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)
New learning
English-We will be starting to look at a new genre of writing-explanation texts and these will be linked to our Science work on The Heart. We will also be continuing to read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Maths-We will be learning how to find the area of triangles and parallelograms
Science-We will be revising the solar system
PE-We will be learning about Boxercise and Pilates
PSHE-We will be starting our work from the NSPCC called Pantasaurus
History-We will be learning about the Blitz
R.E -We will be continuing to study Buddhism
Spanish-We will be looking at playing games in Spanish
Important Information
Thank you to all of the children who created ‘Books in a box’. They were great! It was also exciting to see all of the children who had come into school last week as a book character for World Book Day. I hope you have all managed to exchange your token for a book.
‘Design a Lab coat’ entries need to be in asap. If you haven’t already done so, please complete and hand in to school asap.
The children in Year 6 have a visit from a local PCSO on Thursday 21st March. He will be talking to both classes about stop and searches and how to keep themselves safe.
What we will be learning
English-We will be finishing off our newspaper report about Romeo and Juliet
Maths-We will be learning how to multiply and divide fractions
Science-We will be learning about animals and their habitat
PE-We will be having a boxercise and Pilates lesson
Music-We will be practising a song which we will be performing in music assembly
PSHE-We will be learning about Pantasaurus form the NSPCC website
History-We will be continuing our work on World War 2
R.E-We will be continuing our work on Buddhism
MFL-We will be linking our Spanish work in to our History work this week
Class Reading-We will be continuing to read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Please purchase a copy if you would like to.
Important Information
World Maths Day-Tuesday 12th March