Year 6 Oak Class 2024/2025
Year 6 Oak Class Key Information
Teachers: Miss Lydia Regan and Miss Ashleigh Martin
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Dixon
PE day: Tuesday
Spelling Test: Friday
Times Table Test: Friday
Stay up-to-date with Year 6 events, news and updates via our Class Dojo page:
Curriculum Overview
Year 6 Long Term Plan (click to enlarge):
Our Autumn Projects
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History:
Science:
Art and D&T:
Geography:
RE:
Our Spring Projects
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Geography:
Science:
Art and D&T:
RE:
Our Summer Projects
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History:
Science:
Art and D&T:
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Our Literacy Texts
Our literacy curriculum is text-based. Please find the texts we use below:
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer |
| The Arrival | The Windrush Child | Darwin’s Voyage of Discovery | Grimm Tales for Young and Old | Beetle Boy |
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| Shaun Tan | Benjamin Zephaniah | Jake Williams | Phillip Pullman | M.G Leonard |
| What drives so many to leave everything behind and journey alone to a mysterious country, a place without family or friends, where everything is nameless and the future is unknown. This silent graphic novel is the story of every migrant, every refugee, every displaced person, and a tribute to all those who have made the journey.
The Arrival has become one of the most critically acclaimed books of recent years, a wordless masterpiece that describes a world beyond any familiar time or place. |
This poignant story, written by influential poet Benjamin Zephaniah, delves into the history of the Windrush generation. Through studying the text, children will engage with the experiences of those who left behind their homes in the Caribbean and arrived on the shores of Britain after the Second World War. | This is a wonderful celebration of history’s most remarkable journey; published to celebrate 160 years of Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking text on evolution: On The Origin of Species. Step on-board The Beagle and follow the remarkable journey that inspired almost all modern-day knowledge of the natural world. From England to Cape Verde, Brazil to the Galapagos, Tahiti to Australia; discover the wildlife of Charles Darwin – giant sloths, platypus, tarantulas, fireflies and more. As well as gorgeous artwork and fascinating information on the journey, this book also features the equipment used by Darwin and cross-sections of the ship itself. | In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a’clear as water’ retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice.From the quests and romance of classics such as ‘Rapunzel’, ‘Snow White’ and ‘Cinderella’ to the danger and wit of such lesser-known tales as ‘The Three Snake Leaves’, ‘Hans-my-Hedgehog’ and ‘Godfather Death’, Pullman brings the heart of each timeless tale to the fore, following with a brief but fascinating commentary on the story’s background and history. | As a reader we immediately warm to Darkus who – despite losing both parents, spending time in a truly horrible foster home and facing the bullies at school – doesn’t complain. Instead he focuses on finding his dad and saving the beetles in the house next door. The characters are simply brilliant, they spring to life off the pages, but perhaps the character who stands out the most is the evil antagonist, Lucretia Cutter. |
Our Guided Reading Texts
Our Guided Reading curriculum is mostly novel-based, alongside excerpts of different text types. Please find our novels below:
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer |
| Fly me home | A World full of Journeys and Migrations | Darwin’s Voyage of Discovery | Grimm Tales for Young and Old | Beetle Boy |
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| Polly Ho-Yen | Martin Howard | Jake Williams | Phillip Pullman | M.G Leonard |
| Leelu feels lost and alone after finding herself in a new city which is grey, dirty, noisy and cold; a world away from the place she calls ‘home’. Living in a dilapidated flat in a forgotten part of the city and feeling like an outsider at school, Leelu wishes she could fly the thousands of miles back home to where her dad has had to stay behind. When her mum takes on a job working nights and her brother starts sneaking out of the house, Leelu begins to feel even more isolated. | Why do people migrate? Who were the first travellers in history? And where will we humans travel to next?
Since the dawn of time, people have travelled to distant lands for many different reasons; to escape war, famine or injustice, to find work, or to simply see new sights and have an adventure. But everyone who migrates does it to seek a brighter future. A World Full of Journeys is an illustrated book which tells some of the most fascinating stories of migration throughout history. From the very first humans who left Africa almost 70,000 years ago and moved around the world, to immigrants welcomed to America at Ellis Island, this book is packed with fascinating tales of human triumph. |
This is a wonderful celebration of history’s most remarkable journey; published to celebrate 160 years of Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking text on evolution: On The Origin of Species. Step on-board The Beagle and follow the remarkable journey that inspired almost all modern-day knowledge of the natural world. From England to Cape Verde, Brazil to the Galapagos, Tahiti to Australia; discover the wildlife of Charles Darwin – giant sloths, platypus, tarantulas, fireflies and more. As well as gorgeous artwork and fascinating information on the journey, this book also features the equipment used by Darwin and cross-sections of the ship itself. | In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a’clear as water’ retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice.From the quests and romance of classics such as ‘Rapunzel’, ‘Snow White’ and ‘Cinderella’ to the danger and wit of such lesser-known tales as ‘The Three Snake Leaves’, ‘Hans-my-Hedgehog’ and ‘Godfather Death’, Pullman brings the heart of each timeless tale to the fore, following with a brief but fascinating commentary on the story’s background and history. | As a reader we immediately warm to Darkus who – despite losing both parents, spending time in a truly horrible foster home and facing the bullies at school – doesn’t complain. Instead he focuses on finding his dad and saving the beetles in the house next door. The characters are simply brilliant, they spring to life off the pages, but perhaps the character who stands out the most is the evil antagonist, Lucretia Cutter. |
Spelling
Each week we have a list of 10 spellings that follow a particular spelling rule. The children practise these words in class throughout the week but also need to practise these words at home. Click on the documents below to access the termly overviews.
Statutory spellings Years 3 and 4 – word mat
Statutory spellings Years 5 and 6 – Word mat
Our Class Spelling Lists
Maths
Our Maths Curriculum Overview –
Click on the units to download the Knowledge Organisers (A document that contains short explanations, making it clear to the student as to what is essential to learn)
| Autumn | Spring | Summer |
| Unit 1: Place Value within 10,000,00 | Unit 7: Ratio and Proportion | Unit 12: Statistics
Unit 13: Geometry – Properties of Shape Unit 14: Position and Direction Unit 15: Problem Solving |
Times Tables
Click on the links below for some multiplication online games.
Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Times Tables Games for 7 to 11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)
Times tables games and songs 1-12 – BBC Bitesize
Home Learning
Spellings and Times Tables for the week are sent home every Monday via Class Dojo. Children are expected to practise these at home ahead of the spelling and times tables tests on a Friday.
Children each have their own White Rose Maths homework book, which is sent home every Thursday and expected back in the following Thursday. We assign 2 pages from the White Rose homework books to be completed each week. These are announced via Class Dojo.
Project Homework
Each term, we will send home project homework booklets. Children are expected to choose one or two activities from these, and return their work to school by a specified date. Parents are invited in to view the project homework in the hall.