Year 6
Meet the Team:
Mr Nicholls
Teacher
Mrs Llloyd
Teacher
Mrs Lewis
Teacher
Mrs Horne
Learning Support Assistant
Year 6 Autumn 1 Curriculum Map
If you would like to know a little more about what the children in Year 6 will be learning about this half term, please refer to our curriculum map document below.
Our Learning Journey
Below you will find out about our learning journey for this half term. Please click on any document links for further information.
English
This half term, Year 6 will be focusing on 'Orphans of the Tide' by Struan Murray.
The children will complete their Guided Reading lessons around this book also, where they will look at the following reading skills: inferencing, decoding, predicting, retrieving, clarifying and summarising.
Watch this space to see examples of our fantastic work.
RE / PSHE
Maths
Our first Maths focus in Year 6 will be looking at the place value of a number. See below our success criteria for the first few weeks back.
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Read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1, 000,000 and determine the value of each digit. |
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Round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. |
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Read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 10, 000, 000 and determine the value of each digit. |
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Round numbers to the nearest whole, 10, 100 and 1000 |
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Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy. |
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Interpret negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across zero. |
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PE
PE is every Friday for Year 6. The children need to come into school in their PE ready for their lesson. This half term's focus is 'Tag Rugby'.
Homework
Homework will be set every Friday and is due back by the following Wednesday. There will be one Maths and one English homework for the children to complete each week, as well as a 10 word spelling list.
Children are also expected to read at home every night to a grown up and change their home reader book at least once a week.
Please see the Y5&6 statutory spelling list below which the children can also practise.
Curriculum
Our first half term in Year 6 will be answering the big question: 'How did the industrial revolution impact Birmingham?'
Watch this space for Year 6's work.
Science
Our first Science focus is working around answering the big question 'How did we see in the dark before electricity?'
Watch this space to see our work.