Year 6

Welcome to Year 6!

A huge welcome to the class of 2022! 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:

	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
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 9^th 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? 18^th Nov	Community Joy Democracy – Mayan Voting Rule of law Mayan
Spring 1	Frozen Kingdom	Geography	Classifying living thing	Shackleton's Journey By William Grill		Endurance Resilience
Spring 2	Frozen Kingdom (2)	Science & Computing focus	Evolution & Inheritance		Natural History Museum	Rule of law Democracy Individualism
Summer1	A Blood Heart	Biology	Humans and other animals	Pig Heart Boy Malorie Blackman	RYG
Summer 2	Revolution	History- Victorians	Electricity	Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Black Beauty Anna Sewell	Science museum Reading Victorian Classroom Legoland

HOW EXCITING... The Countdown has begun... Rhos Y Gwaliau 2022

Rhos y Gwaliau Outdoor Education Centre

Cookham Dean has a valued and long-standing relationship with the Rhos y Gwaliau Outdoor Education Centre: it is situated in stunning open countryside on the eastern side of the Snowdonia National Park. They have easy access to scenic mountains, tranquil lakes, awe-inspiring coastlines and breath-taking rivers and pride themselves on their outstanding ability to deliver a wide range of high quality outdoor education programmes with a variety of activities to suit all ages and abilities, including those of our Year 6 children.

Their inspirational, highly qualified team are passionate about the benefits of outdoor education for young people and adults; the skills, knowledge and memories that can be gained on one of their residential courses will stay with your child for life.

Groups at Rhos y Gwaliau have sole use of the accommodation and facilities. Combined with their small and dedicated staff team this means we get maximum flexibility in their programme and instruction delivered by staff who can really get to know the Year 6 pupils they work with.

Here you will find all the information needed for the residential trip for our Year 6 pupils in May.

Included on this page:

Recording of the parent briefing (on Classdojo)
Medical consent form
Medication form
Statement of risk
Kit list

RYG FORMS & PPT

COMING SOON: FROZEN KINGDOM JANUARY 2022

In this 12 week project the children will learn about the characteristics and features of polar regions, including the North and South Poles, and includes a detailed exploration of the environmental factors that shape and influence them.

The people who discovered them and the current occupants as well as ice based adventures.

Inuit Art- We have been inspired by Inuit soap carving and stencilling

As part of the RSPB Big Bird Watch we created Bird Feeders

Literacy- to read and compare

Spellings spring week 1 P.docx

We are loving the new library.

We tried our hand at archery.

Year 6 Welcome Handouts for Parents/ Carers

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 Thursday for return on Tuesday.

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

EVACUEE DAY AT UFTON COURT

Thank you to all those who made the Meet & Greet today. Here are the slides I showed:

Meet & Greet 2021

Some useful documents

YEARLY OBJECTIVE OVERVIEWS.pdf

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: