Year 6

Welcome to Year 6

Miss Trivedi (6H) and Miss Marren (6M) are the class teachers for Year 6; Mr Haynes will also be taking one of the maths sets. Mrs Seggery and Mrs Goodman will also support the teaching and learning across year 6.

Spring Term

In the Spring term, our Power of Reading books are Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian and Sensational Poetry by Roger McGough. Goodnight Mister Tom links with our History on World War II. In Spring term Geography we will look at where energy comes from. In Maths we study the following: ratio and proportion, measurement, geometry, including properties of shapes, position and direction. Finally, we will also look at statistics. Our Science focus will be on healthy bodies, this then links to our PSHE, on Healthy lifestyles. In Computing, our topic focuses on variables in games and an introduction to spreadsheets. Our Art will look at replicating and creating in the style of LS Lowry. Our cooking will be making pasties. PE lessons will be gymnastics, dance, hockey and basketball. In RE we continue our learning on Buddhism and key Buddhist beliefs, comparing to Christian beliefs. In Spanish we learn vocabulary relating to things we can do on the weekend.

Ms Blunden's Story Time - Goodnight Mister Tom, Chapter 1

This is the story of Willie Beech, who is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of the Second World War. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of Tom Oakley - bu this new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London.