Autumn Term

As Autumn term begins, I am happy to be welcoming our wonderful children back to school for their final year at St Mary’s.  

Myself and Ms Anderton will ensure that we create a calm and welcoming environment for all of the children in our class. The curriculum in year 6 is broad and balanced, it is designed to challenge and support pupils to achieve and grow to the best of their ability.

This term, in English, our writing will be based upon Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. We will cover a range of text types and focus on the development of our grammar, punctuation and spelling skills. We will also link Oliver Twist to our history topic on the Victorians and also our Art/DT topic of William Morris textiles.

In Maths, children will progress to cover the full year 6 curriculum. We will begin with Place Value, Four Operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), Fractions and Position/Direction. 

In PSHE we will look at our school expectations and how to stay ready, respectful and safe. We will then learn about parliament. Our Catholic Religious Education programme will focus on Creation, Vocation and Commitment in our first half term.

For our first Science topic, we will cover living things and their habitats including classification.  In Music we will have Lancashire Music Service providing ukelele lessons. In PE we will have specialist sports coaches in school from Accrington Stanley. Our Computing program will begin with online safety. Finally, our French topic will be Sports and Olympics.