Welcome to Class 5 (Year 6)
Welcome back after the summer holidays.
In our class, we have our teacher Mrs Dennis and our amazing teaching assistant Miss Herring!
We are a class of 15 year 6 pupils.
This is obviously an extremely important time for our year 6 pupils, as it is their final year in primary school and they will be taking their SAT’s in May. We will all be working very hard throughout this year to do the best we can!
This term in…
English we will be basing our work around the wonderful book ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ written by Emma Carroll. Using this we are studying historical texts, diaries, letters, non-chronological reports, narratives and much more!
Maths we are looking at our four operations, place value, fractions, position and direction and mental methods. We are enjoying practising our ‘Rock Star’ tables; trying to improve our speed with our times tables. It is our aim to become more proficient / fluent at applying our maths skills in problem solving and mathematical reasoning.
Science we are taking a look at Light and then Electricity.
History – in the second half-term, is linked to English and we will be researching facts about The Home Front in WWII.
Art we are taking a look at the work of Banksy and art around the topic of ‘Every Picture Tells a Story’.
Geography – in the first half-term, our topic is looking at our Angry Earth
(Specifically the Japanese Tsunami 2011).
Spellings
Spellings are given out on a Tuesday and our test will be on the following Tuesday – it is extremely important that children practise and learn these.
Reading
Each child has an individual reading book and reading record. Reading of any type is very important as we only become good writers if we are good readers! Please encourage regular reading.