Year 6
"The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get understanding." - Proverbs 4:7
Happy New Year 2025 to our Year 6 families!
Welcome to Spring Term 3 in our Year 6 class. Our teachers are Mrs Bull, who teaches year 6 from Monday-Thursday, and Mrs Stinga who teaches year 6 on a Friday.
This term we are learning through the book Shackleton's Journey how the Antarctic explorer faced and overcame extreme challenges by demonstrating exceptional leadership, careful planning, unwavering determination and resilience. By reflecting on these qualities, we will learn how to apply these valuable lessons to overcome difficulties and achieve our own personal goals. All other curricular subject topics are detailed below in our Year 6 Curriculum Overview.
Our Guided Reading class text is 'Arctic Star' by Tom Palmer.
Our PE day for this term is Thursday. Please could the children come to school dressed in their PE kit on this day.
Our school Gospel Virtues this term are Grateful and Generous and the children will be encouraged and be given house points and INSPIRED points to demonstrate these virtues every day in school.
Topic Web
Homework for Spring Term 3 will be set either on a Friday or after each Year 6 Revision Club session using the children's personalised CGP books. Homework is expected to be completed for the following Monday.
Homework will consist of:
- Complete grammar and punctuation homework using www.spag.com and/or the SPAG CGP book.
- One reading comprehension task.
- Maths skills based and reasoning activities.
- A piece of Art, RE or DT work on an ad-hoc basis.
- Reading for at least twenty minutes every day.
- Practice weekly spellings.
- Practice their multiplication tables on Times Tables Rock Stars or on a paper worksheet.
Year 6 Recommended Reading Lists:
Year 5 and 6 Spelling List:
SpellingWordList_Y5-6.pdf (oxfordowl.co.uk)
Times Tables Rock Stars:
Times Tables Rock Stars: Play (ttrockstars.com)
Counting By Sixes Song (youtube.com)
Counting By Eights Song (youtube.com)
British Super Tutor - For bitesize SATS prep!
https://www.youtube.com/@bilingualbritishteacher7782
Illustrated Mathematics Dictionary
Illustrated Mathematics Dictionary (mathsisfun.com)
Year 6 Yearly Subject Planner Overview: