Year 6

Welcome Back – Year 6 Spring Term

It has been a pleasure to welcome the children back to Aylesford this week following the Christmas break. We’ve had a fantastic start to the new year and we’re already so impressed with the maturity, enthusiasm and positive attitudes that our Year 6 pupils are showing in their learning.

Meet the Team for 2025-2026

Our Year 6 staff team includes:

• Mrs Goulding  - Class Teacher
• Miss Perrier - Class Teacher (Monday-Tuesday)
• Miss Edkins - Teaching Assistant
• Mrs Bernal - 1:1 Teaching Assistant
• Mrs Razak - 1:1 Teaching Assistant

Our Spring Topic: Darwin's Delights

This term, our topic is ‘Darwin's Delights’, where we will be learning about the life of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution.

Through this topic, pupils will learn about:

• the life of Charles Darwin
• evolution and inheritance
• plant and animal adaptations and how this leads to evolution
• fossils
• classification of plants and animals
• microorganisms
• using 8 compass points
• using 4 figure co-ordinates to locate features on a map
• using latitude and longitude on atlas maps
• using OS map symbols
• the Arctic & Antarctic Circles
• the Tropics of Cancer & Capricorn
• biomes - with a focus on North America and the Amazon Rainforest
• layers of the rainforest
• climate zones
• climate change/global warming
• deforestation
• biodiversity
• ecosystems
• fairtrade

We will take a cross-curricular approach, using our topic theme to guide learning across Literacy, History, Geography, Science, Art and Design Technology, allowing pupils to make meaningful connections across subjects.

We’re looking forward to an engaging and reflective term ahead.
 

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In addition, we may send work home for your child to complete at home if we feel they may benefit from it.

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