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)
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Maths – This week’s maths learning objectives are:
- Compare fractions with unrelated denominators using equivalence;
- Know decimal equivalents for halves, quarters, fifths, eighths, tenths and hundredths;
- Use mental division strategies to find non-unit fractions of amounts;
- Recognise equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages;
- Find percentages of amounts;
- Calculate and interpret the mean as an average.
English – This week, we shall be starting our new unit of Non-chronological reports. We shall be basing our learning this half term on our class text, Holes by Louis Sachar. This week, we shall be planning, writing and editing our non-chronological reports based on a rattlesnake.
Science – We shall be starting our new unit Animals, including humans.
PE – Swimming is on this week. On Fridays, we shall be doing boxercise sessions.
Reading – We shall be continuing to read our class text, Holes. We shall be completing some skimming activities this week, as well as completing a past reading paper.
Geography – This term, we will be learning all about Scandinavia. This week’s learning objectives are:
• To understand key aspects of the climate zones of Scandinavia.
• To understand the position and significance of the Arctic circle
• Use graphs to identify physical features.
History – We shall be learning about how the role of propaganda during WW2.
Key dates – We shall be visiting Kew Gardens on Monday 3rd February 2020.
The children, and all adults, thoroughly enjoyed our trip to see Goodnight Mister Tom at BFI Southbank last week. As well as watching the film, we took part in an interactive workshop looking at different aspects of WW2 – using literary film clips to support our learning.
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Maths – We shall be looking place value over the next couple of weeks, including:
- Place value in 7-digit numbers (PV + and -, compare numbers)
- Add and subtract 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000 to/from 7-digit numbers
- Place 7-digit nos on number lines and round to the nearest 10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000
- Calculate intervals across zero
English – This week, we shall be starting our new unit of Non-chronological reports. We shall be basing our learning this half term on our class text, Holes by Louis Sachar. This week, we shall be identifying and evaluating key features as well as editing and up-levelling an existing non-chronological report.
Science – We shall be continuing our topic of Light. We shall be planning and conducting an investigation to look at what affects the size of a shadow.
PE – Swimming returns this week. On Fridays, we shall be starting our new unit- boxercise.
Reading – We shall be continuing to read our class text, Holes. We shall be completing some skimming activities this week, as well as completing a past reading paper.
Geography – We shall be starting our new unit – learning all about Scandinavia. This week, we shall be using maps to locate countries and major cities.
History – We shall be learning about how the role of women changed during WW2.
Key dates – We shall be visiting Kew Gardens on Monday 3rd February 2020.