Year 6B

WELCOME TO YEAR 6

This web page will be updated with useful information and photographs of the fantastic work we have done in class and learning outside the classroom, so please check it regularly.

Hothersall Lodge

Mr Broadleday’s Group

Archery and Gorge Walking

Walk to Dinckley

Climbing

Canoeing

Key Information

Mr Broadleday is the class teacher in 6B, with Mrs Ayres supporting teaching and learning.

PE is on THURSDAY.

On Thursday remember to come to school in your PE uniform.

This includes blue shorts and white t-shirt underneath your blue tracksuit for outdoor learning. Your trainers should be plain black.

Home Reading Bag

You can buy a Home Reading Bag from school for £3.50.

Class Charter

In class, we have been thinking about our rights. We have started the year by thinking about Article 24, 'Every child has the right to the best possible health' and Article 28, 'Every child has the right to an education'.

Children have shared their ideas about what responsibilities they have as Right Holders to ensure everybody can enjoy their right. We have also thought about what Duty Bearers’ (adults) responsibilities are.

We all agreed that we will uphold our responsibilities on our Class Charter.

British Values

As British citizens, we know the difference between right and wrong and we respect people's different opinions and choices. These are known as British Values.

In school, we promote all of the British Values:

- The Rule of Law

- Democracy

- Individual Liberty

- Mutual Respect and Tolerance

We look at a different value each week in Collective Time and we share our opinions and listen to others.

Homework

All children in year 6 are expected to complete their homework every night. This includes:

reading in a quiet place for 20 minutes every day
practising times tables and related division facts - all children know the ones that they need to practise
spelling by logging into their Spelling Frame account

Timetable

Autumn 1

In English, we will be reading our class novel - The Nowhere Emporium. We will work through the writing process - read and respond, read and analyse and gather content before writing an independent narrative.

In Maths, we will begin working through the Maths-No Problem scheme. We will be learning about place value of numbers before moving onto calculations using all operations.

Autumn 2

In Maths, we will continue to work through the Maths-No Problem scheme. We will be working with multiples, factors and prime numbers before moving onto a unit on fractions. We will compare, order and simplify them before learning how to carry out all operations involving fractions and mixed numbers.

We are going to be extremely busy in English this half term. We will begin by learning about how biographies are written. We will then gather content about the life of Charles Darwin before writing a 'shared' biography about this famous Victorian scientist. For our independent task, we will be writing about the famous artist we are learning about in our Art lessons - L.S. Lowry. Later in the half-term we will be reading our class novel, Oliver Twist. Before finishing for the Christmas holiday, we will write an alternative chapter for the story.

In RE, we will be continuing to think about our Key Question, 'Is there one journey or many?' Our main area of focus for this half term is Christianity.

In our Science lessons, we will be researching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. We will learn about his theories of adaptation, inheritance and natural selection.

In History, we will be investigating the Industrial Revolution and how this shaped Britain. We will then move our learning to focus on the Victorians before carrying out a local area study which will investigate Burnley as a major 'Cotton Town'.

In Geography, we will be learning about Earthquakes. We will investigate plate tectonics and how these affect the Earth.

In our Art lessons, we will be looking at the work of L.S Lowry. We will study his paintings of the industrial north and create our very own versions of one of his masterpieces - The Fever Van.