Who teaches in Year 6?

Class Teacher - Miss Corless

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Parker

1-1 Teaching Assistants - Mrs Wayman and Ms Ainsworth

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*Autumn Term - What are we learning?*

English - Key reading, writing, grammar, comprehension, spelling and language skills taught through a wide variety of text-types (disaster stories, newspaper reports, explanation texts, narrative poetry, stories with a moral, discursive writing).

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Maths - Revision of place value and fractions, reflection and symmetry, imperial and metric units of measure, decimals and percentages, properties of 2D and 3D shapes, area and perimeter, statistics, algebra, ratio, volume and problem-solving.

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Whole-Class Novel - Crater Lake by Jennifer Killick / Black and British by David Olusoga

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Science - Light / Animals Including Humans

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PE - Swimming / Karate

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History - Battle of Britain

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Geography - Settlements and Economics

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ICT - Internet safety, Digital Literacy, SAMLABS coding skills

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Art - Drawing

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Design and Technology - Sewing

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RE - How do people explain the suffering in the world? What does it mean to be human? (Christianity and Buddhism)

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PSHE - My Happy Mind / Family and Relationships

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French - Key vocabulary revision (including numbers to 79), Days, Months, Clothes, Colours, Family, Pets

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Music - Singing

Important Information

PE

Year 6 have Swimming every TUESDAY and PE every THURSDAY afternoon.

Please ensure your children come to school with their Swimming kits every Tuesday (swimming costumes/swimming trunks, spare underwear, towel!)

Please ensure your children come to school in their full PE Kits every Thursday:

• Yellow PE shirt (COMPULSORY)
• Non-branded, plain black shorts (COMPULSORY)
• Black pumps (COMPULSORY)
• All jewellery is to be removed before every PE session and long hair is expected to be tied back. Children MUST be able to take their own earrings out for swimming.

Homework

•  Reading- children are expected to read daily. They will choose their own book to bring home - this could be a story, information text, newspaper, poetry book or even a magazine!
• Weekly homework will be given out on Mondays, due back the following Monday.

If you have any questions or want to speak to me, please do not hesitate to contact me by coming into school, phoning school or signing up to Class Dojo and speaking to me directly there through its secure messaging system. Thank you!