This week’s Star of the Week is William for his excellent English recount, writing from the point of view of a Jewish child on the Kindertransport.
This week’s Pride Award goes to Lilly for always giving 100% effort and always being ready to learn.
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 (Mon to Thurs) or angela.dawson@dunholme.lincs.sch.uk (Thurs- Fri)
Year 6 Key Documents
Transition Booklet 2021 - 2022
Year 3/4 Statutory Spelling List
Year 5/6 Statutory Spelling List
THEME TITLE - JOURNEYS OF IMPORTANCE
The Holocaust
Theme for Term 1 - Our topic for this term is Journeys of Importance.
Key Question - What can we learn from the horrors of the Holocaust?
Golden Threads: Equality and Diversity
Big Ideas: Prejudice and Discrimination
Power and Oppression
Rights and Responsibilities.
Journeys of Importance looks at significant journeys that have been made by different groups of people and significant individuals. The children will be looking at European migration before the Second World War and the cause and effect of such migration. This will involve a visit to 'The Journey' Holocaust Memorial Centre near Newark to learn first-hand what it was like through the eyes of a child. The work also focusses on migration in the past century, looking at why people leave their homelands and what it would be like to be a refugee.
We will be exploring the golden thread of equality and diversity in its widest sense. The children will explore what diversity means with a focus on discrimination, prejudice and stereotyping. This will lead us into looking at issues surrounding racism, sexism and xenophobia.
SCIENCE LEARNING - LIVING THINGS AND THEIR HABITATS
Key Question - What makes each living thing diverse and unique?
In our science work, we will be looking at different living things and how they are classified. The children will learn about different plants, animals and micro-organisms, focusing on what makes them similar and different to each other.
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:
Monday 6thSeptember - Start of term 1
Monday 20th September - Y6 visit to the Holocaust memorial museum
Tuesday 12th October - Parent Consultation Evening
Thursday 14th October - Parent Consultation Evening
Monday 18th October - Start of Arts' Week
Monday 18th October - Year 6 Residential Meeting for Parents 6:00pm start
Friday 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 on your 'Reading Record' bookmark.
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 2021, 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.
- 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. There will be a 'spellingframe' task set up each week to help the children learn their spellings at home. Children have their log-in details for this site.
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 21st October 2021
This week, we are working on words which words which contain ie or cei 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 home learning book, this week's spellings. Spellings should be recorded or stuck in the back of the red home learning 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.
| Name | |
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| Week 6 Spellings - i before e.pdf | Download |
| Week 5 spellings - cial and tial 2.pdf | Download |
| Week 4 spellings - cial and tial 1.pdf | Download |
| Week 3 spellings - sure and ture 2.pdf | Download |
| Week 2 spellings - sure and ture 1.pdf | Download |
| Week 1 spellings - y to i.pdf | Download |
| Spelling Strategy Cards.docx.pdf | Download |
This term's 25 word spelling list
We are also learning our first 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 :
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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
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CLICK BELOW TO DOWNLOAD YOUR OWN COPY OF THE LIST.
| Name | |
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| Term 1 25 word list.docx.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.
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 Sunday. 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 21st October 2021:
Grammar: Colons and Semi-Colons part 2- identify where they should go in the sentences.
Maths: -Four Operations 2 - Multiplication - answer the questions multiplying by one and two-digit numbers.
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
