St George's School, Colchester

Year 6 SATS

The Year 6 children take part in SATS tests. The purpose of SATs is to measure your child's  attainment in maths, reading, and grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS). Your child will be tested on curriculum content from Years 3-6 across six test papers. Key dates: Monday 11th May 2026 - Thursday 14th May.

Homework in Year 6

Your child will be given weekly spelling homework. They will have a weekly talk homework to complete with you, this will support their weekly 'Write to the top' independent writing lesson. In Year 6, children will also bring home CGP books to complete Maths and Grammar homework, this will be set by the Teacher. You will recieve a school Ping with the page numbers and the children will also record these each week. At St George's Primary school, children read at home five times a week and in Year 6 we kindly ask that you sign your child's reading diary to show that they have met this.

We use CGP books for weekly homework.

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Writing

Children at St George's school write with purpose. Each unit of writing starts with an exciting hook to inspire children to write. Writing then leads to an exciting purpose to help children feel motivated and enthused in their writing purpose. Real-life application opportunities are given to child to develop an understanding of how writing is used in the wider world. 

At St George's school children follow a sequence of writing that is broken into clear steps that lead to a final outcome of writing for each genre of writing. Our Sequence is broken into 6 clear steps: analysing the text, modelled/shared writing, planning, drafting, editing and publishing. 

 The process enables children to secure key writing skills for all genres of their writing. Children have opportunities to practise and apply skills in their writing before producing final outcome of writing. 

Maths

Key Concepts taught through our mathematics curriculum

Our mathematics curriculum at St George's School has been designed and sequenced so that the children build upon their knowledge through key concepts that are taught throughout the mathematics curriculum from EYFS to Year 6.

Our key concepts are as follows:

• Number and Place Value
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication and Division
• Fractions, Percentages and Decimals
• Geometry
• Statistics
• Measure
• Algebra

Reading in Year 6

 The expectation is that you read with

your child a minimum of 5 times each week and

record this into their reading cards. Each week

we will count the number of ‘Home Reads’

recorded on your child’s reading card.

The children must have their reading cards and

books in school every day ready to read to an

adult. The children take part in a reading session

every day where they will either be reading

independently, in a group or 1:1 with an adult.