Year 6

Welcome to Year 6!

A huge welcome to the class of 2019! 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, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 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	Call of the Wild Jack London		Endurance Resilience
Spring 2	ID	Science & Computing focus	Evolution & Inheritance	Wonder By R Palacio	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

USEFUL HOMEWORK SITES

Here are a few of the homework websites we currently use:

Bug Club & Abacus Reading scheme

Mathletics

Purple Mash These sites are used by the children in school

Our Weekly Timetable

Year 6 Autumn 1 Timetable.docx

YEARLY OBJECTIVE OVERVIEWS.pdf

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 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

KS2 reading questions.docx

A Child's War

Our first topic of the term is A Chilld'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, The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas and Goodnight Mister Tom. Here is the PICK AND MIX HOMEWORK: