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 'Romeo and Juliet' as part of our 'older literature' unit. During guided reading sessions, we are working to develop our reading skills by exploring a range of short texts including poetry. In mathematics this half term, we will be learning ratio and proportion, statistics, geometry and measurements.
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 is Jeff Kinney . 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 Monday afternoons. Miss Holt will teach 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. 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 Tuesdays. 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. Please ensure they have the appropriate swimming kit. Earrings must be removed for all PE activities.
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.
Our Class Novel for this half term is 'Goodnight Mr Tom' by .
Trade and Economics
Our geography work for this term will be all about Trade and Economics. We will be looking at the difference between 'export' and 'import', the countries that the UK trades with, the global supply chain and how trade is different now to how it once was.
What was the impact of The Treaty of Versailles for the people of Germany? Did the treaty lead to WW2?
In history, we will look at the terms in the Treaty of Versailles and 'the big three'. We 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.' 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- Jesus' The children will be learning about the events that lead up to the death of Jesus, how and why Christians might celebrate the events of holy week and the different Christian beliefs about the Eucharist and its importance.
Science
In science, we will be learning animals including humans where we will studying the circulatory system, focusing on the heart and blood.
Here's a window to our learning:
OUR LONG TERM PLAN FOR THE YEAR...
OUR CURRICULUM MAP FOR THIS TERM...
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| Y6 Curriculum map - Americas Aut 1 2025.pdf | Download |
Here are our common exception words for this year...