Welcome to Jupiter

Year Six

 Class Teacher

Miss Leslie

Class TA- Mrs Ellen Frampton 

A very warm welcome back to school! We hope you have had a wonderful summer and are excited to start the new term! 

To begin this term, our English lessons will be centred around a text called, Holes by Louis Sachar. This book explores themes of justice, fate and the power of friendship. Our tasks will include writing diary entries, predictions and developing our use of descriptive language. 

We start the year exploring Place Value and Number within Maths. We will look at numbers to 10 million, negative numbers and rounding. Please see the link below for the term overview. 

During our topic of Electricity in Science, we will explore the link between volume and voltage, identify the symbols used to represent components and build our own circuits.

We will be perfecting our drawing skills during Art this term, observing the effect of light on an object and how we can use pencil to create tone. We will draw inspiration from Leonardo Da Vinci and Van Gogh.

During History, our focus is the Victorians. We will have opportunities to explore their daily life, compare and contrast the rich and poor and look at the impact the Victorians had on Britain today. 

Our Guided Reading sessions will be based on a text called, October, October written by Katya Balen. This beautiful book explores themes of nature, family dynamic, resilience and bravery. The children will hone their inference and retrieval skills, whilst investigating the meaning behind word choices, presentation and structure within the text. 

PE - is on a Monday afternoon. Please remember to wear black shorts, red PE t-shirt, trainers and red hooded top, if needed.

Spellings - will be given out on a Thursday and tested on the following Monday. Please ensure the blue spelling book is returned each week on  Thursday. Please access Spelling Shed to practice spellings, at least four times a week.  

Reading - as much as possible at home, at least four times a week. Please record reading in Reading Record.

Homework - will be given out on a Thursday and returned on a Wednesday.