Falcon Class - Year 6 2024 - 2025
Mrs Lingard
Falcon Class have a super term of learning ahead. In English, we be exploring quality texts through which we be developing our range of writing skills. These texts always remain ‘top secret’ until the last moment, as the mystery surrounding them is used to stimulate the children’s ideas. Using these texts as stimulus, the children will produce a final piece of writing in the style of an endurance narrative, a recount, and a magazine article.
In maths, we will continue to follow Power Maths which is based on a mastery approach to the teaching of mathematics designed to strengthen and deepen understanding. Children will continue the work on fractions, then we will move onto Ratio and Proportion, Algebra, Decimals and Percentages.
In our wider curriculum work, we will begin the term in RE learning about the Jewish faith and why the torah is so important to Jewish people. We will move onto exploring what the resurrection story means to Christians. In PSHE, the children will explore the theme of ‘Families and Relationships’, learning about the varied and different families. We will also explore friendships, boundaries within friendships and bullying. In Art and Design we will improve our drawing and painting skills in our “Still Life” unit. In design and technology, we will be creating electrical ‘steady hand’ games.
In Geography, we going to be learning about the world population, and the challenges facing a growing population. In history we will be travelling back to find out about Medieval Monachs.
Our science topic will start off learning about forces and mechanisms, and then after half term we will move into biology, and classification of living things. In PE the children will be learning through dance, and also netball and hockey.
Please do have a look at our comprehensive curriculum page on our website for more information on what your child will be learning and when.
Key Information for the Spring Term:
Children should wear full school uniform and black school shoes each day.
Our PE sessions will now be on a Thursday and a Friday afternoon. Children are required to wear PE kits on these days, unless there is another event that they will need to be smart for.
This term our forest school is on the 12th, 19th, 26th March and 2nd April.
Children should bring a water bottle with fresh water every day.
Children do not need to bring pencil cases or other personal items to school as all the equipment they need is provided.
Please label all clothing and personal items to avoid the loss of property.
Homework bags must come into school every Monday. Homework will be set on a Tuesday, with spellings available to learn from Monday. Homework will be marked every Monday afternoon and the children will be tested on their spellings every Friday.
If you have questions or queries, please see us at the start or the end of the school day, or email [email protected].
I am looking forward to sharing this Spring term with you all and we hope that the children will thoroughly enjoy our planned learning activities.
Mrs Lingard
To find out more about who will be teaching the class click on our 'Meet The Teaching Team' page.
