We welcome you to Year 6. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask one of us. 

You can email the class teachers directly by using 

carl.parkin@dunholme.lincs.sch.uk (Mon to Thurs) or angela.dawson@dunholme.lincs.sch.uk (Thurs- Fri)

Year 6 Key Documents

Transition Booklet 2020- 2021

Y6 Recommended Reading List

Year 3/4 Statutory Spelling List

Year 5/6 Statutory Spelling List

Year 5 Instant Recall Facts   (Revision)

Year 6 Instant Recall Facts

Grammar and Punctuation Guide

NEW Setting up our Google Classroom 

NEW Tour of the Y6 classroom

                          THEME LEARNING - VOLCANOES                        

Theme for Term 4 -  Our topic title this term is ‘Let's Get Ready to Rumble’. 

Key Question - What are Volcanoes and how do they affect life on Earth?

This term we will be looking at volcanoes. We will be learning how and why they erupt and investigating how different types of volcanoes are formed. The children will learn where different volcanoes are located in the world and will look at how they affect life on Earth when they erupt. 

Golden Threads: Continuity and Change

Big Ideas: Similarities and Differences

Stewardship

Knowledge Organisers to support learning this term

                                            PE Kit                                                   

Please can you ensure PE kits are WORN into school on our allocated PE Days. The children will wear their kit all day. This kit should be appropriate for outdoor PE and should include appropriate outdoor footwear. NO PE KIT SHOULD BE BROUGHT IN OR STORED IN SCHOOL.

Our PE sessions for this term are MONDAY afternoon and FRIDAY afternoon. All PE will take place outdoors so please ensure the children are weatherproof. 

Diary Dates for Terms 4:

Monday 22nd February - Start of Term 4 

Monday 1st March - Book Week

Thursday 4th March - World Book Day

Monday 8th March - Science and Engineering Week

Wednesday 31st March - Last day of term 4

                                                  Reading                                                    

 This year we are continuing to focus on developing a love of reading.  Reading is an integral part of the primary curriculum so please ensure you are reading every day and recording it in your Reading/Spelling Journals. These are the little yellow books and should have your weekly spellings in them at the back, as well as space to record your reading progress at the front. 

Take a look at the Year 6 Recommended Reading List for ideas on age appropriate texts. 

 We are going to be sharing our love of books through a termly book circle, where we will talk about the books we have been reading. 

In September 2020, we will be have two reading books: one in school which will stay in school  to be read and one which we will take home and keep at home until it is read. We should not be carrying backs back and forth each day. All returned books will go into quarantine for 72 hours before being returned to the book shelf for others to read. 

Click here for the Year 6 Recommended Reading List 

Click here for the 'Guide to using the little yellow book'

We have sent every child home with a VIPERS bookmark. These provide excellent prompts for question openers you may use when reading with or listening to your children read. VIPERS is the reading format we use in school so children are well versed in the different types and styles of questions they are asked. The same question prompts are used in the Y6 End of Key Stage SATs. 

                                               Spelling                                          

 Spellings will be given on the Friday of each week and will be tested on the following Thursday. There will be 6 spellings given that follow a particular rule each week, with 4 'mystery' words tested to see if the children have learnt the spelling rule as well as the spellings given.

Alongside this, we will also be focusing on our statutory spelling list for Years 5 and 6 this year, so each child will be given 25 spellings from this list per term and will then be tested at the end of that term. Please ensure that the weekly spelling rule, the 6 weekly spellings and the 25 termly spellings are being practised regularly.

It is also important that children know the meaning of the words they are learning to spell - we might ask you to put one into a sentence. 

OUR NEXT WEEKLY SPELLING TEST IS ON THURSDAY 14th January

This week, we are working on words which contain i before e and ei after c which is cei, looking at the difference between when we use each one as listed as an expectation in the National Curriculum for KS2. See below for the full list for this week. 

Please print off or copy into your little yellow book, this week's spellings. Spellings should be recorded or stuck in the back of the little yellow book which has been sent home. PLEASE DO NOT BRING THIS BOOK BACK INTO SCHOOL. 

Below is a document that provides different spelling strategies to help children learn and remember their spellings at home.

This term's 25 word spelling list

We are also learning our second group of 25 words from our statutory word list. Please ensure you spend this term learning these at home as well. We will be having a test on all of these during the final week of the term before February Half Term.  

The words to learn for Term 4 are : 

 competition      explanation         profession        pronunciation         criticise       especially

frequently        necessary             sincerely              familiar        relevant         average        awkward

controversy       existence       guarantee          harass      hindrance         language       lightning

queue         sacrifice     shoulder       signature       restaurant

CLICK BELOW TO DOWNLOAD YOUR OWN COPY OF THE LIST. 

                                              HOME LEARNING                                      

HOMEWORK THIS YEAR WILL BE SET ELECTRONICALLY VIA GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Everyone will be given homework on the Friday of each week, which will need to be completed by the following Thursday.

All home learning will be linked to what we have been doing in class that week. 

We are going to be uploading home learning to this page and the Google Classroom on a Friday. 

Please can children view the home learning online via the pdf documents below. They need to then complete the work in their red 'Home Learning' book which has been sent home. This book needs to stay at home and this means children will not be bringing their homework into school. 

The answers will be uploaded on a Monday. Children can then mark their own work and try anything again that they get wrong. 

Once marked, a photo of the completed learning can uploaded to the Google Classroom or be sent to Mr Parkin

Children need to complete all home learning for that week by Thursday. 

PLEASE DO NOT RETURN RED HOME LEARNING BOOKS TO SCHOOL

Please make sure that if you are struggling with your homework, you come and see a member of staff as soon as you can. Do not leave home learning until the last minute. Year 6 is a great opportunity to learn good habits ready for secondary school. 

Homework to be submitted to completed and marked by Thursday 14th January 2021:

Grammar: There is no Grammar homework this week.

Maths: There is no maths homework this week.

Click on the following link for a video explanation of how to order two fractions. https://youtu.be/jhCKcRXiut0 The part on how to change the fractions applies to ordering, adding and subtracting. 

https://youtu.be/lbhQJ1WSMDw  click this link to see a video explanation of how to divide by a two-digit number. 

  Useful websites to help with learning at home

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk

 http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/fractions/index.htm#ratio

http://nrich.maths.org

www.whiterosehub.com 

http://www.mathsisfun.com 

http://www.studyzone.tv/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/levels/zbr9wmn

http://www.keystage2literacy.co.uk/