Welcome to Year 6!
2023 - 2024
In Year 6, we have 30 amazing children who are all unique. We love learning and working hard but best of all, we love having a great laugh together.
Our teacher is Mrs Dowd-Postlethwaite and our teaching assistant is Mrs Kealey.
Curriculum Evening Presentation
Hello, World!
Spring Term 1
Autumn Term 2
RE
This half term, our topic is called ‘Justice’. We began the topic by discussing what Justice was this:
“Justice helps us figure out what is fair, what is right and what is wrong. When justice is working, everyone feels like they are being treated fairly. Rules and laws help people figure out what is 'just' or fair.”
During the topic, we learnt about important people who were persecuted for speaking out against injustice, such as: Martin Luther King Jr., Oscar Romero and Malala Yousafzai.
The work of Malala really inspired us. One of our tasks was to create a campaign poster as if we were her. Here are some of our designs.
Maths
During Maths this half term, we learnt about fractions. We recapped: equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions, improper and mixed number fractions. We learnt about adding and subtracting fractions when the fractions are mixed numbers and/or improper fractions.
English
We began learning about and reading the inspirational life of Anne Frank. After we read Anne Frank by Josephine Poole, which gave use an insight into her life, we then read parts of her actual diary. We were amazed! We wrote, planned and drafted diaries from Anne’s perspective.
DT
For our Christmas craft, we analysed, designed and made our very own Christmas tree bauble. We used our skills of sewing to: sew the felt together; the snowman’s arms/hats and sew the buttons on. We really enjoyed making these and we were so proud of our baubles!
Autumn Term 1
R.E.
Our topic in R.E. is called ‘Called to Serve’. We started by understanding what is means to serve God and others.
This year, we will be making the Sacrament of Confirmation. We learnt about what happens in this Sacrament and how it will help us to continue our faith journey.
In this topic, we learnt about what is means to serve. We had the opportunity to reflect on our duty to serve as disciples. We identified our gifts and talents that can be used to to serve God and others.
We discovered people who responded to God’s call to serve God and others. Mama Maggie was an extraordinary person; she loved the children of the Cairo slums in Egypt.
We created origami boats with added fishing lines with fish to display Jesus calling the disciples. On the fish, we wrote Christian values on them to represent the values we need to become Jesus’ disciples.
Our Class Saint Feast Day
Our Class Saint is Saint Therese of Lisieux. We celebrated her feast day on the 30th September. During the day, we learnt about her life and her ‘little ways’ and created Powerpoints to display our knowledge.
Maths
For the first few weeks, we recapped our Place Value understanding and then moved on to reading, writing, saying and rounding numbers to 10 million. In our four operations topic, we added and subtracted numbers using column method correctly and continued to work on our accuracy in column multiplication. Additionally, we were taught how to use long division to divide 3 and 4 digit by a 2 digit number. We showed great enthusiasm and perseverance whilst learning this method. Furthermore, we have continued to develop our speed in our Times Table recall and our daily arithmetic.
Below show the long division method. The image shows 342 ÷ 12, it is really important to write out the tables to help with the division.
English
Science
This half term, our topic has been Living things and their Habitats. We focused on: food chains and webs; classification; micro-organisms; and the work of Carl Linnaeus.
We enjoyed learning about micro-organisms and created a poster about the different types of microbes.
Herd Farm
We had a fantastic visit to Herd Farm for two days. We enjoyed the glorious weather and were thrill seekers in the challenging activities. During our time there, we packed a lots of activities which most of us all loved. Some of the activities were: crate stack, assault course, archery, night walk and zip wire.
Here are some of the pictures from it.