Year 6
A very warm welcome from Mrs McNamara and Mrs Lines
We are sure many of you are wondering how your child has reached Year 6 so quickly – time has flown by! This will be a busy year – which will also fly by – but we hope the children have a fantastic last year here at Pope Paul.
This year will be full of both challenging and exciting opportunities for the children, all of which will help to support them as they complete their final year at Pope Paul. There’s lots to look forward to: such as roles like House Captain and Fairtrade Leaders; the responsibility of having a Reception Learning Partner; the School Journey to PGL; the end-of-year production and many more!
With support from parents as well as school, each child will be encouraged to achieve his/her full potential in SATs and be ready for a smooth transition to secondary school.
You are invited to celebrate your child’s learning in the weekly Year 6 Blog, which you can access on the right-hand side of this page.
Meet the Teacher September 2024
Spring Term Curriculum Overview 2025
Autumn Term Curriculum Overview 2024
English
Year 6 will be a formative and exciting year for your child. Now that they are at the top of the school, they will be preparing for both SATs and secondary school in earnest, and they will develop much more independence and resilience as the year goes by.
In English, your child will now be expected to understand how to use a full range of punctuation, to write with a wide variety of sentence structures, use powerful vocabulary, and to generally spell words accurately. They may well be fully independent readers, choosing their own books and non-fiction texts based on their own interests. The writing your child does at school will be increasingly confident and creative.
There are a variety of simple things you can do at home to support your child’s developing English skills:
- Help to foster a love of reading:
- Take them to the library
- Read with your child: ‘I read a page; you read a page’
- Ask them about the book they’re reading
- Listen to them ‘perform’ some of their book to you
- Buy a newspaper – they love keeping up with current affairs
- Have fun assisting them with their weekly spellings and the Year 5 and 6 statutory word list.
- Take photos of incorrect punctuation and grammar that you spot when you’re out and about
Spelling Lists
Maths
The main focus of maths teaching in upper Key Stage 2 is to ensure that pupils extend their understanding of the number system and place value to include larger integers. This should develop the connections that pupils make between multiplication and division with fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio.
At this stage, pupils should develop their ability to solve a wider range of problems using both written and mental methods of calculation. With this grounding in arithmetic, pupils will learn the language of algebra as a means for solving a variety of problems. In geometry, your child will learn to classify shapes with complex properties and will learn the vocabulary they need to describe them.
By the end of Year 6, pupils should be fluent in written methods for all four operations, including long division and multiplication, and in working with fractions, decimals, and percentages. They should be able to read, spell, and pronounce mathematical vocabulary correctly.
There are a variety of simple things you can do at home to support your child’s developing maths skills:
- Fire times tables at them in the car and encourage them to log on daily to Times Tables Rockstars (TTRs)
- In the supermarket, ask them to estimate the final bill by rounding and adding as you go
- Ask them the time regularly
- Get them to assist you with your cooking (planning/ buying items needed etc..)
- Take a trip into London and ask them to plan the journey using the train timetable
PE
Year 6’s PE days for this term are Tuesday and Wednesday. Please ensure that your child wears his/her PE kit to school on these days. The children are allowed to wear trainers with their PE Kit but are NOT allowed to wear football studds or astro turf trainers.
This term (Autumn), Year 6 will be swimming on Wednesdays from September 18th. As well as wearing their PE kit to school, please ensure that children remember to bring their swimming kit into school on this day and goggles.
We take huge pride in ensuring that we are smartly dressed and in full uniform. It is very important that children are following the school’s uniform code and trainers should only be worn on PE days and on school trips (if permission is given via the trip letter sent home).
Home Learning
Home Learning is explained and given out each Friday including their weekly spellings. It should be completed by the following Wednesday and they will also have the weekly spelling test on a Friday. We will continue to use Spelling Shed where your child can practise their spellings through fun and interactive games.
Home learning will consist of a spelling task, Maths and English. In the case that a project or whole-school task has been set, the children may get a longer time to complete it.
Home Learning is set each week as it supports and consolidates what is being taught in class.
Please read the home school’s Home Learning Policy for further information.
Enrichment
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Revision Resources (Past)
Revision for Group 1 Reading Comprehension
Maths AM GD Algebra Substitutions
Maths AM GD Algebra Substitution
Maths PM Activity 1 Arithmetic
Maths PM Activity 2 Measurement
Maths PM Activity 4 Statistics
Maths AM GD Algebraic Notation
3.5.24 Reading Comprehension
3.5.24 Maths AM
3.5.24 Maths Ext.
1.5.24 Reading Comprehension
1.5.24 SPaG
1.5.24 Maths AM
1.5.24 Maths AM GD
1.5.24 Maths PM
30.4.24. Reading Comprehension
30.4.24 Past SPaG 2019
30.4.24 Maths AM
30.4.24 Maths AM GD
29.4.24 Reading Comprehension
29.4.24 KS2 Spelling Paper 2019
29.4.24 Maths AM Measures GD
29.4.24 Maths AM- Calculate with metric measures
29.4.24 Arithmetic PM
26.4.24 Maths GD https://nrich.maths.org/1854
Ribbon Squares (maths.org) , 5 on the Clock (maths.org)
26.4.24 Maths AM Convert metric measures
Thursday Morning Enrichment Group (Ms Varga)
Click here for the 2019 Arithmetic Paper. Complete all questions from Question 20 – Question 36.
25.4.24 Reading Comprehension
25.4.24 Metric measures
24.4.24 SPaG
24.4.24 Maths with Mrs McNamara 24.4.24
24.4.24 Maths AM Calculate Volume
24.4.23 Maths PM Arithmetic 24.4.24
Y6_Extension_Arithmetic_Test_1 24.4.24
23.4.24 Story
23.4.24 SPaG 2022 Past Paper
23.4.24 Maths AM Ratio problems
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Maths PM GD-Challenging Problem Solving – Ratio
22.4.24 Reading Comprehension Year 6 Reading
22.4.24 Spelling Past Paper
22.4.24 Maths AM Ratio and fractions
22.4.24 Maths PM Scale drawing
19.4.25 Arithmetic Enrichment Group
19.4.24 Maths AM Reflections
19.4.24 Reading Comprehension Under the Lights Questions
18.4.24 Reading Comprehension- https://gycubof.exampro.net/
18.4.24 Maths AM- Translations
18.4.24 Maths PM
- Angles –https://seiyaal.exampro.net/
- BODMAS- https://nijobiu.exampro.net/
- Division- https://eueajon.exampro.net/
- Percentage problems- https://dymisok.exampro.net/
- GDS mix- https://kegitic.exampro.net/
17.4.24 Reading Comprehension Reading Comprehensio
17.4.24 SPaG https://weyomaj.exampro.net/
17.4.24 Maths AM The first quadrant
17.4.24. Maths PM Read and plot points in four quadrants
16.4.24 Reading Comprehension Story
16.4.24 SPaG ks2-english-2023-grammar-punctuation-spelling-paper-1-short-answer-questions
16.4.24 Maths AM Draw shapes accurately
16.4.24 Maths PM Nets of 3D shapes
Maths- Angles in a quadrilateral
Maths PM- Circles
15.4.24 Reading Comprehension Evacuation
Maths Focus Area: Shape ARE https://iydotub.exampro.net/ GD https://bijisit.exampro.net/
SPaG Focus Area: Grammatical Terms and Word Classes https://peyibis.exampro.net/
Tuesday 19th March 2024 Fractions
Thursday 7th March
Areas of work covered today in our workshop sessions:
A Focus Area: Measurement ARE Click here
B Focus Area: Weight ARE Click here GDS Click here
C Focus Area: Co-ordinates ARE Click here GDS Click here
D Focus Area: Time/Calendar ARE Click hereGDS Click here
E Focus Area: Angles
Activity 1: Protractor – measure angles
Activity 2: Use the on-screen protractor to measure the size of the given angles as accurately as you can. Work through the levels. Click here.
15th February
- Following on from our work on Translation, please click here and complete the questions based on this area of learning.
- Click here to solve Problems on Measurement.
- Click here to solve problems on Weight.
Arithmetic – Questions on Number
Tuesday 13th February
Complete the Arithmetic Test above giving yourself 10 minutes for the final part of the paper. Record your answers in your enrichment book.
Log onto your Mathletics Account and you will see that there has been a maths activity assigned to you. Complete this doing any direct calculations into your enrichment books. You have been allocated an amount of time in which to complete the activity. If you do not manage to stick within this time, the activity will stop and you can go no further.
Thursday 8th February, 2024
Enrichment
Arithmetic and Reasoning
Misconceptions Activity
Group 2: Mental Arithmetic Focus Activity: Test 1 Test 2 Reader 2
Monday 29th January
Thursday 25th January
Click below for the learning topics being covered today.
- Grammar: Tense Consistency and Modal Verbs
- Spellings: Click here
- Arithmetic Test Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
- Arithmetic Test Have a go!! Time yourself
- Thursday 18th January
Click on the links below for the activities today.
Thursday 11th January
Percentages and Fractions: Revision Warm Up
Warm Up: Decimals and Fractions 2
Y6 Arithmetic Test P1A Y6 Arithmetic Test P1B
10;100;1000
23rd November: Arithmetic Focus
Revision Activities 2025
Comprehension Practise:
Activity 1: Carries War
Activity 2:
Year 6 Blog
