Welcome to Year 6B (The Scarecrows)
Enjoy Respect Succeed
“The minimum requirement is maximum effort!”
Hello and welcome to the Year 6B class page! My name is Miss Byers and I am teacher for the Scarecrow class. Mrs Adams also teaches our class every Friday. Mrs Armitage is our Learning Support Assistant that works in our classroom every day, as well as Miss Holt who helps to support us with our English, mathematics and reading every morning. In class, we are learning to enjoy, respect and succeed in all the work we do! We are going to be learning about lots of exciting things this half term.
In English, we are studying 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' as part of our 'Classic Fiction' unit. During guided reading sessions, we are studying collection of short texts, focusing on the language structures. In mathematics this half term, we will be learning a range of different skills, including: fractions, statistics, ratio and proportion and geometry.
During their time in Year 6, the children will be given various opportunities that will enhance their learning as well as aiding them to make memories to cherish of Cherry Fold. One of these will be their residential later in the year where they will carry out team building activities as well as trying new things.
In Year 6, we encourage children to be resilient as well as learning to persevere when things get tough. These skills will aid them in their transition to KS3.
We are looking forward to a fun year together of hard work and memories.
Miss Byers, Mrs Adams, Miss Holt and Mrs Armitage
Author of the term this half term is Eve Ibbotson. We will be looking at some of her wonderful texts as well as learning about her as an author.
Reading
Children will have a reading book chosen by themselves, which is appropriate to their reading level. Accompanying these books are their reading diaries, where you can write comments on their reading daily. Your child will also be given many opportunities throughout the week to read a variety of texts and will then undertake an online quiz to assess their understanding of the text.
PPA Time
Miss Byers will be teaching in class most days. On Monday afternoon, Mrs Adams will be teaching the class, looking at subjects such as: ICT and Art.
Homework
In Year 6, children are expected to complete two pieces of homework a week.
Your child has been provided a login for the app, SATs Companion (SATs Companion). They must use their login details in order to access the English and mathematics materials that are added each week. Details about homework will be explained to the children on a Friday and the work will need to be completed for the following Friday.
Children will receive weekly spellings as well as times tables set on TT Rock stars.
Times Tables
You can log in to your TT Rock stars account here using your username and password:
Spellings
Weekly spellings have been sent out for the 6 weeks of this half term. You will find these at the front of your child's purple homework book. Homework books to be in for Thursday and will be given back out same day and spelling tests will take place every Monday morning.
PE
P.E. will take place on Fridays. Please ensure that you have the correct P.E. kit each week, which contains a black shorts, white t-shirt and black pumps or trainers. Your child can bring plain navy or black jogging bottoms and tracksuit top for PE outdoors if necessary.
SNACK
School will be providing a piece of fruit daily for each child. We also encourage your child to water to drink in class throughout the day, but they may bring something else to drink with their packed lunch.
Class Novel
Our Class Novel for this half term is 'The Wonder by R.J Palacio.
Global Population
Our geography work for this term will be all about population. We will be looking at:
Population and where is the most densely populated areas of the world in comparison to the more sparsely areas. We will look in trends of when there has been a natural decline in global population and the factors affecting this. We will investigate and discuss what factors influence where people choose to live as well as studying migration from country to country and the pros and cons of this. We will revisit the work on climate change and how this is affecting population in certain areas as well as using digital maps and calculating different routes to scale.
Black and British
Our history lessons this half term is all about 'Black and British' . The children will be focusing their learning on the roles of Black people within British societies over the years and the impact the slave trade on their lives.
P.S.H.E.
Our P.S.H.E. topic for this half term will be about 'Being my best.' The children will learn about identifying their aspirational goals; describing the actions needed to set and achieve these. The children will also learn basic first aid, including Sepsis Awareness.
R.E.
Our R.E. topic for this half term is 'Buddhism.' The children will be learning about the Buddhist religion and the rights and rituals that take place within this religion.
SCIENCE
We are learning all about. 'Electricity.' The children will learn about how to make electrical circuits that work effectively. They will also be carrying out investigations regarding voltage and when a circuit has more than one bulb added to it what happens to the brightness of the bulb. They will also recognise symbols that we use when drawing electrical diagrams.
OUR LONG TERM PLAN FOR THE YEAR...
OUR CURRICULUM MAP FOR THIS TERM...
Here is our Curriculum Map for Spring Term...
This is what we looked at in the Autumn Term...
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This year, we will be using times table rock stars as part of our homework to improve our fluency in times tables.
Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Here are our common exception words for this year...