Welcome to Year 6!

Class Teachers:

Chestnut: Miss Hendley

Walnut: Miss Brereton / Mrs Sandwell

Support Staff: 

Mrs Barber

Mrs Skinner

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Tuesday. Please ensure your child comes to school in full PE kit. 

What are we learning in Year 6 this half term?

Autumn 

Reading

These are the texts that we cover throughout the year:

At St Margaret's we are passionate about reading! We teach a daily reading session based on a  Curriculum for Unity School’s Partnership (CUSP) text.

This half term, our core text is Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell. The core texts are supplemented by a variety of additional texts, to support children developing their reading fluency and confidence across a range of text types.

Writing

At St Margaret's Primary Academy we follow CUSP for our writing curriculum. The CUSP curriculum is a vocabulary rich, knowledge based approach to help develop pupils' retrieval, vocabulary and deepen learning. During the Summer Term Year 6 will be learning to write autobiographies, speeches, first person stories, poems, explanatory texts and newspaper reports. 

Maths 

At St Margaret's Primary Academy we adopt a Mastery approach to teach maths lessons. The mastery approach supports children in becoming fluent and confident mathematicians. Maths lessons include ‘Flashback 4’ where children recap 4 previously learnt skills, fluency activities and opportunities for children to apply their knowledge to reasoning and problem solving. This term we will be covering place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and converting units. 

Children will have the opportunity to practise and develop their times table knowledge daily. 

Geography 

In Geography, we will be learning about physical processes such as earthquakes, mountain formation and volcanoes. We will be looking at these areas in more depth: 

• What makes up the layers of planet Earth?
• What are tectonic plates and where do you find them?
• How do tectonic plates move and what happens? 
• What causes an earthquake and what's the effect? 
• How are mountains formed?
• How do volcanoes work?

Science

This half term, we will learn about the circulatory system in humans. We will be covering:

• What is blood made of and why do we need it?
• Why do our bodies need nutrients and how are they transported?
• What is our circulatory system?   
• What is our heart like inside?
• How does our heart work?
• Who influenced what we know about our circulatory system?
• What can we do to keep healthy?

Computing

This half term we will be studying web page creation. In this unit children will be introduced to creating webpages for a chosen purpose. Children will identify what makes a good web page and use this information to design and evaluate their own website using google sites. Throughout this unit, children will pay particular attention to copyright laws and fair use of media, the aesthetics of the site and navigation paths. 

PSHE

In PSHE we will be looking at different perceptions of what people think being 'normal' means and what it might be like to be different. We will be covering:

• Am I normal? 

• Understanding differences 

• Power struggles

• Why people bully

• Celebrating our differences

Religious Education

This term in Religious Education we will be studying the faith of Hinduism. We will be covering:

• What commitment means and how it can be demonstrated in different ways.  

• The significance of Puja and how Puja shows commitment to God.  

• How Sanatanis worship and show devotion to the Gods and Goddesses.

• Why a Sanatani pilgrimage to the Ganges might show commitment to God.  

• What commitment means to us and how we show it.  

DT

This term we will be focusing on food and nutrition. We will be studying and making street foods from different cultures with the aim of encouraging children to think about their own diet and snacks. We will learn how to make: 

• A burrito
• Pitta bread and hummus
• Samosas

Home learning

We expect children to read a minimum of 3 times a week at home; this should be logged on Boom Reader. If you need support with Boom Reader, please come and speak to a member of the Year 6 team who will be more than happy to help. 

Children are expected to practise their times tables at home regularly using Times Tables Rockstar. 

Useful links for extra work