June 2024 - Term 6

Hope you have all enjoyed a wonderful half term break and welcome to Term 6! The final term of the school year!

This term, our topic is Infectious Diseases.

In our reading lessons, we are currently exploring 'Floodland' by Marcus Sedgwick. This is a brilliant futuristic tale which tells the story of a girl surviving in a devastated world.  It is a fantastic read for children in Year 6 and it is widely available to buy or borrow from a library if children want to read it outside of school. 

Our writing lessons will also use inspiration from Floodland, and we will be using the story to write newspaper articles and a critical essay about the book.

In maths, we are revisiting key areas of the curriculum this term in order to prepare children with the skills needed for a smooth transition into secondary maths. We are focusing particularly on written methods, fractions, decimals and percentages. We are also spending more time on areas that we visited briefly prior to SATs including, algebra, shapes and ratio. As well as this, we will continue to practise our arithmetic skills each day. 

Here are our topics for other areas of the curriculum:

Science - Evolution and Inheritance 

RE - Beliefs 

PSHE – Changing Me

PE – Cricket 

Music - Violin

Design and Technology – Food and Nutrition

Spanish – The Weekend

Computing – The history of computers

We also have Forest School on a Thursday this term.

Eagles class have also been working extremely hard in their rehearsals for their production in July. The performance so far is looking amazing and many members of staff have commented on how impressed they are with the children's singing and dancing. We cannot wait to share all their hard work with you! 

We have lots of exciting events to look forward to in this final term and we will be making many special memories for the children to take with them on their next exciting adventure into secondary school!

Mrs Cooper and the Year 6 team.

April 2024 - Term 5

Hope you have all enjoyed a wonderful Easter break and welcome to Term 5!

This term, our topic is William Shakespeare and we are all really looking forward to learning about his life and work - including immersing ourselves within his work during our upcoming trip!

In our reading lessons this term, we are exploring a different text each day. This is to broaden children's literary diet and to expose them to a range of text types including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.  We are also continuing to enjoy ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’.

In our writing lessons, we are creating a persuasion text to persuade people to buy a new gadget.  Our model text is called 'The Multi-Function Mobile Phone', which tries to persuade Spies to buy this ‘must-have’ gadget. The children have come up with some fantastic ideas for gadgets and who their target audience might be. 

In maths, we are currently in the midst of revising the maths curriculum this term, in order to prepare children for their upcoming SATs and to consolidate their learning. As well as this, we will be continuing to practise our arithmetic skills every day including the ‘Tough Ten' challenge.

Here are our topics for other areas of the curriculum:

Science - Animals including humans

RE – Belief 

PSHE – Relationships

PE – Athletics and Rounders

Music - Violin

Art – Calligraphy 

Spanish – Weather

Computing – Data handling

Eagles class have had a brilliant start to this term and have shown a good retention of the knowledge they have learned so far this year. We are all really looking forward to the children continuing their hard work and for the exciting events we have planned this term.

Mrs Cooper, Mrs Monnery, Mrs Laws