Mrs Stimpson (Class Teacher: 6S) Miss Falcon (Class Teacher: 6F)
Miss Flint (Teaching Assistant)
Mr Jarrett and Mrs Onions (Cover Teachers)
Miss Flint and Mrs James (Lunchtime Supervisors)
Autumn Term
Welcome to the start of Year 6!
We are so excited to begin our journey into Year 6. We will be enjoying our fantastic new Spine text called The Arrival, a fun P.E unit on handball, and doing plenty of practical work in Art, D.T and Science. Later on in the half term, we will be preparing for Harvest Festival too.
The staff are extremely proud of the children's outstanding behaviour so far - what a wonderful bunch of students we have. They have approached their work with enthusiasm and resilience, and we are so proud of how well they're doing.
Please do speak to a member of staff if you have any questions about what to expect this term. :)
Scroll down to the Documents section for important information regarding Year 6.
Please join us for our Harvest Assembly, led by Year 6 on Wednesday 18th October.
It will begin at about 9.15, in Church.
English
Our first unit of study is on The Arrival- a wordless picture book by award-winning artist Shaun Tan. The pupils will be familiar with Tan's other work, like the book Cicada which is on of their Year 5 spine texts. Initially, we will explore this book as readers- predicting, inferring and summarising, as well as discussing the effectiveness and our enjoyment of the book. Our writing tasks will all be rooted in the book. We will write in role, write narratives and poems.
Children have been provided with a spelling list focussed on Year 5 and 6 spelling patterns which will be included in their writing. While we no longer test, we do assess during spelling activities and through the application of spellings in children's writing.
Year 6 are independently recording their Year 6 reading journey through reading sketchbooks. The aim of these is to promote a love of reading and reflection on what they've read. It is also designed to give them increasing ownership and freedom over their learning. We have seen some wonderful work so far, and the children have evaluated one another's work too. We look forward to seeing what this term brings!
Our reading volunteer is David. He comes in on Thursday afternoons to help children improve their reading fluency.
Maths
This half term, we will cover:
Within all Maths lessons, the children are provided with problem-solving and reasoning tasks tailored to their ability. The level of challenge is chosen by each child with input by class teachers and teaching assistants (and adapted where necessary).
Topic (History and Geography):
Maafa
This project teaches children about Africa past and present, with a particular focus on Benin. It traces the development of the slave trade and explores Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, the causes and consequences of the European colonisation of Africa and the worldwide communities that make up the African diaspora.
Science
This half term, our topic is humans and animals - the circulatory system.
A series of lessons all about the human body. They include activities in which children explore the structure of the heart and lungs and learn about the double circulation of blood through the lungs and the rest of the body.
Key Scientist: Daniel Hale Williams
Religious Education
Our theme is Creation. We will consider:
Computing:
Computing lessons will be underpinned by E-Safety.
Initial lessons will focus on cyberbullying and how harmful it is.
Following this, the first unit will be about Creating a Webpage.
PE:
Year 6 will have PE every Friday. Our first PE unit is handball! We are also swimming this term at Harborne Leisure Centre. Please bring correct kit for swimming as well as wearing their correct PE kit on PE day.
School Games Values
These are values which we encourage the children to display in P.E as well as during the school day:
RSHE (Relationships, Sex, Health, Emotions):
Me and my relationships - this term we will look at how to compromise and negotiate. How to treat other people, be assertive but also be kind.
French: (Mr Jarrett)
Clothing.
To learn the vocabulary for clothes, adjectives of colour, adjectives to describe clothes, using the present tense of '-er' verbs. To know how to say what they are wearing, and how to describe clothes.
Art and Design Technology
Collage
Hannah Hoch was a German Dada artist. She was part of an art movement formed during the First World War.
We will evaluate Hoch's artwork before creating our own pieces inspired by one of our school values: Honesty.
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