Story Wood School Sowing the seeds of success
Year 6
Welcome to Year 6!
The Year 6 Team
Class Teachers - Mrs Dodson & Miss Saleh
Dates for your Diary
Spring Term 2020
Friday 17th January - SATS Information Meeting (30 minutes) followed by
Vocabulary Fun and Games 9.00am - 10.30am. All welcome - please come and join us!
Monday 27th January - KS2 trip to the Symphony Hall to watch a concert - details to follow soon.
Autumn Term 2019
Monday 7th October - the big reveal for our House and Vice Captains, as well as Head Boy and Head Girl.
Wednesday 23rd October - break up for half term
Tuesday 5th November - half day visit to Holy Trinity Church, Sutton Coldfield: www.htsc.org.uk
Friday 15th November 2019 - Trip to London to link with our WWII writing topics.
Monday 9th December - trip to UDB Prayer Space
Monday 16th December - Dress rehearsal for Christmas production
Tuesday 17th December - Christmas production
Wednesday 18th December - Elim Church (am) and Class parties (pm)
Thursday 19th December - Christmas lunch!
Friday 20th December - last day of term and break up!
Below: The Imperial War Museum that we visited on 15.11.19!
Spring Topic
Our topic is Disaster (natural disasters) for the Spring term. The main things we will learn are:
- Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate volcanoes and fault lines and identify countries that are most severely affected by earthquakes and other natural disasters.
- Use their understanding of the structure of the earth and the movement of tectonic plates to describe and understand how a volcano is formed and why it erupts.
- Describe and understand the processes that cause a volcanic eruption, an earthquake and other natural disasters.
- Describe and understand the impact of volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters on human settlements.
Our artist this half-term (Spring 1) is Joseph Wright of Derby and we are
focusing on improving our painting skills!
Autumn Topic
Our topic is Rule Britannia (The Vikings) for the Autumn term. The main things we will learn are:
- Where the Vikings came from and where they settled.
- Why the Vikings chose to settle in England.
- The significant figures and key events that took place during the Viking period (for example, the attack on the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne).
- What life was like for sailors, warriors, children and criminals.
- Laws that the Vikings lived their lives by.
Class information
PE - Our PE days are Wednesdays and every other Tuesday, but please have your PE kit in school every day in case we have an extra chance to do PE.
Home Reading – Remember the expectation is that children should be reading as much as possible but the minimum is 40 minutes. For each time children read (after having read for 40 minutes) they will receive a raffle ticket and will be entered into the Story Wood Reading Raffle which is drawn every Monday in Celebration Assembly. The more children read, the more tickets they will receive and the more chance they have of winning! So please read at home with your child as often as possible, let them read by themselves or to a sibling and make a note in their planner and sign it! Please bring it in on Mondays.
Home Learning – Home-learning is always given out every Wednesday. This is to ensure children have the time to look and ask for help if needed before the hand-in date. It must be returned by the following Monday so that it can be marked and sent back to you. Please look after these as they will be used all year.
TTRS - log on to Times Tables Rock Stars and complete 10 garage games a week!
Uniform – Please make sure your child’s uniform, PE kit and coat is clearly labelled. Jewellery is not allowed in school except for simple stud earrings which must be covered over with a plaster or removed during PE.
What is my child learning?
Fact Fluency Year 6 Overview - practise to become speedy and fluent in the areas below!
Autumn 1 - revision of times tables (up to 12 x 12)
Autumn 2 - finding 50, 25 and 10% of a number
Spring 1 - simplifying fractions
Spring 2 - fractions, decimals and percentages equivalence
Summer 1 - revision ahead of SATs
Summer 2 - final revision of all times tables (up to 12 x 12)
Useful Websites
www.activelearn.co.uk (Bug Club/ Grammar Games)
https://hosted23.renlearn.com/711559/Public/RPM/Login/Login.aspx?srcID=s (Accelerated Reader)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Photographs - see what we have been getting up to!
Holy Trinity RE Trip 05.11.19
London Trip 15.11.19
UDB Prayer Space 09.12.19
