Class 13- Year 6
Welcome to Class 13!
Class teacher: Mrs McLeod
Teaching Assistant: Mrs McRitchie
Welcome to Class 13 – Mrs McLeod’s class! It has been a fantastic start to Year 6 and I am really looking forward to enjoying the year ahead. I will be joined by our Y6 teaching assistant, Mrs McRitchie, and Mr Waller will teach the class on Wednesday mornings.
This is a very important year for children in Year 6 for many reasons: children will be taking on more jobs and responsibilities in school; beginning to prepare for secondary transition and also working towards the end of Key Stage 2 tests in May- a meeting for parents will be held later in the year with further information on this.
This term we will be focussing on ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar as our class novel and through this will be developing reading comprehension skills as well as working on narrative writing. After half term, we will study poetry from World War I and use it to inspire our writing.
In Maths, we will be looking at place value to ten million, before exploring all four mathematical operations in more depth and then moving on to fractions, decimals and percentages. In Science we are looking at inheritance and evolution, with Charles Darwin as our key Scientist, and in Geography we are studying at North and South America. Linked to this, our history unit will explore Christopher Columbus’ discoveries and slavery.
In Art, we will be exploring sculptures of North and South America and creating our own using Modroc. We will be investigating pulley systems and gears in DT and will be designing and making our own devices to help the inmates of Camp Green Lake with their daily task of digging holes.
In Computing, we will be exploring systems and networks and how information travels between devices. We will also cover programming and debugging by creating our own computer games.
We are lucky enough to have a music specialist coming in to teach us all how to play guitar with an initial focus on performance, composition and appraisal linked to the film, TV and musical theatre genre. These lessons will take place fortnightly as a whole class.
Our PE day this term is Wednesdays. On Wednesday afternoons, we will be heading to Velocity in Billingham for trampolining and gymnastics lessons.
Across the term, we will also look at Creation in RE and explore Christian and scientific viewpoints on this. Children will also be studying ‘A l’ecole’ (At School) in French. Our PSHE topic this term is about managing emotions, which explores recognising emotions in our body, managing distractions and managing change, loss and grief.
As you can see, we have a very busy term ahead and we are very much looking forward to seeing what the children can do. We have no doubt that they will rise to every challenge this year brings and will have many successes to celebrate.
We can’t wait to see where the year takes us! Good luck, Year 6 and ENJOY!
Year 6 Long Term Planning
What’s been happening in Class 13?
What an amazing start to the year Class 13 have had. They loved their first forest school session this year!
