Welcome all Year 6 parents and pupils.
I am Miss Mayley, the Year 6 class teacher, and our TA is Mrs Thambiayah.
Recommended reading books for Year 6:
Best Books for Year 6 | Ages 10-11 Recommended Reads | BooksForTopics
Expertly selected books for 9 and 10 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)
Expertly selected books for 11, 12 and 13 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)
We hope that you have all had a lovely half term!
Our learning this week:
Maths – We shall be looking at ration and proportion, over the next two weeks.
English – First, we shall be editing our Holes substitution stories. Our next unit will be based on a Shakespeare classic, Romeo and Juliet. We shall be getting to know the story by completing story maps and hot-seating activities.
Science – We shall be continuing to write our explanation text about how the heart works.
History – Based on our independent research, we shall be writing a biography about Anne Frank.
PE – Swimming is now finished. Our Tuesday PE session will be gymnastics and our secon d session this week (Thursday for Tower and Friday for QE2) shall be boxercise.
A huge well done to all the helpers -both adults and children- for all of your support at the Spring Fayre last Friday. Tyler announced in assembly that they managed to raise a huge £512.06 profit! That’s incredible!
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Just a reminder that Miss Handley will be teaching Maths in both Year 6 classes and Miss Blackford will be teaching both classes’ English lessons.
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Maths – This week’s maths learning objectives are to:
- transform and rotate shapes across four quadrants.
English – This week, we shall be continuing with our narrative unit. We shall building appropriate figurative language through a clip from Holes, to build setting description; then, we shall be writing and editing a substitution story based on our innovated character’s arrival to the infamous Camp Green Lake!
Science – As part of our unit on Animals, including humans, over the next few lessons we shall be writing an explanation text on the circulatory system.
PE – On Tuesday this week, we shall have gymnastics. During our second lesson this week (Thursday for Tower and Friday for QE2) we shall be continuing with our boxercise sessions.
Reading – We shall be continuing to read our class text, Holes. We shall be completing activities based on improving our explanation, retrieval and interpretation skills.
Geography – This term, we will be learning all about Scandinavia. This week’s learning objectives are:
• To explore the physical features of Norway
• To create maps using a key
SPAG – We shall be focusing on revising some of the key Year 6 grammar across our English sessions and with Miss Blackford this week. We shall also be looking at words containing the letter string ough in our spelling sessions.
Key dates –
Parents’ evening – 12th and 17th March (subject to change by class teachers).