PE Day - Thursday

Welcome to Year 6

Spring Term

Welcome to Year 6! I hope you have had a great Christmas break and are ready for a fun Spring term! On this page you will find all the information you need for our class including what learning to expect this half term.

Here are some useful reminders and links to web pages for you:

• TTRockstars for times table practice.
• Reading eggs for online reading and comprehension practice.
• Mymaths for online mathematical activities.

Class Teacher:  Miss Shotton

English

During our English learning this half term, we will begin by continuing our learning about 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'. The text follows the story of a boy who is moved from his home in Berlin to live in 'Out-With' where it is soon discovered that there is a concentration camp nearby. During this unit, we will be completing 2 pieces of writing: a short narrative and a letter from Bruno to Shmuel. Later in the term, we will move onto a new text - 'Holes'

Key skills we will be focussing on are:

- Using a variety of sentence types 

- Using descriptive language effectively 

- Using brackets, commas and dashes to show parenthesis 
- Having a clear structure to our writing

We will continually be revising all our Year 6 reading skills through our guided reading sessions this year. This half term, we will be focusing on:

- Using the context of a sentence to work out the meaning of a word

- Retrieving key details from a text 

- Make predictions based on details that have been read

Maths

This half term in Maths, we will continue our work on Fractions, before moving on to Decimals and Percentages. During these units, we will cover the following objectives:

• Divide proper fractions by whole numbers 
• Identify the value of each digit in numbers given to 3 decimal places and multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1,000 giving answers up to 3 decimal places
• Multiply one-digit numbers with up to 2 decimal places by whole numbers
• Use written division methods in cases where the answer has up to 2 decimal places
• Solve problems which require answers to be rounded to specified degrees of accuracy
• Recall and use equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages
• Find percentages of an amount

Here are some useful websites:

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games

https://nrich.maths.org/

Science

Our Science topic for this half term is ‘Electricity’. During this unit, we will be learning to:

• Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit
• Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches
• Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

Topic

Our Topic for this half term is 'Crime & Punishment. During this unit, we will be comparing different time periods we have learnt about in previous year groups, with a specific focus on how crime & punishment has changed over time with a final comparision to modern day.

• Understand what is meant by 'Crime and Punishment'
• To discover what crime & punishment looked like during the Anglo-Saxon period
• To discover what crime and punishment looked like during The Industrial Revolution
• To explore the focus on reform during the Victorian period
• To compare different time periods with the modern day and identify the chnages that have happened

RE

In our RE learning this half term, we are going to be focusing on the journey from Galilee to Jerusalem. We will begin by discussing the ten commandments and why rules are important, introducing the story of the Transfiguration dicussing the story of the Good Samaritan and why Christians say the 'Our Father. Later in the unit, we will also be looking at The Beatitudes, how they link to the ten commandments and how relevant they are today.

PSHE and Mindfulness

Inter weaved throughout all of our topics is the importance of self-care and reflection. At home we encourage you  to use a  journal to write down our thoughts, feelings and emotions which is key to regulating how we are throughout each day like we do in class. Additionally, we will post some online meditation and yoga you can practice at home.

Homework

Here are the Home Learning tasks that pupils should complete each week. If you need any support accessing these resources, please do not hesitate to contact me. 

1) Reading - Pupils should be reading for 10-15 minutes every night. Pupils can change their books as and when they need to in the Class Library or the KS2 Library. Year 6 pupils are welcome to bring in books from home. Please help your child to record their reading in their Reading Record. Listening to your child read can support their fluency, develop their comprehension skills, and help them to progress. 

2. Reading Eggs – Children have a weekly comprehension assignment to complete on Reading Eggs.

Reading eggs makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids, with great online reading games and activities. Children love the games, songs, golden eggs and other rewards which, along with feeling proud of their reading, really motivate children to keep exploring and learning.

3. My Maths  - Children have a weekly assignment to complete on MyMaths that will help them to practise the skills we have been learning in school. 

Pupils can also access Mathseeds (using their Reading Eggs login) and TT Rockstars for fluency practice.

4. Spellings – practice daily

Pupils have 10 spellings to learn per week, on which they will be tested every Friday. A PDF copy of the spellings is available below. 

5. Learning logs –  In Autumn 2 (November - December), pupils will have a home learning project to complete. At the end of the half-term, they willl bring in their project to share and celebrate with their peers.