Year 6 - Lemur Class
2023-2024
Welcome to our year 6 class page!
Lemur Class
Teacher: Mrs. Lofting
TA: Mrs. Emblem
Teacher: Mr. Jay (Thursday PM and Fridays)
Don't forget to check our Class Dojo page too.
We share lots of photographs and videos of our learning on Class Dojo, you will get notifications when your child is awarded Dojo points and has a handy messaging window where you can ask questions about your child's work and we can send reminders and helpful messages about what your child is doing in school.
Our school day begins at 8.45 and finishes at 3.30.
We will be waiting outside to greet the children and welcome them into class. Please wait by the class area gate at the end of the day, children will be dismissed by staff once we have seen you!
Lemur Class will have PE on Tuesday and Friday every week. Children should bring a named school PE kit in a PE bag. Please tie long hair up and remove any jewelry before attending school.
We will visit the school library every Tuesday. Children will be invited to change their books on a weekly basis.
Year 6 Expectations
As the top of the school, year 6 will be expected to set a high standard of behaviour and attitude, being excellent role models for the younger children to follow. There is a greater emphasis on independent learning and being responsible for remembering to complete home learning, and bring in necessary equipment. This will enable them to transition well into high school.
Year 6 SATs
The end of key stage SATs will be taking place in May. The SATs are an assessment of ALL KS2 learning, not just work covered during year 6. For Reading, Writing, Maths, and GPS (Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling), there is an expected standard for year 6 pupils to reach.
Reading
Within reading comprehension, pupils need to be able to find and retrieve information directly from the text as well as to be able to make inferences based on what is being said indirectly within text. They will also need to justify answers by finding evidence in a text to support their ideas.
Writing
Within writing, pupils needs to be able to use both basic and more advanced punctuation, write for a variety of purposes, use knowledge of grammar rules effectively, have clear and legible joined-up handwriting, spell a wide range of words correctly and consistently and obviously to have writing that makes sense.
Maths
Within maths, pupils will need to have a secure knowledge of calculation (addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication) for the arithmetic test as well as using and applying that knowledge in the reasoning test which will include shape, measure, statistics etc.
GPS
Within GPS, pupils are expected to know and understand how different grammatical elements affect writing and to use these correctly within a range of writing tasks. They will also be expected to be able to use spelling rules effectively to spell both familiar and unfamiliar words, as well as using a wide range of punctuation correctly.
Autumn 1
Curriculum Focus:
Literacy
Autobiographies
Discursive writing
Guided Reading
Rooftoppers
Maths
Place Value
Negative numbers
Rounding
Multiplying and dividing by 10,100,1000
History
World War 11
Trip to WW11 museum
Geography
Comparison study of North America, Europe, and the UK.
Science
Living Things and their Habitats
Art
Make My Voice Heard
Experimental mark-making
Symbolic imagery
Chiaroscuro
Street art
This is a very busy half term in school. Not only do we have a full timetable with the curriculum, but we also have lots of Christmas preparations to squeeze in too!
This year, Year 6 is performing Christmas songs and poems as their Christmas Performance and would like to invite parents and carers to join us in celebrating a joyous time of year and applaud the children's hard work. (Please see the weekly newsletter for dates and times.)
Autumn 2
Curriculum Focus
Literacy
First-Person Stories with a Moral
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 comparison with Wordsworth’s Daffodils
Explanatory Text
Guided Reading
Pig Heart Boy
Maths
Equivalent Fractions
Fraction and Decimal equivalents
Percentages
A formal written method of Multiplication
Area of triangles and parallelograms
Science
Light
Art and Design
Design, make, and evaluate a playground.
Welcome back! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.
This is a very important term in our run up to the SAT's in May. Please can you stress to your children, how essential it is for them to perform to the best of their ability.
Spring 1
Curriculum Focus
Literacy
Adventure Stories
Explanatory Texts
News Reports
Guided Reading
Dare to be You
All aboard the Windrush
Maths
Order of operations: algebra
Formal written division
Perimeter and Area
Angles
Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Science
Animals, including Humans
R.E.
How do questions about Brahman and Atman
influence the way a Hindu lives their life?
Art
Painting and Mixed Media
History
Windrush
Personal Health Social Care Education
Attitudes to money, Keeping money safe, Gambling,
What jobs are available, Career routes
RSE
Sexual intercourse can lead to reproduction
Sexual organs of a man and a woman
Music
Dynamics, pitch and texture (Theme: Fingal’s Cave)
Curriculum Spring 1
As this is a short term, it is going to be very busy, as we prepare your child for SAT's. Please can you make sure they are learning their weekly spellings and the statutory vocabulary.
Spring 2
Curriculum Focus
Literacy
- Newspaper Reports
- Autobiographies
Guided Reading
- The Island
Maths
- Reflection and Translation
- Ratio and Proportion
- Volume
- Measures
Geography
- Study of Human and Physical Geography: Settlements
Art
- Painting and Mixed Media continued
Science
- Electricity
R.E.
Buddhism
How does the Triple Refuge help Buddhists in their journey through
PSHE
Dreams and Goals-Aspirations,
how to achieve goals and understanding emotions that go with this.
Music
Film Music
Computing
Creating Media
History of Computers
P.E.
Net/wall Activities
Curriculum Spring 2
Spring 2 Newsletter
Easter Holiday booklets and answers
Summer 1
This half term we are going to be focussing on preparation for the forthcoming SATs.
Hopefully, everyone has completed their English and Maths booklets over the Easter holiday. Afternoons will primarily be used for extra comprehension, GPS, and maths practice. However, we will continue with P.E. lessons. We will cover the rest of the curriculum after the children have taken their SATs.
Curriculum: Summer 1
English Writing
First-person story with a moral
Extended third-person adventure story
News reports
Reading
Skellig
Mathematics
Volume
Measures
Statistics Mean average
Understanding line graphs and pie charts
Religious Education
Christianity
Should believing in the resurrection, change how Christians view life and death?
Science
Evolution
Music
Theme and Variations (Pop Art)
Computing
Data Handling
Big Data 2
Personal Health Social Care Education
HM (Healthy Me)
Being and keeping safe and healthy
Relationship and sex education
To understand what factors, contribute to identity
To understand that the media manipulates images
Physical Education
Striking and fielding
Invasion games
Art/Design Technology
Photography
1. Photomontage
2. Macro photography
3. Digital Art
4. Recreating paintings
5. Photorealistic self-portraits
Curriculum Summer 1
Summer Newsletter 2024
Dates for Transition to Secondary Schools.
Lynn Grove 1st, 2nd, 3rd July
Ormiston Venture 1st, 2nd July
Cliff Park 1st , 2nd July
Charter 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th July
Ormiston Denes 9th, 10th July
I will be giving out five more maths booklets for your child to complete at home. I have attached them here with the answers. Please make sure your child asks me to go over any areas that they feel they need more work on. We will go over fractions as this is always a problem area for a lot of students.