Mrs Gibbs Miss Sassoli Mrs Dalton-Cole Mrs Norbury
Hello everyone, and welcome to Year 6!
Self Portraits, inspired by the front cover of Wonder by R. J. Palacio, which the Y6 pupils completed on our transition day last term.
This Autumn term, we have lots of exciting learning to be doing! Here's a brief run down of what you can expect:
Maths
We will be following Power Maths a lot of the time. Our topics will be:
- Place Value
- The 4 operations
- Fractions
- Geometry
How can you help at home?
- Times table and division fact knowledge is incredibly important in Year 6. Practise them weekly!
- Practise the 4 operations- column addition, column subtraction, column multiplication and bus stop method division. You can use the weekly arithmetic tests to help with this. We will complete them in school each Monday and will send them home once we've marked them and noted down the scores. Just let us know if you need any help with any of the methods we teach - no question will seem too silly!
English
We are studying Once by Morris Gleitzman, Rose Blanche and the Arrival across the Autumn Term. These books will enable us to produce a wide variety of texts, but the focus will often be on descriptive language.
The text types we will produce include:
Letters
Narrative
Poetry
Explanation texts
Non-chronological reports
Our maths working wall.
Topic
We are studying 'The World at War', in which the focus is World War 2. If you would like to bring in memorabilia or family keep-sakes to share or display in the classroom, feel free!
Science
We will be looking at and investigating 'Light' in Science. So far, we have learnt that light travels in straight lines from the source straight to our eyes, or it bounces off of an object then into our eyes.
Art and Design Technology
In art, we will be learning to draw things that fly including birds and WW2 planes. We will produce other artwork linked to WW2.
In DT we will create Anderson shelters as well as marble run mazes for our reception class buddies.
Our English working wall and book corner.
ICT
We will first be using Purple Mash to complete a coding unit of work which will be challenging and very fun.
Our history working wall for this half term.
Our science working wall.
Thorpe Woodlands Residential Trip
From 13th-15th September, Year 6 went on an amazing residential trip to Thorpe Woodlands Adventure Centre. Here are some photos of the trip.
Music
This term, Mr Wright will be teaching us how to play the Ukelele. Please remember to bring in your Ukelele each Tuesday for your lessons. We can't wait to share what we learn with you later on in the term!