Dear Parents and Carers,
I hope you had a lovely Easter with your children. The children have returned to school ready for the final term with lots of exciting things to look forward to! Year Six SATs will begin on Monday 11th May, so we will be doing lots of practice before then. Below is a break-down of everything that we will be covering and what you need to know for the coming term.
In maths, our next units are all based around geometry: exploring shape, visualising shape and describing position. In these units, children will recap symmetry and their knowledge of angles. They will also classify shapes based on their properties including regular and irregular polygons, and Year Six will explore the properties of circles. We will revise coordinates and then look at the effects of reflection and translation. After half term, we will move on to measuring and estimating, where the children will learn to convert between different units of measure including between metric and imperial units. Our final units will be proportional reasoning and solving number problems where we will look at ratio and proportion and revise the four calculations, including some algebra for Year Six. We will be continuing with a daily 10-minute Mastering Number session.
In English, we will have a daily 30-minute Comprehension Bug session where the children will read a selection of age-appropriate texts, answering a range of comprehension questions. We will be using Spelling Shed alongside spelling games to practise the Year 5/6 spelling list. We will have a written test each Friday. In writing, we will plan, draft and edit different text types, focusing closely on the purpose and audience of our writing. This term our writing will be mostly based on our history topic, Ancient Greece. Our class texts for this term will be ‘Who Let the Gods Out’ by Maz Evans, ‘Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief’ by Rick Riordan and ‘Gods and Warriors (The Outsiders)’ by Michelle Paver. We will also be using Literacy Shed video clips and a range of texts to inspire our writing. The children will write for a range of different purposes – to entertain, to inform, to persuade and to discuss.