Year 6 - Oak
Welcome to Oak Class
Class Teacher: Mrs Helsden
LSA: Miss Hannaway
Current Class Book: The House with Chicken Legs
Things to remember
Daily: Reading book, reading diary, snack and drink bottle.
Weekly: Fridays we mark spellings, GPS homework and maths homework. There is a homework club on Thursday lunch for those who prefer to complete it in school. This is with Mrs Helsden.
PE Kit: Mondays, but this could change so leave it here all term please.
Class Email: oak@inspiresmat.co.uk
I am able to talk to you after school, please talk to me about anything you feel needs discussing. We can always make an appointment if it needs more time.
In Oak we have really developed our growth mindset and know that we are all working on the year 6 curriculum. We set expectations in our learning as high but we are given the supportive resources and materials to help us to get to that high level of learning. This means that we all finish year 6 as close to year 7 ready as we possibly can. Our reading texts are high quality, our writing texts are high quality and our maths questions are high quality. We reach for the stars and find a path to get there.
Maths
In Maths, we will continue to use White Rose Maths and recap on all we learnt last year. White Rose Maths is a UK curriculum mastery programme designed to spark curiosity and excitement and nurture confidence in maths, well linked to the developing of a positive growth mindset.
This term in Maths, we have started with fractions, because we swapped things around a little last term. We will then move onto statistics and ratio, completing algebra finally. How exciting- a few new skills dropped in there but much is a consolidation of the year 5 curriculum.
English
In writing, we are studying a high quality text - Suffragettes. We will learn about the history of the suffragettes and many of the famous people and campaigns that led to women and lower paid men receiving the vote.
In reading, we are studying the poverty and true life of a match girl in London, during Victorian times. This studies how she was treated, along with general life and prejudice of poverty during that time. This will develop our comprehension skills but mostly really build on our love of reading.
Science
In Science this term, we will build on our year 4 learning of electrical components and circuits. We will be investigating and learning many things, including how to use switches and what happens if you use more and less wiring in a circuit. Much of the lessons will involve doing and understanding, very exciting.
History/ geography- Frozen Kingdoms
We will be combining our understanding of past learning about the arctic and developing it by using our understanding of the world and history/ evolution. This topic fits nicely with science (evolution), history (planet behaviours and climate change) and working to improve our understanding of our planet, geographically.
Spellings
As mentioned above, the class will have a list of spellings to learn each week. The spellings are a combination of words from their year group list, words from the class book and words that children have chosen themselves from book checks. A weekly test takes place and records are kept to track improvement in spellings.
Times tables
It is really important for the children to know their times tables. Here at Cherry Tree Academy we have found a fun way to learn our times table. Times Table Rockstars! Children can have their own rockstar name, they can listen to rock music as they learn their tables All the children have been given usernames and passwords- if you’re unsure please ask the class teacher. Click the link below to access:
Homework
Each week, the children are expected to complete an activity from each book and hand them in on Friday to be marked. The activities to be completed, will be set each week.
