Year 6 are taught by Mrs Guyett-Smith and Mrs Thurston and Mrs Warner (on a Friday in 6KT).

Mrs Draper, Mrs Prince and Mrs Scott are our Year 6 Teaching Assistants.

All children will have a colour-banded book and a library book, as required, to take home and they will be able to change this every Tuesday. If they need to change before their library day they are to liaise with the school teacher. Year 6 PE days are Mondays and Tuesdays – PE kit is to be worn to school on these days.

Home Learning is provided and to be returned via your child’s Google Classroom. If you need to contact the team please email: Y6@kgagomer.uk

Please see below for a Curriculum Overview for the year.

Supporting Your Child with SATs

We kindly ask you not to use the 2023 and 2024 SATs papers for practice at home, as these will be completed in school. By reserving these papers for in-school assessments, we can ensure they provide an accurate reflection of your child’s knowledge and progress. This enables us to tailor our support effectively. Please use these resources:

Reading: Reading Booklet, Reading Paper, Reading Answer Booklet

PGS: Punctuation and Grammar Paper, Spelling Paper, SPAG Answer Booklet

Maths: Arithmetic Paper, Reasoning (Paper 2), Reasoning (Paper 3), Maths Answer Booklet

For additional support, we have created two dedicated folders on the Classwork page of Google Classroom:

• Help with Home Learning
• SATs Practise at Home

We encourage you to explore these resources and use them to guide your child’s preparation. Our parents attended a meeting with our Year 6 teachers in February. To listen to the content of the slides please access it via our podcast below…

Autumn Term 2025

Welcome to Year 6 – Our Final Adventure at Gomer!

In Year 6, we will not just learn, we will explore, investigate, and create. Whether we are stepping into the shoes of a Tudor child, sketching stormy skies, or programming micro:bits to measure earthquakes, we will make every day count as we prepare for our exciting journey into secondary school.

We will be travelling through time and using our imagination in our English lessons. Our fiction writing will begin with rich setting and character descriptions, leading into narratives inspired by magical and classic stories such as Harry Potter, The Nowhere Emporium, Peter Pan, and Treasure Island. We will also dive into non-fiction, writing detailed information texts about impossible creatures and diary entries from the perspective of Tudor children. Our poetry will bring history to life with a smile, as we create limericks all about the unforgettable Henry VIII. In guided reading, we will explore powerful and moving texts including Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, Zlata’s Diary, and The Diary of Anne Frank. These will help us understand the world through the eyes of others and build empathy through reading.

In Maths, we will build confidence in place value, the four operations, and fractions. We will solve real-life problems involving area, perimeter, and volume, and explore geometry by investigating the properties of shapes. In Science, we will think and work like scientists. We will explore the theory of light and ask big questions such as “How are rainbows formed?” We will study electrical circuits and test which materials make the best conductors, proving our ideas through hands-on enquiry. In Computing, we will use our impossible creature learning to create a webpage with sub pages,  hyperlinks, media and carefully designed layouts to attract our target audience. We will also use digital design software to create and 3D print our own Christmas decorations or design a Tudor-style brooch.

In History, we will investigate Tudor maritime power and explore Portsmouth’s important role in the Royal Navy. In Geography, we will explore the question “Why is the weather so extreme?” and examine how natural events affect people and places around the world. In Art and Design, we will develop our sketching and shading skills as we capture different types of weather, from stormy skies to bright sunshine. We will experiment with watercolours and wax resist, and study the work of architect Renzo Piano before designing and constructing 3D model buildings inspired by his ideas.

We will explore rhythm and melody in Music through Classroom Jazz and glockenspiel playing. In PE, we will challenge ourselves through striking and fielding games, invasion games, and net and wall sports. We will focus on developing teamwork, coordination, and confidence. In French, we will learn how to talk about school subjects, our timetables, weekend activities, and our likes and dislikes. We will build our speaking and listening skills and grow in confidence as we use French in real conversations.

In RE, we will reflect on communication and family relationships. We will explore themes of love, faith, and celebration, including the Christmas story told through the two birth narratives. Throughout the year, we will also take part in the Diversity and Equality curriculum, developing our understanding of respectful relationships, difference, and what it means to belong in our world today.

Summer Term 2025

We look forward to a very exciting final term for our amazing Year Six pupils before they move on to their next exciting adventure. 

In the lead up to their SATs we will be doing lots of revision, using assessment from throughout the year to help children with their individual learning targets. Our Personal Development in this first part of the term will have a wellbeing focus, encouraging children to reflect and consider their wellbeing in the run up to and throughout their assessments. 

In our writing this term we will enjoy some more narrative writing, as well as exploring how to write a balanced argument, using this to present different ideas and feelings about the use of AI. 

We will be starting our real life maths unit where we will delve into the world of jobs, taxes and cost of living. Children will get to apply many other skills in this maths unit: Personal Development – considering jobs they may want (aspirations and goals), Writing – jobs application letters and Computing – budgeting and spreadsheets. As part of this, we will be taking part in the ‘Make £5 grow’ challenge to encourage children’s entrepreneurial skills. 

Science, PD and DT learning come together in our STEM project this term.  We will make use of this in our DT when we design our own healthy recipes (another exciting, real life writing opportunity). From a Personal Development viewpoint we will reflect and build on what we have already learnt about keeping our bodies healthy and consider food hygiene as we prepare to cook our recipes. Thinking scientifically, we will consider our choice of ingredients so that we can maximise nutrients in our recipes (giving consideration to the carbohydrates, proteins and fats that we choose to include in our recipes). 

In our other focus in PD this term , we will cover key RSE topics such as puberty, reproduction, pregnancy and birth. Pupils will get the exciting opportunity to become parents to their own “egg baby” – who can nurture theirs successfully for the longest time? Which key skills will they need? 

Computing this term will see us developing our own websites, which will give us another opportunity for writing across the curriculum as we ensure the information on our websites is clear and grammatically accurate. 

We will jump back in time in History to revisit the Tudors. We will be looking at what life was like back then and what influence this era had on our lives today.

The most exciting part of the summer term for our Year 6s, is planning and performing their leaver’s show. We will be doing street dance in PE during the first part of the summer term, which will complement the planning of the show as children will be able to choreograph their own dances. 

A highlight for Year 6 in the summer term is always activities week, and this year the children are looking forward to two nights at Tile Barn, where they will develop their teamwork skills, resilience, independence and sense of adventure.

Spring Term 2025

We begin our second term of Year 6 with non-fiction writing that focuses on our Geography topic of extreme weather. Through analysing a variety of nonfiction texts in both Writing and Guided Reading, we will consider the features and formality of this genre and apply this learning to our own pieces of writing. We will consider the emotional impact of extreme weather to help capture the devastation caused by these events through letter writing from the point of view of survivors. 

Our exploration into weather and climate will be enhanced in our Geography lessons as we explore ecosystems and discuss different biomes. Computing will also complement our learning around weather, as we build and create our own websites based around extreme weather events. 

In art we will be learning about perspective drawing and sketching street scenes before and after a tornado rips through it. 

Our Spring Maths focus will begin with looking at decimals and percentages and how these link with fractions. Running alongside this, we will look at statistics, and measurement conversions and have an introduction to Yr 6 algebra. We will be continuously revisiting place value, four operations, fractions, shapes and angles. We will continue to develop our arithmetic and problem-solving skills. 

Personal Development will be closely linked with our STEM learning this term as we consider how to care for our environment and the impact of global warming and calculate an estimation of our own carbon footprint. We will also continue to practise the skill of empathy and learn about developing our character so that we can contribute positively to our community. 

Through the use of enquiry, we are going to be exploring the theory of evolution in science. We will be extending our understanding of animals and the way that they have developed over the last few million years. 

PE this term will see us developing our invasion game skills, striking and fielding  techniques, choreographing an aerobic gymnastic routine and learning about our health and fitness.

We will continue to prepare the children for their SATs too in a keenness for them to achieve their absolute best. Thank you for parental support with this for ensuring your child completes their Home Learning.