Mrs Parkinson, Mrs Boswell, Mr Edginton and Miss Young would like to welcome you to Year 6's wonderful web page!

Key Information:

PE - Wednesday 

Homework - Friday and back in by Wednesday

Learning Logs - Every other Friday 

Reading Records - In school daily with 3 signatures per week 

Our Curriculum

TOPIC - Frozen Realms

This half term we will be learning lots about Frozen Realms! Look below at our Knowledge Organiser to see what we will be learning!

Writing

 This half term we will be using The Titanic and A Live Expedition to The Antarctic to inspire our writing.  

In Year 6, we constantly strive to be ambitious and effective writers, creating texts with purpose which entertain and inform our readers and using our best vocabulary, spelling, handwriting, punctuation and grammar. Below are the year 5/6 statutory spellings.

Reading 

In reading lessons we will be focusing on our VIPERS skills: vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summarising. We will be doing lots of practice of these key skills in preparation for this year's SATs assessments.

Our First Book: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow 

Here is a summary:

Ten-year-old Nate lives with his mum and two younger brothers, Jax aged eight and Dylan, who’s four and thinks he’s Spiderman. The brothers are a tight little unit and, as the eldest, Nate takes care of the younger two when Mum is out with Auntie San at bingo, enjoying a few ciders.

When his best friend PS is put in a different Year 6 class, Nate is gutted, especially when PS starts to hang out with Nate’s nemesis, school bully Turner. New teacher Mr Joshua notices that Nate loves reading and writing, so encourages him to use words to help process his emotions, giving him a special notebook so he can write down his thoughts and manage his anger. However, Nate’s world is turned upside-down when Dylan is rushed into hospital. How will he cope if his little brother doesn’t pull through?

This incredibly powerful novel, written entirely in free verse, really packs a punch. Nate’s innermost thoughts burst from the pages, enabling readers to really connect with his intense feelings of pain, anger and love. Thoughtful black-and-white illustrations punctuate the text of this spectacular debut novel, which is a heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting read.

Science

Autumn 1: Living Things and Their Habitat

Autumn 2: Electricity

Spring 1: Light

Spring 2: The Circulatory System and Diet, Drugs and Lifestyle 

Summer 1: Variation and Adaptation 

Summer 2: Fossils 

Mathematics

This half term we will be recapping and extending our knowledge of Place Value and Number. Alongside our lessons, our focus is Arithmetic. We have daily sessions, a weekly check-in and homework to support this. 

P.E. KITS

Year 6 have PE on a WEDNESDAY afternoon. They will need to wear:
- a plain white t-shirt
- plain black tracksuit bottoms or black PE shorts (no leggings please)
- a plain black jumper or tracksuit top 
- trainers

No logos or names on their tops, jumpers or bottoms please.

If you do not have a plain black jumper, children can wear their school jumpers as an alternative