Welcome to Year 6
Presentations from the SATs and Carlton Lodge Meeting
Year 6 Curriculum Map
After a super first half term in Year 6, we will be continuing with certain topics in some subjects, but changing them in others. We will also be saying goodbye to Mr Gleeson which is of course really sad, but we are grateful for everything he has given the school in his time here and wish him all the best in the future.
Topic Book
Our focus in topic will be The Galapagos Islands- we have already learnt bits about Charles Darwin’s famous voyage there.
English
We will be continuing with our World War One topic, but will be writing a setting description, diary entry and a speech.
Please ensure your child is reading at the very least 3 times per week at home to support them, not just reading independently but also with an adult or sibling, allowing for discussions around what they have read. Children take home a planner and I ask that they fill in new words or phrases they have found 3 times a week. To be successful this year, it is imperative they develop a broad and in-depth knowledge of precise vocabulary and can infer meaning from what they have read. A parent or carer should then sign off what they have written. We will check the planners every week (each Monday).
Science
In science, our topic will be Electricity (which fits nicely with DT).
Maths
Our topics this half term are fractions and converting units.
RE
We will still be learning about the Jewish faith this half term. This will mean both looking at cornerstones of their faith and also customs for the people who follow that faith.
Computing
In computing, this half term, we will be creating our own webpages, which I know the children are really excited about!
PE
In PE, we will be continuing with gymnastics on Wednesdays and dodgeball on Thursdays. The children can be in PE kit both days but must remember to remove jewellery on those days please.
DT
Our topic will be ‘Electricity’ and the children will make a steady-hand game.
Thank you for taking the time to read this information and please do not hesitate to be in touch.
Kind regards,
Mr Smithson and Mr Gleeson.
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A busy week!
Posted: Feb 7, 2025 by: Alex Tosta (ATosta) on: Year 6 Class Blog
As you can see it is a few weeks since my last blog. In this time, we have done 2 maths units and are on our third, done 2 units of Writing and are on our third, investigated our heartrate after exercise, questioned Genesis and Cosmology regarding the start of the universe and assessed the main reason for WW2 starting and how Britain prepared for it. Oh, and we started the term with the snow.
Did I forget anything?
Oh yes! We had mock SATs.
The children were all amazing this week. Their focus, resilience and motivation were superb; they showed such maturity is siting the SATs as if they were the actual ones. SATs are in spelling, punctuation and grammar, Reading and Maths. These were sat (pardon the pun) over 4 mornings, with the longest paper being an hour. Marking is currently underway.
In Writing, children wrote in a style of their choice. We chose the theme of ‘Journey to the Unknown’. Staying within the WW2 of the half term, we were writing about the Kindertransport on the late 1930s, the children who were evacuated in Britain at the start of the war and those sent to the concentration. A great deal of research went into their work and it was wonderful to see this come through in their writing. This was such an emotive and hard theme, but the children have created great poems, narratives, diaries, letters and accounts. They have really shown their authorial voice.
We are pushing on with Maths, having to make lots of links in our learning. We are looking at fractions, percentages and decimals; this requires us to make relationships between our place value knowledge, division and fraction knowledge. This came to a head today when we trying to prove that ¼ = 1 ÷ 4 = 0.25. Some really deep Maths!
From now on, I will put homework on the blog. Children have 3 books (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling) and spelling home (list of words following a spelling principle; these will be in their planner).
Homework for this week:
Spellings: words in planner; short ‘i’ spelt ‘y’ (e.g. myth, lyrics) + 5 common exception words. Test is Mon 10 Feb.
Books:
- Grammar: p46 – p48, Standard cs Non-Standard; Formal and informal writing – due Thurs 13 Feb
- Punctuation: p28-p31, Brackets for extra information; Dashes for extra information – due Thurs 13 Feb.
- Spelling: p17 & p18, Words ending in ‘cial’ and ‘tial’; words ending in ‘ent’ and ‘ant’ – due Thurs 13 Feb.
I would like to say thank you for your patience; the curriculum maps will be updated and there will be regular blogs. Saying this, your patience has let me settle in, to get to know my way in ASJ and get to know your wonderful children.
Have a great week!
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