Year 6 Curriculum Letter – Summer 2: Macbeth, Memories and Moving Up!

Monday 8^th June 2026

Dear Year 6 Parents and Carers,

RE: Year 6 Curriculum – Summer 2: Macbeth, Memories and Moving on Up!

It may be hard to believe, but your children have just seven weeks left in primary school! We are looking forward to a busy, hard-working and fun end to the school year. 

Our theme for this last half term is: Macbeth, Memories and Moving on Up! Our aim for this term is threefold: to keep as many of the children’s normal routines in place as possible; to prepare them for the transition to secondary school; and to celebrate and mark their achievements during their time at Kelvin Grove.

Below are the key dates and information you need to know for this term:

TFL workshop – Wednesday 10^th June

Secondary Transfer Workshops (in school) delivered by Lewisham, one date for each class – Tuesday 2^nd, 9^th & 16^th June

Y6 Sports Day – Tuesday 23^rd June (morning) a separate letter will be sent with further details and exact timings

Frylands Wood Scout Outdoor Centre – Thursday 9^th July a separate letter will be sent out shortly with further details
France Week – Monday 6^th – Friday 10^th July

Thursday 16^th July – Y6 End of Year Party (5.00pm – 7.00pm)
Friday 17^th July – Y6 Leavers’ Assembly (9.30am start time)

Yearbook

As is our tradition, we will be making a yearbook for the children as a memento of their time at Kelvin Grove. The children have already begun working hard on this and staff are finalising the final product. Every child is featured and the final yearbook is printed and bound externally to a high professional standard.  The yearbook is something to cherish and a special souvenir that they can look back on in the days, weeks, months and years to come. Children will be given their yearbook during the Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly.

Secondary transition

We will be supporting our children with their secondary school transition in many ways throughout the term. Individual secondary schools will write to you directly with the dates and times of their visit days for incoming Year 7s. Some of our children will children will take part in secondary transition workshops this term in school provided by Outreach Inclusion and our Educational Psychologist.  We will continue to follow up on this in PHSE lessons and provide support to individual children as necessary. Please keep an eye out for these communications and inform the school office of dates when your child/children will be out of school attending them.    

Year 6 Leavers’ Party – Thursday 16^th July, 5.00-7.00pm
This will be in the Main Hall from 5.00pm until 7.00pm (Food will be provided.) Further details will be sent to you nearer the time.

Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly – Friday 17^th July, 9.30am  

This will take place on the last day of term; Mr Hyde will be presenting children with their yearbooks and speaking about their time at Kelvin Grove. Parents are welcome to attend the assembly and celebrate the Class of 2026. There will be an opportunity after the assembly to take photos in the Paxton Playground.  You will be asked nearer to the time how many seats you require (usually a maximum of two per family).

Uniform

Please note that children are expected to be in full school uniform until the last day of term (Friday 17^th July).  This includes black school shoes or black trainers. If there are any difficulties with this, please speak to your child’s registration teacher. Our PE day will continue to be on PPA Mondays (All Classes) and every Thursday (Brass & Copper Class) and Friday (Bronze Class); children are expected to wear their Kelvin Grove jumpers as part of their school uniform. In light of hotter weather, please reinforce what we teach the children in PHSE about daily washing, using deodorant as appropriate and changing their school shirt regularly. 

Home Learning

As part of our PSHE lessons, we will be looking at ‘Economic Wellbeing’. Your home learning is to make a poster about how to keep your money safe and how to spot the risks. The poster is aimed at young children and needs to be informative, colourful and creative! Think about the below scenarios from the lesson to help you.

1. Unattended wallet
2. Lost mobile phone
3. Sharing passwords
4. Public Wi-Fi
5. Personal Information
6. Suspicious email

We are looking forward to enjoying this last term with your children. If you have any questions, please speak with your child’s class teacher.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Year 6 Team

Mr Gough, Miss Horgan, Miss Hudson