Year 6
Who teaches in Year 6?
Class Teacher - Miss Corless (Mrs Crook on Fridays)
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Parker
1-1 Teaching Assistants - Mrs Buttriss, Mrs Wayman, Miss Bunting, Miss Mathers and Ms Ainsworth
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Books We've Read (Updated throughout the year!)
What are we up to?
Summer Term Knowledge Organisers
Weekly Timetable
*Summer 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 - Holes by Louis Sachar/People Like Stars by Patrice Lawrence
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Science - Classification / Evolution and Inheritance
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PE - Dance / Orienteering / Athletics / Cricket
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History - The Blitz in Barrow
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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 - Sculpture and 3D
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Design and Technology - Playgrounds
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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 - Citizenship / Changing Body / Economic Wellbeing / Transition
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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 THURSDAY afternoon.
Please ensure your children come to school in their full PE Kits every Tuesday and 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 should be reading daily, covering a wide range of genres (please ask for advice)
- 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!