Year 6 Maple Class 2025 - 2026
Mrs Wood
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Curriculum Information for Autumn 1
English
Writing: Star of Fear, Star of Hope by Jo Hoestlandt. This text is linked to the war and children will be exploring themes of conflict, segragation, courage and hope. The writing outcome will be to write a story with a flashback from another character’s point of view.
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Reading: We will be reading a range of texts linked to World War 1 and World War 2, as well as texts linked to our Geography unit on The Amazon. Children will be developing their fluency skills, as well as focusing on retrieval, inference and author's use of language.Our class text will be 'The Final Year'.
Maths: Power Maths Units – Number and Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division.
Geography: This half term, we will be learning about South America and the Amazon.Our enquiry question is, 'What is life like in the Amazon?’
Science: Living things and their habitats – in this unit, we will be classifying living things based on their characteristics and we will be learning about micro organisms and the best environment for mould to grow.
Art- Macrophotography
RE: Christianity – What can we learn from Christian religion’s buildings and music?
Music: Dynamics, pitch and texture.
PE: Swimming and Football
MfL: Greetings & School stationery.
PSHE: Young Carers workshops
Computing: Communication.
PE- Year 6 will have their PE sessions on a Tuesday morning and swimming on a Thursday afternoon. Please could children wear their PE kit on these days and ensure their swimming kits are brought in every Thursday.
PE Uniform:
- Team colour t-shirt
- Plain black shorts
- Black pumps for indoor PE
- Trainers for outdoor PE
- Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather
- Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back
Homework
Homework is given through SATs Companion and ClassDojo each Friday. All children have logins for these.
Reading Book Expectations
It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading. All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.
All children at Whitby Heath read daily in class whether it be on a 1:1 basis or working within group. As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week.
Each child has an allocated day that their book/s will be changed, linked to their house teams:
Donaldson- Monday
Seuss- Tuesday
Dahl- Wednesday
Rowling- Thursday
In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings.
ClassDojo
Should parents need to contact the Year 6 team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way.
Other useful websites for learning at home
- Hit the Button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
A great way to practice times tables at home.
- Newsround
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
A place for children to keep up with current events!
- National Geographic Kids
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
A lovely website for children to learn more about animals, wildlife and the world around them.
- BBC Bitesize
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
A place full of information that covers the range of the subjects and topics we study in school.
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