Welcome to Year 6
Melbourne - taught by Miss Smith
Sydney- taught by Mrs Dunbobbin
Our support staff are Mrs Young
Year 6 Information
Spring – New Life
English Writing
In the first half term of the Spring term we will be looking at the book The Selfish Giant. By the end of the unit, we will be re-telling the Selfish Giant story. Our developing vocabulary and our Mastery keys are below:
In the second half of the Autumn term, we will be looking at the book Island: A story of the Galapagos. At the end of this unit, we will be writing a journalistic report about Charles Darwin’s discoveries. Our developing vocabulary and our Mastery keys are below:
During this half term, we will also be looking at the story of Frankenstein retold by Gill Tavner.
Through this unit, we will work on solidifying previously taught Year 6 mastery skills such as:
- To use expanded noun phrases (from autumn)
- To use personification (from autumn and spring 1)
- To use colons and/or semi-colons to separate independent clauses (from spring 1)
- To use the subjunctive form (from spring 1)
- To use passive voice (from autumn and spring 1)
- To use devices to structure writing {bullet points, sub-headings} (from spring 1)
- To use adverbs and time adverbials to add clarity (from autumn and spring 1)
- To use brackets, dashes and/or commas for parenthesis (from autumn)
- To use a range of nouns and pronouns (from autumn and spring 1)
- To use a range of adverbials and conjunctions (from autumn and spring 1)
New skills covered, recapped by Pathways to Write in summer 1:
- To use hyphens to create a compound adjective ( new skill)
- To use hyphens to clarify word meaning (new skill)
Reading
This half term, we will be working on reading skills such as clarifying vocabulary, retrieving information from a text and making inferences. We will be completing a range of assessment style questions to practice these skills.
Maths
In Maths this term we will be completing the following units:
Algebra
- 1-step function machines
- 2-step function machines
- Forming expressions
- Substitution
- Formulae
- Forming equations
- Solving one-step equations
- Solving two-step equations
- Finding pairs of values
- Solving problems with two unknowns.
Decimals
- Place value within 1
- Place value – integers and decimals
- Round decimals
- Add and subtract decimals
- Multiply by 10, 100 and 1000
- Divide by 10, 100 and 1000
- Multiply decimals by integers
- Divide decimals by integers
- Multiply and divide decimals in context
Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
- Decimal and fractions equivalents
- Fractions as division
- Understanding percentages
- Fractions to percentages
- Equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages
- Ordering fractions, decimals and percentages
- Percentages of amounts – 1-step
- Percentages of amounts – multi-step
- Percentages – missing values
Area, Perimeter and Volume
- Area and perimeter
- Area of a triangle
- Area of a parallelogram
- Volume – counting cubes
- Volume of a cuboid
Statistics
- Line graphs
- Dual bar charts
- Read pie charts
- Pie charts with percentages
- Mean
Shape
- Measure and classify angles
- Calculate angles
- Vertically opposite angles
- Angles in a triangle
- Missing angles
- Angles in a quadrilateral
- Angles in polygons
- Circles
- Draw shapes
- Nets
Useful Websites:
To help you along the way we have found some websites which they may find useful. Many of these are interactive and use brief tutorials or engage the children to use their knowledge through the playing of games.
- Maths Primary Homework Help
- Hit the Button
- Daily 10
- Times Tables Speed Test
- IXL have separate pages of skills linked to individual year groups. The Y6 page has links to practise both English and Maths skills. Pages are then split into skills of which has a practise question for the children to think about. ixl English & Maths
- BBC Education have produced a whole host of materials for KS2 SATS. Follow the KS2 link and then select either Maths or English. Each area usually has an information section for reading, plus an activity and then quiz which is marked online. Some aspects require a subscription. See link below.
- A site with both Maths and English based quizzes which are marked as you go along. http://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/maths/
- A site with a range of information and questions – great for revision purposes! http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/children_sats.htm
- A site with links to old style Key Stage 2 Maths Papers, Maths Tutorials as well as Maths Games. Some of these games are linked to Memory and would therefore help pupils to retain key information. http://www.online-maths-tutor.com/
- This site has lots of Maths games which help to practise a range of skills Maths Playground Games
- Lots of maths games on a range of Mathematical concepts. sheppardsoftware Maths
- A range of English games and activities. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html
Science
Evolution – During this unit we will be looking at the work of Charles Darwin, looking at inheritance, identifying how plants and animals have adapted to their environment, looking at the theory of evolution, identifying how things have changed over time (fossils) and recognising the importance of fossils to provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.
Electricity – During this unit we will be observing and explaining the effects of different voltages in a circuit and we will be conducting experiments to help us compare and give reasons for variations in how components function in a circuit.
PSHE: Dreams and Goals and Healthy me.
PE:
Spring 1: High 5 Netball & Hockey
Spring 2: Aim, Strike, Retrieve & Football and Basketball
Geography: During this unit, we will be explaining and developing our knowledge of Isabela Island. Through our study of the island we will be; understanding how land is distributed and the impact this has on the area, recognising and recording the processes affecting the natural and human environment, understanding which animals are endangered, how they came to become endangered and how humans have contributed to this and comparing Isabela island to our local area.
Art: Freedom quilts.
During this unit we will learn about the work of Harriet Tubman, understanding and designing quilting symbols for a Freedom quilt, investigating the use of colour to add mood and layers to add texture and producing our own square of freedom quilt.
Computing: Blogging & Text adventures.