Welcome to Year 6C - Gandalf
Hello and welcome to 6C’s class page! My name is Mrs Carradice and I am class teacher for Gandalf class. I will be teaching the class on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Miss Holt will teach the class on Monday and Wednesday afternoons and all day Thursday. Miss Bamford will also work in our classroom every day. In class, we are learning to enjoy, respect and succeed in all the work that we do.
In English, we are studying 'The Nowhere Emporium' as part of our 'Novel as a theme' unit. During guided reading sessions, we are studying 'Oliver Twist', with a focus on character's thoughts, feelings and actions. In mathematics this half term, we will be learning skills around number and place value, as well as methods of calculations.
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 preparation for their end of KS2 Sats tests as well as with their transition to KS3.
We are looking forward to a fun year together of hard work and memories.
I am sure we are going to have a FANTASTIC half term!
Mrs Carradice, Miss Holt and Miss Bamford
Author of the term this half term is Roald Dahl. We will be looking at some of his wonderful texts as well as learning about him as an author.
Reading
Children will have a reading book chosen by themselves, which is appropriate to their reading level. This will be sent home with them daily. 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
Mrs Carradice will be on PPA on Wednesday afternoons. Miss Holt will teach the computing and PSHE during this time.
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
Spellings will be set on Monday for the children to learn, ready to be tested on the following Monday. Each week's spellings are found on the inside cover of their purple homework books.
This half term, we will be working on the year 6 common exception words, (a copy of these can be found further down this page)
We will also be learning spellings linked to the fast forward spelling intervention programme.
PE
This half term, PE will take place on Fridays. Please ensure that you have the correct P.E. kit each week, which contains a 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. The children who have not yet achieved 25 metres will be going swimming this half term on Friday mornings. Please ensure they have the appropriate swimming kit.
SNACK
School will be providing a piece of fruit daily for each child. We also encourage your child to water to drink in class throughout the day, but they may bring something else to drink with their packed lunch.
Our Class Novel for this half term is 'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross Mackenzie.
The Amazing Americas
Our geography work for this term will be all about The Amazing Americas. We will be looking at the continents of North and South America; locating countries and their capital cities.
Crime and Punishment.
Our history lessons this half term is all about 'Crime and Punishment' . The children will be focusing their learning on the crimes and punishments that took place during the Anglo Saxon period and where there was a link between poverty and crimes committed.
P.S.H.E.
Our P.S.H.E. topic for this half term will be about 'Me and My Relationships - Working together.' The children will learn about the importance of working together and strategies to ensure effective friendships/relationships are maintained.
R.E.
Our R.E. topic for this half term is 'Christianity.' The children will be learning about the Christian religion and the rights and beliefs that take exist within this religion.
Science
We are learning all about 'Electricity.' The children will learn about how to make electrical circuits that work effectively. They will also be carrying out investigations regarding voltage and when a circuit has more than one bulb added to it what happens to the brightness of the bulb. They will also recognise symbols that we use when drawing electrical diagrams.
Coming soon!
Here's a window to our learning:
OUR LONG TERM PLAN FOR THE YEAR...
OUR CURRICULUM MAP FOR THIS TERM...
Here are our common exception words for this year...