Year 6 Weekly News
21st September 2015
We break through the barriers of cloud in
order to reach the stars, knowing that our lessons come
from the journey not the destination.
Welcome to Year 6
Our team: Mrs Pickering, Mrs Parry, Mr Wilson, Mrs
Tagg, Mrs Shipp and Miss Sarai
The children have made a great start to the year. They have been involved in some initial
assessments and have started working in their Maths and English sets. They have also
been exploring this terms history topic. The homework project launch went well. Our
thanks to all parents who attended to support their child in planning their homework
project. (more details of homework in homework section)
Our weekly newsletter will keep you informed about what your child is learning and
suggest how you can help to support the school and your child at home. We really value
your involvement and believe a positive and supportive home school relationship is
essential. If you have any problems or concerns at any point, please come and talk to a
member of staff so that we can deal with it promptly.
English
We will continue our work on
‘Little Ships’ and will write
some descriptions of the scenes in the story and
complete a re-tell of it. SPAG work, will involve
looking at new terminology in light of the new
curriculum and focus on word classes, including
subject/object, active/passive and adverbials.
Science
We will be beginning our topic
‘Inheritance and Evolution’. We
will recap on our learning about
fossils, remembering that fossils provide
evidence about living things that inhabited the
Earth millions of years ago. We will be discussing
extinction of animals and plants and how there
have been changes over time.
Maths
Our focus this week will be on the place value of
numbers - being able to read, write, order and
compare numbers up to 10,000,000. Children will
work on rounding numbers, using negative
numbers, multiplying whole and decimal numbers
by 10/100/1000. You should also be working on
learning your table facts until you are secure in
all facts up to 12 x 12.
Computing
This week in computing we will be
working on E-Safety task with a
learning partner, looking at different
scenarios and discussing safe profiling and how to
safely use the internet, in particular social
networking sites. We will also begin our topic ‘We
are Market Researchers’ where we begin
researching the App market by creating own
online surveys for data collection. These results
will help us to begin to gather ideas for designing
a new ipad app.
Topic - Exploring Ancient Worlds
This week we will be continuing our topic, Exploring Ancient Worlds.
We will be learning about the ancient city of Baghdad and the main reasons why
people came to the city to live.
PE
This half term in PE we will be doing Outdoor and
adventurous activities. We will select
appropriate equipment for the activity and
identify possible risks and learn to manage them.
We will take on both leadership and team roles.
We will also be developing some gymnastic skills
and create complex and well executed sequences
that contain a range of movements.
French
This week we will record how to greet people in
French and also start to learn the numbers up to
20.
We will also start looking at the French city of
Marseille and comparing it with Milton Keynes.
Music
This week we will begin learning
about writing and reading music by
learning the names and pictorial
representation of different musical
notes. We will recreate notes on the musical
stave and understand the purpose of the treble
and bass clefs.
Project Homework
This half term we would like you to focus on the
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. You will
need to find and locate all seven of them before
choosing one to present in more detail. This can
be in any form that you choose.
Weekly Homework
Homework is given out on a Friday and due
back in on the following Wednesday.
Reading 3 times a week
Spellings to practice
A piece of English or Maths
MY MATHS and BUG CLUB
You now have your login details for My Maths and
Bug Club – there is an expectation that you go on
line regularly to complete tasks set by your
teachers. If you experience problems, please let
a member of staff know.
READING
There is an expectation that you read to an adult
at home at least 3 times every week. Your
reading record book will be checked weekly to
check this is happening. All children who read at
least 3 times a week and who can show a record
of their reading in the reading record book, will
be entered into the Orchard Reading Raffle. The
raffle will be drawn on a Friday. There will be one
winner from each class, who will choose a book to
keep.
Other Important Events
Assembly focus this week: Learning Muscles
Friday 25th September – School photos
Tuesday 29th September – Year 6 Team Building Day
Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th October – Parents Evening 4-6:30pm