Year 6

Curriculum

Information

for Parents

Year 6

staff:Miss Cooper

Mrs Montell

Ms Farrimond

PE

This year, our PE is on Friday

afternoons.

Please ensure your child has

their PE kit in school. For the

first few weeks, Y6s will just

change their shoes and then

we will review this.

Homework:

Homework will be set each week on

Seesaw – there will be one English and

one Maths task to complete

-Reading – Reading book and ReadTheory

– every night for at least 20 minutes

-Times tables – TT Rockstars (it is

expected for children to know their

tables at the end of Y4!)

-Spelling Journal – to practise weekly

spellings

If our ‘bubble’ has to close, children

will be expected to complete their

learning at home.

There will be 3 lessons set every day

on Seesaw – one English, one Maths

and one Topic lesson. We will mark this

work and give feedback to the

children.

A learning pack will also be sent home

which will include a range of Maths

and English tasks as well.

SATs:

Will take place in May 2021. They will take place

across one full week, following the timetable below:

Monday: Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation – 2 test

papers

Tuesday: Reading paper

Wednesday: Arithmetic and Reasoning – 2 test papers

Thursday: Reasoning – 1 paper

THE Y6 READING CURRICULUM

Y6s should:

• read age-appropriate books with confidence and

fluency (including whole novels)

• read aloud with intonation that shows

understanding

• work out the meaning of words from the context

• explain and discuss their understanding of what

they have read, drawing inferences and justifying

these with evidence

• predict what might happen from details stated and

implied

• retrieve information from non-fiction

• summarise main ideas, identifying key details and

using quotations for illustration

• evaluate how authors use language, including

figurative language, considering the impact on the

reader

• make comparisons within and across books.

We read a wide range of novels through

the year and we teach reading using a

whole class reading approach through

novels. Our novels this year are:

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Thornhill

Shackleton’s Journey

Wonder

Holes

The Y6 WRITING CURRICULUM

To be ‘expected’ in writing, children will:

• create atmosphere, and integrating dialogue to convey

character and advance the action

• select vocabulary and grammatical structures that

reflect the level of formality required mostly correctly

• use a range of cohesive devices, including adverbials,

within and across sentences and paragraphs

• use passive and modal verbs mostly appropriately

• use a wide range of clause structures, sometimes varying

their position within the sentence

• use adverbs, preposition phrases and expanded noun

phrases effectively to add detail, qualification and precision

• use inverted commas, commas for clarity, and punctuation

for parenthesis mostly correctly, and making some correct

use of semi-colons, dashes, colons and hyphens

• spelling most words correctly* from the year 5 and 6

statutory spelling list

• maintain legibility, fluency and speed in handwriting

through choosing whether or not to join specific letters.

Y6 MATHS:

To be an ‘expected’ mathematician, Y6s need to:

• demonstrate an understanding of place value, including

large numbers and decimals (e.g. what is the value of the ‘7’ in

276,541?;

• calculate mentally,

• use formal methods to solve multi-step problems (e.g. find the

change from £20 for three items that cost £1.24, £7.92 and

£2.55; a roll of material is 6m long: how much is left when 5

pieces of 1.15m are cut from the roll?;

• recognise the relationship between fractions, decimals and

percentages and can express them as equivalent quantities

• calculate using fractions, decimals or percentages (e.g.

knowing that 7 divided by 21 is the same as 7 21 and that this is

equal to 13; 15% of 60; 112 + 34; 79 of 108; 0.8 x 70).

• substitute values into a simple formula to solve problems (e.g.

perimeter of a rectangle or area of a triangle).

• calculate with measures (e.g. calculate length of a bus

journey given start and end times; convert 0.05km into m and

then into cm).

• use mathematical reasoning to find missing angles (e.g. the

missing angle in an isosceles triangle when one of the angles is

given; the missing angle in a more complex diagram using

knowledge

We use Maths No Problem to

teach our reasoning curriculum.

This develops and strengthens

their problem solving skills in

order for them to become

competent mathematicians.

Attendance

It is so important

your child is in

school every day!

Attendance Matters!

• In April 2016 OFSTED charged Holy

Infant’s school leaders with improving

attendance as it was below the

expected standard of 96%

• 96% is at least 183 days per year (out

of a possible 190)

• Please try to help us reach our target!

Attendance Matters!

• At Holy Infant and St Anthony, our aim is to provide every

child with the best possible start in life.

• By ensuring that your child attends school every day,

you are ensuring that your child has the best possible

opportunities to learn the skills they will need to

succeed.

• Poor attendance damages your child’s educational

achievement and their future prospects. The staff at

school are here to support parents and carers in any

way we can with regards to attendance and punctuality.

• Research has shown that 90% of persistent non-

attenders fail to achieve five or more good grades of

GCSE and around one third achieve no GCSEs at all.

Expected attendance is at least 96%.

Attendance Matters!

Grant for Leave of Absence Under Extreme Circumstances

• The school term dates are published a year in advance to

avoid parents taking family holidays during term time.

Amendments to the 2006 Education act states that:

‘Headteachers may not grant any leave of absence during

term time unless there are exceptional circumstances.’

Unfortunately, cheaper holidays or work patterns do not

come into that category (unless military or PC)

• Parents, who decide to take their children on holiday

during term time, will be given a penalty notice. The LA

have reduced this time from 10 days to 5 days absence.

• Any request for absence should be made by filling out the

forms, available at the office.

Our Y6 Topics

Local history – Bolton and

WW2

Antarctica

The Anglo Saxons

Mountains

The Vikings

Map and Fieldwork