Year 6
Summer 2
Welcome to Year 6:
Hammerhead Shark Class, Blue Whale Class and Green Turtle Class
Miss Simmons is teaching Hammerhead Shark Class this year, Miss Mills is teaching Blue Whale Class and Mrs Borecka is the class teacher in Green Turtle Class.
Welcome
Welcome to year 6! We hope you find the information below useful. This information will help you support your child at home with the organisation of their week and their learning at home.
Key Times
| Homework | Children will be given some project-based homework in some of our foundation subjects, including geography; history and science, in preparation for secondary school. |
| PE | The P.E days for Hammerhead Shark Class and Blue Whale Class are Monday and Friday. The P.E days for Green Turtle Class are Monday and Tuesday. The children may sometimes do P.E outside, so please make sure they have appropriate clothing and shoes for all sessions. |
| Trips | On Monday 24th June, we will be conducting a heart dissection to link in with our topic around the heart and circulatory system. On Wednesday, 3rd July, we will be going on a very exciting trip to see Wicked the musical! We have lots of leavers events planned which have been shared with you in a letter. |
| Key Times | The school day begins at 8:45. Children can arrive in school from 8:30 for a soft start activity. If a child arrives after 8:45, they must be taken round to the office. |
What are we learning?
| Literacy | In Literacy, we will be reading Crater Lake by Jennifer Killick. It is a horror/thriller story based on a Year 6 residential. Our writing focus will be persuasive adverts, instructional texts and narratives. |
| Maths | In maths, we will be preparing for secondary school covering key concepts including algebra and ratio. We will also be revisiting our previous units of statistics and geometry. |
| Science | Secondary transition will be our focus in science. We will be exploring how to stay safe in the lab and begin looking at key symbols and scientific drawings. |
| Geography | We will be looking at micro-climates focusing on different types of micro-climates such as those found within a city and in a desert. Following on from this, we will exploring the micro-climates in our school and local area. |
| History | In History, we will be learning about how London has changed over the years. Each week we will look at London during a different period of history including: The Victorians, The Suffragette Movement and The Black Power Movement. |
| RE | In RE, we will be exploring the question ‘Is anything ever eternal?’ |
| Computing | We will be focusing on text adventures in computing, planning, and creating our own text-based adventures on Purple Mash. |
| Art | In Art, we will be learning about textiles. To begin with, we will be researching key artists including James Fox and Bisa Butler. We will then use Batik technique to create a resist in fabric. Following this, we will use a variety of stitches to create patterns before pulling together everything we have learnt for a final piece. |
| French | In French, we will be using key vocabulary to talk about our holidays. We will also have a focus on conversational French and will prepare and perform a conversation in partners. |
| PSHE | In PSHE we will be exploring mental health and growing and changing. We will begin by looking at gender identity before identifying where we can go for help. We will then be looking at the stages of reproduction in humans (a letter will follow about this). The rest of the unit will focus on managing change, including the change of secondary school. |
| PE | In PE we will be doing rounders and athletics. |
| Music | For our music lessons, we will be focusing on our end of year 6 production! More details to follow about this. |
| DT | In DT we will start to research mechanical toys before designing, making and evaluating our own prototype for one. |
How can I help at home?
One of the key ways every parent can help is to ensure that your child is at school every day and on time. Other than this, the main way you can help is by ensuring that your child reads every day, for at least 30 minutes – this can be with you, or on their own, but it is the most effective way of ensuring that your child progresses and learns outside of school. Practising times tables frequently is vital.
Children have logins for Times Table Rock Stars and Purple Mash– please encourage them to use this frequently, as it will really help with their quick recall of mathematical facts.
If you have any questions, please talk to Miss Simmons, Miss Mills or Mrs Borecka.
Thanks,
Miss Simmons, Miss Mills and Mrs Borecka
