We are looking forward to this busy and exciting year ahead and hope to make the children’s final year in primary school a successful and memorable one!
Each pupil in year 6 has been given a different responsibility across school. We have sent out letters for the prefects to give them permission to come into school at 8:30am each morning to help in different classes.
Just a few notes to make everyone aware of when things will be happening:
PE will be every Wednesday afternoon and every other Thursday morning, so the children need their kits in school on these days. Just a reminder that school P.E. kit comprises of a white t-shirt, black shorts and trainers or pumps and if P.E. is taking place outside and the weather is cold, the children are allowed to wear dark jogging bottoms and trainers. All jewellery must be removed for P.E. If the children cannot remove the jewellery themselves, it is best if they do not wear it on the PE days.
English
This term we will be looking at a range of writing styles. We will be basing our writing on King Kong by Anthony Browne and will use this famous story as inspiration to write newspaper reports.
We will also be looking at a video called ‘The Eye of the Storm’ and will be completing our own narratives based around this.
In SPaG lessons we will be revising all areas of punctuation and continuing to work on all the aspects of grammar to make your written work better. Remember the children have weekly spellings to learn.
Maths
In our maths lessons we will be covering the Year 6 objectives from the maths Curriculum using the Power Maths scheme. We will start by focusing on place value of numbers up to 10,000,000. We will then cover the 4 operations before tackling long division!
Topic
The first topic we are covering this year is a North America. We will be looking at lots of Geographical skills during this topic and will be finding out lots about all the different countries and diverse cultures within this fascinating continent. Part of the weekly homework in Year 6 will again be to complete some topic based activities and the homework menu will again be used to choose activities from.
Science
Our Bodies: In this unit children will learn how to identify and explain the different systems which are constantly at work within the human body. We will look in detail at some of these systems including the circulatory system and we will look at how the heart works to circulate our blood around the body.
Changing Circuits: In this unit, the children will learn how to create and develop increasingly difficult and complex circuits, building on the work they did in year 3.
Computing
The children will become web-designers this term and will be creating websites for a chosen purpose. We will identify what makes a good web page and use this information to design and evaluate our own website using Google Sites.
Homework
The children will continue to get spelling and maths homework every week and they will also have a topic sheet which they can select homework from. We will always set the homework on a Friday and it must be brought back into school by the following Wednesday. The children will also be bringing home their reading books every day and it is vitally important that they read every day. We are really working on the children’s comprehension skills so it would be great if you could ask them questions about their books every time you read with them.
If there is anything you need, or any help we can give you with anything, please let me know by either messaging on Google Classroom or on the year 6 school email (year6@corrie.tameside.sch.uk), catching me in the morning or after school, or giving me a phone call.
Mrs Millard