Welcome to Year Six
Caring Respect Empathy Courage Resilience
Attendance is key to academic success and social development.
Please aim for your child to be in school EVERY day!
Our Year 6 Team
Teacher – Miss Heaton
Learning Assistant - Mrs Lowe
Year Six is a welcoming and nurturing classroom where lots of enriched learning takes place, developing independent children for their final year at Merton Bank and their transition into high school. We aim for all lessons to be interactive, enjoyable and with an aspect of challenge to build determination and resilience. Year Six pupils are given responsibilities and are expected to demonstrate leaderships skills and qualities by leading by example at Merton Bank. With support from teachers, family and friends, the children will be given ample opportunity to develop their own initiative to support themselves and their peers. Children are supported to grow a love of learning by identifying their interests and bring these into practise when taking on new challenges and developing new understanding. Mental health and well-being are a high priority in Year Six, ensuring the children are relaxed and prepared throughout the year. We aim to support the children however we can, encouraging the development of their own mental health and well-being by exploring what allows them to remain calm and collected. Ultimately, we aim for the children to be happy, healthy, and ready to tackle new and exciting opportunities.
Our school day
Doors open 8:45am, registration closes at 8.55am. Your child must be in school by 8.55am.
The school day ends at 3:15pm
Your child will enter and leave school via the Roper Street Gate entrance.
Safeguarding is high priority at Merton Bank so please understand we may need to check if someone else is picking your child up. Please always inform the office if someone new is collecting. Thank you for your understanding with this.
Important things to remember for a successful year ahead:
Please continue to support your child’s learning at home. It is expected your child reads 3x per week at home. Please record this in your child’s reading record. Thank you for supporting your children at home. It truly is appreciated.
You may wish to provide a healthy snack for your child to eat at 10:30am playtime. Lunch will be at 12:00pm.
Each child can have their own water bottle on their desk, please provide these with their name on.
PE This term we have PE every Thursday – please ensure that your child attends school on these days in their PE kit. On these days children must wear the following PE uniform: white polo shirt/ t-shirt, black shorts and trainers/pumps. We expect high standards of PE kits, please contact one of the team if you require any support.
Key Stage 2 Tests
The statutory key stage 2 tests (SATs) are timetabled from Monday 11th May to Thursday 14th May 2026.
Monday 11th May 2026 - English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Papers 1 and 2
Tuesday 12th May 2025 - English Reading
Wednesday 13th May 2025 - Mathematics Papers 1 and 2
Thursday 14th May 2025 - Mathematics Paper 3
Spring Term Learning:
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| Year 6 Autumn 1.pdf |
Spring Term Learning:
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| Year 6 Spring 1.pdf |
Summer Term Learning:
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| Year 6 Summer 1.pdf |
Take a look at some of the exciting learning in Year 6 during Spring Term 2026
English
Talk 4 Writing - Character Focus - Coral Ocean
During this term, we are delving into a T4W text titled Coral Ocean. This intriguing piece explores the journey of two very different characters and the circumstances that lead to their meeting.
Our primary focus will be on developing characters through the technique of 'show not tell'. This approach encourages us to illustrate our characters' traits and emotions through their actions, dialogue, and surroundings, rather than simply stating them outright.
To ensure creative excellence for our ideas for how our characters meet we interviewed each other to ask how we met our best friends. This helped us share different experiences and prompts for our planning and writing.
Forest School
Positive Affirmations - Sharing Compliments
As part of our first Forest School session, we focused on the importance of compliments and how they can uplift and encourage one another. The children engaged in discussions about how these positive affirmations can serve as a reminder of their unique qualities and worth.
In Year 6, every student participated in a fun and meaningful activity. Each child created a compliment bib and, to ensure everyone felt valued, they took turns commenting on each other's bibs. This allowed each piece of paper to be filled with heartfelt and amazing comments, highlighting the wonderful attributes of their classmates.
The session not only fostered a sense of community and support but also helped the children recognise the power of kind words and how they can impact both themselves and others in a positive way.
PE
Invasion Game - Lacrosse
This term, we are focussing on Lacrosse. Although it is not one of the most common invasion games that our Year 6 pupils may have encountered before, they have already quickly developed the skills needed to play Lacrosse with confidence.
As the term progresses, the children will increase their skills and ability to at catch, throw, attack, and defend. They are also learning to adapt to the rules of the game, which is essential for their understanding and enjoyment of Lacrosse.
Through practice and teamwork, Y6 will continue to enhance their abilities and gain a deeper appreciation for this exciting sport.
Take a look at some of the exciting learning in Year 6 during Autumn Term 2025
English
Talk 4 Writing - Portal Story - The Quest
This term, we've been exploring our Talk 4 Writing (T4W) Portal story. Our text to support this is The Quest and our model text is all about a beetle portal to Ancient Egypt.
So far we've explored what a portal is and considered where our portal may take us.
We've explored fronted adverbials, the power of three and descriptive features to support us for when we write our own fictional stories.
Writing
Basic Skills
Every Monday, we start the week with a 'Basic Skills' lesson. This includes elements of writing such as handwriting, spelling, punctuation and grammar.
In Year 6, these skills are important not only for our general writing but to help develop our confidence towards our SATS.
A variety of SATS style questions are answered so that we become used to the question styles we may be asked next year.
Maths
Fast Maths
To help improve our times table recall and develop quicker fluency skills, we are beginning to explore 'Fast Maths'. One element of this is to complete a weekly multiplication grid. A 10 minute timer is set and week on week our aim is to improve our own score and become quicker and remembering our times tables facts.
Reading
Our current class text for this term is The Final Year which we are enjoying reading for please. In our Guided Reading lessons we have explored a variety of texts (links with Geography, resilience and RE). In Year 6, an element of reading this year will be exploring non-fiction texts and answering questions to support our confidence in our SATS next year. As well as reading in lessons, we've also kick started to the year off by diving head first into our new reading books. Year 6 have definitely showcased a love of reading so far and are eager when it comes to choosing books that they enjoy.
Science
Living things and their habitats
In Science this term, we are learning about the classification of living organisms. So far, we have explored the basics of classification through a sweet sorting activity (Y6 particularly enjoyed this lesson...yum), delving into the details of the six kingdoms of life and then classifying animals using Carl Linnaeus' system known as the 'Linnaean System'.
Art
Focus Artist
In Autumn term, we explored our focus artist 'Barbara Hepworth'. We created inspiration pages in our art books and will refer back to this across the year to compare our other artists and their work.
Our Value
Friendship
Our value this term is friendship. In Year 6 we regularly discuss friendship and the qualities you need to demonstrate being a good friend to others but also, to explore the type of friends you deserve and how you should be treated.
We created our own 'Friendship Bottles' which included the qualities that Year 6 though were most important in a person in order for them to be a good friend.
Geography
Why does population change?
Our focus in Geography this term is to begin to understand and know why the population changes. We've discussed the meaning of the word population and also explored population density and how this can look across the world. In order to understand what impact the population, we have looked at different factors which can impact birth and death rates. To try and remember new key knowledge, we've been working collaboratively playing games, matching up ideas and sharing information in groups and partners to help us 'know more and remember more'.
