Welcome to Venus Class

2025 – 2026

Welcome to what will be a FABULOUS and very BUSY year!

We (Mrs Jenkins, Mrs Barnes and Mrs Appleton) have lots of exciting learning opportunities planned for the year ahead and we hope you are looking forward to the responsibilities and challenges of Year 6.

It is very important that you come with a positive attitude and a growth mindset.
Always remember: hard work = success!

Summer Term 

HOLD ON TIGHT…..it’s going to be a busy one!

Geography/History -Britain at war

In the Britain at War project, we will learn about the main causes of the First World War and which countries were the major players. They will investigate why so many men volunteered to fight and then sequence the events at the start of the war. Using various sources of evidence, the children will learn about life in the trenches and the consequences of new weaponry. They will listen to first-hand accounts of life on the home front and evaluate the impact of war on everyday life 

 The children will also learn about the causes and main events of the Second World War. They will find out how Britain prepared itself for war and the war’s impact on civilian life. They will learn about the Battle of Britain and how it proved to be a key turning point for the Allied Powers. They will also hear about Anne Frank and discover what her story tells us about the treatment of Jewish people by the Nazi Party. The children will research the causes and consequences of the end of the Second World War and investigate the legacy of the wars in Britain. Closer to home, the children will research the life of a local First World War hero who sacrificed their life fighting for Britain. They will also investigate the legacy of these global conflicts in the post-war period. 

We will be focusing on our Christian values of hope, courage and Koinonia through this topic as we look at the lives of those involved in the wars – those who fought and those who stayed behind.

 

Science – Light Theory

This project teaches children about the way that light behaves, travelling in straight lines from a source or reflector, into the eye. They explore how we see light and colours, and phenomena associated with light, including shadows, reflections and refraction.

Evolution and inheritance

This project teaches children how living things on Earth have changed over time and how fossils provide evidence for this. They learn how characteristics are passed from parents to their offspring and how variation in offspring can affect their survival, with changes (adaptations) possibly leading to the evolution of a species.

Art – Abstraction and distortion

This project teaches children about the concepts of abstraction and distortion. They study the visual characteristics of abstraction and create a musically-inspired, abstract painting.

Design Technology – Make do and mend

This project teaches children a range of simple sewing stitches, including ways of recycling and repurposing old clothes and materials.

Religious Education

Christianity

Should believing in the resurrection change how Christians view life and death?

Humanism

Why do Humanists say happiness is the goal of life?

Music

• Musical Spotlight: Improvising with confidence
• Social question: How does music shape our way of lfe?’

Computing 

Web page creation

This unit introduces children to the creation of websites for a chosen purpose. We will identify what makes a good web page and use this information to design and evaluate our own website. Throughout the process we will pay specific attention to copyright and fair use of media, the aesthetics of the site and navigation paths.

3D Modelling

Children will initially familiarise themselves with working in a 3D space, moving, resizing and duplicating objects. They will examine the benefits of grouping and ungrouping objects, then go on to plan, develop and evaluate their own 3D model of a building.

French – Me in the world

Children will be recalling and remembering a wider range of core vocabulary in French (at the very least colours, days of the week, months of the year, greetings and personal details) and they will gain a greater understanding of some of the key concepts of grammar.

PSHE

• Being my best
• Growing and changing

PE

PE will be on a Wednesday  and a Friday this term.   Please make sure that your child has appropriate PE clothing, especially footwear.

Summer Term – Athletics, Tennis, Cricket

Maths

Following the White Rose Maths scheme, this term we will focus on:

• geometry – shape, position and direction
• weekly arithmetic practice

Keep practising your times tables as they are SO important!

English

Writing – Using the ‘Write Stuff’ we will sentence stack and produce our independent writes.  We will produce a short narrative based on the text ‘A Monster Call,’ by Patrick  Ness  and  then  a letter  inspired  by  Emma  Carroll’s  ‘Letters  from  the  lighthouse.’

 

Spelling – Spelling includes daily and weekly spelling activities that are built on the fundamentals of teaching spelling with strong phonetic foundations.   We also  use  Emile spelling which is a comprehensive, progressive and detailed scheme for teaching and learning spelling effectively. https://emile-education.com/

Reading – we will read everyday. This could be whole class reading, independent reading, reading comprehension and/or reading within other subjects.

We will read a range of texts from our Year 6 reading spine including:

Everyone must have a reading book in school with them everyday. The book corner in class is full of exciting and varied texts for you to borrow and enjoy.

Exciting books to take a look at for our project:

Take a look at this website for some amazing Year 6 reading books.

https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-6

 

Please remember to keep up to date with us on Class Dojo and message us here if you have any questions or concerns. Please keep in touch!