Welcome to Year 6! We are really looking forward to getting to know the children and hear all about their summer breaks.

Here, you will find all the information that you may need throughout the term: email addresses, resources and key dates. You will also find an outline of the topics we are covering in each subject. 

 

The Y6 team: 

6C

 6HJ

Please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher or TA if you have any questions.

Key dates: 

Please find a link to the key dates here:

https://www.cranborne.herts.sch.uk/school-calendar 

 

PE:

Our PE Days will be on Monday and Wednesday.  We would like the children to wear their PE kits to school on these days. 

 

 

 

 

Curriculum Overview

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English:

In Year 6, English lessons are closely linked with other subjects to enhance cross-curricular learning. We begin with Moth by Isabel Thomas, which supports our science topic on evolution. This beautifully illustrated book helps the children to explore sentence structure, descriptive language and narrative writing.

Moth: An Evolution Story: Amazon.co.uk ...

We also focus on writing biographies, using a formal tone suited to this genre, helping the children understand how to write for different purposes. 

Later in the year, we link English with history by writing information texts about the Ancient Maya, allowing pupils to present historical knowledge clearly and accurately using appropriate vocabulary, structure, and grammar.

 

Reading:

As always, we will continue to enjoy and engage with high quality core texts throughout our English sequences. For the first few weeks, our reading lessons will focus on comprehension keys and vocabulary  acquisition, exploring how precise and effective word choices impact a reader. 

In addition to this, each morning the children will be taught how to answer specific questions including those that require evidence to support their answer.  This is in preparation for the SATS at the end of the year, and we use various extracts from past papers to achieve this. 

Whilst your child may be confident with word reading, please do try to hear them read aloud in order to develop fluency. If you can, encourage them to discuss their reading with you by giving their opinion on a character or summarising what has happened. 

When reading with your child at home, you may want to use some of the following question stems: 

  • Find a word that shows/means/tells you that...
  • Give one piece of evidence that shows...
  • What does …. suggest about …..?
  • How does …… seem …..? 
  • Which word is closes in meaning to ….?
  • What impression do you get of....?
  • How do you know that...?

Spelling:

Spelling rules and patterns will be taught weekly during specific spelling lessons and revisited throughout the week. The children will also need to practise spellings from the Year 5/6 Statutory Spelling list. You can find these words as a document uploaded on the right hand side of this page. For each writing unit, we will choose words from this list that are related to our core text, and therefore expect the children to use these in their writing. 

 

Maths:

In Maths, we follow the Herts Essentials Scheme for learning. During the Autumn term, we will work on a range of topics:

  • Place value
  • Negative numbers
  • The four operations
  • Equivalent fractions

We use a mastery approach in mathematics, so the children will prove their ideas in different ways including images, bar models and representations.

Each morning, the children will complete early work. This involves the children answering arithmetic questions to help develop their mental fluency. You can help at home by asking your child arithmetic style questions such as: 

  • What number is 100 times greater than ...? 
  • Divide 400 by 8
  • Subtract 70 from one million 
  • What is one tenth of 6.5km? 
  • Find the difference between .... and .....?
  • Write one fifth as a percentage
  • What number is 10 times less than ...?  
  • Find 3/4 of 750
  • Round 342.45 to the nearest tenth

 

Science:
Our first Year 6 topic begins with evolution and inheritance. Children explore how living things have changed over time and how fossils provide information about life millions of years ago. We look at how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environments, learning about the processes of adaptation and natural selection. We also study the groundbreaking work of Charles Darwin and his observations of finches in the Galápagos Islands.  To support this topic, you may want to read 'On the Origin of Species' by Sabina Radeva.

On The Origin of Species By Sabina Radeva

 

PSHE:
In PSHE , we will explore the theme "Being Themselves".  This unit helps children reflect on their identity, goals, and the rights they have as individuals. We will also look at the importance of making good choices and understanding that actions have consequences. As part of this, pupils will learn about democracy – how it works, why it matters, and how they can have a voice in their community. The aim is to help children grow in confidence, take responsibility, and understand the value of respecting themselves and others.

History: 

In History, Year 6 pupils explore the Ancient Maya civilization - a culture that thrived in Central America over a thousand years ago. We examine how the Maya lived, their beliefs, achievements and the legacy they left behind.

Children learn about their complex calendar systems, architecture, and contributions to mathematics and writing. By comparing the Maya civilization to others studied in previous years, pupils gain a broader understanding of world history. 

 

Gods Squad #1: Oh Maya Gods! - 9781913696870 - Scholastic

Year 6 Teacher Assessment Framework for Writing

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Year 5/6 Statutory Spellings

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Useful resources:

 

The websites listed below may be useful in supporting your learning this year:

 

REMOTE LEARNING

If you are unable to come to school, but are well enough to continue learning, please use some of the resources above. You may also wish to;

  • Write a poem about the snow, using figurative language such as personification, similes and metaphors
  • Use a picture and annotate with adjectives, expanded noun phrases and relative clauses
  • Visit www.myminimaths.co.uk and complete one of the arithmetic papers - you will find the answers for the paper on  there too. Check to see if you beat your previous score 
  • Log in to Times Table Rockstars to improve your speed of multiplication recall, Purple Mash to complete a comprehension and Mathletics to revise topics we have learnt recently (area, adding and subtracting fractions, multiplying fractions, long division) 
  • Follow this link  https://www.literacyshed.com/the-images-shed.html to inspire creativity, writing a short story/recount about one of the images. There are questions to prompt your thinking.