Reading

Read, read, read. Please read as much as possible (both by yourself and with an adult) at home. Find something that you enjoy and read it.  It could be a book (non-fiction or fiction!), a magazine, a comic, some poetry, a newspaper... the list goes on!  

Please record reading in your reading record.

Whole Class Reading

This term we are focusing on comprehension style questions which involve: prediction, character study and inference, as well as a high focus on vocabulary. 

PE

PE and games are on a Wednesday and Friday.  The focus this term is invasion games, OAA and dance. 

English

Autumn 1:

• The Day the Crayons Quit
• The Lion and The Unicorn

 Autumn 2: 

• Horror writing
• The Secret War Diary

Music

This term, we are taking part in the Ukulele Blues project, which is delivered by Mrs Holcroft and class teachers. We will cover all six areas of Music (Listening, Singing, Playing, Performing and Musicianship, Composing and Improvising and Notation and Technology) with specific focus on maintaining an independent part in a group (or as a soloist) with increased control, fluency and expression, showing awareness of other performers.

PSHE

 How the Media including Social Media affects us

Mental Well-Being

Year 6 Team

Teachers:

Mrs V. Phillips

Mrs R. Sims

Mrs J. Makin

Mrs R. Southern

Teaching Assistants:

Mrs S. Evans

Miss A. Wright

Miss Worrall

Mrs Shaw

Notices

Mathematics

The main focus of the first half of the term will be consolidation of Place Value work from Year 5 while working on our new Year 6 objectives.  We will be learning about numbers up to ten million!  Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division will soon follow and take us towards Christmas.  Fractions and decimals will also appear in this term!

Children still need to be practising their times tables. If they are confident, children should be practising division facts and identifying rules of divisibility. Please note that children should be able to recall multiplication facts quickly and out of order, and not simply recite their times table facts in order or by counting up in multiples. All children have been given their login details for Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS) and have been introduced to Marlon's Magic Maths (a free and fun online game to practise quick recall).

Year 6 in pictures...

Homework 

 Children will receive weekly homework on a Friday and can hand it by Thursday the following week (unless stated otherwise). This may be English, Maths or Topic - based. Children need to join our classroom on Google Classroom in order to access weekly homework and spellings should they leave their homework books in school.

Spellings

By the end of the year children are required to know all of the Year 3/4 key word spellings and most of the Year 5/6 key words spellings. There are also Year 5/6 spelling patterns to learn and apply. Accurate spelling is required in order to achieve the expected Year 6 standard in writing. Therefore learning weekly spellings is essential for success in Year 6.

Spelling lists will be tested and given out every Friday as well as a piece of supporting spelling homework.

We encourage our children to remember their spellings using different strategies: chunking words into syllables and applying their phonics knowledge, using their 'spelling voice' and using their knowledge of rules (whilst being mindful of the many exceptions to the rules). Every child has a 'Spelling Menu' in the front of their Homework books. These activities can be useful for further practice. 

Science

 The two topics for this term are Electricity (1st Half) and Light (2nd Half). We will use our knowledge in these subjects to create a game with an electronic element at the end of the second term in Design and Technology.

Our Topic Learning: 

History:

What was it like for children in WW2?

• Establish key dates and events in WW2
• Create own timeline of key dates in WW2
• Use world map and atlases to establish why it was a world war (Geography)
• What was the Blitz and what was it like to live through it?
• Rationing – what was it like? Could we survive today? Plan a menu for a week.
• Evacuation – Why? Where did the children go? Listen to and read first-hand accounts. Letters and postcards home.
• Use texts – The Lion and the Unicorn, Rose Blanche, WW2  
• Compare your life to the life of a 10 year old in WW2.
• Independent research to answer questions generated at the start of the topic.
• Hopefully interview someone who was a child in WW2.

 Computing:

 Online safety work

Coding unit. Children to continue to learn basic coding using Purple Mash.

RE:

Our topic question: 

Christianity: How do Christians mark the turning points on the journey of life?

Hinduism: Is there one journey or are there many?

National Curriculum 

To view the National Curriculum expectations for Year Six children please click here