Year 6

Learning Link:

Great Expectations

We have great expectations of the children this term; they will have many opportunities to be excellent role models in school beginning with applying for roles on the School Council.

This term our learning centres around The Victorians with a particular focus on crime and punishment in this era. Using the book ‘Street Child’ by Berlie Doherty, we will investigate Victorian life for the poor and delve into the depths of Victorian London before investigating a Victorian Christmas. Artwork inspired by William Morris will fill our walls and there will be an extra special Christmas decoration lighting up your home this year.

St. Mary:

Mrs Sharpe – mrssharpe@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Mrs Bond – mrsbond@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

St. Louise:

Mrs Lewis – mrslewis@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Year Group Reminders

Week Commencing: 20th October 2025

Week B

Monday: Parent meetings face to face

Tuesday: PE

Friday: Non-uniform day - raising the postage funds for the shoeboxes. Please make a donation on Scopay.

Looking further ahead:

PE for Year 6 will be every Tuesday and on a Monday in Week A.

Deadline for Secondary Applications: 31st October (we recommend getting your application in before the schools break up for half term).

Please let us know if your child is attending an open morning for a secondary school.  This will be authorised, but we still need to know.

Parents Evenings: 20th October (in person)

These meetings are for parents only, children are not required to attend.

Reminders:

We will provide a pencil case with all the essentials. 

Please ensure your child has a named glue stick (Pritt Stick or equivalent).

You will also need:

• A named water bottle, fruit or vegetable snack

• A coat (every day - we will go outside whatever the weather!)

• A sweatshirt even on warm days as the doors and windows to classes will be kept open

• A confident and positive attitude shining through a huge smile!

Homework

We ask that the children continue to read every day, recording their reading in their homework diaries.

Please complete Autumn work out 7 in the CGP books. These were sent home on Friday 17th October and will be due in to mark on Friday 24th October.

Workout 8 is due in after half-term please.

Set: Monday 20^th October 2025, Due in Wednesday 5th November 2025

Research and create a profile for a Catholic scientist. Discuss their inventions or work and how they balance this with their religious beliefs. See Google classroom for more details on scientists to research, links and questions to consider.

Reading for Pleasure

Windrush child

RE

Creation and Covenant

How is the Second creation account compatible with scientific accounts of the beginnings of the universe? Children will consider what Catholics believe about the creation of the universe and how this fits with other theories. Children will be able to make comparisons between Genesis and the Babylonian Creation myth.

English

English: Complete  and edit extended writing using Pace and Tension. 

Master Readers

This half term we will be reading Stormbreaker by Anthony Horwitz

Master Readers chapter 15- the end of the book

Text:  Stormbreaker:  Anthony Horowitz

Monday:  Whole class reading of text

Tuesday:  Book club:  Predict what what will happen

                                      Question to improve understanding

                                     Explain meaning of the words in context

                                    Summarise main ideas

Wednesday:  Modelled comprehension

Thursday:  Assessed comprehension

Friday: Book review

SPAG

Spelling

See word lists in yellow homework books

Grammar: Focus on use of semi colons

Maths

Four operations unit 2

To use accurate strategies for mental arithmetic

To revise short multiplication

To use long multiplication strategies when multiplying 2-digit by 4-digit numbers

To problem solve using long multiplication consolidation

Science

William Morris

To use colour mixing to paint a William Morris inspired tile

To review tile designs and reflect on painting techniques.

Art

Digital Literacy

What is a variable? How does this affect my code?

Computing

Crime and policing in the Victorian Era

Crime and Policing in the Victorian era

Children will consider how the police force began and the differences between policing then and in the modern day.

History

Buzzer game making - Wednesday 22nd October

To design and make a circuit for an electronic game

Children will use their electrical knowledge to plan and make a buzzer game as a group.

French

We are writing a short description of what is in our pencil case.

Music

To learn a djembe rhythm. To play a 2-part djembe rhythm.

PE

Fitness

Pupils will continue to work on elements of their fitness including speed balance. Pupils will complete a fitness plan and make improvements based on data they have collected.

Basketball

Create and use a variety of tactics to help a team. Create and use space to help a team. (GD Self-referee and make tactical decisions)

Hockey

Select and apply different movement skills to lose a defender. Use marking, and/or interception to improve defending. Use knowledge of rules to your advantage e.g. side-line pass.

Learning for Life

Black History Month

Looking at the inspirational women who were the ‘Hidden Figures’ working in NASA’s computing department.