Year Six Kingfisher
Spellings – Week 5
| 1. exaggerate
2. foreign 3. government 4. guarantee 5. harass 6. hindrance 7. interfere 8. interrupt 9. lightning 10. marvellous |
Spelling test will be on 16/10/19 🙂
Spellings – Week 4
| 1. preferring
2. reference 3. transferred 4. referral 5. preferably 6. referee 7. correspond 8. curiosity 9. disastrous 10. embarrass |
Spelling test will be 09/10/19 🙂
Spellings – Week 3
| 1. incredibly
2. sensibly 3. reliably 4. respectably 5. agreeably 6. enviably 7. conscience 8. conscious 9. controversy 10. convenience |
Spelling test will be on 02/10/19 🙂
Spellings – Week 2
| 1. adorable
2. agreeable 3. valuable 4. breakable 5. edible 6. legible 7. reversible 8. committee 9. community 10. competition |
Spelling test will be on 25/09/19 🙂
Hook Day – WWII
Today as part of our Hook Day we were transported back to 1939, and became evacuees. We made our very own evacuee labels and discussed why children were evacuated and where they went.
In the afternoon we then learnt about the Blitz. We blacked-out our classroom and recreated an air-raid by getting underneath our tables as the sirens went off.
Following on from this, we began to create landscapes of the Blitz using red, orange and yellow paint. When this has dried, we will then use black card to create silhouettes of the planes, buildings and monuments in London.
Homework Grid – Term 1
Spellings – Week 1
| 1. accommodate
2. accompany 3. according 4. aggressive 5. amateur 6. apparent 7. appreciate 8. attached 9. average 10. cemetery |
Spelling test will be on 18/09/19 🙂
Welcome Back!
Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome back! I hope that you all had a lovely summer break and are ready for the term ahead.
This term our topic will be World War II. We will be learning about many things such as: evacuation, the Blitz, propaganda and rationing.
Our other units of study this term will be:
– Science: Light
– English: Our writing will be inspired by World War II and we will be writing diary entries, letters, descriptions and instructions.
– Maths: Number and place value
– RE: Religion during the war
– Art/DT: Blitz silhouettes and building Anderson Shelters
Class Texts: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S Lewis
The Lion and the Unicorn by Shirley Hughes
If you have any questions or queries please see me after school, or make an appointment with the office.
Miss Carter 🙂
Term 6 – Homework Grid
Welcome Back!
Dear Mums, Dads and Carers,
Welcome back to the final term of Year 6!
This term our geography topic is ‘Raging Rivers’ in which we will be recapping the water cycle, investigating local rivers and learning about famous rivers across the United Kingdom.
In Science our unit of study is ‘Animals Including Humans”. During the term we will be learning about the circulatory system, the function of internal organs and why a healthy lifestyle is important.
Our Maths lessons this term will focus on: ratio, algebra, statistics and problem solving. We will also be continuing to regularly practise our times tables using Times Table Rockstars and practising our arithmetic.
In our English lessons we will be writing in a variety of styles. Firstly, we will be writing a short suspense/ghost story to really get the children’s imaginations going. Secondly, we will be writing a formal letter to the Department for Education informing them of the reasons why SATs should not exist – which the children are very excited about!! We will also be writing a poem inspired by our rivers topic and the research we will conduct.
PE will be on Wednesday (PE team) and Thursday (myself) this term, please have full kit in school on these days. As I would hate for the children to miss out on these sessions.
The children worked incredibly hard last term and I cannot wait to have an amazing final term learning and making brilliant memories with them.
If you have any questions or queries please see me after school, or make an appointment with the office.
Many thanks for your constant support,
Miss Carter 🙂
YAY!
A massive well done to our Year 6s this week. The SATs are finally over – YAY! 🎉 You’ve all worked incredibly hard and we are very proud of you. You have had smiles on your faces all week, no matter what challenges you’ve faced, and for that all of the staff are very grateful and proud. Now to celebrate with some ice lollies in the sun 😊🌞…
Term 5 – Revision Grid
Here are some revision ideas for the children to being doing alongside their learning at school/homework.
Hopefully you find them useful 🙂
Welcome Back – Term 5!
Dear Mums, Dads and Carers,
Welcome back to Term 5!
This term, after SATs, we will be continuing with our topics from last term: ‘Around the Wold’ and ‘Light’.
The children will be continuing to revise for and work towards their SATs. We will be preparing the children in every way we can, so it is as stress-free as possible! I will be continuing to send home homework, it is essential this is completed as it will be a continuation of SATs preparation. I have every faith in all of them and no matter what the outcome will be extremely proud of them all.
PE will be on Wednesday (PE team) and Thursday (myself) this term, please have full kit in school on these days. As I would hate for the children to miss out on these sessions.
If you have any questions or queries please see me after school, or make an appointment at the main office.
Many thanks for your constant support,
Miss Carter 🙂
Buster’s Book Club!
We were all visited by Buster today from Buster’s Book Club and we spoke about how important and fun reading is. Year 5 have been doing a brilliant job of monitoring reading across the school and it was great for Buster to see this for himself 🙂
Term 4 – Homework/Revision Grid
The children will also be receiving weekly homework sent out each Monday and due in the following Monday. This will start on Monday 4th March.
Thank you 🙂
Welcome Back!
Dear Mums, Dads and Carers,
Welcome back to Term 4!
This term our topic is ‘Around the World’ in which we will be learning about the earth, hemispheres, different climates and lines of latitude and longitude. To support this we will be reading the children’s version of ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ by Jules Verne.
In Science our unit of study is ‘Light”. During the term we will be learning about how light travels, shadows and how we see things.
Our Maths lessons this term will focus on ratio and measurements. The rest of maths units will be revising what the children have learnt so far and addressing anything they are unsure of.
PE will be on Wednesday (PE team) and Thursday (myself) this term, please have full kit in school on these days. As I would hate for the children to miss out on these sessions.
As addressed in my previous letter, I will be sending home weekly homework for the children to complete. This will be handed out each Monday, starting from Monday 4th March and will need to be completed by the following Monday.
If you have any questions or queries please see me after school, or make an appointment at the main office.
Many thanks for your constant support,
Miss Carter 🙂
Next Week – W/C 11.02.19
English – Now we have finished our out of this world narratives, we are going to be writing to PERSUADE. The children will be writing a persuasive advert urging people to apply to take part on Takeshi’s Castle.
Maths – To ensure that we have really understood how to calculate percentages of amounts, we are going to be solving word problems that have multiple steps. This is great practice for our SATs and we will smash it!
Topic – In Topic we are going to be learning about and researching Tokyo, the capital of Japan.
PE/Topic – For our class PE lesson, we are going to be creating our very own obstacle course inspired by Takeshi’s Castle. This will hopefully give us a taste of what it would be like to be on the game show and inspire our writing.
Art – To continue with experimenting with various painting techniques, we are going to be finger painting our cherry blossom petals.
Next Week – W/C 04.02.19
Next week lots of us are going to perform at the Young Voices concert at the O2 in London. Then later on in the week we will be going to Age UK in Sheerness to perform our songs as a class. We are very excited! 🙂
Amongst all the excitement of the week we will be learning about lots of things, such as:
English – We will continuing with our phenomenal samurai narratives!
Maths – In Maths we will be learning about how to find the percentage of an amount, and figuring out ways to make calculating this as simple as possible.
Science – Our Science lesson this week will include learning about Carl Linnaeus and his system of classification. We will definitely need our thinking caps on for that lesson, as it is a little tricky!
Next Week – W/C 28.01.19
English – In English we will be moving onto your next writing unit for the term, which will be writing to entertain. We will be writing a historical narrative about the quest of a samurai warrior. WARNING: There may be a little bit of blood! :-O
Maths – Now we have cracked decimals, we will be learning about percentages. Starting with converting fractions into percentages.
Topic/Science – In Topic we will be researching Japanese animals and using our classification knowledge to classify them correctly.
Next Week – W/C 21.01.19
English – In English we will be working towards completing our discussion texts and creating our own opinionated conclusion.
Maths – Our maths lessons will be continuing to focus on decimals, as we need to make sure we have 100% got this!
Art – We will be experimenting with our straw-blowing paint technique to bring our cherry blossoms trees to life.
Science – In Science we will be revising how we classify living things and considering why scientists do this.