(Y6) South America

         Welcome to Year Six 

      Teachers - Mrs S Greenwood

       Mrs R Foster

Phase lead - Mrs Shotton

P.E day

Year 6 P.E day is Wednesday. 

P.E kit consists on a white t-shirt and black jumper, black shorts and trainers. 

We strongly advise that ears are pierced in the six week holidays and they will be expected to remove them for P.E lessons. If this is not possible, your child needs to bring plasters into school to cover the earring themselves.

Homework

Homework will be given out on a Wednesday. It is essential that children bring their books in on this day as we go through the homework and address any misconceptions in class during our Wednesday Homework slot. 

Homework is linked to the learning we have covered in class that week. 

Reading at home 

Reading records and home reading books will be sent out daily. It is an expectation that your child reads at home independently, to an adult or be read to by an adult. Please ensure your reading records are signed at least three times a week for a raffle ticket and a chance to win the weekly reading raffle. 

Our weekly raffle winners get to visit our book vending machine... there are some fabulous books available to win! 


                                          Trips


We had a great time on our first trip of the year to Crucial Crew. We explored various different settings and gained a clear understanding of how to keep safe as we get older and more independent. 


On the  23rd January we visited Wakefield Cathedral for their WW1 AND WW2 Workshop... we found it so informative. In the afternoon we visited The Hepworth Art Gallery where we explored the exhibitions... we saw a Fiona Rae piece in Real life ( she is an artist we have been studying through our recent art lessons. 


We have had lots of additional experience in school too this half term: 






During the Summer term we will be visiting Kingswood Adventure Centre for our residential as well as our end of year trip to Flamingo Land.  


Our Autumn 1 curriculum overview

What will we be learning this half term? 

oUR AUTUMN 2 CURRICULUM OVERVIEW

What will we be learning this half term? 

 our Spring 1 Curriuclum overview

What will we be learning this half term? 

Our Spring 2 Curriculum Overview 

What will we be learning this half term? 

Using AI in Canva, to create our creatures, ready for writing our reports.

Some of them were really scary!!

We are creating a class e-book ' The Magnificent Book of Extraordinary Creatures' 


We had to really consider our vocabulary choices to ensure the images matched our description. 



In computing we have been working on our programming skills. 


Using text based programming in Logo to create images. 


We had to fault find in our codes to ensure our images were accurate. 

We have had a busy term!


As well as our amazing learning in class, we have already had lots of other exciting events. From zoom workshops with authors to Commando Joe training... we have enjoyed them all! 


Born Free ' Paint along live

We participated  in the Born Free Paint Along where an artist and wildlife expert joined together to help us learn all about the great work they do, while painitng the African Savannah! It was a great experience 

oUR vISIT TO Wakefield cathedral 

We had a fabulous time at Wakefield Cathedral. Gillian shared all her knowledge about the building as well as how it was affected by WW1.