Maple Tree Class - Year 6
INFORMATION FOR PARENTS
Welcome to our class page!
Year 6 Maple is taught by Miss Bairstow with support from Mrs Senior.
ROUTINES
HOME READING: This will be central to your child’s learning this year. The expectation in Year 5 and 6 is that children read at least 5 times per week. Please record the book and page number in your child’s reading record. If your child has a Reading Plus account, they can also log in and practise this at home.
HOMEWORK: Homework will be given on a Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday.
PE: Maple Tree Class have P.E on a Thursday. Please make sure your child comes to school in their P.E kit on P.E days. They may wear navy tracksuit bottoms and a Rufford Park hoodie or school jumper over the top. Earrings must be removed for P.E unless recently pierced. If your child cannot remove their own earrings please make sure they come to school without them on the days of their P.E lessons.
Autumn Curriculum Overview: WW2 - I wonder how WW2 affected families in Yorkshire?
- English: Children will be writing to inform and entertain through writing non-chronological reports, diaries, letters and narrative descriptions.
- Reading: Our class reader is 'Goodnight Mr Tom?' by Michelle Magorian. Children will be reading through this text and answering a range of questions to support their comprehension. In addition, the children will be completing a range of other comprehension-based activities.
- Maths: Building on place value knowledge, using all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to answer problems and fractions
- Science: Electricity and Animals including Humans
- Computing:
- Sharing Information
- Safety: Self-Image and Identity
- Video production
- Music: Sing Up Units, weekly singing, ukulele lessons (Year 5) and a World War Two Christmas
- DT: Super seasonal cooking
- History: Understanding the key events of WW2 and how they affected families in Yorkshire.
- PE:
- Inspire, create, perform
- Block, guard, support
- Fair, share, care
- Evade, invade, capture
- RE:
- How and why are Jewish festivals celebrated today?
- How do Sikhs symbolise their commitment?
- PSHE:
- Me and my relationships
- Valuing differences
- French:
- Phonics
- Les vêtements
- Ma famille
USEFUL DOCUMENTS