Welcome to Year 6H!
STAFF TEAM: Mrs Hardingham, Miss Panchbhaya,
Mrs Lightfoot, Miss Worthington, Mrs Whittingham, Mr Newton
Welcome to our class page where you will find important information such as our curriculum letters, weekly spellings and any important news we have to share. You will also find photographs of all the amazing and fun things we have been doing.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Key Reminders
- PE is on Tuesday. Please remember to have the correct PE kit on this day. If unsure, please refer to the school website.
- Read everyday. Your child is expected to read daily. They can read to your or independently. Please sign their reading record to show that they have read.
- Homework will go out every Wednesday and must be returned the following Monday. There is a homework club on Thursday lunchtime for children that need support or have a busy weekend planned where they would struggle to get it completed on time. Homework consists of English and Maths. Maths Scrap Book - Please complete the task as a family. This goes out on Friday and needs to be returned on Wednesday.
Topmarks: teaching resources, interactive resources, worksheets, homework, exam and revision help
Maths Zone Cool Learning Games – Maths Games and Learning Activties for Fun
Times Tables Rock Stars: Play (ttrockstars.com)
Key Stage 2 SATs in 2025
The National Curriculum assessments, or SATs, can seem daunting, but understanding them can ease concerns. SATs are national and standardised tests taken by children in Year 6 in England. SATs assess the knowledge and skills in Mathematics, English Reading, and Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling (GPS).
Held every May, the 2025 Key Stage 2 SATs run from Monday, May 12th, to Thursday, May 15th.
The purpose of Key Stage 2 SATs is to measure your child's academic progress and the school's performance. SATs results are passed on to your child's secondary school to help their new school set a baseline for progress measurement and often place them into suitable sets or streams in Year 7.
SATs Subjects
- English Reading: Tests comprehension skills through questions based on various texts. There is one English Reading Paper, 50 marks, 60 minutes.
- Mathematics: This course includes arithmetic and reasoning papers. It focuses on number operations, fractions, decimals, percentages, and problem-solving. There are three Mathematics Papers, 110 marks, and 110 minutes.
- English Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling (GPS): This assesses grammar rules, punctuation, and spelling knowledge. There are two GPS papers, 70 marks, 60 minutes.
SATs Test Schedule
- Monday, 12th May 2025: English Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling (Papers 1 and 2).
- Tuesday, 13th May 2025: English Reading.
- Wednesday, 12th May 2025: Mathematics (Papers 1 and 2).
- Thursday, 15th May 2025: Mathematics (Paper 3).
RESOURCES
These are previous SATs papers that we have looked at in class:
SATS Papers 2017
Gang for Life Workshop- Thursday 10th October
We learnt lots about what gangs are, how they can affect your life and the consequences of our actions. We listened to the story of someone who was in a gang and ended up making lots of bad choices which resulted in him missing out on a football career and ending up in prison for over a third of his life. We finished off our session with a 15 station fitness circuit.
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Here are the important documents for this half term.
Important Documents 6H Autumn 1 24-25
SPELLINGS
Spellings tests are carried out on Wednesdays and new spellings are taught and handed out to the children to take home. Please ensure that your child practices and learns the spelling pattern/rule each week to help improve their general spelling when writing. Please note that dates are not included in the overview. As an example, week 1 spellings are handed out on week 1 and then children carry out the test on week 2 (the following week) and so on.
ENGLISH AND READING
Our class novel in English for Autumn Term 1 is Star of Fear, Star of Hope by Jo Hoestlandt. In reading, our class text is When We Were Warriors by Emma Carroll.
Year 6 Five Class Reads
In Year 6, our five class reads for Autumn Term 1 are: If the World Were 100 People by Jackie McCann | Wisp by Zana Fraillon | Dreams of Freedom by Amnesty International | Where the Poppies Now Grow by Hilary Robinson | When I Was a Child by Andy Stanton
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Here are the important documents for this half term.
Important Documents 6H Autumn 2 24-25
SPELLINGS
Spellings tests are carried out on Wednesdays and new spellings are taught and handed out to the children to take home. Please ensure that your child practices and learns the spelling pattern/rule each week to help improve their general spelling when writing. Please note that dates are not included in the overview. As an example, week 1 spellings are handed out on week 1 and then children carry out the test on week 2 (the following week) and so on.
ENGLISH AND READING
Our class text in English for Autumn Term 2 is The Place for Me: Stories About the Windrush Generation. We will be studying this book in our English Writing and Reading lessons.
Year 6 Five Class Reads
In Year 6, our five class reads for Autumn Term 2 are:
Tudor Workshop at Smithill's Hall - Friday 15th November
Year 6 visited Smithill's Hall where we toured the grounds, learnt about the Tudor families that lived there and experienced a Tudor banquet with a feast, taking part in a dance and playing skittles.
6H Reading Afternoon - Thursday 21st November
Thank you to the parents who came to read with pupils in our school library.
Welcome to Year 6H!
STAFF TEAM: Mrs Hardingham, Mrs Lewin,
Mrs Lightfoot, Miss Worthington, Mrs Ahmed and Mrs Berry
Welcome to our class page where you will find important information such as our curriculum letters, weekly spellings and any important news we have to share. You will also find photographs of all the amazing and fun things we have been doing.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Key Reminders
- PE is on Tuesday and Thursday. Please remember to have the correct PE kit on this day. If unsure, please refer to the school website.
- Read everyday. Your child is expected to read daily. They can read to your or independently. Please sign their reading record to show that they have read.
- Homework will go out every Wednesday and must be returned the following Monday. There is a homework club on Thursday lunchtime for children that need support or have a busy weekend planned where they would struggle to get it completed on time. Homework consists of a creative challenge, English and Maths. Maths Scrap Book - Please complete the task as a family. This goes out on Friday and needs to be returned on Wednesday.
Topmarks: teaching resources, interactive resources, worksheets, homework, exam and revision help
Maths Zone Cool Learning Games – Maths Games and Learning Activties for Fun
Times Tables Rock Stars: Play (ttrockstars.com)
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Here are the important documents for this half term.
6H Autumn 1 Important Documents
Spellings tests are carried out on Wednesdays and new spellings are taught and handed out to the children to take home. Please ensure that your child practices and learns the spelling pattern/rule each week to help improve their general spelling when writing. Please note that dates are not included in the overview. As an example, week 1 spellings are handed out on week 1 and then children carry out the test on week 2 (the following week) and so on.
ENGLISH AND READING
Our class novel for Autumn Term 1 is Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll. The genre is historical fiction and all of our English lessons will be based around this book.
Year 6 Five Class Reads
In Year 6, our five class reads for Autumn Term 1 are: If the World Were 100 People by Jackie McCann | Wisp by Zana Fraillon | Dreams of Freedom by Amnesty International | Where the Poppies Now Grow by Hilary Robinson | When I Was a Child by Andy Stanton
Gang for Life Workshop- Wednesday 24th October
We learnt lots about what gangs are, how they can affect your life and the consequences of our actions. We listened to the story of someone who was in a gang and ended up making lots of bad choices which resulted in him missing out on a football career and ending up in prison for over a third of his life. We finished off our session with a 15 station fitness circuit.
War Workshop- Tuesday 23rd October
We had a fantastic day learning about World War 1 and World War 2. The children learnt lots and it consolidated lots of learning from out Theme- Wars of the World. They got to dress up and hold real artefacts from the war. The children were given a souvenir half penny to take away.
Winter Hill- Tuesday 3rd October
What a great first trip! Despite the bad weather, Year 6 made it to the top of Winter Hill. With a few stuck shoes along the way, muddy falls and windswept faces, we had a great morning.
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Here are the important documents for this half term.
6H Autumn 2 Important Documents
SPELLINGS
Spellings tests are carried out on Wednesdays and new spellings are taught and handed out to the children to take home. Please ensure that your child practices and learns the spelling pattern/rule each week to help improve their general spelling when writing. Please note that dates are not included in the overview. As an example, week 1 spellings are handed out on week 1 and then children carry out the test on week 2 (the following week) and so on.
ENGLISH AND READING
Our class novel for Autumn Term 2 is The Giant's Necklace by Michael Morpurgo. The genre is ghost story and all of our English lessons will be based around this book.
Year 6 Five Class Reads
In Year 6, our five class reads for Autumn Term 2 are:
Christmas Party- Monday 18th December
Thank you to all of the yummy food your brought in. Year 6 had a great time. What an excellent way to end a busy term!
Cinderella Pantomime- Monday 18th December
KS2 had a great time at the Victoria Hall watching Cinderella. We especially enjoyed our ice cream!
Trip to Bolton Museum- Tuesday 12th December
Year 6 had a fantastic time learning about Samuel Crompton at Bolton Museum. We were also lucky enough to see the robot exhibit and view the moon. In the town centre, we visited the Samuel Crompton statue, saw his grave and paid a visit to the library. Over 10,000 steps later, it's safe to say, we had a busy and enjoyable day!
Library Afternoon- Friday 24th November
Thank you so much to the parents who came in for our library afternoon. Our children really immersed themselves in the books and it was a pleasure to see families enjoying reading together.
Theme Fieldwork- Friday 24th November
In Theme, we conducted some fieldwork linked to our Geography lesson. We evaluated the different type of vehicles travelling to and from town at various times during the day.
English- Thursday 16th November
In English, we hot-seated Cherry's parents to ask how they felt about their daughter going missing.
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Here are the important documents for this half term.
6H Spring 1 Important Documents
SPELLINGS
Spellings tests are carried out on Wednesdays and new spellings are taught and handed out to the children to take home. Please ensure that your child practices and learns the spelling pattern/rule each week to help improve their general spelling when writing.
ENGLISH AND READING
Our class novel for Spring Term 1 is Wonder by RJ Palacio. The genre is young adult fiction and all of our English lessons will be based around this book.
Year 6 Five Class Reads
In Year 6, our five class reads for Spring Term 1 are: And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson; The Island by Armin Greder; Humpty Dumpty Lived Near a Wall by Derek Hughes; Freedom We Sing by Amyra León; and How to live forever by Colin Thompson
Reading Afternoon- 09.02.24
Thank you to the adults who visited us this afternoon. It was lovely to see so many of you and the children really enjoyed reading with you.
Art- Wire Sculptures 30.1.24
In Art, we learnt about figurative sculpture Pietro D'Angelo who is famous for his sculptures made of iron paper clips. We then watched a YouTube video of an artist sculpting a giraffe out of wire. We followed the steps and made our own models.
PSHE- Collaboration 16.01.24
In PSHE, we looked at the word collaboration and discussed what it means. We thought about everyday examples where we use teamwork. Then, in groups, we used scrabble letters to make as many connected words as possible. The conclusion: some groups worked well collaboratively and managed to get lots of words; others found it tricky as each individual concentrated on making their own words first and then struggled to connect them together. We all learnt a lesson about teamwork.
PSHE Collaboration 16.01.24
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Here are the important documents for this half term.
6H Spring 2 Important Documents
SPELLINGS
Spellings tests are carried out on Wednesdays and new spellings are taught and handed out to the children to take home. Please ensure that your child practices and learns the spelling pattern/rule each week to help improve their general spelling when writing.
ENGLISH
This half term in English, our writing will be based on the short film Alma.
Year 6 Five Class Reads
In Year 6, our five class reads for Spring Term 2 are: The Wolves in The Wall by Neil Gaiman, Into the Forest by Anthony Browne, Fox by Isabel Thomas and Daniel Egneus, Black Dog by Levi Pinfold, The Story of The Three Little Pigs.
World Book Day - 21.03.24
We had an excellent World Book Day. We looked at the book Little People Big Dreams: Harriet Tubman. We learnt the song Follow the Drinking Gourd and performed it in assembly. We enjoyed a reading afternoon with Y1 children.
Science Parachutes - 14.03.24
This half term, we have been learning about forces. We have been investigating parachutes to see how the force air resistance works. We investigated the size of the parachute and the mass of the object.
Science Dissection - 21.03.24
We went to Sharples to dissect a lamb's heart. This was very exciting and I was so pleased how all children took part despite feeling a little iffy at first. This links to our unit on the Circulatory System that we will be studying next half term. Children learnt about the 4 chambers and what the vein and arteries do.
Science Water Resistance - 21.03.24
To continue with our forces unit, we investigated water resistance. We dropped play-doh into water, each time changing it's shape from a ball to a more streamlined shape. Our investigation showed us that the more streamlined the shape, the faster it fell.
Science Pulleys - 26.03.24
As you can see, we have been doing lots of practical science this half term. In today's lesson, we learnt about mechanisms (levers, gears and pulleys) and then investigated how a pulley "lightens the load". We used weights and a newton meter and concluded that less force had to be used when using a pulley than without.
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Here are the important documents for this half term.
6H Summer 1 Important Documents
SPELLINGS
Spellings tests are carried out on Wednesdays and new spellings are taught and handed out to the children to take home. Please ensure that your child practices and learns the spelling pattern/rule each week to help improve their general spelling when writing.
ENGLISH
This half term in English, our writing will be based on Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
Year 6 Five Class Reads
Shelter for Sadness by Anna Booth | Dear Wild Child – Wallace. J. Nicholls | Do Not Open This Book by Andy Lee | Penguin Problems by Jory John | Farther by Grahame Baker Smith
Making Blood - 18.4.24
In Science, we learnt about the blood and make our version of it including: red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma.
Heart Rate - 19.4.24
In Science, we learnt about our heart rate. We listened to our heart rates using a stethoscope and watched our pulse on our wrist using a marshmallow on a stick.
Blood Flow - 23.4.24
In Science, we learnt about how our blood flows around the body and demonstrated this using plastic straws and balloons.
Year 6 Summer Curriculum Letter
Here is a link to SATs resources that you might find useful:
https://www.sats-papers.co.uk/
Weekly Spellings Overview:
We now have our spelling test on a Monday afternoon.
Year 6 Spring 2 Spellings Overview
World Book Day: Thursday 2nd March
What a fantastic day we all had! Our work was focusing on "The Invisible" by Tom Percival. Yet again, it demonstrated how kind, loving and empathetic our children are. We had a fabulous time in the library and really enjoyed reading stories with Y2B. This will now become a monthly event. Eshaal won our costume competition but the other children made it so hard to pick one winner!!!
Class Worship
Today, we celebrated our talents and skills: 'For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.' Ephesians 2:10
Year 6 Class Worship Talent and Skills
Our Blood Experiment
We made blood today starting with the plasma. We then added red blood cells followed by white blood cells. We discussed what would happen if an 'invader' came into our blood. The white blood cells were able to attack it and then reproduce themselves to make us better.
Y6K Blood Experiment
Commando Joe (Sp1 Week 5)
We had a fantastic session with Lewis this week where we tried to complete the course. Some cones were safe whilst others were mines. The groups then worked together to try to build the tallest tower.
Year 6 Commando Joe
TTRS: Number Day for NSPCC
We had such an enjoyable day dressing up as Rockstars!!! I'm not sure who enjoyed it more - the children or the staff. Thank you for your kind donations.
TTRS Y6K
World War II Dance: The Charleston
Thank you to Mr Manning for teaching us how to do 'The Charleston'. Well done to Year 6 for giving it such a fantastic go and really trying your best!!!
Year 6 Charleston
Y6K Reading Afternoon
Thank you to all the parents who joined us for our reading afternoon.
Remembrance Day
On the 11th November, Year 6 walked to Bolton town hall for the annual remembrance of those who fought in the wars.
Chetham's School of Music
We were involved in a music project with Chetham's School of Music in Manchester. They came and worked with us over a month to produce a piece of music, we then performed it to the rest of the school.
We then got the opportunity to visit Chetham School of Music and watch a performance.
IWM Museum Visit
As part of our learning 'War of the Worlds' we visited the Imperial War Museum in Salford. We developed our knowledge even further on this trip.
Poetry Day
We were involved in a whole school poetry day. We watched a live stream about poetry then created out own poems.
Science: Light
Linked to our theme in science we investigated best materials for black out blinds.
Our Winter Hill Walk
What a great start to our new school year. We had a great romp up Winter Hill chatting, bonding and enjoying the gorgeous views.
MEET THE TEACHER
We had an amazing turn out at the recent meet the teacher meeting-THANKYOU!
If you were unable to go, or have forgotten some of the things we spoke about, then here is the Powerpoint that we used.
Y6 MEET THE TEACHER
ARCHIVED ITEMS
The Anderton Centre 2022
Year 6 had a fantastic time over two days at the Anderton centre. Activities included: Raft building, low ropes, archery, tree climbing, crate stacking, Canadian canoeing and paddle boarding,
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Y6 SPELLINGS SUMMER
SUMMER 2:
Our theme this half term is '...And the band played on'.
“...And The Band Played On” is a thematic unit, based on the story of the Titanic, with a key focus on history.
It begins by locating the point at which the Titanic sank using Google Earth and working back from there,
learning about the ship’s communication systems, the timeline leading up to the tragedy and, finally,
deciding upon who should be held responsible for the demise of the unsinkable ship.
ART DAY
Last week we had a fabulous day looking at mark making. From this we produced a sketchbook of work, which we put into an art gallery for the whole school to enjoy. Here are some pictures of us at work.
DANCE OFF SPRING 2022 Y6
SPRING 2022 DANCE OFF
As part of our English focus - ghost stories- we performed the Ghostbusters dance!
Year 6 went out litter picking in the local community.
Children in need 2021
On Wednesday 24th November we put down our pens and focussed on our speaking and listening skills
As part of our theme topic and DT we built bridges using newspaper.
Y6 curriculum letter Autumn
Y6 Matt Rotherham
We were lucky enough to be visited by the world record breaking, gold medalist Matt Rotherham who competed at this year's Tokyo Olympics!
Class 6Cl went for our annual walk up Winter Hill last week. The weather and conditions were tough, but we persevered!
We were visited by the deputy head teacher and two ex-pupils from St. Matthews. They told us all about how exciting life is at Sharples school and invited us for an open evening.
ARCHIVED DOCUMENTS
Here you will find older documents from throughout the year.
Y6 SUMMER 1 THEME OVERVIEW GLOBAL WARNING
Useful "Learning Links" to help with learning at home:
Click on the picture and it will take you directly to the website.
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Looking after you.
Having good mental health helps us relax more, achieve more and enjoy our lives more. Let's be honest: 2020 has been pretty tough, and being back at school or college is not exactly a walk in the park either. That's why taking care of our mental health is so important, especially now.
Check out the following link to help with your mental health.
UKS2 Wellbeing Documents
Y6 CURRICULUM LETTERS |
COVID-19 (coronavirus) absence
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