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 Kauser will teach the class on Thursday. Miss Bamford will also work in our classroom every day, as well as Miss Holt who will support us with our English, mathematics and reading. In class, we are learning to enjoy, respect and succeed in all the work that we do.
In English, we are studying biographies of significant people within our world (both past and present). During guided reading sessions, we are studying the novel, 'Road to Freedom' reflecting on life for black people within the slave trade. In mathematics this half term, we will be learning a range of different skills, including: fractions, percentages and decimals; algebra and sequences and geometry.
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. One of these will be their residential later in the year where they will carry out team building activities as well as trying new things.
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 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, Miss Kauser and Miss Bamford
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 mornings. Miss Holt will teach the class guided reading and maths 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 (In January). 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, some children will be continuing to go swimming on Fridays in order to secure their 25m certificates. Please ensure children bring their appropriate swimming kits. These will be sent home each week in order to be washed. Consent for wearing goggles is required. If this is something that your child needs, please request a consent letter from the school office. Those children who have already secured their 25m will be doing PE on Friday mornings and so, please ensure their full PE kit is in school.
SNACK
It is important to note your child can bring a healthy snack at break times such as fruit, or vegetables and milk. 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. In addition to this, school will be providing a piece of fruit daily for each child.
Our Class Novel for this half term is 'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross Mackenzie.
Amazing Americas
In geography this term, we will be learning all about North and South America. The children will be studying countries that are within the Americas; locating the capital cities of some of these countries and will be able to identify, locate and discuss the features of them on various maps.
Crime and Punishment
Our history lessons this half term is all about Crime and Punishment. The children will be focusing their learning on how justice systems have changed over time. The children will reflect on various texts from the past and how they portray the different justice systems from medieval times to today. We will also focus on local history relating to the crimes that took place in Burnley and what punishments were given.
P.S.H.E.
Our P.S.H.E. topic for this half term will be about 'Valuing Differences'. The children will learn all about embracing and respecting the differences of others within our society.
R.E.
Our R.E. topic for this half term is Christianity. We will be learning about our life as a journey and how different milestones in life are celebrated by Christians.
Science
We are learning all about Our Bodies in our science topic this half term. We will be carrying out scientific investigations which focus on our circulatory systems and how this functions.
Here's a window to our learning:
As part of our bridging unit in English, we used Talk for Writing' to support our ideas when writing our own fantasy narratives. Here is a video of us rehearsing the prologue in the story.
OUR LONG TERM PLAN FOR THE YEAR...
OUR CURRICULUM MAP FOR THIS TERM...
Here are our common exception words for this year...