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Year 6

WELCOME TO YEAR SIX
 
Miss Wonnacott

Mrs Brown,Mrs Mitchell, Mrs Brockway & Mrs Beveridge


 
Key points for Year 6

PE is on a Mondays and Tuesday.


Homework: MONDAY – Spellings are given on a Monday to practice during the week and brought back in the following Monday for a test.


Friday – Maths homework is given today and due the following Friday

Wednesday – Literacy homework is given today and due the following Wednesday

 

PLEASE ALSO MAKE SURE YOU HEAR YOUR CHILD  READ AT LEAST 3 TIMES A WEEK AND RECORD THIS IN THEIR READING RECORD BOOK


If the children are struggling to complete homework at home, they are more than welcome to attend homework club on a Tuesday after school from 3.30-4.10.



Please do not hesitate to contact me, should you have any questions at all regarding Year 6.

Thank you,
Miss Wonnacott

 
vwonnacott@shaftesburyabbey.dorset.sch.uk

We will be focusing on the following topics in these areas over the next term:

 AUTUMN TERM HT 2 – October 2023/ December 2023

VIPERS – This term will be finishing our class read War Horse then moving on to secure our inference skills using various text.

 ENGLSIH – This term we are reading The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.  We will be trying Turkish Delight and using the text as a stimulus to write, character descriptions, instructions, diary entries   Around Remembrance we will be looking at War Poems and why we have a Remembrance Day.

MATHS – We are continuing with our fluent in five daily (arithmetic) and moving on to FRACTIONS.  Here we will be learning to add/ subtract mixed numbers converting between improper fractions and mixed numbers, as well as learning how to times and divide fractions.

TOPIC – Our Topic this term is The Battle of Britain which will start once we have had our trip to the Tank Museum on Wednesday the 22nd November.

SCIENCE – This term we are looking at Living things and their habitats. We will look at microorganisms, classifying living things and taking part in several experiments such as “How can we tall if Yeast is a living thing?” and “How do microorganism grow?”

RE – We will be looking at incarnation and the Big Question – Was Jesus the Messiah.  We will look at the Messiah prophecies and discuss the Transfiguration though art and Bible verse.

PE – With Mr Faulkner the children will be learning the skills required to play Basketball.  On our ither PE days we will be looking at football.  Our PE days are Monday and Tuesday – please make sure the children wear their PE kit to school on those days.

JIGSAW – This half term we are Celebrating Difference in our PSHCE sessions. Recognising and accepting that we are different.  Learning the definition of words such as discrimination and prejudice.

FRENCH - Mrs Mitchell will continue taking the children every other Monday afternoon and look at topics such as school life – subjects that we like and dislike.

MUSIC – The class will be looking at Jazz music with Mrs Brockway.

Maths and Science
War Horse Art