Year 6

Welcome to Year 6

AUTUMN 1

Following the summer break, we return to school filled with enthusiasm and looking forward to a year of fun, challenge, high expectations and high aspirations.

This half-term, our first English topic has a non-fiction reading and writing focus and is centred around the book, ‘A Dinosaur Life’ written by Dr. Brian Knapp. During this topic, we will be finding out about the different ages of the dinosaur era and discovering facts about species of dinosaur that roamed Earth during each period. We will be researching and writing a range of non-fiction texts, including: non-chronological reports, formal letters and newspapers.

In our second English topic, we will be reading a selection of ‘Grimm Tales’ written by Phillip Pullman and planning and writing our own stories based upon the common characteristics of such tales.

Place value is our first mathematics topic, followed by calculation using the four operations; including problem solving and reasoning.

In the afternoons, we will be mapping and discovering fascinating facts about rivers and mountains in geography; studying electricity in science (physics); learning about how to stay safe online in our ‘My Online Life’ computing topic; and creating artwork through the median of photography. For further information about this half term’s topics, take a look at our Autumn 1 topic web.

GENERAL INFORMATION

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

PE will take place every Thursday afternoon this half term.

READING, SPELLING AND HOMEWORK

The children will be given reading books to take home which can be changed as often as necessary. Please encourage your child to read regularly and complete their home-reading record. Children will also be set Reading Eggspress assignments periodically to complete at home in order to develop their comprehension skills.

Spellings will be given out at the start of each week and our weekly spelling test will be on Friday. It is important that the children are supported in learning their spellings for approximately 10 to 15 minutes each evening. Spelling is extremely important and counts towards Y6 levels in writing and GPS (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling).

The children will receive mathematics and English homework on alternate weeks. Homework will be sent on a Friday to be completed and returned by Tuesday.

Please encourage your child to complete Reading Eggs and My Maths lessons regularly online as well as practising multiplication tables on TT Rockstars.

T​opic Web - Autumn 1