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Year 6 Newsletter | September 2025

We have PE on Tuesdays and Fridays this year. 

A reminder that our uniform policy for PE kit is a plain white or navy T-shirt and navy or black shorts/jogging bottoms. No football kits or T-shirts with large branding please.

School jumpers can be worn. We are also suggesting that children who wear earrings do not wear them on PE days. 

Home/School Journal: 

This year we shall be encouraging the children to use their journals to record homework and time spent reading. All children are asked to have their journals in class with them every day. 

We will be using Marvellous Me again this year as a way of communicating information about children's successes as well as important events and sending messages home.

Your log on details will be the same as last year, so if you are already signed up there's nothing to do.

If you haven't signed up, please ensure that you have signed up for the app. If you have any problems with this please come and speak to a member of the Year 6 team.

Here are links to a 'parent walkthrough guide' and also a 'how to use Marvellous Me' video to help get you started.

Every week, your child will be expected to complete one piece of Maths and one piece of Literacy homework which will be linked to the learning in classroom that week and will help to consolidate their understanding.

We also expect a minimum of 2 hours of hometime reading per week to be recorded in their home school journals.

Homework will be given on a Tuesday and will be expected back the following Tuesday. We will be going through the work as a class on Wednesday.

Children will be able to spend the first part of lunch on Tuesday in class completing homework if they wish - this is totally optional though.

We will also ensure that homework is written on Marvellous Me as well. 

Our Autumn Curriculum

Literacy - we begin with a poetry unit 'Love that Dog' by Sharon Creech, followed by Marcus Sedgwick's 'Floodland' which is set in Norwich and the surrounding area. We will then move on to Darren Shan's 'Cirque du Freak' in the last part of the autumn term. 

Maths - we will begin by revisiting place value and the four main operations (addition, subtraction, division and multiplication). We will then be moving on to fractions before finishing the autumn term looking at statistics. 

Science - we will be looking at how living things have adapted over time and thinking about inheritance. As well as this, we will be investigating how light travels in a straight line, how it helps to form shadows and is reflected. 

History - we will be learning all about the Tudors, who they were, how they shaped England and understand why they only reigned for just over 100 years. We will be visiting Kentwell Hall as part of our history topic. Please speak to a year 6 member of the team if you have any questions regarding this. 

R.W.E - in Religious and Worldviews Education we cover three topics in year 6; alternating between Judaism, Humanism and Christianity for the entirety of the year. 

DT - we will be exploring the history of train travel before building our own electrical, moving engine. 

Computing - Mrs Blazer will begin by looking at E-Safety as this is a crucial aspect of the computing curriculum in today's technological society. We discuss how to stay safe online and look at how the Internet is used. Later on in the term we will begin to look at programming and coding. 

Music - this term, we are going to be looking beat and rhythm before moving on to Brazilian music before Christmas. 

French - Mrs Blazer will teach the children how to deliver greetings in French and discuss school life.

More info on our curriculum can be found on the school website. 

Here are some of the things coming up this month...

Mon 8th Sep: Baroque band in school

Mon 29th Sep: Kentwell Hall trip - see social story emailed home this week

Tue 30th Sep: Pizza Express trip - see letter emailed home this week

Naming items...

Please can all personal items be named wherever possible. Coats, schools jumpers and stationary all go missing throughout the year and it is so much easier to find if it is named. Thank you. 

Fibonacci is back!

Fibonacci enjoyed visiting you all last year so much that he's back again. This year we're going to be focusing more on maths when he comes to stay. This could include helping calculate cooking ingredients (we always love to sample any baking, so feel free to bring in examples for us to taste), estimating how many spoonfuls of cereal there are in a box, looking at symmetrical or number patterns around the house or helping to work out how much a trip to the shops will cost. The aim is to explore and have fun with everyday maths.

We love to see pictures of what Fibonacci got up to on his travels. If you need any photos printing off, please email them to Mr Arthur.

PG film permission (2025/26)

At certain times throughout the year, we will be watching films, either to supplement the curriculum or as a reward. 

Some of the films may be rated PG for parental guidance, and as such we need your permission to allow us to watch them in class. 

We assure you that we will watch only age-appropriate material and will make sure that it is suitable for the children in our class.

Please complete the online form to give permission for this.

If you have any questions about this, please speak to a member of the Year 6 team.

We are really looking forward to working with you and your children again this year. As always, we will do our best to keep you informed at all times but please feel free to contact us whenever needed if you have any questions or concerns.  

The Year 6 Team