Join us for Meet the Teacher on Wednesday 9th October at 2:45pm in the school hall.

A warm and wonderful welcome to our new Year 6! 

We have been busy planning and getting everything ready to ensure that we have an exciting and varied curriculum ready for your return to school.

Things to remember:

• We aim to go outside every day for break times plus our PE lessons and other activities. Please make sure your child brings a waterproof coat every day.
• Please send a fresh bottle of water (not juice or squash) in each day.
• School is not currently selling any snacks at break time. Please consider sending your child in with a healthy snack (preferably fruit).
• We aim to teach PE every Monday and Wednesday. Please send your child to school in full PE kit on these days. They will then continue to wear their kit for the remainder of the day. Please make sure your child has their outdoor sweatshirt on both days as we will sometimes teach both of these lessons outdoors.
• All stationery will be supplied so children should not bring a pencil case to school.
• Children should not bring a bag or back pack to school, only their lunchbox and water bottle. We do not have the space to store them.

Come and See

Our theme is Family with a focus on unconditional love. We will explore those who love and care for us before moving on to sharing Isaiah 40: 1-5, 9-11, 28- 31. Psalm 23 speaks of God as a shepherd looking after his sheep and Psalm 136 speaking about how God will look after us.

Baptism/Confirmation – Belonging 

Vocation & Commitment.

Focuses on the call to belong, the creative potential that belonging develops; and Baptism and Confirmation, sacraments of the gift of God's life and friendship.

Advent/Christmas - Loving 

Expectations

Focuses on the capacity for entering into loving relationships and the perfect gift and revelation of God’s love, Jesus, born of Mary, born as one of us.

English

This term, we will be using ‘The Unforgotten Coat’ by Frank Cottrell Boyce as a stimulus for our writing. Our text transports readers from the Steppe of Mongolia to the streets of Bootle and will provide the children with the opportunity to make predictions on different events and characters. From here, the children will need to use their inference skills and justify these predictions using their reasoning skills.

We will then be reading ‘Anglo-Saxon Boy’ by Tony Bradman. This will be linked to our history topic. Our text follows Magnus, son of Earl Harold Godwin as his life takes an unexpected turn. This action packed booked will give us the opportunity to explore figurative devices such as similes, metaphors and the importance of speech to move the action forward. We will write and deliver persuasive speeches. May battle commence!

Maths

We have started the term by looking at place value. We will read, write, order and compare number up to ten million and determine the value of each digit. We'll also be rounding numbers, using negative numbers and finally solving number and practical problems that involve these mathematical skills. We will progress on to looking at properties of number for example prime, square and composite numbers before moving on to the four operations and area and volume.

Science

We will be learning about classification of all things living including human beings. We’ll venture into the world of microorganisms, introduce ourselves to Carl Linnaeus and evolutionary taxonomy!

Light

We will be learning about how light travels, reflections, shadows, refraction and how our eyes see.

Geography

We will be exploring our local area and learning how to use maps and understand their symbols. We will also become familiar with the eight compass points.

History

The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor. Let’s take a trip back to the time of separate kingdoms, religious conversion and a new set of invaders.

You, Me, Everyone

We will be sharing a range of book scovering a variety of topics such as inclusivity and diverstity. Examples of our books are: No Outsiders, My Princess Boy by Cheryl  Lilodavis and Dreams of Freedom by  Amnesty International.

We will also be thinking about our mental health and wellbeing and how to support our own mental health.

PE

This term our indoor PE lessons will be focusing on Health Related Fitness. While our outdoor sessions we will be working on Basketball.

We will be swimming in Autumn 2.

Computing

Computing systems and networks - communication and collaboration

Music

Film music

• Identify how different styles of music contribute to the feel of a film.
• Participate in discussions, sharing their views and justifying their answers.
• Use the terms ‘major’ and ‘minor’.
• Identify different instruments to describe how music evokes different emotions.
• Identify pitch, tempo and dynamics, and use these to explain and justify their answers.
• Give reasonable and thought-out suggestions for what different graphic scores represent.
• Use their body, voice and instruments to create sounds to represent a given theme.
• Create a musical score to represent a composition.
• Interpret their graphic score and performing their composition appropriately with their group.
• Create sounds that relate to the scene of a film.

Spanish

This term we will be learning:

• Adjectives – Masculine/feminine agreement
• The verb ‘tener’ -to have - third person
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• Theme: Myself, my family, friends, pets
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• Introducing more family members
• Mum, dad, nanna, grandad
• More body parts (2): head, shoulders, knees, feet
• More animals: lion, elephant
• Dear Zoo story
• Maths
• Numbers 40 - 69
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• I’m sorry
• Excuse me

Homework

Reading books will be sent home on a Thursday and should be returned on Monday morning. Children should also use the online reading platform – Reading Plus – to extend their reading experiences.

Spellings will also go home on a Thursday to be learnt for the following Tuesday.

Occasional projects linked to topic work will be set throughout the year. Maths activities to go home when relevant and to support learning. 

Times Tables Rock Stars is a fabulous online resource for learning and consolidating times tables – a fundamental of all maths. Children should access this at least three times a week – how far up the leader board can they go?

If you need to speak with your child's teacher, please approach us on the playground and we can arrange a time. We would ask that you kindly wait until we have seen all of the children safely to their parent or carer before speaking to your teacher and we will be happy to chat. Alternatively, you may wish to ring the school office.

We are here to support you and your children and are looking forward to a great year ahead!

Miss Jones and Mr Daly

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