WELCOME TO YEAR 6

Each week we will be keeping you up to date with a "Wow of the Week". In addition to this, please read our half termly curriculum map to find out what will be happening in Year 6.

Important information

PE - Wednesday and Thursday: Please come to school in your PE kit on these days. 

Reading Books -  Each child in year 6 has a book-band book and a book from our class library, with one book staying in school and one going home. In year 6, we encourage the children to be responsible for changing their books when they need to. The children have also been set a target of achieving 3 reads in their reading record each week. 

Spellings - New spellings given every Monday. On a Monday morning, we will have our weekly spelling lesson, in which we will focus on learning our new words for the week ahead. At the start of this lesson, we will also have our weekly spelling test focusing on the previous week's words. Please see our spelling page where you can easily access the spellings every week. 

 

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Autumn 1

Week 3

What another busy and successful week we have had in Year 6! The children have shown wonderful dedication and energy, diving into some brilliant practical activities and creative tasks across the curriculum.

In Maths, we have explored negative numbers, practiced solving multi-step addition and subtraction word problems, and refreshed our understanding of factors. In Writing, we drew further inspiration from The Explorer to draft our third-person narratives detailing the dramatic plane crash, using a range of key UKS2 writing skills such as parenthesis to add detail and direct speech to enhance the action. 

Hands-on learning was a real highlight across our foundation subjects this week! In Science, we put our scientific enquiry skills to the test by conducting an investigation to compare the reflectivity of various materials. In Art, the children unleashed their creativity using photomontage techniques, cleverly transforming images of everyday household objects into striking cityscapes. In computing, we learnt about copyright rules when using images and media in preparation for creating our own websites. Meanwhile, outside of the classroom, we enjoyed active PE sessions focusing on passing, spatial awareness, and tactical movement in both Tag-Rugby and Netball.

Week 2

What a fantastic second week we have had in Year 6! The children have continued to build on their brilliant start, showing great enthusiasm and focus across all of their subjects.

In Maths, we have taken our place value learning even further by multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100, and 1,000, as well as comparing and ordering numbers all the way up to 10,000,000. In Reading, we have been diving deeper into our class text, The Explorer, practicing how to form detailed impressions of different characters using evidence directly from the text. Our Writing has also been inspired by the book's dramatic plane crash, with the children using parenthesis, direct speech, and prepositional phrases to bring their descriptions to life.

Our foundation subjects have been equally busy! In Science, we drew detailed diagrams to explain how light travels into our eyes so we can see. In Geography, we became researchers to discover which countries have the highest and lowest population densities across the globe, investigating how and why the world's population has grown so significantly since 1500. Finally, even though it is only September, the children got creative and designed their own Christmas cards, ready to be printed and sold for the upcoming festive season!

Week 1

Year 6 have made a very positive start to the new school year and have settled in very impressively. As part of creating a happy, respectful and welcoming classroom, we have explored British Values and Protected Characteristics. We discussed what these mean and thought carefully about how we can make sure everyone in our classroom feels valued, respected and included. We’ve also been learning about the Zones of Regulation, thinking about the different emotions we might experience and exploring the tools and strategies we can use to help ourselves in each zone. To show off our learning, we created posters designed to help others with regulation, which Miss Martin, our PSHE lead, wants to display around school because they were so brilliant!

In Maths, we have started our place value unit by exploring numbers up to 10 million. In English, we have started to read The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. The book starts with a dramatic plane crash and we created our own interview questions and answers for some of the characters on the plane. We have also started our first unit of computing in which we are designing our our websites. In our first lesson, we began by identifying the features of a website and considered what their purpose is.