Year 6 - Miss mCLOUGHLIN

Dates For Your Diary

Our P.E. Day is a Monday . Remember to remove earrings and have a bobble for long hair. You can come to school in your P.E. kit (white t-shirt, blue/black shorts or joggers), but remember that plain joggers would be best. The children will be playing Tag Rugby
After school clubs will begin week beginning 18th September. Letters have been sent home.
Applying for a secondary school place for September 2024 is online from Monday 11th September. Applications close on 31st October. Letters were sent home on Friday 8th September.
The children will be visiting Beamish Museum to support our history unit about the Victorians. The visit is on Monday 16th October. The cost of the visit is £10.00. A letter will be sent out on Monday 11th September.
KS2 Harvest Festival 2.30pm on Wednesday 18th October
Parent Consultation Day is on Friday 20th October. Letters have been sent home.

AUTUMN 1

This half term the children in English will be writing a narrative in English based on the story 'Oliver Twist' and will write a range of sentence types. In Maths, the children will read and write numbers up to 10 million identify the value of digits. They will also use factors, multiples and prime numbers and complete addition, subtraction and short and long multiplication and division. In science, the children will learn about circuits and draw and make circuits. In DT, the children will make a toy which uses an electrical circuit. In history, the children will learn about the Victorian era. In computing, the children will consider the role of computers in the past, present and future. In PE, the children will develop the skills and techniques of tag rugby. The children every day will have a guided reading lesson and every week they will have regular handwriting and spelling sessions.

Fun in Science

In Science, the children have been learning about electricity and circuits. The children have learned about the symbols used when drawing electrical circuits and drew their own circuit diagrams. They have thought which items in our homes use mains electricity and which use batteries. They have also made circuits using wires, batteries and bulbs and buzzers. The children also in one lesson saw how batteries can be replaced with lemons to make a buzzer buzz and a LED light glow.