Tower

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)

 

Week beginning 18th March 2019

March 14, 2019

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.

Week Beginning 11th March 2019

March 11, 2019

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