year6@allsaints-harwich.essex.sch.uk

Summer Term 2026- Year 6!

I hope you have all had a wonderful Easter holiday and have enjoyed that well-deserved rest after a very busy term! I can't believe that we are coming into our final term of the school year and the children's final term at Primary School!!

We have a very busy term coming but we will do everything we can to make sure that the children enjoy their final term!

Here's some information about what we have coming up!

Firstly- SATs.

SATs week is fast approaching. The children have been working so hard and we will continue to revise both knowledge and skills to prepare the children for these tests. 

All Year 6 children, across the country, will sit these tests as listed on the dates below.

Apart from completing these SATs tests, the children will also continue with their learning of the full curriculum.

Maths

In Maths lessons this term, the children will be moving on to new concepts in our shape units, learning parts of a circle and ways to work out missing angles inside numerous polygons. The children will then move on to our final unit of 'position and direction', which includes co-ordinates, reflection and translation, before finishing with revision sessions. The children have built up a great knowledge of the four operations- addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, so we will continue to practice incorporating these operations when working problems.  

English

In English, we will begin the term with linking our reading and writing units of instruction writing. Children will build on their previous learning for this unit from previous years, focusing on levels of formality, style, purpose and audience to ensure their writing can be used effectively to give information on how to catch troublesome creatures. Children will then look at persuasive writing, looking at how word choices and sentence structure can affect the purpose of their writing from the reader. We will continue to build on our reading skills by practising comprehension skills needed for understanding and inferring texts and developing our knowledge of vocabulary.

Science

Within Science, we will be begin the term with learning about 'health and exercise' which I hope the children will find interesting as they investigate how a good work-out affects our body. 

RE

In RE, children will be investigating the question 'Why do Hindus want to be good?'. During this unit, the children learn about Hindu's beliefs of karma, reincarnation and their views on being good to others in society. 

History

The children will begin these lessons finding out about important figures that are currently on our bank notes. They will be learning about the events that took place before these figures became well-known and the difference that these people made to our lives. The unit continues with children choosing their own figures of importance and creating an argument to why their chosen person should be appreciated in our country. 

Geography

During the second part of the term, the children will then move on to learning about our local area in Geography lessons. The children will be researching into issues that our town faces and will be carrying out their own fieldwork to assess questions that arise.

Art

Our focus for our art lessons,  this term, is a focus on drawing skills in a unit called 'Make your voice heard!' This unit teaches pupils to create expressive sketches and reflect on their artistic decisions. As part of the learning, children will explore work of famous photographers and the use of light, perspectives and positions to create some pencil drawings.  I'm sure the children will thoroughly enjoy this unit and enjoy the endless possibilities of being creative in their way.

D&T

Our D&T lessons, children will design a navigational tool. Children will write a programme that displays an arrow to indicate cardinal compass directions, whilst using self and peer evaluations on a product concept against a list of design criteria with basic statements. The children then end the unit by completing a product pitch plan that includes key information to a potential buyer of the product. 

Computing

I am super excited for computing this term! The children will be learning how to use new software called Python. This is a coding system where children can develop their knowledge and create their own programmes. I am sure that within a few lessons on this unit, the children will be full of enthusiasm and new experts in this field of technology!

Music

For our Music lessons this term, children will be focusing on developing their musical knowledge of pulse, tempo, rhythm and volume whilst singing the song 'You've got a friend by Carole King'.

This is an exciting and fun unit for the children which I know they will enjoy. Last term, the children learnt to incorporate some recorder playing into their music and I hope to continue with this in this unit too!

Spanish

Within our Spanish lessons, we will be covering two units: El fin de semana y Yo en el mundo. We will learn how to tell the time accurately in Spanish and learn how to say what activities we do at the weekend. 

PSHE

In our PSHE lessons, our unit will be 'Well-being' and learning all about the importance of looking after our mind, as well as our bodies. Children will learn skills in breaking down goals and tasks into smaller steps and ways to help when feeling stressed and anxious in every day situations.   

PE and Forest School

PE and Forest School days will continue to be every Thursday and we ask that on this day, pupils come into school in their PE kit (jogging bottoms for this time of year, white t-shirt and trainers). Please make sure that children have warm clothing for colder weather- gloves and hats etc. A change of shoes for forest school lessons is crucial as the area is very wet and muddy this time of year. Long hair should be tied back and earrings should be removed. 

 Wellies are ideal footwear for this, but any spare footwear will do. This will ensure that all the children can enjoy these sessions whatever the weather outside and have warm and dry footwear to change back into afterwards.

Homework

Maths homework is now set on maths.co.uk and grammar activities are on SPAG.com. These are set on a Friday each week and should be completed for the following Friday. All children who complete this earn an extra break on a Friday afternoon. If it has not been completed, this time is instead used as an opportunity where we can support children in completing the work. 

Children also have access to Times Table Rock Stars and can complete this as frequently as they choose. Although this is not part of our weekly homework set, practising times tables will always be beneficial and the online system makes this fun! I will challenge children on here fairly often so please encourage children to give it a go when they can!

As in previous years, we also ask that reading is completed at home throughout the week- at least 3 times for at least five minutes and that this is recorded in their reading records. Reading at home helps build a love of reading and also develops children's ability to concentrate on their reading for a longer period of time. The more children read, the better they are at it! Children may wish to read to themselves, but we ask that their reading records are still signed by an adult. They do not need to only read the book they are currently reading at school, but instead could choose to read anything that they are interested in.

As always, please contact me if you have any questions, queries, concerns and any information that you feel may help for me to know! Emails will be up and running as we start the new academic year and I will always get back to you as soon as I can. If not, feel free to catch me on the gate or call the school's office and I will help how ever I can.

Kind regards,

Miss Thorpe