Welcome to our Year 6 page
Here you will find the latest updates, information about what we are learning and resources to support the learning of our children.
Please do not hesitate to contact us via email at:
info@belle-vue.dudley.sch.uk
or leave a message with the office on 01384 389900 if you have any questions.
Parent meetings spring 2026
Thursday 22nd January - SATs meeting
Tuesday 24th & Thursday 26th February - Parents evenings
Parent meeting PowerPoint
Mrs V Hopkins
Year 6 Class Teacher
English Lead Teacher
Mr C Allison
Mrs Fisher
Teaching assistant
Mrs Northall
Teaching assistant
This is an overview of events throughout the year. All of these dates are provisional and may be subject to change. Further details about the events will be sent out nearer the time.
Key Dates
Current Term
Reading
Writing
Maths
Cogheart is our current class novel. This is read daily and is also the basis of some reading lessons.
In addition, we use a variety of short extracts linked to the wider curriculum in reading lessons to develop fluency and to build background knowledge and vocabulary.
In the spring term, we will continue to work on developing sentence structure and the ability to select and combine sentences to create effective longer pieces. We will be using these skills in a variety of both fiction and non-fiction pieces.
Having focused on place value and the four operations in the autumn term, we will now turn our attention to fractions, decimals and percentages and other areas of the maths curriculum such as shape and statistics. The children will have weekly arithmetic tests to keep their ability to calculate sharp.
Science
Art
Geography
Music
Biology - classification of living things
Renaissance architecture and sculpture
Spatial sense
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RE
PSHE
P.E.
Our school day
Equality in religion
The influence of the media
Gymnastics
Morning
Handwriting-Mathematics-Assembly-Breaktime-Spelling-Reading-Writing
Lunch
Foundation subjects -Class novel
Home-time
Spellings
- We have a phonics-based approach to spelling in KS2
- Children are taught a phoneme (sound) and then we focus on some of the different graphemes (letters) that represent that phoneme.
- Over the course of the week, children learn how to spell a set amount of words that include that phoneme
Mr Allison's English group spellings 26.1.26
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Mrs Hopkins' English group spellings wb. 26.1.26 'ear'
| weary | cereal | serial |
| interfere | sincerely | experience |
| period | here | hear |
| peer | pier | steered |
Mrs Hopkins' English group spellings w.b. 2.2.26 'er'
| firm | consider | exercise |
| verdict | learn | grammar |
| favourite | peculiar | popular |
| certain | certificate | conquer |
Department for Education's statutory spelling list for Y5 & 6
Handwriting
- We use the handwriting scheme 'Letter Join'. Handwriting is taught daily and children have chance to practise the letters/joins.
- We expect children to use and implement the letters/joins they have learnt in handwriting in all their independent writing.
At home tablet log-in for Letter-join
username: qr0470
swipe code: capital 'L' shape starting at top left
At home PC log-in for Letter-join
username: qr0470
password: home
Communication Platforms
Key messages for parents will be communicated by the school office via School Life App.
- Copies of letters are sent out to parents via emails and uploaded to the school website.
- Key dates are published on our website (Academic Diary Dates)
- Google Form links that cannot be shared publicly for safeguarding reasons will be emailed to families.
- Newsletters will be issued every fortnight and available on the School Life app and uploaded to the website.
Forest School
Both Y6 classes will have one PE slot on Monday mornings and a 2nd slot on Friday mornings.
Long hair must be tied back for these sessions.
Earrings should be removed before these sessions. If this is not possible, earrings must be covered with plasters. Children must remove their own earrings/put on their own plasters.
How parents can best support their child's learning
Daily reading - independently or aloud to you - this is still useful even in Y6!
Times tables practice
Spelling practice
Handwriting practice
Encouraging independence - P.E kit, letters etc
Homework
Homework is set in accordance with our SMART homework policy. It includes:
Daily reading
Practising spelling words
Learning times tables
Plus occasional other tasks to do with the wider curriculum
