Year 6

Welcome to the Year 6 homepage. Year 6 is one of the most exciting years and we have a lot to look forward to. In this final year, we will be working hard together to get ourselves ready for the transition to secondary school. Alongside all the hard work, we can also look forward to the Christmas production, Shakespeare and school journey!

Please enjoy looking at our class blog!

The Year 6 Team

Mr Martisius, Ms Clayton  

Timetable

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
		Homework due in	Children to come in wearing their PE kit	Homework sent home Spelling & times tables quiz
Reading folders to be brought in daily. Please ensure that your child reads at home every night. Reading records to be checked	Reading folders to be brought in daily. Please ensure that your child reads at home every night.	Reading folders to be brought in daily. Please ensure that your child reads at home every night. Reading records to be checked	Reading folders to be brought in daily. Please ensure that your child reads at home every night.	Reading folders to be brought in daily. Please ensure that your child reads at home every night. Reading records to be checked

Autumn 2

This half term, our learning will be guided by our Big Question in geography: What was life like in the amazon?

In reading we will take a deep dive into Malorie Blackman’s Hacker and develop our oracy and comprehension. In writing, we will explore David Long’s Survivors. This brilliant text will inspire us to write a range of pieces for a range of audiences and purposes. We will be writing narratives to entertain, survival guides to inform and poetry engage our readers.

In maths, we will be moving on from addition, subtraction, multiplication and focusing on division before we start our new unit on the order of operations. Then We will be exploring different representations of fractions, ordering and comparing them, before finding equivalent and simplifying fractions. We will then deepen our understanding by using the four operations with fractions and finding fractions of amounts.

Our geography focus will see us delving into the changes South America has seen and the changes that may take place in the future. We will develop our geographical skills by using compass points and maps at a range of scales.

In our science learning this half term, we will be understanding the human circulatory system and the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood. We will end the term by exploring the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function.

This half term in RE, we will be learning about the importance of Remembrance Day within Christianity, exploring its significance and symbolism. We will then be exploring how Christmas is advertised, thinking carefully about how and whether this aligns with Christian views on the true message of Christmas. We will apply our understanding by creating our own Christmas advert at the end of term.

In art, we will be exploring cubism and the work of Pablo Picasso.

Autumn 1

Year 6 are starting the year by learning about the effects of World War 2 on Britain as part of our whole-school local history focus. To enrich our understanding of what it was like to be a child during World War 2, we will be reading Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo as a class, which we will use to inspire our writing. During the autumn term, we will be writing non-chronological reports, recounts, diary entries, balanced arguments and biographies based on the our chosen core texts and also linking to Black History Month, when we will explore the experiences of black and minority ethnic people in South Africa during Apartheid.

In maths, we will consolidate our understanding of place value and learn how this helps us to read, write and compare large whole numbers and decimal numbers.  We will learn how to partition and combine numbers in different ways, which will expand our repertoire of calculation methods. We will further develop our understanding and build our skills in using the four operations to solve problems.

In science, our focus is ‘living thing and their habitats’. We will be learning about the variation of habitats and the traits animals have specific to their environment. In RE, we will be learning about ‘the journey of life and death from the perspective of a Christian’. We will be looking at the Rites of passage, events and transitional times in a Christians life.