Year 6 Birch Class 2024 - 2025

Mrs Burgess	Mrs C Williams	Mrs Heaney

Curriculum Information for Summer 1 

English 

Writing: Star of Fear, Star of Hope. Within this unit, children will be writing a range of short fiction texts. 

Reading: The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. Within this unit children will be focusing on themes and conventions, summarising and fact and opinion. 

Maths: Power Maths Units – Statistics (including lime graphs, pie charts, mean), Angles in Shapes, Nets and polygons. 

History: ‘What did the Greeks do for us?- Within this unit we will be exploring political, social, cultural and Ancient Greek life. 

Science: Evolution and Inheritance– Within this unit we will be exploring adaptation and variation. 

DT: Textiles- Designing and creating waistcoats.  

RE: Diversity and Stereotypes- Recognising our identities  

Music: Based on the song, ‘You’ve got a friend’ focussing on pulse, rhythm and pitch.  

PE: Gymnastics and Rounders.

MfL: Recalling school subjects and express their likes and dislikes in French. 

PSHE: ‘Money and work’ focussing on influences and attitudes to money; money and financial risks. 

Computing: Web page creation - within this unit we will consider what makes a good webpage, edit ones already created and be able to understand what copyright means. 

Important Information for Summer 1

PE- Year 6 will have their PE sessions on a Wednesday morning and a Thursday afternoon, therefore please can children come into school wearing PE kits on these days. 

PE Uniform:  

• Team colour t-shirt 

• Plain black shorts 

• Black pumps for indoor PE 

• Trainers for outdoor PE 

• Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather  

• Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back 

Reading Book Changes

Expectations

It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading. All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.

All children at Whitby Heath read daily in class whether it be on a 1:1 basis or working within group. As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week. 

Each child has an allocated day that their book/s will be changed, linked to their house teams:

Donaldson- Monday

Seuss- Tuesday

Dahl- Wednesday

Rowling- Thursday

In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings. 

ClassDojo

Should parents need to contact the Year 6 team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way. 

Other useful websites for learning at home

• Timestables Rockstars
  
  

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
All children have a login for this website.

• Hit the Button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
A great way to practice times tables at home.

• Newsround
  
  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
A place for children to keep up with current events!

• National Geographic Kids
  
  

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
A lovely website for children to learn more about animals, wildlife and the world around them.

• BBC Bitesize
  
  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
A place full of information that covers the range of the subjects and topics we study in school.