Chestnut- Year 6

Mr Dyke and Adele welcome you to Chestnut class!

For information on our curriculum see here:   https://www.twinoaks.lewisham.sch.uk/Learning/Curriculum/ 

 

We hope you all had a restful half term and are ready for a busy and exciting final half term in Year 6! There are so many exciting events coming up, including transition days, our Year 6 production, Sports Day and our end of year celebrations!

We are incredibly proud of how hard the children have worked this year and are looking forward to making the final weeks of primary school memorable and enjoyable for everyone.

Below is an overview of our learning for Summer 2.

year 6 summer 2 parent overview.pdf

For reference, our Meet the Teacher presentation is saved below:

year 6 summer 2 parent overview.pdf

 

 Chestnut Class - Google Classroom

Of course, if you have any questions or would like more information about anything please feel free to speak to Mr. Dyke

 

 

 This half term, our class text is The Unmorrow Curse by Jasmine Richards.

The story follows a magical adventure filled with mystery, danger and powerful themes of courage and friendship. Throughout the half term, children will continue developing the seven key reading skills.

We encourage children to continue reading daily at home and discussing books with family members.

The Unmorrow Curse on Goodreads

Children also have access to Epic Reading where they have free access to a vast library of online books:

Epic Reading!

We focus on 7 key reading skills - clarifying, predicting, questioning, making links, summarising, inferring and evaluating. 

 

 

 

In English, we will continue developing our grammar, punctuation and writing skills through a range of creative writing opportunities linked to our wider curriculum learning. Children will complete independent writing tasks inspired by Mexico and our class reading text.

Grammar work this half term will include:

• relative clauses
• fronted adverbials
• subordinating conjunctions
• semi-colons
• spelling patterns and homophones

Children will continue developing their editing and proofreading skills to improve the quality of their independent writing.

 

 

 

In Maths, we will focus on geometry and measurement. Children will explore:

• area and perimeter
• area of triangles and parallelograms
• volume of cuboids
• angles and polygons
• circles and 3D shapes

We will continue developing arithmetic fluency, mathematical reasoning and problem-solving skills throughout the half term.

To help you child's learning in this area, we strongly recommend that they make use of Times Tables Rockstars. 

 Times Tables Rockstars

 

 

 

As scientists, we will continue our study of the natural world by examining how characteristics are used the classify living things as well as the history of classification.

 

BBC Bitesize - Working Scientifically

 

 

As geographers, we will learn more about the geography of Mexico and London, as well as the continent of North America. We will explore the human and physical features of Mexico, including the climate. We will develop our understanding and use of a range of maps and atlases.

 

Other useful websites:

The children have individual logins for these websites in their reading diaries. 

TT Rockstars MyOn - Online books and audiobooks

 SATS Revision BBC Bitesize SATS Revision