Year 6 Website Notes – Term 4 2017

We can’t believe it is February already! We hope you have had a great start to the year. This term, we have continued to be incredibly impressed with our hard-working and determined Year Sixes.

Topics

Here are the topics we will be covering this term. Please feel free to research any of these areas as you wish, in whichever manner you choose, however please avoid copying and pasting from the Internet. Your teachers will be very pleased to share your work in class.

English:Journalistic writing and poetry

Maths:Percentages, measures and pie charts

Science: Light

Computing:Research and search engines

PSHE:Going for Gold

History:Local Study: WW2 in Northamptonshire

Art:Sketching

PE:Basketball and Real PE Unit 4

French:Listening, Speaking and Writing

*Please ensure your child has appropriate trainers for their PE session – there is an increase of school shoes being worn and this is against Health and Safety Policy.

Warmer clothes will be needed for PE as it is getting colder and we will continue to have an outdoor session once a week (weather permitting).

Please continue to support your child with reading at home at least five times a week. Spellings will be allocated and tested weekly, whilst times tables will be worked on daily and we value your help in practising these with your child at home. We intend on continuing to set Maths and English homework weekly, this will be given by the class teacher on Fridays, and expected to be completed by the following Wednesday.

Please continue to refer the ‘Genius Maths’ resource in the Year 6 area, on the school website:

Topic Project Homework

Due in: Wednesday 8th March 2017

Research World War Two, in Northamptonshire. You may wish to research family history or what happened in our area. Please present your findings in a creative way. This could be a 3d map, video, poster, biography, landscape picture, poem or fact file.

Please see the separate Homework sheet for Half Term Homework.

Dates for your diary this term:

Pupils back on the 20th February.

  • Skip to be Fit (trainers will be needed)– Friday 24th February 2017
  • World Book Day – Thursday 2nd March 2017
  • KS2 Open Morning –Thursday 9thMarch 2017 (8.45-9.15am)
  • Parents’ Evening – Wednesday 15th March and Thursday 16th March between 3.30pm and 7.00pm
  • Red Nose Day – Friday 24th March 2017

End of Term – Friday 31stMarch 2017.

Thank you for all of your support so far, if you have any queries please do not hesitate to come in and see us.

Mrs Ware, Miss Beasley & Miss Bower