Year 6

Welcome to our Year 6 class page!

We are hoping you have had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to an exciting 2026! This half term will be packed with lots of fun and interesting learning opportunities that we hope will both challenge and engage our Year 6s as they enter their penultimate primary school term! We can’t wait to get started!

Mrs Olphin will be teaching Year 6 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesday afternoons and Miss Jarman will continue to teach on Wednesday mornings, Thursdays and Fridays. Mrs Radley will be supporting the learning in Year 6 throughout the week.

We are starting this term with a geography unit of work, which will see us journeying across the Atlantic as we embark on a study of North America. During this unit, we will find where North America is and we’ll explore the 50 states that make up the USA. We will also identify the human and physical features of the Rockies. Our unit will end with a closer look at the Big Apple.

As well as learning about this geographical unit, Year 6 will also be exploring the unit, ‘Living Things and Their Habitats’ in science. We’ll describe how living things are classified into broad groups based on the similarities and differences between them. We’ll also make justifications about why we have classified plants and animals in the ways we have done. We will explore the work of Carl Linnaeus and the classification system that he invented. At the end of the unit, we’ll investigate how micro-organisms can affect food over time.

Alongside these interesting and engaging units of work, we’ll also be continuing to challenge our musical abilities during our weekly music sessions on Mondays and we’ll be perfecting our Spanish on Thursdays

Some key information:

Music – Monday mornings

P.E. with Mrs Olphin – Monday afternoons

Dance with Tameside Coach – Wednesday afternoons

Spanish – Thursday mornings

Year 6 are expected to read at least three times a week for 20 minutes or more and to have their reading diaries signed by a grown up at home. They are welcome to read either their reading book, their Top 10 read or another book they may have at home as long as these are clearly recorded. The children’s diaries will be checked in school to see if this has been completed. Any children who read five times a week will receive a raffle ticket and be entered into our half-termly draw where they will have the chance to win themselves a fiver!

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Jarman, Mrs Olphin and Mrs Radley