Welcome to Year 6!

We would like to warmly welcome your child into Year 6. We are very excited to support them on their journey through their final year at Red Hill Primary School and look forward to celebrating their achievements, creating lasting memories and preparing them for the next exciting chapter!

At Red Hill, we have three Year 6 classes:

6M Miss Melvin

6S Mr Sargent

6A Mr Ali

Mrs Smoothy runs targeted interventions across the year group, whilst Miss Greig, Mrs O'Connor-Close and Mrs Bishop work with individual children and small groups. 

Our Class Pioneers

Our Class Pioneers are inspirational people who have made a difference through their ideas, creativity, curiosity and determination. They remind us that being a pioneer means having the courage to think differently, follow your passions and make your own mark on the world.

6M- David Attenborough 
A pioneering broadcaster and natural historian who has inspired generations to discover, understand and care for the natural world.
“No one is going to protect the natural world unless they understand it.”

6S- Alan Turing 
A brilliant mathematician and computer scientist who helped shape modern computing and played a vital role in breaking the Enigma code during the Second World War.
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

6A- David Bowie 
A pioneering musician and artist who constantly reinvented himself, challenged expectations and encouraged people to be bold and creative.
“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.” 

Curriculum

At Red Hill, we follow the CUSP curriculum for reading, writing, spelling, history, geography, art, DT and science. For RE and PSHE we follow the Jigsaw curriculum. Computing lessons follow the National Centre for Computing Education. Click here to access our curriculum overview 

The Year 6 Curriculum Meeting slides contain all the information shared at our parent and carer year group curriculum meetings at the start of the academic year. 

English

In reading, we will be building on our comprehension skills, including inference and retrieval.

Our writing topics this year are:

Autumn term:

• Autobiography 
• Discursive writing and speeches 
• First person stories with a moral 
• Poems that create images and explore vocabulary (War poetry) 
• News report 
• Explanatory text 
• Shakespeare (Sonnets)

Spring term:

• Extended third person narrative 
• Explanatory texts 
• Autobiography 
• Extended third person narrative (adventure stories) 

Summer term:

• News report 
• Shakespeare (Sonnets) 
• Discursive writing and speeches 
• Poems that create images and explore vocabulary 
• First person stories with a moral 

Our maths topics this year are:

Autumn term:

• Place value 
• Four operations
• Fractions
• Coverting units

Spring term:

• Ratio
• Algerbra
• Decimals
• Fractions, decimals and percentages
• Area, perimeter and volume
• Statistics

Summer term:

• Shape position and direction
• Recap and revisions

Supporting your child with their learning at home

Children will bring homework home every Friday in their homework books, and should hand them back into school every Wednesday.

Weekly homework includes:

• Maths – A short maths challenge linking to the week’s learning. Children should also log into TTRS (https://ttrockstars.com) and practise their multiplication recall.
• Spellings – Children will have 10 spellings sent home linking to a spelling pattern being taught in class. These will be tested in the spelling session on a Wednesday morning.
• Reading comprehension – Children will have a reading comprehension to complete using their retrieval, inference and vocabulary skills that we have been working on in class.
• Reading – Reading should be completed a minimum of 3x a week, but ideally for 10 minutes each evening. This can be completed with an adult, or children can choose to read independently. All reading sessions need to be recorded in their reading records, which should be brought into school daily.

Please click here for a recommended reading list for Year 6.

PE

This term, 6M have double PE on a Monday afternoon. 6A and 6S have PE on a Monday and a Friday afternoon. 

PE kits (as outlined in the uniform letter):

• Plain t-shirt in house colour (red, blue, green, yellow) P.E. t-shirt with the embroidered badge can still be worn
• Navy shorts/skort, tracksuit bottoms or leggings/cycling shorts
• Trainers or plimsolls
• Plain Navy sweatshirt or hoodie (iron on badge can be applied but not necessary.)

No football kits to worn to school. If children have a club after school, they need to bring this into school in a bag to change into before or after the club.