Year 6
Our Class Saint is St Christopher!
We will be exploring the life of St Christopher and the model example that he set for us in his devotion to God.
Welcome to class 6!
Things you need to know:
- The school day starts at 08:40 and finishes at 3:25 p.m. You must be on time and ready to learn.
- Uniform - Dress Smart - Think Smart. Please ensure correct uniform is worn every day, with shirts tucked in and hair tied back.
- P.E is on a Monday afternoon. Please ensure you are wearing the correct school P.E kit.
- Homework is set each week. Daily tasks may also be set in order to further support the learning in school. This will be recorded in the pupil's diaries.
- Children have 30 minutes daily reading homework, which should be recorded in their diaries, and brought into school every day.
- Pupils must bring a full water bottle to school each day.
Visit to Rudyard Lake
Useful Links for SATs Revision:
Summer 1 Booster timetable (last week of boosters 1/5/23)
Summer Term Curriculum Map
Key stage 2 SATS Dates for 2023
- Tuesday 9 May: English grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS) papers 1 (questions) and 2 (spelling)
- Wednesday 10 May: English reading paper
- Thursday 11 May: mathematics papers 1 (arithmetic) and 2 (reasoning)
- Friday 12 May: mathematics paper 3 (reasoning)
Reading... Choosing a book for your child that they will love can sometimes be a daunting task. Click the link for a recommended selection of age appropriate texts.
What we are reading this term:
At the end of each day, Y6 will be reading Crater Lake by Jennifer Killick. .
Statutory National Curriculum Spellings
Year 6 Autumn 1st half |
Year 6 Autumn 2nd half |
Year 6 Spring 1st half |
Year 6 Spring 2nd half |
Year 6 Summer 1st half Revision (yr 5) |
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Instructional Writing samples from Year 6. What to do in the event of a zombie Apocalypse!
French
Year 6 Science Topics
Animals Including Humans
- To label the major organs of the body.
- To know the role of the heart, including blood vessels (A, V, C).
- To know how the ideas of Galen and Harvey differ.
- To define heart rate & pulse rate.
- Give examples of a healthy diet and the 7 food groups
- Respiratory system -To know how we breathe and what structures are involved.
- To understand effects of exercise on the body
- To define a drug and give examples of legal and illegal drugs, knowing how they affect the body.
- To know the word micro-organism and discuss ways we can stay healthy
Light
- To recognise light travels in straight lines
- To give examples of sources of light and understand how we can see things.
- To know how light travels from a source to our eyes
- To understand why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them
- Reflection – to give examples of reflective materials
Evolution and Inheritance
- Recognise that living things have changed and that fossils provide the evidence of this change
- Living things reproduce – offspring inherit characteristics from their parents but look slightly different due to variation.
- Variation is either inherited (from parents) or environmental (from surroundings)
- All species are adapted to suit their environment. To detail adaptations in plants and animals for hot, cold and dry habitats.
Living things and their habitat (classification)
- To group living things as vertebrates and invertebrates.
- To group vertebrates into their 5 classes.
- The reason for classification
- To use a key to classify some organisms
- The significance of the work of scientists such as Carl Linnaeus, a pioneer of classification.
- Research plants and animals in unfamiliar habitats
Electricity
- Electrical Safety
- Use circuit symbols are be able to draw a circuit.
- Associate brightness of a bulb or volume of a buzzer with number of cells used in a circuit and voltage.
- Make comparisons with various components, when are they dimmer, brighter?
- Make a selection of series circuits.
Useful links:
Grammar tests and activities to meet the objectives for each year group.
https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/
Active learn Primary
TTRockstars
http://www.planetsherston.com/percy-parker-7x
You listen to the songs for free using this website, it’s a fun way to learn times tables.
https://www.compare4kids.co.uk/maths.php
Lots of great resources to help prepare for SATs.
An online reading website that measures children's progress in reading - for every 100 knowledge points pupils receive an achievement point at school!
SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar)
Curriculum Plans for Reading, Writing, Mathematics and RE
Year 5 and Year 6 Curriculum and Expectations
With the new National Curriculum, the Department for Education has produced new expectations for the end of each curriculum year. These will replace the old system of levels and provide you as parents with a clear idea of what the children should be achieving at the end of the year.
Below you will find the expectations for Year 5 and Year 6 in Reading, Writing and Mathematics. The year 5 document that can also be downloaded provides year 5 expectations. We have also produced ‘deepening’ targets for parents to show you the targets that the children will be working towards if they have met all of the ‘expected’ targets to master their learning skills.
As a school we report your child’s progress against these end of year expectations at our parent evenings during the year.
The following terms will be used:
· Your child is not on track to meet the end of year national expectations.
· Your child is on track to meet the end of year national expectations .
· Your child is on track to exceed the end of year national expectations.
Any extra support you can provide in helping your child or children to achieve these will benefit them greatly.
This website allows children to access a wide range of SATs questions grouped in to specific categories.
If you are struggling with a certain question you can click the Youtube link and it will provide you with an efficient way of completing the question.