Welcome to Year 6C - Gandalf
Hello and welcome to 6C’s class page! My name is Mrs Carradice and I am class teacher for Gandalf class. I will be teaching the class on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Miss Kauser will teach the class on Thursday. Miss Bamford will also work in our classroom every day, as well as Miss Holt who will support us with our English, mathematics and reading. In class, we are learning to enjoy, respect and succeed in all the work that we do.
In English, we are studying 'Wonder' as part of our 'Novel as a theme' 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 in preparation for our end of KS2 Sats tests. We will also carrying out learning in our 'Applied Maths' unit, which enables us to apply the skills we have learned to solve fun puzzles and problems.
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.
I am sure we are going to have a FANTASTIC half term!
Mrs Carradice, Miss Holt, Miss Kauser and Miss Bamford
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. This will be sent home with them daily. 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
Mrs Carradice will be on PPA on Monday afternoons. Miss Mcwhire will teach the computing and music during this time.
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
Spellings will be set on Monday for the children to learn, ready to be tested on the following Monday. Each week's spellings are found on the inside cover of their purple homework books.
This half term, we will be working on the year 6 common exception words, (a copy of these can be found further down this page)
We will also be learning spellings linked to the fast forward spelling intervention programme.
PE
This half term, PE 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.
Our Class Novel for this half term is 'Wonder' by L. Frank Baum.
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.
Here's a window to our learning:
As part of our bridging unit in English, we used Talk for Writing' to support our ideas when writing our own fantasy narratives. Here is a video of us rehearsing the prologue in the story.
OUR LONG TERM PLAN FOR THE YEAR...
OUR CURRICULUM MAP FOR THIS TERM...
Below is our curriculum map detailing what we studied in the Autumn term.
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| Curriculum map - Americas Aut 1 2024.pdf | Download |
Here are our common exception words for this year...