Year 6

Spring 2 – Would you rather be an Athenian or a Spartan?

 

Welcome to Year 6! We are Violet Class and Lilac Class!

Violet Class:
Class teacher: Mrs Remington-Davidson & Mr Brown
Teaching assistants: Ms Lilley & Mr Geen

Lilac Class:

Class teacher: Ms Wykes
Teaching assistants: Ms Lilley & Mr Geen

It’s the start of a new half term, we are so happy to be welcoming you all back to school!

This half term, our topic is ‘Ancient Greece’. With strong focuses on English, History and Art, we will be exploring where the Ancient Greeks fit into the chronology of the world’s history as well as how the Ancient Greeks lived, their achievements and their influence on the Western World. In English, we will be engaging with argument and discussion texts to unpick how the Ancient Greeks influenced the way we live today. In History, we will be unpicking a variety of historical sources to explain why their may be different versions of a story and in Art, we will be exploring the world of collage, explaining and justifying our personal preferences as well as having a go at creating our own collages. 

In Maths, we will  begin by recapping our previous learning within the topic of Statistics before later moving on to Ratio & Proportion. During the second half of the term, we will then be starting the topic of ‘Algebra’. In addition, we will continue to revise our key skills such as finding the mean average and using BIDMAS effectively as well as refining our Times Tables knowledge. Children will continue to take ownership of their own learning to focus on specific times table each week, practising these in school as well as at home.

 

This term, we will be continuing with our Music sessions with Mr Ecclestone as well as weekly Outdoor and Indoor PE sessions. Please make sure that your child comes to school wearing the appropriate PE kit for our PE sessions on Mondays and Wednesdays (Lilac) and Wednesdays and Thursdays (Violet)- no jewellery please. Home learning will be set weekly this term and will include a range of activities from different subjects. Children will also be able to access SpellingFrame for regular spelling practise, TimesTablesRockstars for regular times tables practise and Linguascope to revise French topics.

 

Useful Links

Welcome to Year 6 Presentation

Reading and Spoken Language Age Related Expectations

Year 5/6 Spelling Word List

Writing Age Related Expectations

Maths Age Related Expectations

Science Age Related Expectations