Welcome to the Year 6 Class Page

Meet The Team

The Year 6 teacher is Mrs Galloway.

Monday - Friday

Mrs Moore is our Learning Support Assistant. 

Important Information

11+ exams will be the week beginning September 9, 2024 with the actual exam taking place on the 12th of September, 2024.

P.E - Tuesdays

Year 6 do not need to come to school in their P.E kit on this day, they will change on the day. Year 6 will be going home in their P.E kits on this day.  This will be a double session of P.E. on Tuesdays. 

Forest School/Music - Wednesdays

Year 6 will have Forest School Days this school year and will be interchangeable with Music every other week beginning with Music for the week starting September 9th 2024.  See Rota

Curriculum Information

Autumn Term - Crime and Punishment

Writing

Our writing this half term will be focused around the text Holes by Malorie Blackman. We will be using the text to guide our writing and will be focusing on a variety of writing genres: setting and character descriptions, persuasive writing, diary entries and formal letters.  During the second half of the term, we will be focusing on the text 'Hacker'

Reading 

Our Guided Reading text will be 'The Highwayman'.  Children will be actively participating in various activities while using VIPERS to develop their understanding of the text.  While our reading for pleasure text is 'Hacker'.

SPaG

SPaG will be taught throughout our writing lessons.  Some areas that will be focused on are formal and informal vocabulary and language, modal verbs, types of sentences, fronted adverbials, active and passive voice, synonyms, antonyms and a wide variety of punctuation marks that are used at KS2.

Maths

In Year 6 we follow the White Rose Maths scheme at Long Crendon School. This term we will be focusing on Place Value and the four operations during the first half of the term then move on to Fractions and Measurements.

History

This half term Y6 will be following a History focus: Crime and Punishment

The children will first recap their learning from previous years looking at the period from 450BC to modern times.  They will explore how each civilization, Romans, Anglo-Saxon, Victorians (to name a few) dealt with crime and what punishment was given for these crimes.  Children will use primary and secondary sources to compare and contrast various methods used for punishment in the different civilizations during this period.  In the final lesson, we will reflect on how the various civilization method of punishment have influenced modern day.

Geography

During the second half of Autumn term, Year 6 will focus on Maps and map reading.

Science

This half term Year 6 will be focusing on Living Things and their Habitats.  We will recap what are the conditions for life (MRS GREN - movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition).  They will also be learning about Carl Linnaeus and his scientific method for classifying living things.  Next, we will investigate electricity where we will make our own circuits.

Art & DT 

This half term will be a Art focus. Craft and Design focusing on photographs while during the second half term we will be doing DT focusing on cooking and nutrition.

PE 

This term P.E. will be taught by the class teacher.  We will focus on Badminton and Handball then moving on to  Tennis, Football and Hockey.

Computing 

At Long Crendon School we use the Purple Mash scheme in our ICT lessons. 

Music - Taught by Mr Duncan

French

The focus of French for this term is 'In my French House' and 'Planning a French Holiday'.

RE

This term, the key question of focus for Religious Education is 'How did religions and worldviews begin?'  We will explore the qualities of a good leader, discuss how the lives of leaders influence their followers as well as identify why these significant leaders are good role models.

PSHE 

This half term our PSHE topic is Being Me in My World. We cover: The year ahead, being a global citizen, creating a learning charter, choosing to adhere to the learning charter as well as democracy.  We then focus on Celebrating Differences in the second half of the term.

Parent Partnership

We are always happy to discuss any concerns or questions you may have. We just ask that you please contact the office to arrange this.