Welcome to Year 6 

The Team

Miss Hannigan
​Ash ​​Class Teacher
Mr Silvester
​Yew ​Class Teacher
Issy
LSA
Swimming Days
Yew & Ash Class: Tuesday
Make sure your child has suitable swimming items in a bag each Tuesday. 

Key Dates 

  • Monday 5th June - INSET 
  • Tuesday 6th June - Back to school
  • Friday 9th June - Sports Day
  • Thursday 15th June - Class Photo Day
  • Monday 19th June - Harry Potter Warner Bro Studios Trip
  • Wednesday 5th July - Transition Day for Stantonbury 
  • Thursday 6th July - Transition Day for Stantonbury (second day)
  • Wednesday 12th - Friday 14th July - Year 6 Residential 
  • Monday 17th July - School Reports Sent Home 
  • Wednesday 19th July - Year 6 Leavers Production (2:00 - 3:00)
  • Thursday 20th July - Year 6 Leavers Production (5:00 - 6:00)
  • Friday 21st July - Last Day of School 

NB: For students not attending Stantonbury School please contact your child's secondary school for information regarding transition visits


​This Half Term

Residential Information

This year's residential will take place between Wednesday 12th July to Friday 14th July. Please click on the links below for key information for the trip. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child's class teacher via the school office:

Project - Coastal Geography of Devon & Dorset

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Know how arches, stumps and stacks are formed on the coast.
  • Explain how weather can erode and change a landscape of a coastline.
  • Know how the increasing levels of air pollution and global warming are contributing to erosion of our shore lines
  • Recognise and name caves, islands, bays, headlands and peninsulas as coastal features of the UK.
     

Summer Performance 

This year's summer show will see children perform the musical 'I'm an 11-Year Old Get Me Out Of Here'.  This is a "spin-off" show adapted from the classic show on ITV; however, for this year there is a twist. There aren't any celebrities...there are 11 year old children reflecting on the trials of primary school and their transition to secondary school.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research the different geographical features found on the UK coastline
  • Find out what an estuary is and the types of wildlife that make it their home
  • Explore the role of the tide on the UK coastline
  • Explore the role of the RNLI and key aspects of water safety - could you make a poster to explain what to do if you are caught in a rip current?

English - The Rain Player & Macbeth

 Reading:
Using Macbeth (fiction) and non-fiction information books, this half term we will be learning to:
  • Discuss idea, events and structures the writer has used
  • Summarise the main ideas from our class text
  • Compare the structure of different text types
  • Evaluate the authors use of language and its resulting impact
  • Skim, scan and locate key facts and information

Writing:
Using our class texts, this half term we will be learning to:
  • Write for a range of purposes, including: to inform and evaluate
  • Use features of non-fiction guides and balanced arguments
  • Apply skills from previous writing and grammar lessons to ensure writing is clear and concise. This includes: use of relative clauses, commas in a list to add clarity and use of pronouns to help our writing flow

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Read age appropriate reports and information about Central and South America and discuss the histories of these countries at home.
  • Think about letters you have at home, how are these laid out and how do you present a formal letter?
  • Read instructions of games you have at home and consider what language is used and what presentational features are included.
  • Practise writing stories which convey emotion and make the reader feel happy or sorry for a character.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Read and interpret line graphs.
  • Read and interpret pie charts using percentages.
  • Understand the properties of circles.
  • Calculate the mean and mode from a set of data.
  • Calculate angles using shape knowledge.
  • Accurately nets to create 3D shapes.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Investigate packaging by opening them to see how 2D shapes are used to create 3D shapes.
  • Identify different 3D shapes in packaging in shops and consider why some shapes are more common than others.
  • Track the number of steps you take every hour in a day and plot your growing total on a line graph.
  • Visit Google Classroom and and watch the mathematics videos uploaded that relate to your childs class topic
  • Continue to support your child's times table knowledge including any cporrespoding division facts 

Science - Electricity

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Take measurements (i.e. amps) using a range of equipment.
  • Record and present data in charts and graphs.
  • Identify and explain how circuits work.
  • Explain how bulbs can be made brighter and dimmer.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss the following vocabulary with your child: amp, socket,  live electrical wire, volt, complete battery, copper.
  • Explore what you have in your house which requires electricity to work.
  • Identify a number of electronic devices which you use regularly at home. Now research how we performed these same tasks before electricity was available. How have things changed over time?

Computing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use spreadsheets to present and manipulate data.
  • Describe how to search for information within a wide group of technologies (e.g. social media, image sites, video sites).
  • Use different search technologies.
  • Evaluate digital content and can explain how I make choices from search results.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Create a table at home (electronically using Excel or Google Sheets, or on paper) about any topic you choose e.g. goals in a game, colours of cars parked in the street.
  • Produce a bar graph to represent your data in your table electronically using Excel or Google Sheets, or on paper).
  • Look for examples of how tables are used to record data around us (e.g. league tables, train timetables, weather temperature tables). Discuss how tables are sorted differently to help show the data that is deemed important.
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Art and Design

Using our summer show as inspiration, this half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand the processes of craft and design in the theatre setting
  • Plan and design our own stage props and backdrop 
  • Create a front cover for the programme by studying different types of graphics and design techniques

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Have a go at drawing your own programme cover for the summer show
  • Design and make some of your own props that could be used in a theatre
  • Look at different theatre sets and compare them. Do you have a favourite? Do they have anything in common?

Music - Leaver's Song

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify and evaluate the musical features of a song.
  • Contribute ideas to their group chorus, suggesting how lines three and four could rhyme.
  • Contribute ideas to their group verse, suggesting how lines one and four and five and eight could rhyme.
  • Fit an existing melody over a four-chord backing track.
  • Create a melody that fits both the lyrics and the four-chord backing track of the chorus, using tuned percussion instruments.
  • Record melodies using letter notation.
  • Perform the leavers’ song with confidence.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Listen to current music and write/draw about how it makes you feel. 
  • Reflect on your time on school and the different parts that made your experience at primary school.
  • Use Bandlab to have a go at creating a backing track
  • Use Chrome Music Lab - melody maker to have a go a compose a melody.
  • Write your own lyrics with a set rhyming pattern.

 RE - Expressing Faith

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Develop understanding of how different religious groups use music and song to express how they feel
  • ​Unpick how different cultures and faiths use artistic patterns or images to express their belief
  • Describe how people use religious stories to share their knwoledge and faith


​PSHE - E-Safety and Bullying
This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Keep ourselves safe online
  • Keep our identity and personal information private and secure
  • Know what to do if worried when using websites
  • Think about what bullying is and how we can stop it from happening

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss your own faith or beliefs at home
  • Ask family members about their own faith and how this plays a part in their lives.
  • Research different religious patterns or imagery in the local area or online. 
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about how to keep apps and social media accounts secure
  • Discuss ways we can respond to hurtful messages so that they are empowered and in control in the event of online bullying
  • Share ways to stay safe online.

PE

Swimming will be on Tuesdays for all children in Year 6. Outdoor PE will be Athletics (Yew - Friday and Ash - Thursday)

Sport: Athletics/Swimming
  • Use varying techniques to hop, skip and jump
  • Learn to throw weighted objects 
  • Use varying running styles for both long and short distance running
  • Develop water confidence and safety
  • Use a variety of strokes when moving in the water

French (MFL): Clothes (Les Vêtements)

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Repeat and recognise the vocabulary for a variety of clothes in French.
  • Use the appropriate genders and articles for these clothes.
  • Use the verb PORTER in French with increasing confidence.
  • Say what they wear in different weather/situations.
  • Describe clothes in terms of their colour and apply adjectival agreement.
  • Use the possessives with increased accuracy

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Try jumps and squats to help maintain fitness and balance
  • Try throwing and catching when at the park or in the garden. How many different throws can you try?
  • Watch a game of cricket or view highlights online. Consider how they use body movements to vary the direction of their batting shots.
  • Attend a local leisure centre swimming session to develop water confidence.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​Why not try:
  • Watching a video in French with subtitles on to see common words and their spellings. 
  • Orally rehearse simple sentences in French.
  • Having a go at the activities available on the link below: