Year 6 Birch Class 2025 - 2026

English 

In English this half term, we will be studying the text 'Can we save the tiger?' by Martin Jenkins. We will be looking at endangered animals and creating our own non-fiction text based on one of these animals.

Maths 

Fractions 

Measure- Imperial and Metric Measures 

Reading: 

We will be using a text called ‘The Jungle Book’ and focussing on inference skills, vocabulary choices and summarising main ideas. We will also be focussing heavily on fluency reading to support understanding of the text.

History: 

This half term, we will be learning about the Maya Civilisation. Our enquiry question will be ‘Why should we remember the Maya?’ 

Science: Animals including Humans- we will be learning the parts of the human circulatory system, the impact of diet, exercise and drugs and lifestyle as well as describing the ways in which nutrients  and water are transported. 

Art- Craft and design- Photo Opportunity 

RE: Christianity –What do religious and non-religious world views believe about equality, justice and fairness?  

Music: Dynamics, pitch and texture. 

PE: Swimming and Fitness 

MfL: Learning about France and Paris 

PSHE: Family and relationships  and Health and wellbeing 

Computing: Communicating  

Important Information for Autumn 2

PE- Year 6 will have Swimming on Tuesday mornings and they will have their PE session on a Friday afternoon. Please could children wear school uniform Tuesdays and bring their swimming kit in with them. They will need to wear their PE kit on a Friday.

PE Uniform: 

• Team colour t-shirt
• Plain black shorts
• Black pumps for indoor PE
• Trainers for outdoor PE
• Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather 
• Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back

Reading Book Expectations

It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading. All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.

All children at Whitby Heath read daily in class whether it be on a 1:1 basis or working within group. As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week. 

Each child has an allocated day that their book/s will be changed, linked to their house teams:

Donaldson- Monday

Seuss- Tuesday

Dahl- Wednesday

Rowling- Thursday

In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings. 

ClassDojo

Should parents need to contact the Year 6 team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way. 

Other useful websites for learning at home

• Timestables Rockstars
  
  

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
All children have a login for this website.

• Hit the Button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
A great way to practice times tables at home.

• Newsround
  
  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
A place for children to keep up with current events!

• National Geographic Kids
  
  

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
A lovely website for children to learn more about animals, wildlife and the world around them.

• BBC Bitesize
  
  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
A place full of information that covers the range of the subjects and topics we study in school.