Year 6 - Cedar

Welcome To Our Year Six Class Page

Teacher: Mr Whitehead

Teaching Assistant: Mr Sutton

Welcome to Year 6 and your final year at St John's! We are very excited to be welcoming you into the new school year. This half term you will have the opportunity to apply for a leadership role and settle into lessons, whilst becoming recognisable role models for the whole school.

If you would like to arrange to walk home from school please contact the office to provide permission. You can bring a phone into school so you have it available for walking home, however this must be handed in to Mr Whitehead as soon as you arrive into the classroom in the morning.

Please contact Mr Whitehead with any questions via info@stjohnsrc.net.

Welcome Wednesday: Wednesday 11th September at 8.45am

Parents' Evening: Wednesday 9th October

Autumn 1 Curriculum

English

Reading: Street Child

Writing: Star of Fear, Star of Hope. We'll be working up to writing a flashback narrative and reflecting a very powerful story set in World War II.

Maths

Place value and arithmetic focus

Four Operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

Loving: The Domestic Church / Family Unit:

Exploring 'unconditional love'

Science

Living Things and their habitats:

describing how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals.
giving reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics

Humanities

History: Conflict through Time (exploring the causes and events of WW1 and WW2)

Computing

Computing systems and networking

Dance - reflecting World War 1

Games - Basketball

Art

Artist focus on Henry Moore - creation of drawing in his style and sculpture creation

Spanish

Exploring a Spanish town

Physical Education

It's advisable to bring your PE kit into school and leave it on your peg. However, you will be changing into PE kit on the following days (and not coming into school with it on):

Monday
Tuesday

HOMEWORK

Please login into Atom Prime each week: https://atomlearning.com/prime

You will find your English and maths tasks on there. Have a go at the tasks set because it will not only adapt to your answers (to make sure it's at the right level for you) but also help you with where you went wrong.

You will be taking spellings home weekly - these reflect the rules we work on in class and any words you need to work on personally. Please learn these words so you can spell them accurately in your writing. It's also important to learn the following Year 5 and 6 statutory words:

Please ensure you are reading regularly at home using a book provided from school - we recommend 30 minutes a day. Please ensure that school books are returned regularly. This is monitored.