This week’s Star of the Week goes to Dylan for his excellent maths work.
This week’s Pride Award goes to Erin for working hard in all lessons.
WELCOME TO CLASS 6PD
Mr Parkin - Mrs Dawson - Mrs Tipping - Mrs Sanbrooke
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 or angela.dawson@dunholme.lincs.sch.uk
Year 6 Key Documents
Year 3/4 Statutory Spelling List
Year 5/6 Statutory Spelling List
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM VISIT INFORMATION
THEME LEARNING - JOURNEYS
Theme for Term 1 - Journeys of Importance looks at significant journeys that have been made by certain groups of people and significant individuals. The children will be looking at European migration during The Second World War and the cause and effect of such migration, learning about the Holocaust. This will involve a visit to 'The Journey' centre near Newark to learn first-hand what it was like through the eyes of a Jewish child. The work also focuses on migration in the past century, looking at what it would be like to be a refugee and why people leave their homelands.
Golden Threads: Equality and Diversity
Big Ideas: Prejudice and Discrimination
Power and Oppression
Rights and Responsibilities
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 1:
Thurs 3rd September - First Day of Term
Tues 22nd September - Visit to the Holocaust Centre
Monday 28th September - Friday 2nd October - Arts' Week 2020
Tuesday 13th October - Parent Consultation Evening 1 (Virtual)
Thursday 15th October - Parent Consultation Evening 2 (Virtual)
Thursday 22nd October - Last Day of Term 1
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.
- The VIPERS bookmark
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 24th SEPTEMBER
This week, we are working on words ending in ible/able 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 October Half Term.
The words to learn for Term 1 are :
identity interfere occur programme recognise soldier accommodate
bruise category cemetery definite desperate determined dictionary
embarrass accompany environment exaggerate nuisance parliament privilege
secretary prejudice stomach thorough
CLICK BELOW TO DOWNLOAD YOUR OWN COPY OF THE LIST.
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Term 1 - 25 spellings word list.pdf | Download |
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.
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.
UPDATE
For the first few weeks whilst we work through our technical problems and get used to a new way of working, we are going to be uploading home learning to this page for children to complete 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 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
Homework to be submitted to completed and marked by Thursday 24th September:
Grammar: Identify the adverbs and prepositions in the sentences provided.
Maths: Place Value 2 - The children need to answer the practise questions and two problems, rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. A Cheat Sheet is provided.
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
