Welcome to 6AB

Our teacher is Mr Ballance.
Our teaching assistant is Mrs Sylvester.

Home reading books need to be in class every Thursday.

PE is on Wednesday and Friday.

Homework is given out every Tuesday and Friday.

Doodle Maths is checked every Thursday.

Creative Curriculum – REVOLUTION! (Victorians)

Can you help your child learn to read and understand the meaning to these topic related words for ‘REVOLUTION!’.

What Are We Learning?

In English this half term, we will be reading The Giant’s Necklace by Michael Morpurgo

A tense and thrilling ghost story from the internationally acclaimed author of War Horse. It all began with a necklace, made of glistening pink cowrie shells. A long, long necklace that had taken Cherry days – weeks – of careful, painstaking work. It was nearly complete, and Cherry was determined it would be the longest necklace she had ever made; that it would be fit for a giant! But the end of the holidays had arrived. “You’ve only got today, Cherry,” said her mother. “Just today, that’s all.” Cherry didn’t mind, a day would be enough – she only needed a few more shells. So, amidst the taunts of her older brothers, she set out to search for them. Then the clouds grew dark and the waves grew large, and as the storm blew in, Cherry realized, to her horror, that she was cut off from the shore. From then on, events began to take a decidedly dark turn. One from which there was no turning back…

In Maths, we will are looking at place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  We will also be looking at strategies to solve word problems.

In Science we will be learning about adaptation and evolution.  We will be learning about how characteristics are passed down from parents to offspring.  We will be learning about how and why animals and plants adapt to their environment and how this leads to evolution over a period of time, as well as extinction.

In PSHE we are learning about ‘relationships’. We will look at reconnecting with our friends, feeling safe managing worries, and what our roles responsibilities are.

In Latin, we will be looking at how some English words derive from Latin.

We will be following Charanga online this half term, looking at different beats and tempos!

In Computing, we will use Purple Mash to learn to code. We will control our own robot and create a simple game.