St. Peter's Catholic Primary School

Welcome to Year Six; this year is an exciting time for our children as they are reaching the end of their wonderful journey at St. Peter’s Catholic Primary. They will have created many memories throughout their time with us and during this year they are being prepared to leave us and make smooth transitions into secondary school. Everybody has many opportunities to shine, whether through sports, the arts or in academia. From the very beginning, Year 6 pupils are expected to take on more responsibility around the school and every child will be given a role of responsibility such as: ICT Monitor, CAPA Crew Leader or  perhaps by becoming a member of The Sports Crew. 

In addition to their responsibilities, Year 6 is also an important year which reflects on their knowledge and skills gained throughout their time in primary school, as in May they sit their end of Key Stage assessments.

Just before we gear up for our assessments though, we have the chance to participate in outdoor, adventurous activities, as well as learn important lessons about team work and perseverance, during our residential trip to The Conway Centre in Anglesey during April. The children challenge themselves to work as a team from building rafts, scaling walls to canoeing down the Menai Straits.

P.E. lessons are on a Thursday and Friday. Please ensure your child arrives at school in their P.E. kit on these days.

P.E. kits consist of a black t-shirt with logo, maroon shorts, St. Peter’s hoodie or school jumper, extra socks. On cold days, children may wear black tracksuit bottoms/leggings.

By the end of Year 6, pupil’s writing and reading is expected to be sufficiently fluent and effortless for them to manage the expected demands of the curriculum in Year 7. Our aim is to prepare our pupils for secondary education by ensuring they can consciously control sentence structure in their writing and understand why sentences are constructed as they are. It is important that they understand nuances in vocabulary choice and age-appropriate academic vocabulary through practice and a discussion of language through our Reading, Writing and Spelling programmes. We will, whenever possible, encourage pupil confidence, enjoyment and a mastery of language through public speaking, performance and debating opportunities.

The principle focus of mathematics in Year 6 is to ensure that pupils extend their understanding of the number system and place value to include larger integers. By the end of Year 6, pupils are expected to be fluent in written methods for all four operations, including long multiplication and division and in working with fractions, decimals and percentages. Furthermore, pupils should be able to solve a wider range of problems, of increasing complexity using efficient written and mental calculations.

Given out on a Friday to be returned on Monday.

Maths (linked to learning that has taken place that week) CGP Booklet

English: English based activities. (Reading Theory, Grammar, Creative Writing, etc.)

Spellings: Given out on a Monday to be learnt for assessment on Friday of same week.

Please find information regarding the end of KS2 assessments which take place in May below, including useful websites and documents. These documents are due to be updated by the DfE.