St. Peter's C.E. Primary School

Hello and welcome from all of the Year 6 staff at St Peter's this year.

The staff in year 6 this year are:

• Miss Pickersgill (Teacher, Assistant Headteacher and KS2 lead)
• Miss Maguire (Y6 Teaching Assistant)
• Mrs Todd (Teacher)
• Mrs S Stirrup (HLTA Y4 and Y6)

Spring Term: Titanic Tragedy

Topic this term is based on the Titanic. We are very excited to immerse ourselves in this topic and use our learning to understand what it was like to experience this disaster and what it was like to live during those times. We are going to cover a range of objectives that discovers the hidden facts and life-stories of people during this interesting time of history. 

English

Writing

We are going to be using the Titanic novel as our book-led hook. 

We are going to be writing a letter from the persepctive of a first and third class passenger onbaord the Titanic, before the disaster. We are going to be writing a Newspaper Article based on the sinking of the Titanic alongside a persuasive argument based on evidence gathered about who was to blame for the sinking. 

Reading

Guided Reading will be taking place 5 times a week with two adults. Whole class guided reading sessions will focus on key reading objectives and follow a process of the following: understanding vocabulary, reading the text, verbally answering domain specicific questons, independently answering domain specific vocabulary and then answering mixed domain questions. 

Domains are:

Retrieval

Comparison

Inference

Prediciation

Authors choice

Word Meaning

Structural features

Spelling

Miss Pickersgill or Miss Maguire will test pupils on their 3/4 spellings and 5/6 spellings weekly. Any words misspelt will then be reviewed in the following week's testings. The above spellings will also be incorperated within the unit of writing. Homework is the opportunity for pupils to learn their spelling ready for the week's testing. 

Additional spellings are now set on a Friday and then tested on a Monday. These spellings are based on our new spelling scheme called Rising Stars. The Friday's spellings are those words that we have been practising in class that week or spellings we are going to practise that following week in class. These spellings are all based on the spelling rules tested in the KS2 tests. 

Handwriting

Legible, neat and joined handwriting is a requirement of the KS2 writing assessment. We will provide opporunities for pupils to practise their handwriting skills at school and as part of the unit of writing. This may be part of their homework if required. 

We are now practising handwriting twice a week during morning registration. 

Mathematics

This term we will be covering fraction, decimal and percentage skills to understand equivalences and then to manipulate these skills and apply them to arithmetic and reasoning questions.  This will take place over 5 maths lessons a week. Guided maths groups will be put in place tailored to the needs of the pupils to ensure they are confident in all areas of the maths curriculum. 

Timestables

These will be tested by Miss Pickersgill and Miss Maguire once a week. Those pupils who are confident in their timestables up to their 12's will be tested by Mr Wilson and if successful will become Maths Champions. This is an important part of the maths curriculum so pupils can have a fast recall of table facts which will then allow them to answer two or three step multiplication questions. Time for times tables revision will be part of the homework requirements each week. 

Topic

History 

For thei topic we are going to be investigating the story of the Tiranic, from construction all the way through to the poiint of disaster and preceeding events. We are going to be looking at life as a citizen during these times touching upon occupation, classes and living conditions. We will then look at how the class system was arranged onboard the Titanic, looking at what conditions were like and what daily life on board consisted of. . 

Geography

We will be focusing this part of the curriculum on the jouney the Titanic was planned to take, how much distance the voyage actually travelled and the distination they were heading to. These areas of study will involve the following geography skills: map work skills; looking at mapping longitude and latitude; covering differences in nothern and southern hemespheres and time zones. 

D.T

In keeping with our topic, we will be developing our designing, making and evaluating skills for our un-pikcing of the Titanic design.

Art

We will be studying artistic works from Italy during the second part of the Autumn term, practising our sketching and shading skills. 

Science

Science, this year, will be taught by Mrs Todd. Year 6 will be covering Evolution - linking at what part this may have played during the time of the Tianic disaster.

Homework

This will be sent home every night and an adult's signature is required as proof of homework completion. They will be required to practise their spelling and times tables. If they have not had their homework book signed they will be asked to stay in at lunch time to complete their homework from the previous night. 

If you have any questions you would like to ask any Year 6 staff please do not hesitate to ask. 

Important notice:

If your child is walking home, can you please make sure you have communicated this to school to avoid any delays in your child getting home. Thank you. 

PE: PE kits should be in school every day. We do PE lessons every Wednesday in the Sports hall. Kits can be taken home to be cleaned at the end of every half term.