Welcome to Class 6 - Miss Reynolds
Welcome to Class 6!
Both Miss Weston and I are looking forward to working with both you and your children over the academic year.
Reading: Children are expected to read at least 3 times per week and their reading to be recorded on the Go Read App. Children are encouraged to read a variety of genres from a range of authors to broaden their interests. I would still encourage the children to read aloud to an adult at least once per week so that discussions around vocabulary, pronunciation and comprehension can take place. The children are encouraged to read the school home reading books as well as their own choice of books from home. Reading in school will take place 5 times per week in the form of whole class shared reading sessions, small focused groups as well as individual reading.
Writing: This half term, our first English text will be Henry’s Freedom box. Our main writing outcomes for this text will be a diary entry and a biography. Whilst reading the text, we will also link in grammatical features such as modal verbs, relative clauses, devices to build cohesions, commas for parenthesis as well as dashes to mark boundaries.
Our second text will be The Story Like the Wind by Gill Lewis. Our main writing outcomes for those txt will be a flashback narrative and a newspaper report. Once again, we will have a grammar focuses linked in such as the differences between formal and informal writing, synonyms and antonyms and linking ideas across paragraphs.
Spelling: Children have 3 spelling sessions alongside our daily English sessions, where we will focus on different spelling patterns and start to learn rules which will help us with our statutory word lists. Children will be issued with spellings every Friday via Google Classroom which need to be learnt for the following week for a test.
Maths: In Maths, we will continue to develop children’s arithmetic, fluency and mental maths skills as well as applying their understanding to a variety of problem-solving contexts. Across the class, we will look at developing understanding of the number system up to 10,000,000. Some of the areas we will be focusing on are: written methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, rounding numbers as well understanding the value of each digit in a number. The children will also apply their skills to solve word problems.
Science: Science lessons for the first half term will focus on Earth and Space. The children will learn to describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system, describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth, describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies and use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky.
In the second half term, we will focus on Light. The children will be able to explain how light travels to enable us to see, to understand that all objects reflect light, to identify the angles of incidence and reflection, to understand what refraction is, to explain how a prism allows us to see the visible spectrum, to understand that the colours are a result of light reflecting off an object and to understand how shadows are formed and change size.
PE: PE on a Monday and Friday. PE kits will be worn on PE days with plain black or navy jogging pants or leggings if the weather is cold, school sweatshirts and cardigans can also be worn. Each session on a Monday will be delivered by Miss Weston and will focus on the fundamental skills of REAL PE.
RE: During the course of the year the main focus of our lessons will be based on Hinduism. This term, we will be looking at sacred texts in both Christianity and Hinduism as well as learning about Christmas around the world and within the church.
Art and DT: In art, the children will look at a range of 3D cityscapes by Charles Fazzino. They will experiment with different techniques to make their cityscapes 3D and will choose their preferred method to create their own piece of artwork. In DT, the children will carry out research and design a frame structure. They will use finishing and decorative techniques suitable for their product and will carry out a detailed evaluation at the end.
History: Our history topic for the term is the Maya Civilisation. The children will make Mayan and Anglo-Saxon comparisons, identify Maya cities and layouts, research into the Maya gods, use the number system, research farming, food and religion. The children will understand about the impact that the Mayans have had on our lives and we hope to have a historian come to school to deliver a session about the Mayans.
Computing: This term we will begin with online safety looking at ways to develop safe habits online, including the importance of protecting personal information, how to respect online privacy boundaries for themselves and others as well as ways to seek or ask for help if they or others feel unsafe online. We shall also be using 'Scratch' to build upon prior learning and progress programming skills.
French: For the first half term we will be learning to tell the time as well as discussing our daily routines. For the second term we will be discussing rooms within our home.
Homework: Children are expected to read a minimum of 3 times per week and their reading logged on Go Read. A grammar task will be set on SPAG.com every Friday and will need to be completed for the following Friday. The children will have a weekly arithmetic test set on Google Classroom each Friday to be completed by the following Friday. Spellings for the spelling test will also be set via Google Classroom.
We look forward to an enjoyable, happy and successful year of learning together. If you have any questions, queries or concerns during the course of the year, I will be happy to discuss this with you via email, or on the phone at a mutually convenient time.
Miss Reynolds