Year 6

Welcome to Year Six's class page. This is the place where you will find out all about our amazing learning and achievements, as well as finding out important information. The children have already started the year with enthusiasm and excitement and are proving to be fantastic role models as the oldest pupils of our setting. We extremely proud of them.

If you have any questions please email the office and we will endeavour to get back to you as soon as we can.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mr Hamlen and Mr Mitchinson

Year Six Teachers

Key information

PE days:

Tuesday morning will be with the Sports Coach and Friday afternoon.

School start time: 8:45

School finish time: 3:15

Please drop your child off at the KS2 Entrance (the green gate, to the left of the building when facing the school.)

Home Learning

Pupils will receive their home learning on a Friday and return it on a Thursday. If you need anymore support for at home or for ideas on how to support your child on their Year Six journey, do not hesitate to contact us.

Reading 

All pupils have received their reading books and should complete these three times before returning them (unless they have the upper levels in which this is not possible). Pupils should read 5 times for a minimum of 20 minutes each week and one of these reads should be with an adult. 

Book change day is a Monday

Term 3

This term we will  use the text ‘The Promise’ by Nicola Davies.  The book is about a girl who is hardened by the harsh urban environment that surrounds her is transformed into a guerrilla gardener by the unexpected booty resulting from a mugging. The burgeoning wildlife opens up people’s hearts and minds and the girl moves on to multiply the magic. In spare poetic prose, Nicola Davies has fashioned a variation on the myth of the Green Man for a modern age. We will use the text to write a prequel to the story, focusing on the old lady’s story as well as a persuasive piece which will be a brochure encouraging visits to the new city.

Our RE learning will be centred on the Christmas revelation. In maths, we will be focussing on geometry including 3D shape & co-ordinates, fractions, Decimals and Percentages. We will use manipulatives, where appropriate, to support our maths understanding. In science we will looking at circuits and their components. This term we will move over to learning history again- Britain at War. This unit  teaches children about the causes, events and consequences of the First and Second World Wars, the influence of new inventions on warfare, how life in Great Britain was affected and the legacy of the wars in the post-war period.

Term 2

This term we will continue to use the text ‘Wolf Brother’ by Michelle Paver. Wolf Brother is the first book in the series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver. The story takes place six thousand years ago during the Middle Stone Age, and tells the story of twelve-year-old Torak, a boy who can talk to wolves. We will be using the text to support our writing. We will be continuing the story from the wolf’s point of view as well as writing a recount of the duel between Hord and Torak.

Our RE learning will be centred on prayer, saints and feasts as well as the season of Advent. In maths, we will be focussing on multiplication and division, we will then move onto geometry to include angles, 2D shape and perimeter and finally looking at addition and subtraction with statistics. We will use manipulatives, where appropriate, to support our maths understanding. In science we will continue to unpick the circulatory system. Geography- will build on the essential skills and knowledge required to explore the features of Earth, time zones and lines of latitude and longitude to pinpoint places on a map. Children will find out more about map scales, grid references, contour lines and map symbols. They will learn about climate change and the importance of global trade.

Library Visit

Today, we went to Kingswood Library to listen to an amazing author Polly Ho-Yen. She took us through the process of how she starts writing a new book, how she starts with a drawing and then using that to start to find a story. We loved the idea of 'compost thinking'- this is where we get all our ideas down and use them to formulate the start of a story.

What is a duel?

Today, we started our next writing sequence. Our engage activity was to look at what a duel was and to watch a few examples. We enjoyed watching a classic Star Wars duel between Darth Vada and Obe-wan Kenobi as well as a fencing duel between Hungry and Italy at the 2012 London Olympics.

We finished off the session by creating our own freeze frames of different types of duel. 

Term 1

This term we will using the text ‘Wolf Brother’ by Michelle Paver. Wolf Brother is the first book in the series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver. The story takes place six thousand years ago during the Middle Stone Age, and tells the story of twelve-year-old Torak, a boy who can talk to wolves. We will be using the text to support our writing. We will be writing a non-chronological report about wolves as well as writing a narrative based on an Iron Age media clip.

Our RE learning will be centred on Mission and Creation. We will start off by looking at Moses and describe and show our understanding of some of the relevant experiences of Moses relating to some beliefs in the Christian Church. We will also look at how people in the church and their actions are informed by their belief in the commandments. Finally, we will engage with and respond to the question ‘Why do some people not keep some specific commandments?’

In maths, we will be focussing on Place Value including decimals, the four operations as well as number properties. We will use manipulatives, where appropriate, to support our maths understanding. In science we will be unpicking the circulatory system. History will take use to Africa with a focus on Maafa, the Swahili word for “great disaster” or “great tragedy,” This is a term used to refer to the centuries-long enslavement and murder of millions of Africans by white Europeans, North Americans, and others—and the lasting impacts on African Peoples and the descendants of those who were enslaved.

Who did it?

This morning, Year 6 were greeted with a sad sight. Over the weekend an unknown animal had managed to enter the school field and brutally killed an innocent rabbit. We looked for evidence and found claw marks, footprints and a chewed ear not far from the carcass of the dead rabbit. 

It soon became apparent that the perpetrator was a wolf.  Interested to find out more, we returned to the classroom to find out more about these cunning, vicious hunters.