Year 6 First Week Back – COMPLETE WEEK 1 | 5 Full Days of Lessons, Activities, Resources + English Baseline

**Buy the complete week and save over £5 compared with purchasing Days 1–5 separately.** Start Year 6 with an entire week already planned. Year 6: Start Strong – Week 1 is a complete five-day programme designed to help pupils settle successfully into Year 6 while giving teachers meaningful early evidence about independence, routines, teamwork, reading and writing. This is not a collection of disconnected first-week worksheets or icebreakers. Each day has a clear purpose and builds on the previous one, taking pupils from belonging and classroom independence through communication and teamwork and into English assessment, reading strategies and narrative writing. **Across Days 1–5, the programme provides approximately 19–23½ hours of structured learning**, excluding breaks and lunch. Each day also includes guidance for reducing the sequence where timetable constraints require a shorter route. Five complete Year 6 days **DAY 1 – The Year 6 Expedition** *Belong • Discover • Lead* A purposeful first day designed to help pupils feel secure, learn their new classroom, understand Year 6 expectations and begin developing a positive class identity. Pupils explore their classroom, identify the adults and resources that can support them, investigate successful Year 6 habits, solve realistic scenarios, rank the qualities they believe matter most and create their first team agreement. **Approx. 3½–5 hours** **DAY 2 – The Year 6 Blueprint** *Diagnose • Rehearse • Remember • Agree* Turn classroom expectations into routines pupils can actually use. Rather than simply giving pupils a list of rules, Day 2 teaches them how to begin lessons efficiently, manage resources, seek help precisely, deal with difficulty productively, remember multi-step instructions and protect learning time. Pupils rehearse real classroom systems before contributing to a meaningful Class Charter. **Approx. 4–4¾ hours** **DAY 3 – Engineering Teamwork Mission** *Communicate • Collaborate • Engineer* An active teamwork and communication day built around practical challenges. Pupils investigate the difference between hearing and listening, talking and explaining, arguing and disagreeing, and taking over and helping. They complete communication challenges before applying their skills in a substantial Paper Bridge Engineering Challenge, where teams must plan, construct, test, analyse failure and improve their design. The day develops communication, collaboration, resilience, inclusion and evidence-based problem-solving. **Approx. 4¼–5 hours** **DAY 4 – English Discovery Day** *Assess • Train • Interrogate • Reflect* Establish English starting points while teaching meaningful reading strategies. Pupils first complete an independent Year 6 English baseline before learning the five Fluency Gears: Pace • Accuracy • Punctuation • Phrasing • Expression They then revisit The Keeper of the Clockwork Owl and use A.E.E. – Answer, Evidence, Explain to investigate vocabulary, retrieval, inference, authorial intent and prediction. The lesson ends with an individual reading profile and specific next-step target. **Approx. 3½–4¼ hours** This Week 1 bundle includes the Year 6 English Baseline Student Booklet plus the Teacher Answer & Quick Administration Guide required for the Day 4 lesson. The complete Year 6 English Baseline Diagnostic Assessment Toolkit, with the wider diagnostic, tracking, intervention and assessment materials, is available separately. **DAY 5 – The Writing Strategy Case File** *Investigate • Plan • Craft • Revise* Finish the week with a complete narrative-writing workshop. Pupils investigate how effective writing works before rotating through six Idea Investigation Stations: **Setting • Character • Discovery • Atmosphere • Complication • Outcome** They generate several possible narratives, filter them for originality, depth and feasibility, build an eight-stage Narrative Blueprint, complete an independent narrative and enter the Editing Laboratory to make meaningful revisions. The emphasis is not simply on correcting mistakes. Pupils learn to revise writing to improve meaning, atmosphere, cohesion and the reader's experience. **Approx. 3¾–4½ hours** What is included in the complete Week 1 bundle? You receive the complete teaching materials for all five days, including: 5 Year 6 presentation slide decks 5 detailed teacher lesson plans 5 extensive print-ready resource packs Year 6 English Baseline Student Assessment Booklet Baseline Teacher Answer & Quick Administration Guide pupil reflection and self-assessment materials classroom scenario and discussion cards paired and collaborative activities practical engineering resources reading fluency and comprehension resources narrative planning, writing and editing resources teacher observation and assessment tools Launch Portfolio Entries 1–5 The Day 5 resource pack alone includes everything from visual inference and six idea-generation stations to a Narrative Blueprint, Writing Case File pages, Five-Lens Editing resources, peer review, self-assessment and teacher evidence tools. **More than first-week activities** The programme is designed to help teachers learn about their new class while pupils are actively learning. Across the week, teachers can begin identifying: who settles independently who needs reassurance or repeated instructions who organises themselves effectively who communicates precisely who dominates or withdraws during group work who responds positively when something goes wrong who can sustain concentration independently early reading-fluency strengths and needs comprehension and evidence-use strengths writing-planning habits writing stamina editing and revision behaviours By Friday, teachers have gathered a much richer picture of their class than they would from five days of generic icebreakers. **Pupils develop**: belonging and confidence classroom independence organisation responsibility productive struggle listening and communication teamwork and collaboration respectful disagreement resilience problem-solving reading fluency evidence-based comprehension narrative planning independent writing meaningful editing and revision self-reflection and target setting Designed for real Year 6 classrooms **The Week 1 programme is:** written in British English designed for Year 6 / Upper KS2 suitable for approximately 19–23½ hours of learning structured for individual, paired, team and whole-class work supported by detailed printing and preparation guidance adaptable to individual school routines and classroom systems designed to reduce first-week planning while still giving teachers flexibility suitable for September, transition week or establishing expectations with a new Year 6 class Your first week of Year 6 – planned. **Five purposeful days. One connected programme.** From pupils walking into their new classroom on Day 1 to completing and reflecting on an original narrative on Day 5, Year 6: Start Strong – Week 1 provides the structure, teaching materials and printable resources needed to begin the year with purpose. Perfect for Year 6 teachers who want less first-week preparation, stronger classroom routines and meaningful evidence about their new pupils from the very beginning. **Week 1 includes Days 1–5 of the Year 6: Start Strong programme. Days 6–10 continue the journey through SPaG, mathematics, independence, leadership and the final Year 6 Flight Path.**