Laurel Fields, Potters Bar, Herts , EN6 2BA
01707 652714

Cranborne Primary School

Learning Together

Welcome to Year 6! 

  

Welcome back children and families! We hope you have enjoyed the summer break and are well rested ready for a busy term ahead! We are so excited to start a new school year with you. We can't wait to get to know you more, work hard and have lots of fun! 

Here, you will find all the information that you may need throughout the term: email addresses, resources and key dates. You will also find an outline of the topics we are covering in each subject. 

 

The Y6 team: 

6C

 6L

Please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher or TA if you have any questions.

Key Dates

 

02/09/24 - Inset day - no children please 

03/09/24 - First day back for all children 

17/09/24 - Year 6 parent information evening 5.45pm 

30/09/24 - Inset day - no children please

15/10/24 - Years 1-6 Open Morning 9am

22/10/24 - School photographs (indiviual, siblings and classes)

23/10/24 - School photographs (individual, siblings and classes)

28/10/24 - 01.11.24 - October half term

15/11/24 - Children in Need 

26/11/24 - Mental Health Workshop for parents (Years 3,4,5 and 6)

3/12/24 - Christmas Music Concert - for choir and instruments 1.30pm 

17/12/24 -Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day

18/12/24 - Years 1-6 Aladdin Panto Trip

19/12/24 Last day of term finish 1.15pm

20/12/24 - 6/01/25 - Christmas Holidays 

 

Curriculum Overview

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English:

In the first term, our writing will be linked to our scienced topic (Evolution and Inheritance) and our history topic (Ancient Maya). We will read a variety of texts linked to these topics. Our writing units will be based on the books Moth - An Evoultion Story and The Great Kapok Tree. From this, children will write a narrative and formal letter. They will also debate the topical issues around the environment. Further information can be found on our curriculum overview above.

Reading:

As always, we will continue to enjoy and engage with high quality core texts throughout our English sequences. For the first few weeks, our reading lessons will focus on comprehension keys and vocabulary  acquisition, exploring how precise and effective word choices impact a reader. 

In addition to this, each morning the children will be taught how to answer specific questions including those that require evidence to support their answer.  This is in preparation for the SATS at the end of the year, and we use various extracts from past papers to achieve this. 

Whilst your child may be confident with word reading, please do try to hear them read aloud in order to develop fluency. If you can, encourage them to discuss their reading with you by giving their opinion on a character or summarising what has happened. 

When reading with your child at home, you may want to use some of the following question stems: 

  • Find a word that shows/means/tells you that...
  • Give one piece of evidence that shows...
  • What does …. suggest about …..?
  • How does …… seem …..? 
  • Which word is closes in meaning to ….?
  • What impression do you get of....?
  • How do you know that...?

Spelling:

Spelling rules and patterns will be taught weekly during specific spelling lessons and revisited throughout the week. The children will also need to practise spellings from the Year 5/6 Statutory Spelling list. You can find these words as a document uploaded on the right hand side of this page. For each writing unit, we will choose words from this list that are related to our core text, and therefore expect the children to use these in their writing. 

 

Maths:

In Maths, we follow the Herts Essentials Scheme for learning. During the Autumn term, we will work on building our foundations in these topics:

  • Algebra and Sequences
  • Fraction revision 
  • Percentages revision 
  • Decimals revision 
  • BODMAS revision 
  • Negative numbers revision

 

We use a mastery approach in mathematics, so the children will prove their ideas in different ways including images, bar models and representations.

Each morning, the children will complete early work. This involves the children answering arithmetic questions to help develop their mental fluency. You can help at home by asking your child arithmetic style questions such as: 

  • What number is 100 times greater than ...? 
  • Divide 400 by 8
  • Subtract 70 from one million 
  • What is one tenth of 6.5km? 
  • Find the difference between .... and .....?
  • Write one fifth as a percentage
  • What number is 10 times less than ...?  
  • Find 3/4 of 750
  • Round 342.45 to the nearest tenth

 

Science:
Our first topic is Evolution and Inheritance. We will look ad adaption, evolution, natural selection and Darwin's theory. 

 

PSHE:

Our PSHE topics during the Autumn term will be Being Me and Celebrating Differences. The sessions will follow the Jigsaw scheme starting with children exploring My Year Ahead. Children will identify thier own goals for this year, understand thier fears and worries about the future and learn how to express them. The following sessions are: 

Being a Global Citizen

The learning charter  

 

After the half term, the children will move on to Celebrating Diffferences. The sessions are as follows:

Am I normal? 

Understanding differences 

Power struggles 

Why bully?

PE:

Our PE Days will be on Monday and Thursday. We would like the children to wear their PE kits to school on these days. 

History: 

In History, we will be learning about the Ancient Mayan civilisation.

The unit will cove why the Mayan Empire grow to be so powerful? Each lesson will link to this key question. Throughout the topic the children will :

Know where and when the Mayan civilisation began

Compare life in the classic Mayan period to the Anglo-Saxon period in Britain.

Explore what life was like for Mayans and describe how they lived (religion, Mayan cities, Mayan homes)

Investigate Mayan inventions (numbers/calculations, calendars) and explain how these achievements were so significant

Identify the Mayan Gods and their beliefs.

Compare Ancient Maya with Ancient Egypt

Year 6 Teacher Assessment Framework for Writing

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Year 5/6 Statutory Spellings

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Useful resources:

 

The websites listed below may be useful in supporting your learning this year:

 

REMOTE LEARNING

If you are unable to come to school, but are well enough to continue learning, please use some of the resources above. You may also wish to;

  • Write a poem about the snow, using figurative language such as personification, similes and metaphors
  • Use a picture and annotate with adjectives, expanded noun phrases and relative clauses
  • Visit www.myminimaths.co.uk and complete one of the arithmetic papers - you will find the answers for the paper on  there too. Check to see if you beat your previous score 
  • Log in to Times Table Rockstars to improve your speed of multiplication recall, Purple Mash to complete a comprehension and Mathletics to revise topics we have learnt recently (area, adding and subtracting fractions, multiplying fractions, long division) 
  • Follow this link  https://www.literacyshed.com/the-images-shed.html to inspire creativity, writing a short story/recount about one of the images. There are questions to prompt your thinking.

Computing:

This term, our topic in computing is coding. Students will be following the PupleMash 2code scheme each lesson. This is a website that the children know their log ins for and can access at home to practise the skills taught at school too.

Geography: 

During this term, we will find out what coasts are, where they are located and how they are formed. If you have visited a coast over the summer or on a previous trip, please feel free to bring in a photo or email your class teacher an image. We would love to hear all about it! We will also look at the process of erosion and coastal management.

CONTACT DETAILS
Laurel Fields, Potters Bar, Herts , EN6 2BA
01707 652714
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