Welcome to Year 6!
In line with our South America geography unit this half term, we are busy writing persuasive speeches on the impact and devastation of palm oil use and deforestation. We have teamed this up with our science where we are looking at how animals and species have adapted and evolved over time and need to adapt to their environment for survival.
For our class reading this half-term, we have been focussing on specific areas to support our learning, such as delving into understanding rainforest animals and their level of endangerment, as well as the research and statistics which have gone into protecting them. Our class book this half-term is 'There's a Rang Tan in My Bedroom' by James Sellick.
Spellings
The children have now engaged fully with Letter Join, and we continue to encourage them to be accessing this from home also. https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/desktop_edition/home/index
We also focus on the spelling lists for years 3/4 and 5/6, practising and applying these where we can within our written work.
Year 6 Curriculum
Year 6 long term curriculum plan
SATs Practice papers
Homework
Reading
“You cannot open a book without learning something.” So, in year 6, we still encourage independent reading for pleasure both in and out of school. The children have high expectations to meet at the end of KS2, requiring a range of reading skills including: vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summary. It is therefore important that we allow countless opportunities for reading experiences before they head off into KS3. "Reading is a passport to countless adventures." We aim to ignite and maintain a love of reading and so encourage the children to choose texts and authors they enjoy whether that be from our school library or books from home, our children are free to choose their own adventures. We read both independently and aloud in class and would encourage them both reading and listening at home as a family too.
Times Tables
Times tables recall is fundamental to many maths topics. Therefore, we encourage the consistent, regular practising of their tables up to 12 x 12. It's this regular revision which allows the children to be comfortable when working with more complex calculations and methods across the different units and set them up nicely before their more tricky KS3 curriculum! In school, we use TimesTableRockStars which can also be accessed from home, with their individual log ins. Or simply asking your child to recall certain tables throughout more busy times at home such as in the car or over dinner!
SATs revision
In the spring term, our children are provided with CGP revision books from which I set pages, linked to our learning that week, as homework to be handed in the following week. This is not only helpful for consolidating their learning but is also a tool to get them used to being independent when having deadlines in high school!
Pages shared on dojo each Friday morning
Useful Links