Welcome to Year 6B (The Scarecrows)
Enjoy Respect Succeed
“The minimum requirement is maximum effort!”
Hello and welcome to the Year 6B class page! My name is Miss Byers and I am teacher for the Scarecrow class. Miss Holt also teaches our class every Friday and Mrs Smith will teach the class on a Monday afternoon whilst I have my planning and preparation time. Mrs Armitage is our Learning Support Assistant that works in our classroom every day. In class, we are learning to enjoy learning, respect each other and succeed together in all the work we do! We are going to be learning about lots of exciting things this half term.
In English, we are studying 'Romeo and Juliet' as part of our 'older literature' unit. During guided reading sessions, we are working to develop our reading skills through reading a range of texts including poetry. In mathematics this half term, we will be learning a ratio and proportion, statistics, geometry and measurements.
During their time in Year 6, the children will be given various opportunities that will enhance their learning as well as aiding them to make memories to cherish of Cherry Fold.
In Year 6, we encourage children to be resilient as well as learning to persevere when things get tough. These skills will aid them in their Year 6 SATS later this year in addition to their transition to KS3.
We are looking forward to a fun year together of hard work and memories.
Miss Byers, Mrs Smith, Miss Holt and Mrs Armitage
Author of the term this half term is Jeff Kinney, who is the author of The Diary of a Wimpy kid books.
Reading
Children will have a reading book chosen by themselves, which is appropriate to their reading level. Accompanying these books are their reading diaries, where you can write comments on their reading daily. Your child will also be given many opportunities throughout the week to read a variety of texts and will then undertake an online quiz to assess their understanding of the text.
PPA Time
Miss Byers will be teaching in class most days. On Wednesday afternoon, Mrs Smith will be teaching the class for ICT, French and Music.
Homework
In Year 6, children are expected to complete two pieces of homework a week.
Your child has been provided a login for the app, SATs Companion (SATs Companion). They must use their login details in order to access the English and mathematics materials that are added each week. Details about homework will be explained to the children on a Friday and the work will need to be completed for the following Friday.
Children will receive weekly spellings as well as times tables set on TT Rock stars.
Times Tables
You can log in to your TT Rock stars account here using your username and password:
Spellings
Weekly spellings have been sent out for the 6 weeks of this half term. You will find these at the front of your child's purple homework book. Homework books must be in for Thursday and will be given back out same day and spelling tests will take place every Monday morning.
PE
P.E. will take place on Fridays. Please ensure that you have the correct P.E. kit each week, which consists of black shorts, white t-shirt and black pumps or trainers. Your child can bring plain navy or black jogging bottoms and tracksuit top for PE outdoors if necessary.
At present the children who are aiming to achieve their 25 metres at swimming will continue to swim on a Friday until they achieve this. Please ensure your child has a full swimming kit including a swim hat for anyone with long hair. Earrings are not allowed to be worn for any sporting event. Please ensure your child can remove them or take out before school on PE and swimming days.
SNACK
School will be providing a piece of fruit daily for each child. We also encourage your child to bring water to drink in class throughout the day, but they may bring something else to drink with their packed lunch.
Class Novel
Our Class Novel for this half term is 'Goodnight Mister Tom' by Michelle Magorian.
Trade and Economics
Our geography work for this term we will be looking at trade around the world. We will cover the differences between imports and exports. We will look at where we export to and where our imports come from. How the global supply chain works as well as comparing trade today to trade in the past.
What was the impact of the Treaty of Versailles for the people of Germany? Did the treaty lead to WW2?
In history, we will be looking at the terms in the Treaty of Versailles and 'the big three'. We will focus on the impact of the treaty for the German Citizens and the impact Hitler's role had on the country.
P.S.H.E.
Our P.S.H.E. topic for this half term will be about 'Rights and Responsibilities' - Working together.' The children will learn about the importance of democracy alongside working through scenarios to explore the reliability of information presented to them online.
R.E.
Our R.E. topic for this half term is 'Christianity.' The children will be learning about the events that lead up to Jesus's death, how and why Christians may celebrate the events of holy week as well as looking at different Christian beliefs on Eucharist and the importance of it.
SCIENCE
We are learning all about 'Animals including humans' were we will study the circulatory system focusing on the heart and blood.
Coming soon!
OUR LONG TERM PLAN FOR THE YEAR...
OUR CURRICULUM MAP FOR THIS TERM...
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This year, we will be using times table rock stars as part of our homework to improve our fluency in times tables.
Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Here are our common exception words for this year...