Meet the team:

Mr N Rourke (Class Teacher)

Mrs Browning (Friday)

Mrs Van Jaarsveld (Teaching Assistant) 

Our Learning

This term:

During this term (Spring 1), year 6 will be covering lots of different areas of the curriculum. Our learning will all be based around our new topic "Crime and Punishment". 

Primarily history based, we will look at how crimes and punishments have changed over time and how our society developed into a democracy. In art, we will study the modern artist Banksy, who uses art to convey messages. Using Excel will be our computing focus this term, creating and using formulae to interpret data.

Our PSHE sessions this term will focus on mental health and wellbeing. We will look at what affects our mood and behaviour, discuss and develop strategies to help cope with stress and understand the five ways of wellbeing.

Maths

In maths this term our main focus is multiplication and division, moving onto fractions, decimals and percentages. Pupils will be required to apply and show the formal methods of these operations with increasing confidence. One day a week, the lesson focus will be on reasoning questions and mental arithmetic (10 in 10s).

English

In English, we will be recapping and practising previous skills, such as: compound sentences, ISPACE sentence starters, subordinating conjunctions and paragraphing.  We will explore these skills through a range of different narrative texts, working towards writing our own setting descriptions to build suspense and tension.

Key Dates:

Tuesday 7th January 2025- Return to school (need PE kits today please)

Week beginning 13th January 2025 - Whole school Oracy heats

Week beginning 20th January 2025 - Digital Detox wellbeing week

Friday 31st January -Wear blue for Diabetes Day 

Tuesday 11th February - Safer internet Day

Friday 14th February - Break up for half term at 3.15 pm