Year 6 

Meet The Team

 

 

Welcome to our Year 6 class page

Here you will find all the information you need about our school day, see some samples of the amazing work we produce, the weekly homework and spellings set and our fantastic weekly Moorcroft Marvels.

Some important things to start us off this Year...

• Our PE day is Wednesday. Pupils are to come into school on those days in their PE kits (plain black joggers or shorts, and a plain white T-shirt please).
• Reading books will be changed as and when required.
• Spellings will be handed out every Friday and then tested on the following Friday. Children will bring their scores home with them. 
• Homework will be given out every Friday and will be due back by the following Thursday latest.

Don’t forget, should you have any questions about anything to do with your child’s education, you can speak to us on the door at the start and the end of each day or via the Class Dojo messenger.

 

Class Read

Autumn 1 Curriculum Map

Homework And Spellings

TBC

Award Winners

Date	Star Of The Week	Curriculum Winner
19th September	Jacob	Navdip
26th September	Jasmin	Hollie
3rd October	Mason	Alexa

Class Ambassador

 

Useful Links

Times Table Rock Stars log in pageReading Plus log in pageYear 6 SATs Arithmetic workbook Year 6 SATs Reading workbookYear 6 Grammar punctuation and spelling workbook

Our learning journey

English

Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray

In this topic children will be completing work around the novel Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray. We will write setting descriptions, diary entries and a letter to one of the main characters.

The children will be introduced to new vocabulary each week which they can use in their writing. In our lessons, children will be taught a new focus to incorporate within their star write. During this unit, we will be focussing on fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and using ambitious vocabulary to engage the reader.

During Guided Reading, children will the text and answer questions based around what they have read. This will include, retrieval question, clarifying vocabulary and summarising parts of the story.

 

 

 

Maths

In our Maths lessons, we will be focussing on the core key skills of mathematics - place value, addition and subtraction and multiplication and division.

Children will be taught to:

• Recognise numbers up to 10 000 000
• Round numbers to the nearest 10,100 and 1000
• Use a formal written method (column addition) to add 7 digit numbers up to 10 000 000
• Use a formal written method (column subtraction) to subtract 7 digit numbers
• Use a formal written method (column multiplication) to multiply a 4 digit number by a 2 digit number
• Use a formal written method to divide a 4 digit number by a 2 digit number

 

Curriculum

How can we live more sustainably?

Our curriculum topic this term focuses on the importance of living sustainably. To do this we will be differentiating between renewable and non-renewable energy sources, and the advantages and disadvantage of each of these. We will also investigate one type of renewable energy, and with digital mapping, consider a suitable location for it. We will then introduce the concept of food miles, and the positives and negatives of importing food from other countries. We will look at intensive farming, why it is done and the environmental impacts of it. Finally, we will look at the cause and effect of food waste and suggest ways to minimise it.

 

Science

Classifying Organisms

In this unit, we will look at ways of grouping organisms according to their characteristics and explore ways of distinguishing between organisms that have similar characteristics.

We will also classify plants according to their characteristics, noting similarities and differences. We will also find out about the Scientist Carl Linnaeus and his classification system, and explore what micro-organisms are and how they can be grouped.