Year 6

Class Teachers: Alison Davies, Aileen Cronin and James Farmer

Welcome

We aim for all Year 6 children to have a fun-filled, exciting and educationally stimulating end to their time at primary school. We provide a broad and balanced curriculum as well as opportunities for children to participate in a range of extra-curricular activities. We also spend a considerable amount of time preparing the children for the transition into secondary school by encouraging them to become independent and organised learners. In addition, we plan an extensive unit of work focusing on all aspects of personal, social and health education in the second half of the summer term to ensure all pupils are well prepared for the next stage of their education.

We will provide broad and balanced teaching opportunities which will promote the spiritual, moral, social, cultural, mental and physical development of our pupils and prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life. Our teaching of British Values alongside the school’s own core values aims to embed pupil empathy, consideration and kindness and develop a common mutual respect for different cultures, societies and religions plus an understanding of the importance of the rule of law and democracy.

Children in Year Six have many opportunities to shine, whether through sports, the arts or in academia. Pupils also have the chance to participate in outdoor, adventurous activities, as well as learn important lessons about team work and perseverance, during our residential trip to Caythorpe in Lincolnshire’. The children challenge themselves to work as a team to build a raft, jump off tall buildings, scale walls and swing on a giant swing, all within the watchful eye of trained teachers and PGL staff! Our PGL trip is a real highlight of the year and provides a well-deserved treat for our hard working pupils.

OUR CHRISTMAS PERFORMANCE

Year 6 Teaching Team

Year Group Leader	Alison Davies
Class Teachers	Alison Davies (Baobab Class )
	Aileen Cronin (Banyan Class )
	James Farmer (Beech Class )
Teaching Support	Maria Panayiotou (Mathematics) Rosie Sawyer (Art)
Higher Level Teaching Assistant Teaching Assistant	Wendy Armah Rinat Koren

Curriculum / Learning

Our School Values for this academic year (2020-2021) are: Friendship (Autumn 1), Helping Others (Autumn 2), Patience (Spring 1), Courage (Spring 2), Ambition (Summer 1) and Sharing (Summer 2).

Curriculum Letter

Autumn curriculum letter 2020

Home Learning

View the latest Additional Home Learning post by clicking the link below

Home-Learning-Year-6

Times tables websites

Access to age-appropriate resources from London Grid for Learning ( including Purplemash)

https://www.lgfl.net/

Termly Class Letter To Parents and Care

SATs Assessment Information for Parents and Carers

The Standards and Testing Agency’s assessment guidance

The National Curriculum

English

By the end of Year 6, pupil’s writing and reading is expected to be sufficiently fluent and effortless for them to manage the expected demands of the curriculum in Year 7. Our aim is to prepare our pupils for secondary education by ensuring they can consciously control sentence structure in their writing and understand why sentences are constructed as they are. Also that they understand nuances in vocabulary choice and age-appropriate academic vocabulary through practice and a discussion of language through our ‘Big Read’ and ‘Talk for Writing’ programmes . We will whenever possible, encourage pupil confidence, enjoyment and a mastery of language through public speaking, performance and debating opportunities.

Year 6 English skills ladders

Mathematics

The principle focus of mathematics in Year 6 is to ensure that pupils extend their understanding of the number system and place value to include larger integers. By the end of Year 6, pupils are expected to be fluent in written methods for all four operations, including long multiplication and division and in working with fractions, decimals and percentages. Furthermore, pupils should be able to solve a wider range of problems, of increasing complexity using efficient written and mental calculations.

Year 6 Maths skills ladders

Mathematics Programme of Study

Science

The principal focus of science teaching in upper key stage 2 is to enable pupils to develop a deeper understanding of a wide range of scientific ideas. Pupils will be encouraged to explore and talk about their ideas, asking their own questions about scientific phenomena. Pupils will be expected to answer science questions using different types of scientific enquiry, including: observing changes over different periods of time, noticing patterns, grouping and classifying things, carrying out comparative and fair tests and finding things out using a wide range of secondary sources of information. Also drawing conclusions based on their data and observations and using evidence to justify their ideas and to use their scientific knowledge and understanding to explain their findings.

Science programme of study for year 6

Foundation Subjects

The following subjects: Art and Design, Design and Technology (D&T), Geography, History, Computing, French (MFL), Music, Physical Education (PE), Religious Education (RE) and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Education (SMSC)/Citizenship are taught within exciting topic lessons over the academic year.

Topics are driven by different subjects (e.g. History and Religious Education). All foundation subjects will be taught through this cross-curricular approach providing the different disciplines with a practical learning context. Each new topic commences with a planned ‘launch’. Launches may be a workshop, a school trip, a visitor/guest/parent presenting to the year group, the sampling of international foods/dance and/or opportunities to celebrate cultural/religious festivals. Visit our curriculum page to view each Foundation Subject in greater detail

French

French: What we are learning

To continue to enjoy French songs and stories introduced in class, please follow this hyperlink (by clicking on the following underlined words) of the Rhodes Avenue Primary Pinterest page. Please ask an adult to create a free Pinterest account for you to be able to access it and explore the different boards under adult supervision.

Yr 6 songs and stories are found on this Pinterest board.

There are also recommendations of suitable French films and animations rated PG and U and animation and lots of French storybooks to watch and listen to, read by native speakers.

Children can also explore and learn languages independently by going on Duolingo, which is entirely free and Utalk has free access to the basic sentences of more than 144 languages.

The suggested sites also exist as applications on Androids and Macs.

The Topics we will be Teaching

Discover all the topics by downloading the Year 6 curriculum map.

Year 6 Curriculum Overview

The Skills and Knowledge we will be Teaching

To discover the Foundation Subject Skills and Knowledge we will be teaching within the topics download the skills and knowledge matrix below.

Year 6 Knowledge and Skills Map

Timetable

Physical Activity

P.E. lessons are on Monday ( 6AC) Tuesday (6JF) and Wednesday (6AD)

Year 6 Media

Podcasts

Have a listen to some podcasts whilst you're at home
Click on the link below
https://www.funkidslive.com/podcast/stuck/

Photo Gallery

Home learning will be posted on Seesaw each week. The children will get one piece of maths homework each week from their maths teacher. They will also have the opportunity to complete other work which we may set.

HOME LEARNING PROJECTS

Children are expected to complete 3 pieces of home learning throughout the year – this may be an art project, world book day project or one related to our topics. Information about these projects will be posted on Seesaw and on the year 6 website page.

Children can also post work completed independently including creating their own reading journal based on the book that they are reading.

Reading List for Year 6

Here is a handy reading list of books suitable for year 6 children.

All teachers will post their maths home learning on Seesaw each week

Click on the link below to take you to the website.

https://web.seesaw.me/

If you are at home isolating form more than a couple of days, here are two projects that you could do.

Write a book all about Islam to read to a 7 year old. You will have to do some research and could include information about the 5 Pillars; Muslim prayer; A Mosque and Muslim festivals.

For more details go to https://web.seesaw.me/

Or..

2. In science this term, we will be looking at Light. For this project, we would like you to find out and research how a periscope works and how this relates to light- reflections and light travelling in straight lines. If you have time, you could even try to make your own periscope.

For further information, log onto https://web.seesaw.me/

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