Welcome to Class 6

This page has useful information about the day to day running of Class 6 and about what we get up to in our busy, exciting classroom.

Miss Miranda works alongside Miss Wilkinson, our teaching partner. Miss Wilkinson will be working alongside Miss Miranda daily and Mr Green will be working in class on a Friday. 

Getting Ready for Year 6!

The summer holidays are the perfect time to rest, have fun, and enjoy time with friends and family. But it’s also a great chance to keep your skills sharp so that when you come back in September, you feel confident and ready for the exciting year ahead.

Here are some simple things you can do over the holidays that will make a big difference – while still leaving plenty of time to enjoy your summer!

• Handwriting practice – try to write neatly every day, even if it’s just a short diary entry about what you’ve been doing.

• Times tables and division facts – keep practising these until you know them quickly and confidently.

• Reading challenge – aim to read at least 6 books over the holidays. Write down the titles on a list signed by your parent/carer, or bring in your Nottinghamshire Library Summer Reading Challenge certificate in September for a prize!

• Spelling practice – review tricky words you often get wrong (there, they're, their, were, where, which, witch, your, you're) and try and write some different sentences to show you understand the meanings. 

• Daily writing – keep a holiday journal, write stories, or send letters/emails to friends and family.

Autumn term 

Our Autumn term topic is 'Britain in World War II'.  

Children will learn when and why World War II began and find out about the key individuals and countries involved. In addition to this, they will discover all about evacuation; learn what it was like to live with food rationing and explore the contribution made by women to the war effort. Furthermore, they will learn important facts about the Holocaust and investigate events that were key turning points in the war, such as the Battle of Britain. Throughout the topic and term, children will understand the importance of the Democracy, Rule of Law, Respect and Tolerance, Individual Liberty by exploring our British Values. 

We will read quality texts, including Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr. Through these texts, the children will write a series of genres including letters to create an emotive and historically accurate letter as an evacuee, persuasion through book-based debates and debating the difficult decision the characters will have to make .

In Science, our topics are electricity and light: we will use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram and will compare and give reasons for variations in how components function. The children will learn how light travels and how this enables us to see objects. They will have the opportunity to make a functioning periscope such as those used in the trenches, finding out about mirrors and the angles of reflection and incidence. They will also be revisit learning about grouping of animals and learn about the Linnean System of classification. Pupils will be able to differentiate between vertebrates and invertebrates and micro-organisms.

Useful information:

• Our PE lessons are on Wednesday afternoons. Please make sure your child arrives in school in their PE kits. You may wish to layer some warmer clothing for our outdoor sessions, particularly when the weather is colder.
• Spellings will be tested every Tuesday. 10 new spellings will be sent home every Monday to be learned for the following Wednesday. Children should know how to spell the words and be able to use them in a sentence in the correct context. This is very important and will also be tested. 
• Important information regarding spellings: 

  This year, our approach to teaching spellings has been updated to focus on specific spelling rules. By learning spellings this way, students will gain tools they can apply to similar words in their writing. Consequently, we will not be providing a termly spelling overview as in previous years. It’s essential for students to accurately record their weekly spellings in their organisers.

  In addition, students will regularly work with root words, applying changes that reinforce the spelling rules they’ve learned. As part of their spelling homework, they are responsible for checking their work at home to ensure accuracy. Thank you for your support in helping reinforce these practices.

• Times tables will be tested every Tuesday. Children will be given 6 minutes to complete the multiplication and division facts up to 12x. This forms part of a tracker as children work through awards. Each week they will focus on a different times table individualised to their learning up to 12x12. If children achieve all times tables up to 12, they will begin mixed. It is expected that children should know all of their times tables and pass 1-12 by the end of Autumn Term.

• Reading homework will be set every Wednesday. I will be giving the input during the school day and then the following week we will mark the questions which children must have completed at home.
• The Year 6 Reading Challenge challenges children to read at least 100 pages per week to an adult outside of school each week with a minimum of 3 times or more. Personal Organisers are collected in every Wednesday. If they have read at least 3 times a week, every week, all term, they will receive a special reward.
• Creative Homework may be assigned once every term. This will always be themed around our current learning topic. 

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Trips:

Please note that there will be three this academic year:

Flintham Show - Autumn Term

The Houses of Parliament - Spring Term 

Residential - Summer Term