Year 6
Who teaches in Year 6?
Class Teacher - Miss Corless
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?
Spring Term Knowledge Organisers
Weekly Timetable
*Spring 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 - Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray / High Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson
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Science - The Urinary System / Light and How We See
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PE - Yoga / Gymnastics / Tag Rugby / Netball / Badminton
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History - The Windrush Generation
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Geography - A Comparison Study of the Lake District, Poland and Jamaica
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ICT - Internet safety, Digital Literacy, SAMLABS coding skills
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Art - Artistic Study and painting skills
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Design and Technology - Come Dine With Me
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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 - Health and Wellbeing
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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 WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY afternoon.
Please ensure your children come to school in their full PE Kits every Wednesday 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!