Welcome to Year 6

With

Miss Chard, Miss MacSween and Mrs Gresty

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World Knowledge

The Summer term's context for learning is

Hourglass: The Sands of Time

Over the term, we will be learning about World War Two.

We will be investigating 3 main concepts:

Conflict

Military

Survival

 

 

English

Island

This half term we will be studying the text, Island.

Synopsis from LoveReading4Kids

'Charles Darwin first visited the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the island? How long will they remain? Thoroughly researched and filled with intricate and beautiful paintings, this extraordinary book by award-winning author and artist Jason Chin is an epic saga of the life of an island - born of fire, rising to greatness, its decline, and finally the emergence of life on new islands.'

 During this unit we will work on several key skills:

• Using a wide range of cohesive devices (adverbs, conjunctions, pronouns and synonyms)
• Describe characters, setting and atmosphere
• Integrate dialogue in narratives to convey character and advance the action 
• Using expanded noun phrases
• Use passive verbs
• Use modal verbs and adverbs to show degrees of possibility
• Use hyphens
• Use relative clauses
• Use brackets, dashes and commas for parenthesis
• Using semi-colons
• Using colons

Click on any of the bullet points above to read more about each key skill.

 

For our class text, we will be reading Holes

 

Take a read of the synopsis written on Love Reading for Kids below:

Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck going back generations, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre. Nor is he very surprised when he is told that his daily labour at the camp is to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, and report anything that he finds in that hole. The warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up the truth. In this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar has created a masterpiece that will leave all readers amazed and delighted by the author's narrative flair and brilliantly handled plot.

Maths

Over the coming weeks, we will be covering the following topics:

 

Addition and Subtraction

• Solve multi-step problems in context 

Fractions 

• Solve problems where answers need to be rounded
• Use equivalences in fractions. Decimals and percentages

Geometry

• Properties of 2D and 3D shapes
• Use a ruler to measure accurately within 1mm
• Use a protractor to measure angles accurately within 1 degree

Multiplication and Division

• Common factors of 2-digit numbers
• Common multiples of numbers
• Prime numbers 
• Square and Cube numbers

Fractions: 

• Multiply numbers by 10,100,1000/ Multiply one-digit numbers by two decimal places
• The effect of multiplying a decimal by 10,100 and 100
• The effect of dividing a decimal by 10,100 and 100

Remember, you can also log onto Times Tables Rockstars at any time -  www.ttrockstars.com  to keep up with your times tables fluency.

 

Science

In Science this term, we will be studying 'Light'

We will explore how light travels in a stright line

Explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye.

 

PE

We will have PE on a Monday this half term. Please make sure that you are wearing your PE kit on this day.

 

 

Reminders:

Weekly five reads signed in reading diaries and be in each Monday

Grammar homework will be set on a Monday to be in on the following Friday

Maths homework will be set on a Tuesday/Wednesday to be in for the following Tuesday/Wednesday

Spelling homework will be set on a Wednesday to be for the following Monday

PE day is Monday