Our PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please ensure that your child has their correct PE kit in school. We recommend that they bring this into school on a Monday and bring it home again on a Friday to be washed.
Homework will be set daily. There will be a daily Times Tables Rockstars and Ed Shed assignment. There will also be a weekly SPaG and Spelling assignment that needs to be completed 3 times over the week. Please remember that your child should read daily. Every child has a book in their bag that is linked to the school reading scheme plus a free-reader. The free-reader is a book that they have chosen themselves to read for pleasure - please encourage them to do so!
If you have any questions, please speak to your child’s class teacher, email or phone the school office to book an appointment. Thank you for your support.
Miss Price and Miss Chandler
Maths
This half term, we are looking at angles, pie charts, area of shapes and ratio. We will then begin to revise topics ready for their assessments.
We would like the children to continue to focus on their timetables and inter-related division facts by working on them at home through TTRockstars.
Useful websites:
MathShed
TTRS
https://uk.ixl.com/maths/year-6
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39
https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/maths/
English
This half term we will be reading the text Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll.
In writing we will be writing a WW2 Narrative where the children will be combining all they have learnt about writing an effective narrative. We will then be writing a persuasive letter also based around WW2.
How can parents/carers support writing at home?
Here are some writing opportunities for Year 6 children at home:
Shopping lists, recipes, writing a diary, thank-you letters after a party or birthday, send a letter or email to a family member who lives in another town or country.
Useful websites:
Once Upon A Picture provides images and prompts for creative writing.
Crystal Explorers is a game for children to practise their SPAG learning.
History
In History this half term we will be learning about WW2. We will hopefully be visiting Bletchley Park to discover more about the code breaking that took place there, so please look on Parent Pay to give consent.
DT
This half-term we will be creating our own moving fairground rides using our electrical circuits knowledge from science.
PE
This half-term, the children will be doing PE on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. The sports that we will be teaching are fitness and tennis.
It is important that every child has the correct PE kit in school, that is clearly labelled. Please bring a PE kit to school on Monday and then take it home to be washed on Friday.
Computing
For our next unit, we start our unit on Bletchley park and the code breakers
RE
In RE this half term we will be looking at important people in Christianity and Humanism.