Welcome to Year 6

Manatees

Mrs Fox and Mrs Smith

Dolphins

Mrs Hanton and Mrs Armitage

Reading

Here at Northfield St Nicholas, we love to read! Our current focus text is ‘Rooftoppers’ by Katherine Rundell. This core text is supplemented by a variety of additional texts, to support children developing their reading fluency and confidence across a range of text types.

All children have a reading book based on their assessment level. Please remember to read at least 3 times a week and log this on BoomReader. 

Every Wednesday, the children have the opportunity to visit our school’s ‘Lost Library’. During their weekly library sessions children can change their existing library books. These are taken home for them to enjoy in their home setting!

Writing

Here at NSN, we follow CUSP for our writing curriculum. CUSP  provides an ambitious curriculum, covering the necessary skills required to be successful readers and writers, who are prepared for high school.

During this unit we will be writing a story with a moral. We will learn skills including developing atmosphere, character and suspense. We will be ensuring we use punctuation expected of Year 6 writing and applying our spelling rules to our writing.

Maths

Science

As scientists this term, we will be learning about the body’s circulation system. We will be learning what components blood is made up of, how blood travels around the body, the anatomy of the heart as well as the importance of all these things on the body.

We will be working scientifically to measure our resting heart rate and experiment to find what the effect is of exercise on our heart rate. We will use this learning later in our writing learning to write an explanatory text about the circulatory system.

Geography

As geographers this term, we will be focusing on physical processes. We will be consolidating our knowledge of human and physical features.

We will be learning the similarities and differences between places that have active earthquakes zones, the physical features of the places that have fault lines, mountains, earthquakes or volcanoes and the impact that earthquakes, mountain formation and volcanoes have on the environment.

During our learning, we will be using map skills such as finding locations using longitude and latitude.

History

As historians this term, we will be learning how conflict changed our local area in World War 2. We will be using this to extend our chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
We will be learning when the Second World War started and when the Axis Powers formed as well as learning when D-Day was and when the Second World War ended. We will use evidence to find what sources tell us about life in East Anglia during the Second World War and which sources are the most useful when researching.

PE