Year 6

Geography Topic – Planet in Peril

We will be exploring the environmental issues currently facing Earth and exploring what we can do as ‘humans’ to help with this.

Please spend some time watching our curriculum video.  This will give you an overview of life in year 6, the curriculum we will be covering, details of exciting year 6 events and ways you can support your child during this important last year at Heymann:

This year we will be sharing half termly support sheets for maths called KIRFs. This stands for key instant recall facts.  Please click on the KIRFs tab to see this half term’s.  These should help you to focus on some important facts which you need to know off by heart for success in maths.

Maths – KIRFS

Every Friday you will tackle the M Squares challenge.  This is to help keep your recall of times tables facts sharp.  You will be given 5 minutes to complete each grid.  If you are successful, you move up to the next level.  Please use the copies of the M Squares grids below to practise at home.  Don’t forget to use your TT Rock Stars account to keep practising your tables too.

Please find attached below some useful guidance regarding expectations in Year 6 and how you can help your child (to link with parents evening conversations).

Here you will find information regarding homework including a copy of each week’s planner sheet.

We have now launched the Spoken English competitor and part of the children’s homework over the next few weeks will be to plan, prepare and practise their talks ready for the week beginning 18th November.

As part of the final year in Primary School, the children will have a series of assessments known as Standard Assessment Tests (SATs). These are designed to find out if children are on track to meet the expected standards in English and maths as set out by the government.

We work hard to ensure that this is as positive an experience as we can make it for the children whilst still understanding they they want to do the best that they can on these assessments.

Attached below are two documents. One gives you more information about the assessments themselves and one tells you about how the results will be shared at the end of the year and what they mean.

As always, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the year 6 team year6-teachers@heymann.notts.sch.uk

SATs Information 2025

SATs Results Explained

Friday 4th October – here is the link for completing this week’s homework: How do scientists classify living things? | The Learning Zone (ox.ac.uk)

This term we will learn about classification of living things and inheritance and evolution.  You can access the knowledge organisers for these below.

Evolution And Inheritance KO

Light Year

Classification KO

Use the knowledge organiser below to practice your vocabulary:

We highly recommend the website http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk as it has a constantly updated recommended reads list, including synopsis and book extracts to see if you like it! There are age-appropriate book recommendations on the left-hand side.

Maths Shed https://www.mathshed.com/en-gb/

Timestable Rockstars https://ttrockstars.com/login

Touchtyping https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3c6tfr

Spelling Shed https://play.edshed.com/login

BBC bite-size https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

Oak Academy: https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year/year-6