Welcome to Foxes

Class Teacher: Mrs Carpenter
Learning Support: Mrs Sturdy

Welcome to Year 6, which comes with a lot of responsibility but also a lot of fun. 

We will begin the year in English looking at our sentence structure - what a sentence is composed of and what is needed to develop these sentences to show control and purpose. We will be using a range of extracts and images from reading books to inspire our writing and also to help support and scaffold the vocabulary choices being made.

We will be reading in school every day, through individual lessons, quiet reads, 1:1 reads, class reads 'I read, we read, you read' and with our class book. Please ensure that you have a reading book in school every day and please read at home, at least 5 times a week. Reading is vitally important for all aspects of school life.

In Mathematics, we will begin the year with place value - ensuring that we are secure with numbers up to a million and how these can be represented. This will include powers of 10, negative numbers and rounding. Once mastered, then we will begin to investigate the 4-operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

We need to keep practising our times tables and don't forget you can use your TTRockstars account to helps support this.

Through the wider curriculum, Foxes class will be learning all about the British Empire in History - the gains, losses and what it means for Britain today; the Migration of people in Geography and the Circulatory System in Science. These will be completed in blocks with recaps throughout the year.

Our Art and DT projects will be at the end of each half term which will involve a skill and an artist for inspiration. Look out for the great final pieces from the children in class.

Spellings will be given out and tested on a Friday - please make sure these are practised at home.

Our PE will take place on a Wednesday and Friday. Wednesday will be gymnastics and so remember to bring your shorts. On both these days, please remember to come in your correct school PE kit.

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