Welcome to Year 6 

6SE Mrs Sampson & Miss Lawrence

6L Mr Lane

6D Mr Land

Our TAs are Mrs Higgins, Mrs Hoskins, Mrs Donald & Miss Hammond 

Spring 2021

Welcome to Year 6

During this period of remote learning, please see the Remote Learning tab on the home page for further details of the lessons and topic they will be covering. The timetables are updated on a weekly basis.

Reading

The expectation still continues in Year 6 for the children to read five times a week. We will ask the children to send in a pictures of their signatures, or share a book they are reading with us on Seesaw. Children who share tis will receive a raffle ticket to go in to the prize draw.

English

During the first half term we will be studying the book, The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars. The children will be writing a journal based on Tom’s experiences on the farm. Following this we will be looking at Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. The children will follow Michael and Stella’s journey, explore the characters and write a Ship’s Logbook. These lessons will be taught over Teams and there will also be grammar and comprehension work posted on Seesaw.

Mathematics

Please make sure you follow the live lessons as each class will have their own focus. As always, arithmetic skills remain an important part of the curriculum and there will be a weekly focus on this.

Science

This half term we will be focussing on light and following that we will be looking at the topic ‘Evolution and Inheritance’.

History/Geography

In History we will be focussing on the topic ‘The Great Plague’ and in Geography we will be looking at ‘Climate Change.’

RE

Our focus for this term is exploring Christianity.