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Cherry Fold Community Primary School, Cog Lane, Burnley, Lancashire BB11 5JS

head@cherryfold.lancs.sch.uk

01282426630

Cherry Fold Community Primary School

Enjoy, Respect, Succeed

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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 'Goodnight Mr Tom' as part of our 'Novel as a theme' unit. During guided reading sessions, we are studying collection of short texts, focusing on the language structures. In mathematics this half term, we will be learning a range of different skills, including:  statistics, place value, calculations, number sequencing, coordinates 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 afternoons. Miss Mcwhire will teach the computing and art 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:

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

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. 

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 'Goodnight Mr Tom' by Michelle Magorian.

Trade and Economics

Our geography work for this term will be all about trade and economics.  We will be looking at how goods are imported and exported to and from the United Kingdom and around the world. We will be studying different trade links and their benefits as well as exploring the global supply chain. 

World War Two.

Our history lessons this half term is all about World War Two. The children will be focusing their learning on  the impact of World War Two on the people of Britain.

P.S.H.E.

Our P.S.H.E. topic for this half term will be about 'Keeping Safe.' The children will learn all about how to stay safe on and offline. Learn about sharing information with others and what is safe to share and what is not. They will also be learning about the effects of using drugs and alcohol. 

R.E.

Our R.E. topic for this half term is  'Islam.' The children will be learning about the Islamic religion and rights and rituals that take place within this religion. 

Science

We are learning all about. 'Living Things and their Habitats.' The children will learn about how living things are classified into groups according to common characteristics as well as similarities and differences including micro- organisms, plants and animals. They will also be able to explain why plants and animals have been categorised in a particular way. 

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...

Below is our curriculum map detailing what we studied in the Autumn term.

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 Curriculum map - Americas Aut 1 2024.pdfDownload
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Here are our common exception words for this year...