Year 6
Welcome to Year 6!
Townsend Class - Miss E Saville/Mrs N Godfrey
Clarke Class - Miss M Graham
Teaching Assistants - Mrs Pursglove, Mrs Cooke, Mrs Jackson
Whole School Well Being Mentors - Mrs Patrick, Miss Smith and Mrs Fox
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Year 6 SATs Meeting - February 2024
Spring Term 2024
Welcome back after Christmas to a (relatively) short but busy term for Y6.
Week beginning Feb 26th - our Morning Learning By Questions Club begins this week. Y6 children can come to school from 8:30, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, to revise and consolidate their learning using this popular app.
Maths
Maths continues to build on earlier learning and sets the foundation for secondary school education. Fluency and accuracy (being quick and right) as well as being able to reason, problem solve and explain are aspects of every lesson.
This term, we will have a big focus on fractions, decimals and percentages, including working with money and measures.
Boost work will support effective, efficient methods of calculating 4 operations and we will also revise shape and space.
As well as the Maths apps below, we also recommend
https://mathsbot.com/primaryMenu
English
The majority of English is taught through our Units of Learning and Book Study with some stand alone units.
We begin the term by writing a recount after our Young Voices Concert - coming soon!
Other writing this term will be linked to our Science Unit of learning where we will write formal and informal explanations of the human circulatory system. Choosing the right language for two very different styles will be key and will allow us to show off different authorial voices.
Fiction will include The Alchemist's Letter and a story linked to the tale of Herakles.
In Book Study, we are studying Holes and our next class novel is Who Let The Gods Out?
Spelling lists this term will concentrate on the Y5/6 statutory spellings and will be about using these words as part of our vocabulary as well as spelling them correctly. Regular practice on www.spellingframe.co.uk is important.
Children should read regularly from the school library or books of their own. By this stage of Y6, they should be reading for longer periods of time independently but it is still helpful for them to read aloud as this supports fluency and prosody (the rhythm of speech/reading)
When they finish a book (whether school's or one of their own), they should quiz at https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/2236104
(Please make sure you use this link rather than googling 'accelerated reader'.)
PE
This term our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday. Year 6 children should come to school in their PE kits ready with uniform in their bag in case we get wet/muddy.
Wider Curriculum
Our Science Unit of Learning is Journeys Around The Body. In History, we will find out all about the Ancient Greeks and their impact on life today. In RE, we will clook at what matters to Christians and Humanists whilst in PSHE we look at Prejudice and Persecution.
Latin continues to focus on word classes and word endings and we've been impressed with how the children are spotting Latin links in everyday words and phrases.
Perhaps ask your child to sing you our Latin Rap - we think you'll recognise the tune!
Young Voices
Our Young Voices concert is always a fabulous experience and we look forward to learning our new repertoire of songs.
The concert is early next year on the 9th January - the second day back after Christmas - and we'll send further information shortly for those of you who want to buy tee-shirts, tickets etc.