English

Our Autumn term text is 'Orphans of the Tide' by Struan Murray.

Awards

 Congratulations to the following children, who have had their hard work and success celebrated in our weekly assemblies: 

6L

Class Champ Week 1 - Oscar Bowen

6N

Class Champ Week 1 -

Maths

 In Maths in Year 6, there will be a real focus upon consolidation of skills taught in previous year groups.

We will spend each Friday practising our mental maths and arithmetic skills, with the aim of improving children's fluency, speed and rapid recall.

Long division will be introduced in Year 6 and this will be taught through repeated subtraction methods such as 'the coin method'.

For many areas of the Year 6 Maths Curriculum, a solid understanding of times tables and rapid recall of number facts is essential. We highly recommend that children continue to practise their times tables regularly at home.

The following websites are very useful for practising times tables and other number facts:

TTRockstars

Topmarks Daily10

Topmarks Hit The Button

The children are all familiar with these websites and they all have logins for TTRockstars.

PE

Homework

Homework will be set every Friday and is due back by the following Wednesday. There will be one Maths and one English homework for the children to complete each week, as well as a 10 word spelling list. 

Children are also expected to read at home every night to a grown up and change their home reader book at least once a week.

Please see the Y5&6 statutory spelling list below which the children can also practise.

SUPERPOWERS

Every month, we celebrate the amazing children in Year 6 who embody our School Values. Here are our winners so far:

Support - 

Unique - 

Positivity - 

Empathy - 

Resilience - 

Politeness - 

Curriculum

Our Big Question for the Autumn Term is 'How did the Industrial Revolution impact Birmingham?'. We will learn all about the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution of Great Britain, and in particular, we will focus in on how our local area played a massive part in this historic event. We will learn all about the invention of the steam engine, the introduction of canals and the invention of the steam train.  

Science

We are kicking off our Science this year with our topic of 'Light' and we will be asking the big question 'How do we see?'. We will learn about how our eyes work as well as investigating how light travels, refracts and reflects.