Year 6 Maple Class 2026 - 2027
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Curriculum Information for Autumn 2
English
Writing: Can we save the tiger? by Martin Jenkins. This text explores endangered species—including the tiger, partula snails, ground iguanas, and white-rumped vultures—alongside historical examples of extinction like the dodo. The writing outcome will be to write an information text about tigers including key features.
Reading: We will be reading The Jungle Book and Martha's Suitcase linked to endangered species. Children will be developing their fluency skills, as well as focusing on retrieval, inference and author's use of language.
Maths: Power Maths Units – Fractions and Measure.
History- This half term we will be looking at the Ancient Maya Civilisation, exploring their beliefs, way of life, Gods and the Creation story
Science: Animals including humans. Chldren will identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood.
DT- Textiles- making bags
RE: Religious views on equality and justice
Music: Dynamics, pitch and texture.
PE: Swimming and Fitness
MfL: France and Paris landmarks
PSHE: Connecting with others
Computing: Copyright
PE- Year 6 will have their PE sessions on a Tuesday morning and swimming on a Thursday afternoon. Please could children wear their PE kit on these days and ensure their swimming kits are brought in every Thursday.
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
Homework
Homework is given through SATs Companion and ClassDojo each Friday. All children have logins for these.
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
- 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.
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