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Year 6

 

Please use the links below to find all the song lyrics for the PFMAC Oxford Concert.

Welcome to Term 1 for our new Year 6 class. Our teachers are Mrs Bull and Mrs Stinga.

This term we are learning all about important turning points in history. In English, we will be using the text 'Star of Fear, Star of Hope' by Jo Hoestlandt to support our writing and our Guided Reading and end of day text read by the teachers is 'Crater Lake' by Jennifer Killick.

Our PE day for this term is Thursday. Please could the children come to school dressed in their PE kit on this day.  Year 6 have Forest School this term, which will be on a Tuesday. Please could the children come to school dressed in their forest school clothes on this day.

Our school Gospel Virtues this term are Curious and Active, and the children will be encouraged and be given house points to demonstrate these virtues every day in school,

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Year 6 Term 1 Homework:

Homework for Autumn Term 1 will be sent home on a Friday and is due back by the following Wednesday. 

Homework consists of:

  • Complete grammar and punctuation homework using www.spag.com or on a paper worksheet.
  • Complete a reading comprehension task.
  • Complete a maths skills-based activity. 
  • Complete a piece of art, DT or food technology homework 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)

Count By 7 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: