Year 6

Year 6 team:

Mr Burton (Head of Year)– Earth class

Mrs Bartlett – Mercury class

Miss Hardstone – Jupiter class

Mr Sullivan – Saturn class

Overview of the year:

	Autumn term: The Egyptians and rivers	Spring term: WW2 focus and local study	Summer term: Holiday show
History/ Geography	The Egyptians and The River Nile	Local study focus, World War 2	Mapping, history of focus countries.
Suggested core text	Pyramid of Secret	Goodnight Mr Tom Friend or Foe	Around the world in 80 days
Art	Sketching, painting, modelling	Textiles, use of ICT	Collage, painting
DT	Using flexible materials, mouldable materials	Cooking and nutrition, textiles	Electrical and mechanical components
Computing	Film making/Kodu programming	Scratch animated stories/ spreadsheets	Website design
Science	Animals including humans/ Electricity	Evolution and inheritance/Light	Living things and their habitats
RE	6.4 Christianity and Christmas	6.2 Homelessness and refugees	6.3Beliefs and actions
PE	Dance, netball, swimming –	Dance, netball, swimming	Dance, netball, swimming
Music	Composing	Performing	Appraisal

PE/Swimming

Every child in year 6 is expected to have their PE kits with them at all times. If your child cannot take part in PE we need a signed letter confirming the reason/reasons why.

In year 6 all children will have the chance to go swimming. Swimming hats are provided but children will need to bring their own swimming costume/shorts and a towel. Children can bring swimming goggles if needed.

Homework:

The children will be set weekly homework for English/Grammar, Mathematics and Science as well as having a weekly spelling test. All homework will be set on Fridays and expected to be in the following Friday.

Maths homework will continue to be set on Mathletics. Your child’s password and username will remain the same as last year. For Grammar and English homework children will be set tasks to complete on SPAG.com.

Throughout the year teachers may also give paper based comprehension or grammar work. This needs to be completed and handed in on time.

For Science, every child in the year has been given a science revision book. Homework will be set every week to complete a topic from the book. This will be marked in class.

Reading/reading log/diary

All children in year 6 are expected to read 5 times a week at home, they can read with either an adult or by themselves. Once reading has been completed at home children should be filling in their reading on the relevant day in their reading record.

Spellings for each term are glued into the reading diary on a termly basis.

Any parent notes can also be written into the diary and the teacher will be able to read and respond to these.

Reading at home – Questions to ask which support the development of comprehension skills

Below is a suggested reading list to support you and your child’s decision on what books to read. We encourage children to read a range of text and promote enjoyment of reading.

Suggested reading list for year 6

Carrie’s War	Nina Bawden
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit	Judith Kerr
Forgotten Voices of the Second World War	Max Arthur
The Diamond of Drury Lane	Julia Golding
Framed	Frank Cottrell Boyce
Homecoming	Cynthia Voigt
Noughts and Crosses	Malorie Blackman
Knife Edge	Malorie Blackman
Private Peaceful	Michael Morpurgo
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾	Sue Townsend
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson
Mortal Engines	Philip Reeve
Clockwork	Philip Pullman
Dragon Keeper	Carole Wilkinson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon
Peter Pan	J M Barrie
Good night Mr Tom	Michelle Magorian
Wizard of Oz	F Baum
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens
Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling
The Railway Children	E Nesbit
The Borrowers	M Norton
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
Alex Rider series	Anthony Horowitz
My Story series	Various authors
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl	Ed. Otto H Frank
Boy Overboard	Morris Gleitzman
Sabriel	Garth Nix
The Red Pyramid	Rick Riordan
Water Wings	Morris Gleitzman
Blabbermouth	Morris Gleitzman
Belly Flop	Morris Gleitzman
The Diddakoi	Rumer Godden
Stormbreaker	Anthony Horowitz
Walter and Me	Michael Morpurgo
Friend or Foe	Michael Morpurgo
Mister Monday	Garth Nix
Aquila	Andrew Norris
Harry and the Wrinklies	Alan Temperley
The Story of Tracy Beaker	Jacqueline Wilson
Double Act	Jacqueline Wilson
Northern Lights	Philip Pullman
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
Dragon Rider	Cornelia Funke
Journey To Jo’burg	Beverly Naidoo
Journey to the River Sea	Eva Ibbotson
The Owl Service	Alan Garner
Pig Heart Boy	Malorie Blackman
Tom’s Midnight Garden	Philippa Pearce
Watership Down	Richard Adams
The Wizard of Earthsea	Ursula K Le Guin
Wolves of Willoughby Chase	Joan Aiken
Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls
Little Women	Louisa May Alcott
The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson-Burnett
Artemis Fowl	Eoin Colfer
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame
Anne of Green Gables	L M Montgomery
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell
Holes	Louis Sachar
There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom	Louis Sachar
Vicky Angel	Jacqueline Wilson
The Other Side of Truth	Beverley Naidoo
Harry Potter series	J K Rowling

SATs tests

Throughout this year, year 6 children will be working incredibly hard towards their SATs tests. As a year group we will be revisiting and revising different themes and topics the children have learnt throughout KS2, when revising we may set extra homework so the children have the best chance to do as well as possible in these tests.

We will keep you updated on the dates of when we are taking our SATs tests. These tests are extremely important as they are used as a measure of how ready the children are for secondary school and many of the secondary schools use the scores to band children.

Below you will find the calculation policy and the assessment statements from Target Tracker:

Useful websites for year 6.

Maths.

English

ICT

http://scratch.mit.edu/ - Scratch
http://www.purplemash.co.uk/sch/bedonwell-junior - Purple Mash
https://ec1.educationcity.com/home - Education city

Working together

At the Bedonwell Federation we are passionate about working as a team with parents and carers to support the learning and wellbeing of every child. If you have any questions, queries or information that you wish to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s class teacher or the Head of Year. You can leave a message at the school office, write a note in your child’s reading journal or speak to the member of staff at the end of the school day.

We look forward to working with you and your child this year.

The year 6 team