Year 6 - Cedar

Welcome To Our Year Six Class Page

Teacher: Mr Whitehead

Teaching Assistant: Mr Sutton

Welcome to an exciting half term - Autumn 2! This half term you will have the opportunity to develop your leadership roles and take part in lots of Advent and Christmas preparations and celebrations. Our school value this half term is 'respect' so we are looking for children to demonstrate this value throughout the next eight weeks. With so many opportunities we can't wait to see their light shine!

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.

Friday 8th November: Year group trip to the Imperial War Museum North, Salford

WC 11th November: Multi-faith week - focussing on Judaism with guest speaker.

Monday 11th November: Remembrance Day

Wednesday 20th November: Year 6 Pine's Assembly at 9.30am KS2 Hall (coffee served from 9am)

Sunday 1st December: Whole School Mass and Christmas Fair

Tuesday 17th December: Christmas lunch and Carols by Candlelight 6pm at St John's Church

Thursday 19th December: Party Day / own clothes day

Friday 20th December: Finish for Christmas

Autumn 2 Curriculum

English

Reading: Born on the Water

Writing: Figurative Poetry with a Bonfire Night theme (this will be performed to Year 2)

'Can we save the tiger?' - writing an information hybrid text

Maths

Division

Fractions

Vocation and commitment: The vocation of priesthood and religious life.

Multi-faith week: focus on Judaism

Science

Animals including humans

identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood
recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function
describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans

Humanities

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

Computing

Creating media - web page creation

Dance - reflecting World War 2

Games - handball

Structures - playground design and creation

Spanish

At the shops

PSHE

Living in the wider world:

1. Why is it important to be critical of the media online and offline?

2. How do people manage money?

3. What do I want to be?

Music

Shadows

Composing to protest

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.