Welcome to Year 6!
A huge welcome to the class of 2021! Welcome back to normality, whole class lessons and seeing all of your classmates. We still need to be Covid-aware and follow certain hygiene rules and procedures; myself and Mrs Presant (AKA The Dream Team!) are looking forward to a fabulous year: exploring the globe from the frozen North to the steamy jungles of Mexico; from the Ancient Mayans to the most up to date techniques in forensic science and crime fighting. Fitting in Rhos Y Gwaliau, performances and those little things called SATs along the way.
Our Topic Web for this year looks like this:
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Topic |
Focus |
Science |
Book we will be Studying ( It would be really helpful if your child had their own copy) |
Trips/ enhancement |
British/ Christian Values |
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Autumn 1 |
A Child's War |
History Focus |
Light |
Anne Frank's Diary, Letters from the Lighthouse Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian |
Holdenby House WW2 experience 9th Ww2 evacuee visit week 2 |
Britishness, Rule of law Forgiveness Community Endurance Joy |
Autumn 2 |
Hola Mexico |
Music/ History Focus |
Living Things & their Habitats |
Holes By Louis Sachar |
British museum? 18th Nov |
Community Joy Democracy – Mayan Voting Rule of law Mayan |
Spring 1 |
Frozen Kingdom |
Geography |
Classifying living thing |
Shackleton's Journey By William Grill |
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Endurance Resilience
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Spring 2 |
ID |
Science & Computing focus |
Evolution & Inheritance |
Wonder By R Palacio |
Natural History Museum |
Rule of law Democracy Individualism
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Summer1 |
A Blood Heart |
Biology |
Humans and other animals |
Pig Heart Boy Malorie Blackman |
RYG
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Summer 2 |
Revolution |
History- Victorians |
Electricity |
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Black Beauty Anna Sewell |
Science museum Reading Victorian Classroom Legoland |
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Here we go again! Lockdown Learning 2021
Lessons will resume online from Wednesday 6th January. They will be all on teams but I know some of you struggle with downloading from Teams so I will also endeavour to upload them here: to the class page.
Most documents can be viewed online or downloaded amended and saved to their teams account. If the children need a hard copy I will put a P beside the title.
Please find below a useful list of resources for Year 6 including spelling lists and websites.
Homework
We will give Maths and Literacy homework every Friday for return on Wednesday.
It is vital your child reads nightly and reads aloud at least three times a week. ( Even Free Readers.) They must be able to discuss the text and more importantly their opinion of the text and author.
Here is a guide you could use
Thank you to all those who made the Meet & Greet today. Here are the slides I showed:
Our first topic of the term is A Child's War. We will be researching life both on the home front and that of the Germans through the eyes of a child. We shall read Anne Frank's Diary, Letters from the lighthouse and Goodnight Mister Tom. Here is the PICK AND MIX HOMEWORK:
SATS PRACTICE PAPERS
SATs papers are available from the website below. You should be practicing answering this type of question.
https://www.satspapers.org.uk/
Follow the links below for different revision activities.
BBC BITESIZE REVISION ACTIVITIES
TOP MARKS ENGLISH AND GRAMMAR REVISION GAMES
Cookham Dean CE Primary School, Bigfrith Lane,
Cookham Dean, Maidenhead SL6 9PH.
Tel: 01628 482734.
Email: office@cookhamdean.org