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Welcome to Year 6

Topic Autumn 2 - Small and Mighty.

This half term we shall be studying micro organisms and their negative and positive effect on our lives. We shall be looking at how they make us ill, what we can do to prevent illness and the vaccinations that have been invented to prevent different diseases. We shall be studying the history and effect of the bubonic plague on the village of Eyam . We shall look at Yeast and will be tasting, designing and making different types of bread. Finally we shall be looking at the effect of micro organisms on waste and decay and will be looking at recycling. We shall be working in teams to make rubbish fashion and will be painting different pieces of rubbish.

Websites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things/microorganisms/play.shtml

http://www.newnorthcommunity.com/Websites/newnorthcommunity/Images/Homework%20Help/Microorganisms.pdf

http://www.simplescience.net/6b_-_micro-organisms.html

http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/science/microorganisms/whatandwhere.asp

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/plague/index.html

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year8links/plague/Plague_symptoms.PDF

http://www.eyamplaguevillage.co.uk/

http://www.recyclenow.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/sysm/eco/eco_friendly.shtml

http://www.botham.co.uk/seed/how.htm

English

•Each term we work on Fiction, Non-fiction and Poetry using a variety of texts

These are the areas we focus on:

•Speaking and Listening/Drama

•Word and sentence work

•Text level -Reading comprehension

•Writing

•Spelling

•Reading – Personal and Guided Reading

English Overview for the year:

Autumn Term

•Narrative – Fiction genre – story writing

•Non-fiction – Biography and Autobiography, Journalistic Writing

•Poetry – The power of imagery

Spring Term

•Narrative – Authors and Texts, Short story with flashback

•Non-fiction – Argument, Formal/Impersonal writing

•Poetry – Revision unit – Reading poetry

Summer Term:

•Narrative – Revision – reading and writing narrative and plays

•Non-Fiction – Revision – reading and writing Non-Fiction

•Transition units and Play

Spellings

This year we shall be learning spellings, through phonics, following the Read, Write inc. spelling scheme. This will involve 10-15 minutes of spelling work each day. The children keep their own spelling logs of difficult words to learn.

For more information on the Read, Write inc. scheme see http://www.oup.com/oxed/primary/rwi/

Click on the following links to see a list of words from previous SATs spelling tests.

http://rossa.blogs.com/weblog/files/sats_spellings_list.pdf

http://www.parentsintouch.co.uk/Newsletters/January07/Helpwithspelling.doc

Maths information for parents

Autumn

Spring

Summer

It is very important that children in year 6 know all the time tables and associated division facts

http://www.tutpup.com/

http://www.transum.org/Tables/Times_Tables.asp

http://www.transum.org/Software/Tablesmaster/Tablesmaster.asp

http://www.transum.org/Software/Fast_Factors/fast_factors.asp

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/maths1.html

http://www.multiplication.com/interactive/flashfun/flash/index.html

Children are expected to have their PE kits in school every day, although we are timetabled for PE on Wednesday and Friday. We shall be swimming every Monday morning.

SATS Monday 10 May to Friday 14 May 2010

This word that will come up a lot in Year 6 as we will spend time making sure that your child is prepared for these tests and have all the skills they need to move onto Secondary school.

These are the tests they will write in that week:

•English

Reading (45 minutes + 15 mins reading time)
Writing - Long (45 minutes)

- Short (20 minutes)
Spelling (10 mins)
Handwriting

•Maths

Mental Maths (20 minutes)
Paper A (45 minutes)
Paper B - calculator (45 minutes)

SATs revision sites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/sats/

http://www.ashburton-jun.croydon.sch.uk/Pages/year6_revision.htm

http://www.lower-farm.walsall.sch.uk/Year%206%20SAT.htm

http://www.higherbebington.wirral.sch.uk/revision.html