Ms J Millington 

Teacher 

Mrs K Smoje

Teaching Assistant

 

 

 

 

Homework

Our homework will be announced on Google Classroom every Friday and is to be completed and returned on the following Wednesday, please speak to Ms Millington to get access.

Year Six Curriculum map:Year Six Curriculum-overview- Spring Two 24

Dates for the diary:

Class trip to Greenacres Farm Monday 26th February from 9.15-12.30pm

Parent event linked to our Geography and History topic  on Tuesday 5th March 2024 from 2pm in Year 6

World Book Day Thursday 7th March 2024

Snapchat performance about safety online at Wolverham School on Monday 18th March from 12.30-3.00pm

Welcome to our class home page for our Year Six pupils, parents and carers. We hope you had a relaxing break and are ready for our final Spring Term together at The Oaks Community Primary School. As you can see from above, we have school trips alongside fantastic daily  teaching and learning. Our pupils will complete many  successful learning outcomes, sharing activities with our community  and continue to be ready to learn, respectful and responsible to all within our school community.  We are  looking forward to teaching and learning with you during this term  together at The Oaks Community Primary School. During this half term, we will be continuing to develop our learning skills which will include: building your independence, exploration and inquiry skills to complete learning activities to our expected high standards and deepening our class philosophy of ‘I am, I have, I can’.

English

Over this half term we will be using a variety of rich texts across the curriculum in writing and these will be used as a deep dive – linking our reading activities and written work across the curriculum. Pupils will be introduced to both non-fiction and fictional text titled The Way of the Wolves by Smriti PrasadamHalls and introduce the author Neil Gaiman through the text Wolves in the Walls. The writing outcomes will be a first person narrative and an explanation text.

Our Steps to Read programme will support all areas of the English, Reading curriculum. This will give pupils the opportunity to increase vocabulary, learn strategies and skills and exploration, discussion and enhance their use of reading strategies.

 

Please support your child to ‘Strive for 5’ by listening and encouraging your child to read.

Alongside our shared read, pupils will have access to  a selection of reading opportunities provided daily in our ‘Strive for Five’, this will include our class book, poetry and Accelerated Reader.

   Please support your child to ‘Strive for 5’ by listening and encouraging your child to read five times a week.

Your support is appreciated to enhance and deepen your child’s learning across the curriculum.

 

 

Maths

During this half term, we will connect our learning through each daily sequential lesson Units of learning include: decimals, fractions and percentages and area and perimeter. The activities will include problem solving, reasoning and reflection through a range of context. The approach will follow the Maths policy using concrete, pictorial and abstract representations.

We will continue to enhance our rapid recall of arithmetic questions across the KS2 curriculum.

 

  Curriculum

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Over the course of Spring Two, we will answer the question ‘Where am I from?’ and ‘Who am I?’ This is a whole school project which will develop in Geography, pupil’s knowledge of our local area through maps, geographical data including the physical and human geographical factors within our local area.  In History, this will include looking at historical periods, comparing and making connections using a range of sources.

 

 

 

 

Science

 

 

Within our Science focus for Spring Two, we will learn about the functions of the human body. This will include: the circulatory systems, the functions the heart and blood and how to keep our bodies healthy. We enhance our understanding through rapid recall of prior learning, deepen our understanding through journaling and answer of anchor question through hands on experiments and investigations. Some of the exciting questions we will answer include: Can you tickle yourself? How many litres of blood do you have in your body? How many times does your heart beat in a day? Do you know what is in blood? Which exercises increase our heart rate? How does diet and exercise play an important role in a healthy body? Which choices will affect the health of my body?

 

 

Computing

In computing, we are going to continue our knowledge and capabilities using digital devices. This will include collecting information and media  from a range of sources, use online tools to create and share presentations and films and the effectiveness of their own work and others.

Religious Education/PSHE

During this term, pupils will deepen their understanding of the world we live in. The learning themes will be based upon our big question about Humanism and Diversity. Learning will be based around our shared school community values of respect and responsibility.

Music

 

All the learning in this unit is focused around one song: You’ve Got A Friend by Carole King. The material presents an integrated approach to music where games, the dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing and playing instruments are all linked.

Physical Education

In the Spring term, pupils will have P.E each week on a Monday and Thursday. Please ensure your child arrives to school in their P.E kit.

 

 

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @TheOaksCPRowan to get frequent updates about what we have been up to in class.

Useful websites

Accelerated Reader

Doodle Maths and English

If you have any questions, feel free to make an appointment or email either Mr Potter or Ms Millington directly.

Mr S Potter

stephen.potter@theoaks.cheshire.sch.uk

Ms J Millington

jo.millington@theoaks.cheshire.sch.uk