Year 6 Spring Newsletter 2010

Welcome back! We hope you had a happy and enjoyable Christmas break. May we take this opportunity to thank you for the cards, gifts and good wishes sent to us over Christmas, they were very gratefully received.

Our theme is all about whales and dolphins this term. Our learning journey is entitled:

Wonderful Whales and Dancing Dolphins

In literacy we will be learning to:

Further develop an understanding of non-fiction texts for reading and writing purposes.

Read for understanding where the comprehension is both clear and hidden within the texts.

Perform drama and poetry.

Develop and refine writing rules e.g. paragraphs, sentence structure and vocabulary choices.

Practice and consolidate spelling (Rules, conventions exceptions.)

Write newspaper reports, diaries and letters.

Develop the conventions of successful story writing.

Use and develop debating skills.

In Maths we will be developing our understanding of:

Number calculations and problems, especially word and real life problems.

Exploring strategies for mental calculations and word problems.

Developing our skills for recording the standard written methods using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Data handling.

Understanding formula.

Working with different types of angles and areas.

Mental calculation strategies.

Learning times tables by heart.

In Science we will be:

Making observations, predictions and developing hypothesis.

Developing and carrying out fair tests.

Recording observations in a variety of ways.

Setting up experiments and investigations.

Learning about dissolving and changing states.

Learning about plants, habitats, food chains, adaptation and interdependence.

P.E.

Gym

Aerobics

Athletics

Outdoor team games.

Art:

Developing sketching and painting skills.

Developing skills needed for sculptures.

Looking at a variety of artists that use similar genres and techniques.

ICT

Using spreadsheets e.g. excel

Control and monitoring

And finally...Some year six reminders!

Please do not hesitate to contact us after school if you have any enquiries, question or worries.

From the year six team

Mrs Tessa Spriggs

Miss Lizzy Murray

 

(Class Teacher) (Class Teacher)

Mrs Diane Doughty

Mrs Jo Thomsett

(Teaching Assistant) (Teaching Assistant)

P.E Kits:

There will be an outdoor and indoor session each week; your child must have warm tracksuit style clothes, shorts and a T Shirt, suitable shoes for the outdoor session and another pair for indoors PE. It is advisable that PE kits are in school every day as children will get detentions if they do not have them.

Homework Diaries:

Your child will be responsible for ensuring they have correctly written homework tasks in their books, which you will then be required to sign to acknowledge completion. All homework is due in on a Tuesday.

Home Reading:

Children will need to read at home preferably every day. However, we have introduced a library system to keep a track of the books. We ask that you encourage your child to look after them well! If books are lost or returned damaged we will ask for a donation to replace them.

 
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