Year 6

Welcome to our Year 6 class page!

We are hoping you have had a lovely week recharging the batteries before we begin another exciting half term! This half term will be packed with lots of fun and exciting learning opportunities. We just can’t wait to get started!

Mrs Olphin will teach Year 6 on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Miss Jarman will teach on Wednesday mornings, Thursdays and Fridays. Mrs Radley will be supporting the learning in Year 6 throughout the week.

This term promises to be a truly magical one as we challenge the children to wave their wands and wow us with some spellbinding writing. We will use World Book Day to launch our new unit based on the Wizarding World of Harry Potter – the children will get sorted in to their houses and we’ll be focussing on some key moments, characters and settings from Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone to inspire a range of pieces of writing.

We’ll be starting a history unit of work this term too, which will see us stepping in to the life of the Mayans. During this unit, we will explore their beliefs and delve into how they developed their culture. We will also question whether we have learned from their way of life and if we have, we will consider how.

As well as learning about this historical unit, Year 6 will also be exploring the unit, ‘Electricity’ in science. We’ll consider how our understanding of electricity has changed over time. We’ll also compare and give reasons for variations in how components function. We’ll learn to represent simple circuits in a diagram and to use recognised symbols to do it. Making a circuit will be another important aspect of our learning this half term.

Alongside these interesting and engaging units of work, we’ll also be continuing to challenge our musical abilities during our weekly music sessions on Mondays and perfecting our Spanish on Thursdays.

Some key information:

Music – Monday mornings

Spanish – Thursday mornings

P.E. with Mrs Olphin – Monday afternoons

P.E. with Musa – Tuesday afternoons

Year 6 are expected to read at least three times a week for 20 minutes or more and need their reading diaries signed by a grown up at home.  They are welcome to read either their reading book, their Top 10 read or another book they may have at home as long as these are clearly recorded. The children’s diaries will be checked in school to see if this has been completed. Any children who read five times a week will receive a raffle ticket and be entered into our half-termly draw where they will have the chance

to win themselves a fiver!

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Jarman, Mrs Olphin and Mrs Radley