Year 6
Year Group Leader - Miss Parkes (6P)
Teachers - Miss Parkes (6P), Miss Eatwell (6E), Mr Jones (6J)
Teaching Assistants - Mrs Ali, Mrs Sadiq, Mrs Latif (maternity leave), Miss Bibi and Mrs R Ravat
Below is the SPRING TERM overview - this covers everything that your child will be working on throughout the spring term in Year 6.
For the full year overview of all subjects covered across this year group, please click on the Long Term Plan link below:
Year 6 Long Term Plan 2025 - 2026
PARENTS' OVERVIEW - SPRING TERM 2025/26 (downloadable doc)
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Maths |
In Year 6 we follow a progressive approach where children get experience of mathematical concepts in blocks of a week or two weeks. They then revisit these concepts over the year to ensure they have mastered the knowledge and understanding. We encourage the children to be independent learners in maths and they utilise their Maths Toolkit to support their learning when required. Over the course of the Spring term, children will learn about: Perimeter and area, Area and volume, Fractions, decimals and percentages, Negative numbers, Mental and written methods including money and decimals (4 operations), Order of operations, Simple Formulae, Reflections and Translations, Problems involving measures and Interpreting Data. Children will also complete the second set of assessment and practice tests.
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Literacy |
In Literacy, children will be looking at the novel ‘Beowulf’. They will write a non-chronological report about one of the characters from the text as well as writing a descriptive fight scene, attempting to build tension and suspense. Children will develop their complaining skills, writing a formal letter of complaint about monsters. Later in the term, we will be writing a diary entry based on a ghost from the poem ‘Colonel Fazackerley’ and then reading ‘Shackleton’s Journey’ where the children will write a CV applying to join the expedition and a motivational speech to encourage people to join the expedition, giving reasons why.
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PE Physical Education |
In Spring Term 1, Year 6 children will be developing their cognitive skills by being taught how to use their awareness of space/others to make good decisions and to understand ways (criteria) to judge performance. They will do this by improving their balance and coordination skills through specific drills designed to target these areas and by applying these skills to games such as 'Dodgeball' and 'Beanbag Raid'.
In Spring Term 2, the children will be working on improving their creative skills. They can will be able to effectively disguise what they are about to do and use variety and creativity to engage an audience. They will link actions and develop sequence of movements that express their own ideas.
Year 6 children will continue to work with coaches from Ultimate Sport, where they will apply their knowledge and skills to a variety of sports and will also focus on developing their tactical knowledge ready for continuing sports competitions.
Year 6 PE days are: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday. All children need to have a PE kit for these days as class session day may change.
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Science |
In the Spring term, children will be looking at Evolution and Inheritance. They will look at the fact that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago. The children will recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents. They will also identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.
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MFL Modern |
In French this term, children will learn sports vocabulary and how to express their preferences. They expand their knowledge of country names and develop their cultural knowledge of the French game ‘petanque’, the annual ‘Tour de France’ and the Olympics. They will contribute to a magazine article about the Olympics. They will then look at a football-themed unit where they develop and practice many important learning strategies that they can use in their future learning of other subjects and languages. Children develop their reading and speaking and listening skills by responding to questions about footballers. Using this knowledge, they create their own football player profiles based on research by a chosen football player.
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Computing |
Year 6 will begin Spring term developing their coding skills. They will use 2code to design, make and play a text-based adventure game. Children will develop code for their game to include a timer and score, use selection variables and understand how the launch command works.
Children will then complete their computing curriculum in the Summer term.
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Music |
Over the course of the year, Year 6 will be covering a unit of music from Charanga. All the learning is focused around one song: Happy by Pharrell Williams - a Pop song with a Soul influence about being happy. What makes you happy?
They will also be working with Kirklees music school to learn and hone their musical skills by performing with a Ukulele.
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PSHE Personal Social |
Children will be completing units from the ‘My Happy Mind’ scheme. Children will learn to Appreciate & Relate; learn about First Aid; Drugs and media literacy. Children will be encouraged to reflect and journal – collecting their thoughts in their My Happy Journal.
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RE Religious Education |
Over the Spring term the children will be exploring the question: What is the Significance of Easter, Ascension and Pentecost for Christians? (Pathway 6 Big Picture)
This unit follows Pathway 6 – The Big Picture. It explores some of the ‘Grand Narratives’ of Christianity, using some of the stories the first Christian believers told and re-told about Jesus. The Unit focuses on how Christians today use these narratives to help them explain and understand the significance of Jesus’ death, resurrection and ascension and the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Pupils will use these stories to explain links between scripture sources and Christian beliefs and practices.
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Art and Design |
In Art, children will hone their Art and design skills. In this collection of lessons, children learn and develop their skills in: exploring art with a message, looking at the works of Pablo Picasso and Käthe Kollwitz and through the mediums of graffiti, drawing, painting and sculpture, creating artworks with a message.
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DT Design Technology |
This topic draws upon pupils’ skills and knowledge of structures, challenging them to design and create a model of a new playground featuring five apparatus, made from three different structures. Creating a footprint as the base, pupils can practise visualising objects in a plan view and also get creative with their use of natural features and cladding for their structures.
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History |
In History this half term, the children are going to be comparing the Mayans to the Anglo Saxons (building upon their historical knowledge learnt in year 4). Children will learn about how the Maya settled in tropical rainforests, Mayan houses and historical Mayan cities.
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Geography |
In Geography, children will be looking at the question: ‘Why Do Oceans Matter?’
Children will learn to describe the water cycle and how the ocean is used for human activity; explain how the ocean helps regulate the Earth’s climate and temperature; investigate the Great Barrier Reef and be able to describe how humans impact the oceans and the consequences of this.
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Homework |
Every week Year 6 children will:
- be given a maths activity, either linked to their learning that week or revisiting a previously taught skill
- be expected to read their reading book and get their reading record signed x3 weekly
- play on TTRockstars and Spelling Shed
- learn their weekly spellings (each week has a different list focus that the children have been practising in school that week)
Each term Year 6 children will:
- be set their black book homework tasks. They need to choose AT LEAST 3 activities to complete which will be shared with their class and teacher. It could include art work, writing, computer presentations, 3D models, posters etc.
This is your chance to show off what you can do! Choose at least 3 activities from the list below to complete over the spring term and during the half term holidays (due in on Monday 23rd March).
You are going to share all your homework with your class mates and teacher. It could include art work, writing, computer presentations (printed out), 3D models, posters, photographs etc.
You will have to explain to the class what you have done.
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Activity Chosen: (Tick) |
Year 6 Spring Term 2026 Black Book Homework Tasks |
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Create a wanted poster for the monster, Grendel. You need to include a drawing of him along with a written description and reward. |
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Create your own Frozen Kingdom creature/animal. Annotate the diagram, explain all about it such as its habitat, adaptations etc. |
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Research and produce a fact file about Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic Explorer. |
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Investigate a mythical creature e.g. Big Foot, Loch Ness Monster, Frankenstein and write a newspaper article about a possible sighting. Must include: orientation, main body, eyewitness accounts and reorientation. |
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Produce a ‘Monster Survival Guide’. Imagine you live in a village that Grendel and his Mother terrorise – write a survival guide with things you would need/what to do to survive. |
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Produce an information sheet about The Easter Story in Christianity – you can choose how to present your work e.g. poster, fact file, leaflet. |