Welcome to Year 6!

Who's Who?

Miss White - Class Teacher

Ms Evans - Teaching Assistant (Monday-Thursday)

Reading

Children should be reading regularly to an adult at home - a minimum of 3 times per week. Children are responsible for changing their own reading book at any suitable time throughout the week. Reading records are checked every week and the number of times your child has read is noted down. Reading is rewarded with a reading certificate and gold coin after every 30th log in their record.

Homework & Spellings

All homework is set on Monday and tested/marked the following Monday. Children will be given a typed copy of their spelling words. It is recommended that spellings are practised for a short period daily. Two pages of maths practise will also be set to complete in your child's Maths SATs revision book.

PE 

PE lessons will take place every Monday afternoon. Children should come to school wearing their full PE kit (navy/black joggers or shorts, house colour/white t-shirt, and dark jogging top or blue school jumper). If children arrive in the wrong (or no) PE kit, they may be asked to change into a spare school PE kit.

Spring Term - 2025

English

In our second Spring half term we will continue to take inspiration from The Memory Cage by Ruth Eastham, before exploring the picture book Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan. We will write for various outcomes, including a persuasive letter and a balanced argument.

Children are encouraged to write for pleasure outside of school, and we often receive the Young Writers poetry and creative writing competitions which many of our class enjoy writing for.

Maths

Upon returning, we will continue to explore angles and measurements in our Shape unit. We will then move on to cover ratio, statistics, algebra and position & direction in the near future. It is vital that children are confident in their multiplication tables, and using the formal written method to calculate problems involving the four operations, in order for them to have the best opportunity to succeed in Year 6. Children will benefit from frequent arithmetic practice at home, and the following websites provide plenty of appropriate questions:

https://satstestsonline.co.uk/index.aspx

https://mathsbot.com/primary/ks2

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/

Science

Our unit Living Things and their Habitats will continue this half term. In Spring 1, children learnt to use classification keys, to identify a range of living things; about different micro-organisms, including fungi, protists and monera; and about how harmful micro-organisms spread, and how they can be prevented/killed. We will now look in closer detail at classification keys, and will evaluate our findings in our micro-organism investigation.

History

'Blitz!' is our history topic for this term. It involves learning about World War Two, and the impact on daily life, particularly in our locality. Children will learn why the war began and how it ended, which countries were involved, how daily life and the role of women changed, why Coventry was targeted,  why Winston Churchill is significant, and how WWII is remembered today.