Birkby Junior School

Year 6 - 2025/26

Head of Year 6

Mr Swift

 Teachers

Mrs Bowen

Mr Ineson

Miss Noble

Miss Massett

Miss Holmes

Mrs Gilbert-Norcliffe

Mrs Sykes (Intervention Teacher)

 Teaching Assistants

Mrs Bushra

Mrs Bhuiyan

Ms Spencer

Mr Imran

Mrs Mubasher

 HLTA

 Mrs Hussain

 Cover Supervisors

Mrs Kausar

Miss Suleman

Mrs Magee  

Welcome back Year 6! And what an exciting Summer Term we have in prospect.

Not long now till the SATs begin and you can show just how much you have learnt. During the lead up to SATS, we will continue to work hard in preparation with additional booster sessions each week. We are very proud of all our Year 6s and know that you will all be brilliant!

Important as they are, however, the Summer Term is not all about SATs. We also have lots of exciting learning going on right up until you leave us and go on to High School. In Geography, we will be moving onto learning about renewable energy. This learning is brilliant as a stimulus for a range of extended pieces of writing, which is a big focus this term as our Writing Assessments are submitted at the end of June. We will also have our annual Art Week in the latter part of the term; our fabulous Music Day, where we will be playing a variety of instruments and learning how to write musical notation; and our multimedia project, which will bring together coding skills and creativity.

English, Maths and Science will initially focus on SATs preparation but will then move towards preparation for High School. In English, we will be reading ‘The Suitcase Kid’ by Jacqueline Wilson as well as studying some amazing short animations to generate writing opportunities. In Maths, we will be consolidating all of our learning as well as working on our Y6/7 Transition Unit which is brilliant to prepare for High School as it includes some very complex mathematics and a lot of KS3 content. In Science, we will be studying the life cycles of different animals before taking on a range of exciting investigations and developing our ability to work scientifically. It is all great fun!

As well as all of this fun in the classroom, we have our residential trip to Bradley Woods coming up in very soon, where we will be zip wiring, crate stacking, firing arrows in archery and much much more!!

We also hope to be enjoying the fresh air as much as possible and will be taking every opportunity to indulge in outdoor learning. We are also planning a very exciting Leavers’ experience for our Year 6s this year, so look out for further information, which we will send as soon as possible.

A wonderful term in prospect which will go by in a flash.