Year 6 Rio de Janeiro
Class Teacher: Mrs Allen
This website will give you some information about what your child will be learning and how you can help
them over the next term. If you are unsure about anything, please come and see the class teacher.
English:
We will continue to reinforce our Rainbow Grammar knowledge and make sure the class applies this to their writing. This term the children can also look forward to writing their own diary entries and persuasive texts.
Your child will bring home spellings to learn each week and should record their home reading in their new diaries four times per week. Reading diaries will be checked every Monday. Spelling tests will be every Friday.
Maths:
Year 6 are continuing with the mastery approach to mathematics. In each unit, the class will revise the year 5 curriculum before moving on to the year 6 objectives. This will ensure that your child has a good understanding of how to carry out the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). This term we will be deepening our understanding of place value, BODMAS and the four operations of calculation.
Maths homework will be set on the Mathletics website so please encourage your child to log on and complete it.
Other subjects:
ICT:
Our bank of Ipads continue to help to enhance lessons across the curriculum. This half term we are also going to be using the Ipads and laptops to build pages on school jotter that include hyperlinks and embedded video content.
We will continue to teach the children how to use the Internet safely. Please be aware of the websites that your children use at home and please come to see us if you have any questions about staying safe online.
PE:
The children will be doing PE on the field at times so please ensure that they have appropriate PE kit in school all week.
Additional information
We will continue to hold regular multi-cultural days to give children an understanding of how people live around the world. The children will also have an introduction in to Chinese and will begin to learn how to compose their own pieces of music using a range of instruments.
* P.E. will normally take place on Tuesday, however we do occasionally have additional lessons
so please ensure children have their P.E. kit in school every day.
* Children can bring their own healthy snacks to school for break time. They are allowed to bring a 'treat' for
snack on Fridays.
* Please ensure that your child comes to school with the correct school uniform, including the correct coloured
jumpers and black shoes or trainers. Children should not wear earrings when they are in school.
There are a wide range of useful websites that your child can use to enhance their learning. Here are just a
few that you might find useful:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/
This is really useful for all round research. Most areas of the curriculum are covered and you will find
information relating to most topics we have been learning about in class.
This is a great website to remind you of things you have been learning about in class. There is a section about
English, Maths and Science.
A wonderful website that the children have login details for. Please encourage them to use the site and
complete their homework activities and compete against mathletes from around the globe!
A great website children have their own logins to. They can practise a range of skills including computer programming.
http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm
SATS opinion websites:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-10850365
http://www.bluecoatprimary.com/blogs/class-11-blog/833-do-we-really-need-to-do-sats
https://www.tes.com/news/simple-sats-tests-will-stay-says-pm