Year 6

Friday 18th September 2026

B.B. King: “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

English

This week in English, we started reading a brilliant graphic novel called The Arrival. We looked closely at Part 1 and thought about how the characters feel at different points in the story. To make our writing extra exciting, we experimented with "shades of meaning"—learning how to swap simple words for stronger verbs and adjectives to show really big emotions. Finally, we wrote from the characters' points of view! The children wrote thoughtful pieces from the perspectives of both the young daughter and the father as he says a tearful goodbye to his family.

Please ask your child to tell you about Part 1 of the story. Getting them to recap using verbs and adjectives that we collected in our word backs this week.

Shades of Meaning

Maths

This week, we have worked on representing additive and multiplicative problems in a bar model.

The vocabulary which the children worked with:

part-part- whole additive multiplicative equivalent equal represent

bar model solution adjusting

Please work with your child to practice the fast recall of number bonds - for example 6 + ? = 10
or 45 + ? = 100 or 60 + ? = 120.

How to help at home: To build further confidence, it would be wonderful to see more practice of multi-step word problems at home. Often, the challenge isn't the calculation itself, but identifying which operations are needed to solve the story!

Can you solve these?

Spellings

Here are some of the key words we looked at in English this week for our work in The Arrival:

refugee asylum seeker traveller immigrant illegal immigrant undocumented

We looked at the definitions of each term making sure we understood. Please encourage the children to practice the spellings and see if they could remember and write down the definition of each word!

It is important that the children are forming their letters clearly and correctly when practising spellings - this is a requirement when words are 'marked'. At the moment a key focus is

e i o u and a - e i o u and a .

Please log on to the Letterjoin website to find 100s of great resources to help your child practise their handwriting!

Website: www.letterjoin.co.uk

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Autumn Curriculum Block

Here is the foundation subjects coverage for this autumn term - we cannot wait to get really immersed in our learning!

English Books

Here are the books we are going to cover throughout the year. Two books per half term.

PE

Here is a reminder of PE days for each class and the correct PE Kit we expect for indoor and outdoor PE.

Project

This half term, our Year 6 homework project is all about bringing our class identities to life! We are inviting the children to create a special showcase piece based on our class namesake—either Alan Turing or Frida Kahlo. This could be an informative booklet, an eye-catching poster, a creative art piece, or a research project of their choice. We encourage the children to get creative and explore what makes these figures so remarkable! Once complete, please bring physical creations into school or upload photos and digital files directly to Google Classroom so we can celebrate everyone's hard work and share our creations together as a class.

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