: Women responding to God's call today
Maths (more detail in maths overview in files section below)
Unit 1: Place Value
Unit 2: Four Operations 1
Unit 3: Four Operations 2
Unit 4: Fractions 1
Unit 5: Fractions 2
Unit 6: Imperial & Metric Measures
Also: Weekly arithmetic, times tables & TTRS
English
Key texts: Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll & Holes by Louis Sachar
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 Year 5 grammar; punctuation; verb tenses
Whole class guided reading - The Eye of the Wolf
Science
Autumn One: Light
LO 1: To investigate the fact that light travels in a straight line
LO 2: To understand angles of reflection and incidence
LO 3: To write instructions about how to create a periscope
LO 4: To understand what refraction is
LO 5: To understand how shadows are formed
LO 6: To understand the colour spectrum
Autumn Two: Electricity
LO 1: How electricity has impacted our lives
LO 2: Famous scientists who made discoveries about electricity
LO 3: What is voltage and how does it affect electrical circuits
LO 4: Circuit diagram symbols
LO 5: Use circuit diagrams to make and improve circuits
LO 6: DT cross-curricular link - make an electrical game
Geography: Extreme Earth
LO 1: To find out about the Earth's climate and areas of extreme temperature
LO 2: To find out about the water cycle and the distribution of water across the world
LO 3: To find out about extreme weather conditions across the world
LO 4: To find about about earthquakes and what causes them
LO 5: To find out about tsunamis and what causes them
LO 6: To find out what volcanoes are and how they are formed
History: World War II
LO 1: To investigate the causes of WWII
LO 2: To investigate the different roles and experiences of those who contributed to the war effort
LO 3: To understand the impact of rationing during WWII
LO 4: To find out about the Blitz and the communities affected by it
LO 5: To understand people's experiences of evacuation during WWII
LO 6: To understand the significance of the Holocaust
Computing
- Coding
- Online Safety
Art: Painting & Drawing
- 2D Drawing to 3D making
- Remembrance artwork
- Activism
DT: Electrical Systems - Steady Hand Game
Unit 1: Science link - Steady hand game
