Mrs Hewson's Year 6 Class
Welcome to our class page. We hope you enjoy seeing some of the wonderful things that the Year 6 children have been doing this term.
Mrs Hewson
Mrs Hewson
The Year 6 topic overview can be found here. This explains everything that the children in Year 6 will be doing this term.
Support for Sats
SATs week for 2019 is the week starting Monday 13th May.
There are some great websites which help children to practise the skills assessed by the Standard Attainment Tests.
The Gov.uk website has KS2 National Curriculum assessment material which you can download for your child.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum-assessments-practice-materials
MATHS Websites
https://www.mymaths.co.uk/parent.html
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/z826n39
SPAG - Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/zv48q6f
https://www.purplemash.com
Please see Mrs Hewson if you have any questions about your child's learning.
Autumn 1
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This term we are reading the book Viking Boy by Tony Bradman. Our writing will be based on this text but below is a list of recommended books which the children may enjoy reading alongside our class text.
Recommended books; Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman The Time -Travelling Cat and the VIking Terror by Julia Jarman Defenders: Killing Ground by Tom Palmer Diary Dates for Year 6 this term: 17th-19th September 2018 - Lea Green - Year 6 Residential |
Year 6 Residential Visit to Lea Green
Everyone say, "Cheese!"
On Monday 17th September, Year 6 arrived at school, suitcase ready for their 3 day adventure at Lea Green, near Matlock. The 3 days were action packed with activities such as abseiling, stream walking, rock scrambling and the mighty high ropes! The children all had a fantastic time, learning new skills, conquering fears and having great fun with their friends. They all returned to school with increased confidence and life-long memories.
Autumn 2
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lAfter the half term break, Year 6 will be studying World War II during their topic lessons. In our literacy lessons we will be studying Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo, which follows the story of two evacuees from London. They will be finding out about how and why the war started, key events during the war, the effects of the war at home and abroad as well as the legacy left by the war.
There are some fantastic websites that the children can use to find out about World War II so we have listed a few website links below;
www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/world-war-ii/
www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Britain.html
Books recommended to help the children read around our topic;
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll
Diary dates for Year 6 this term:
Friday 7th December 2018 at 2:30pm - Year 6 World War II Curriculum Assembly
There are some fantastic websites that the children can use to find out about World War II so we have listed a few website links below;
www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/world-war-ii/
www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Britain.html
Books recommended to help the children read around our topic;
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll
Diary dates for Year 6 this term:
Friday 7th December 2018 at 2:30pm - Year 6 World War II Curriculum Assembly
World War 2 Day
In Year 6 we went back in time to 1939 and remembered life during World War II. The the children all came to school dressed as Evacuees from this era and arrived with their clothes, gas mask boxes and identify labels. During the course of the day, the children created evacuee labels, a 'make do and mend' Christmas decoration and even took part in taking the 'necessary precautions' before the air-raid siren went off by taping the windows. We all found shelter when the air-raid siren went off!
We finished a very enjoyable day, by sharing what the children have learned in their topic lessons, at a World War II assembly for parents and grandparents.
A huge thank you to all the parents who attended and we hope you took home a few World War facts!!
We finished a very enjoyable day, by sharing what the children have learned in their topic lessons, at a World War II assembly for parents and grandparents.
A huge thank you to all the parents who attended and we hope you took home a few World War facts!!
Spring 1
During Spring 1, Year 6 will be writing non-chronological reports which are non-fiction texts that give information about a particular subject. It is called non-chronological because the information doesn't have to be ordered in the way that things happen. So we will be researching facts about the rainforest, in particular the different layers of the rainforest.
Our class text is Holes by Louis Sachar, a fantastic story about Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he did not commit. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day.
Useful Websites:
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/animals-and-nature/habitats-and-ecosystems/amazon-rainforest/
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/rainforest.html
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/?s=rainforests
Books recommended this term:
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Our class text is Holes by Louis Sachar, a fantastic story about Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he did not commit. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day.
Useful Websites:
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/animals-and-nature/habitats-and-ecosystems/amazon-rainforest/
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/rainforest.html
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/?s=rainforests
Books recommended this term:
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Year 6 Animal Vistors!
This week we had some very special visitors in our school. As Year 6 are finding out all about Rainforests, Paton from Zoolab brought in some very exotic animals including a snake, cockroach, gIant land snail, millipede and even a scorpion! We all got a chance to hold the animals (if we wanted to). They felt really weird especially the snakeskin! We found out lots of interesting facts from Paton including the fact that Cockroaches can live up to a week without its head!
This week we had some very special visitors in our school. As Year 6 are finding out all about Rainforests, Paton from Zoolab brought in some very exotic animals including a snake, cockroach, gIant land snail, millipede and even a scorpion! We all got a chance to hold the animals (if we wanted to). They felt really weird especially the snakeskin! We found out lots of interesting facts from Paton including the fact that Cockroaches can live up to a week without its head!
Andy Tooze - Poetry workshop
This week, the poet Andy Tooze visited FEJS and held some poetry workshops with children in Years 5 and 6. Andy began by asking us to write 20 words about a subject of our choice. Some of us chose football, some chose animals although one poem was 20 words about lemons!! Then we talked about how we could use a repeating line in a poem. We shared our ideas by doing mini performance and then had an assembly at the end of the day. We had so much fun!
SPRING 2
This term proves to be busy, busy busy with sports competitions, Friendship Week, World Book Day, World Thinking Day as well as science week, when we will be part of a Forensic Science Workshop. Miss Stein kick-started the term with a quiz and this has to be returned no later than Monday 4th March.
We will be continuing our Rainforest topic this term and will investigate the threat to rainforests all over the world, including the Palm Oil industry.
Our class text will be Kensuke's Kingdom; another fantastic book by Michael Morpurgo.
Website links:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/39492207
https://www.britishscienceweek.org/
Diary dates for Year 6 this term:
March 4th-8th - Friendship Week
March 4th - All quiz entries to be returned
March 6th - World Thinking Day
March 7th - World Book Day
March 11th - 15th - Science Week
March 14th - Forensic Science Workshops
We will be continuing our Rainforest topic this term and will investigate the threat to rainforests all over the world, including the Palm Oil industry.
Our class text will be Kensuke's Kingdom; another fantastic book by Michael Morpurgo.
Website links:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/39492207
https://www.britishscienceweek.org/
Diary dates for Year 6 this term:
March 4th-8th - Friendship Week
March 4th - All quiz entries to be returned
March 6th - World Thinking Day
March 7th - World Book Day
March 11th - 15th - Science Week
March 14th - Forensic Science Workshops