Welcome to Year 6! 

Welcome to Year 6 and your final year at Chestnuts Primary School. While in Year 6, the children are able to take on some additional responsibilities in school and, as such are rewarded with the opportunity to wear black jumpers instead of navy blue. These extra responsibilities may include:

• becoming house captains for sporting events
• supporting with one-to-one reading in KS1
• carrying out phonics sessions with children in KS1 and EYFS
• supporting the younger children at break times and lunchtimes
• helping the adults in the hall at lunchtimes
• taking more of a leading role on the school council

Year 6 will continue to have reading, writing and maths lessons which develop the children’s skills and build on the knowledge they already have from previous years. During the summer term, they will take part in the national Key Stage 2 SATs tests in reading, maths and SPaG, while their writing is assessed through their independent pieces during the year. We work hard to ensure that the children are prepared for these assessments academically but also emotionally. We expect everyone to demonstrate a positive attitude, challenge themselves and ultimately do their best.  

Throughout the year, the children will have opportunities to go back in time and learn about WW2, jet off around the world to learn about Mexico and the ancient Mayan traditions and use electricity to design and create their own fairground ride. We will visit Bletchley Park and the National Art Gallery; Year 6 is also when the children are able to take part in a two-night, off-site residential. 

Thinking ahead to secondary school, we begin to prepare the children as much as possible. In Year 6, the children are taught reading, writing and maths by a range of different adults and begin getting used to moving classrooms for each lesson as well as following a timetable. They will also complete a range of activities focused on the transition to secondary school and the next stages of their learning journey during the summer term at Chestnuts.