Year 6 - Woodpecker Class
Welcome to Woodpecker class
Class teacher: Mrs Pursey.
Additional adults: Mrs Chongbang, Mrs Llong and Mr Dole
Term 6
Wow! We are into the final term of the year. Where has the year gone?
This is a long term, but promises lots of fun activities as we prepare to move on to secondary school. We start the term with a science dome, where we will be launched into space. This will support us with our skills in writing recounts. We have an art workshop on 8th June, where we will print our leavers' T-shirts as a keepsake of our time at Pilgrims' Way. We will be attending Countrystyle Recycling Schools’ Day Out at the St Lawrence Cricket Ground on 19th June, where we will see Kent compete against Middlesex. At the end of term, we will have an awards ceremony and party to celebrate the end of primary school and all our achievements.
We will be revisiting many taught G.P.S skills through both discrete tasks and application in our writing. We will look at types of sentences, a variety of phrases and clauses and conjunctions. In addition to this we will identify how punctuation is used, particularly colons and semi-colons and practice using them in our writing.
We will be writing a recount from our experience of the space dome, which will allow us to write in first person and past tense using informal language. We will also write a persuasive letter encouraging the continued exploration of space to demonstrate first person, present tense and formal language.
Please encourage your child to write at home – it could be a diary entry activity; a report on something that has happened; a short story using speech to vary punctuation; a piece of poetry or song; a poster with persuasive writing.
In Reading, we will continue reading Letters from the lighthouse by Emma Carroll to build our fluency and understanding, as well as completing a variety of activities around the text. This text will support us with our learning on World War II.
Olive and her brother have been evacuated to Devon, but her older sister Sukie is still missing from the night of the bombs. A mysterious note found in the coat of her sister suggests that Sukie was involved in something dangerous, but Olive can't make the pieces fit together.
We will also be completing comprehension tasks around different texts to support us with the skills of inference, retrieval, scanning texts and vocabulary development.
We will work as classes for our final term of maths learning, starting with geometry – shape and position and direction. We will then move onto statistics and algebra, where we will be applying our number knowledge to new concepts.
This term, we will complete our enquiry of Evolution and Inheritance. Where we will be exploring variation and inheritance in different living things and how observations and fossil evidence have led to the theory of evolution, before moving onto Making Connections: Are some sunglasses better than others? Testing light and UV transmission of different sunglasses through an enquiry to decide which pair works best.
This term we will look at the history enquiry: What was the impact of World War II on the people of Britain? During this enquiry we will
- Identify the causes of World War 2.
- Identify the different phases in the Battle of Britain.
- Make deductions about the Blitz from photographs.
- Describe how children may have felt when evacuated.
- Evaluate the accuracy, reliability and usefulness of sources.
- Describe the impact WW2 had on women’s and African-Caribbean migrant lives.
We will be completing a geography-DT project, where we will be investigating the local birds and designing a bird box to encourage them to return to the new school site.
This term we will explore mixed media and look at the work of artists. We will be looking at artwork inspired by space and planets and will seek to create our own, using a range of materials.
P.E this term remains on a Tuesday afternoon, where we will be outside, learning the skills for athletics, with additional opportunities to develop our skills in rounders. Children can wear their P.E kits to school, with appropriate footwear. Earrings must be removed for P.E and long hair tied back.
Woodpecker class have Forest School every Monday afternoon. As it is our final opportunity to experience Forest School at Pilgrims' Way, and hopefully the weather continues to be kind, we will be making the most of the facilities weekly.
Reminders will be sent about Forest School and P.E on Class Dojo, as well as information shared about the learning. Any queries or questions please message me using Class Dojo.
The Term 5 vocabulary sheet below will help you to know more about what your child will be learning this term.
Teachers can be contacted via Class Dojo if you have any questions or queries regarding the home learning.
Please click here to access extra phonics, reading and spelling resources.
Please click here to access links to other useful home learning resources published online.
If you are unsure of any log in details please contact the teacher through Class Dojo or email office@pilgrims-way.kent.sch.uk