Year 6
Welcome to Year 6!
The Team is Miss Dineen, Mr Goegan, Mrs Worrall and Miss Iqbal.
Year 6 | Summer 1 |
As a Y6 team we are incredibly proud of the hard work and determination that your child has shown this year so far. We have four weeks until the exams (week beginning Monday 12th May 2025) and we will be helping your child to prepare for these. It is really important that your child completes the homework set and continues to access IXL and SATS Companion in preparation for this. As well as the exams, in the summer term, we will be looking at the Mayans as part of our History topic. This is moving on from our Geography focus on sustainability and the Amazon Rainforest during the spring term. We will be looking at how the Mayans lived and what their impact on history was. As well as this, we will be looking at the identity and diversity of the ancient Mayan civilisation and modern Mayan culture. | |
Maths To prepare for SATs, we are practising arithmetic and looking at some of the most challenging questions. We are having a big focus on maths reasoning and how to answer multi-step questions. We are also recapping all the topics we have looked at throughout the year. Please encourage your child to practise on IXL and SATs Companion at home. | English We will be completing a narrative based on the text the Middler this term. We will also be improving the writing we have done throughout the year to ensure children are writing at age related expectations. This includes a variety of genres and topics. We are also continuing to prepare for our SPaG and Reading papers. Our new book study text will be Orphans of the Tide which links with our global theme identity and diversity. |
Home Learning
The best thing your child can do is to read fiction and non-fiction at home every day. Children can borrow books from school, we have lots in our library. You can also join and borrow books for free from your local library. https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries-archives
Online learning:
Children should be accessing online learning as often as possible. This is to help them to be confident learners in school, pass the SATs tests and to prepare them for the demands of Year 7. | Dates for your diary SATS week: Monday 12th May 2025
Scarborough Residential Monday 19th May 2025 –Thursday 22nd May 2025
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History and Geography Our history and geography this half term will involve looking deeper at The Amazon. We will look at the history and geography of Brazil, as well as the indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest. We will consider aspects of human rights and the impact of deforestation. | |
Maths In Maths we will be looking at Measurement and Time. As we have covered the majority of the Y6 curriculum already, the next half term will have a greater focus on how to solve reasoning problems and apply the knowledge that they have learnt. Children will also be completing previous SATS maths papers to assess their understanding and knowledge ready for secondary school. | English This half term we will be writing a persuasive speech about the Human Rights of the Child, inspired by Greta Thunberg’s UN Speech. We will be looking at persuasive techniques, and continue to finesse our cohesive devices, punctuation and spelling.
Science In Science we will be exploring our new topic: Animals including Humans. We will start by examining how our circulatory system functions and keeps us alive and we will compare our circulatory system to that of other animals. We will then look at how we transports nutrients around our bodies and investigate strategies for supporting this by maintaining a healthy lifestyle. |
Home Learning
It is important that your child completes any homework that they are given each week so that they are becoming more confident in the areas we are learning. We also encourage independent home learning. Be creative, write something or research an area covered in class. | |
Dates for your diary
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For your information when we return
Please make sure your child attends school. Every day counts | |