Year 6

Welcome to Year 6!

Welcome to the Year 6 page. Here, you can find information about the Year 6 curriculum and upcoming events, but don't forget to check School ClassDojo for information on letters as well as more frequent updates from us.

We expect the children to be accessing Reading Plus on a regular basis and practise their spellings on Edshed, as well as using online platforms such as Times Tables Rockstars and MyMaths to consolidate their mathematical understanding.  If you require login details, please contact Miss Hennessy or Mr Hyde.

English

This term, our text will be 'The Explorer' by Catherine Rundell. This amazing narrative will act as our guide as we delve into the Amazon Rainforest for our Geography enquiry, and the study of the classification of living things in our line of Science enquiry.

Maths

Our Maths units over this term will include the following:

• number and place value (deepening our understanding of ordering and rounding numbers beyond 1 million, and exploring negative numbers and their role in our everyday lives)
• calculation (consolidating our understanding of multiplication and division strategies, investigating divisibility tests, and exploring prime numbers and factor relationships)
• fractions (looking at the relationships fractions have with each other and investigating equivalance, attempting to find the most efficient ways of ordering fractions of various sizes)

In all of our Maths lessons, we will be looking at how we can develop our fluency, reasoning and problem solving skills and pushing ourselves to be magnificent mathematicians.

History

Later in the term and beyond Christmas, we will be studying life in Britain during World War 2: investigating the events that led up to the breakout of war in 1939, finding out about the experiences of evacuees, and putting ourselves in the shoes of Britons during the war.

Geography

Through our study of the Amazon Rainforest, we will be researching rainforests around the world and the tropics (identifying lines of latittude and longitude as well as the Equator and the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn). Our focus will then move onto deforestation and how human life is impacting life in the Amazon, culminating in a formal debate on the matter.

Science

Our primary focus this term will be the classification of living things in Biology. Our lines of enquiry will focus on how all living things on Earth can be grouped, the studies of the influential scientist Carl Linneaus, and developing our own classification keys.