Year 6 - Woodpecker Class

Welcome to Woodpecker class

Class teacher: Mrs Pursey.

Teaching assistants: Mrs Chongbang, Mrs Llong and Mr Dole

 

Term 5

Can you believe we are into term 5; where has the year gone? 

This term is a short one, where we have our end of key stage 2 SAT's assessments in week 4. An opportunity for them to demonstrate their learning and understanding from Year 3-6. It is really important that children are in school, on time daily, to support their learning.

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 look back at previous writing to use the skill of editing to up-level our writing and identify personal targets to work towards in our writing now that we are familiar with the skills practised throughout the year.

To support our science learning, we will write a non-fiction biography on Charles Darwin, where we will demonstrate how to write formally in third person, using the appropriate tense and vocabulary.

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.

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 continue to work in groups to further develop and consolidate our skills using the four operations and demonstrate our understanding of reasoning problems. We will revise fractions, decimals and percentages and look at analysing data and graphs.

This term, we will complete our enquiry of living things: classifying big and small before moving onto 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. Pupils will be able to:

P.E this term remains on a Tuesday afternoon, where we will be outside and learning the skills for cricket. Children can wear their P.E kits to school, with appropriate footwear. Earrings must be removed for P.E and long hair tied back.

Unfortunately, Woodpecker class do not have Forest School this term as it is Magpie's turn.

 

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