Year Six Dear Parents, Autumn Term 1 2015 We hope that you all had a lovely summer holiday! We are very excited to be situated in our new classroom and to begin our new
learning journey in Year Six. This week has been busy and the children have risen to their new roles as Year Six pupils. They are setting a fantastic example for younger students with their positive behaviour, both outside and inside as they learn, and I am really proud of them!
Events this half term: We are having a visitor in Monday, 7th September, to showcase a fossil collection as an introduction to our Topic. There will also be a Book Fair from September 16th-September 23rd, so keep your eyes peeled for more information.
Curriculum outline The children will be learning about a wide range of topics across this term. These include: Reading: This term we will be reading “War Horse” by Michael Morpurgo. The children will have a chance to explore the emotional journey with Joey through the text, and improve their inference skills and extend their writing with various tasks based on the novel. Maths: We are focusing on a variety of topics this term, such as negative numbers, calculation, measurement, and ratio and proportion. Writing: We will be continuing Big Write this year, and we will be covering a variety of writing styles linked to our War Horse unit. We will be looking closely at recounts this term. Topic- Our topic for this term is “From Dinosaurs to Darwin”, and the students are very eager to get started. We will be looking at this topic across History and Science, including fossils and how they are formed, a timeline of Dinosaurs’ existence on Earth, and Darwin’s theory of evolution. If your child has anything at home they would like to bring in for our Topic display table, please feel free to send it in. If it can be labelled with your child’s name, it would be helpful for when we send things home at the end of this term.
General class reminders