Our Christian value for this half term is Compassion, which we will be learning about in our class worship sessions alongside the RE topic ‘Creation and Science: conflicting or complementary?’ 

This half term, our foundation subject is history, and we will be learning all about ‘Fallen Fields’, where we will be delving into the history of World War 1, learning about what life was like and what makes this period in history one of the most important modern historical events to take place.  To fully immerse the children into this unit we will be welcoming the ‘Freshwater Theatre Company’, who will give unique viewpoint of World War I.

 Our Love 2 Read text, will be Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo, a beautifully written novel about the life of a soldier throughout World War 1.  In English, we will start off with some descriptive writing, challenging the children’s vocabulary knowledge and then move on to war poetry and persuasive speeches.  As with every year, we will start off by revisiting place value in maths, then we will move on to the four operations (Addition, Subtraction, Division and Multiplication), Fridays will have an arithmetic focus.

In Science, we will learn about electricity, making and testing simple circuits building on the children’s knowledge from year 4.   Outdoor PE on a Friday afternoon will focus on Football and Indoor PE, which is on a Thursday will have a focus on dance, on these days, the children should attend school in their PE kit in line with the school uniform policy.

During the first week, the children will be issued with their reading diaries, we ask that the children read at home four times a week – please sign or initial these entries.  The children’s reading focus for the week along with their spellings will be recorded in their diaries for you to access.  The children will also be issued with weekly homework – we will send more information regarding this in the first week of September.

Here in year 6, we are thoroughly looking forward to working with the children and cannot wait to begin their year 6 journey with them. 

Please see pictures of our wonderful classroom below.

Kind regards

Mrs Jackson😊