PE Day - Thursday

Welcome to Year 6

Summer Term

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

Key Dates:

Mock SATs week - 27th - 30th April

SATs week - 11th - 14th April

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 learning on our new text 'The Final Year' by Matt Goodfellow. The story follows a Year 6 child as he prepares for moving onto high school. During this unit we will use our knowledge to write a 'Guide to surviving Year 6' followed by writing a narrative predicting how his first day at high school will be.

Key skills we will be focussing on are:

- Using paragraphs to clearly organise our writing

- Using colons and semi - colons

- Using ambitious vocabulary to describe a setting 

- Writing for a range of purposes 

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 begin by covering Statistics and Position and Direction before moving onto revising key skills in preparation for SATs next month. 

Objectives we will cover are:

• Describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants)
• Draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes
• Interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems
• Calculate and interpret the mean as an average

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 ‘Animals including Humans’. During this unit, we will be learning to:

• Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood
• Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function
• Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans

Topic

Our Topic for this half term is Ancient Greece. During this unit, we will be covering both History and Geography objectives and comparing civilisations we have learnt about so far. We will be leading up to answering our enquiry question: How did Ancient Greece shape the world we live in today? Some objectives we will be covering are:

• Where Ancient Greece fits on a timeline in History
• Comparing daily life in Ancient Greece to other civilisations
• An understanding of democracy and how it has shaped the modern world
• The decline of the Ancient Greek civilisation
• Where Greece is on a map
• The physical geography of Greece 
• Settlements and land use 
• The trade and economy of the Ancient Greeks

RE

In our RE learning this half term, our unit is 'To the Ends of the Earth. We will begin by discussing our gifts and talents and how we can use them for good. We will be learning about the role of a disciple, what happened during Pentecost, the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and how Saints show good discipleship. 

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.