Welcome to Y6

Happy New Year and welcome back to school!

We hope you had a wonderful holiday and are ready for an exciting term ahead. This term, our new topic is called “The Swinging Sixties”. Year 6 will be diving into one of the most fascinating decades in modern history. Here’s what we’ll be exploring:

• Life in the Sixties – We’ll compare everyday life in the 1960s to today, looking at fashion, music, technology
• Famous Figures of the Era – Pupils will learn about influential people such as Martin Luther King, The Beatles, and Neil Armstrong, understanding their impact on history.
• The Space Race and Moon Landings – We’ll investigate the race to space, the historic Apollo 11 mission, and how it changed the world.
• The Solar System – Building on our space theme, we’ll explore planets, moons, and the wonders of our universe.

In our literacy lessons this term, we will be studying biographical writing, explanations, news reports and styles of speech writing. We will be reading the novel “Moon Landings” and we will also be exploring some of the works of Shakespeare and creating webpages and presentations of His works.

This term our maths lessons will be exploring formulae and number sequences, algebra problems and divisibility tests. We will be continuing to develop our skills of multiplication and division and finding solutions to ratio and proportion problems. We will be investigating patterns relating to circles and learning to read and draw pie charts accurately.

Our RE topic this term is Galilee to Jerusalem. We will be looking at the seven sacraments of the Church, and understanding that the purpose of sacraments are to help people grow more like Jesus, and through him become children of God. We will also be exploring the Gospel of St John and learning to understand the significance of the miracles of Jesus.

Our virtues this term are asking us to become Curious and Active This means asking questions about the world, their faith, and society around them. Becoming active allows us to Connect learning to real life, e.g., “How does this Gospel story help me care for others?

Don’t forget to keep checking your “BUG CLUB” and “MYMATHS” pages and updated maths targets will be regularly posted on our class page.                   

I hope we can have a wonderful term together and remember to continue to be the best that we can be!

Mrs. Brazil

Dates for your diary:

Thursday January 15^th – class mass