MONDAY = P.E DAY THURSDAY = HOME LEARNING DUE FRIDAY = NEW HOME LEARNING SET
Autumn 1
What a busy first half term we have had in Year 6! As well as adapting to the added responsibility of being the oldest learners in school, we have had sports competitions, parent workshop, a learning celebration and a chance to visit our newly revamped wildlife garden. Some learners have also attended open evenings at local high schools - we would really encourage everyone to do this! Remember, the deadline for applying is 31st October. Your application must be done online and can be accessed at this link: https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/children-education-families/schools/apply-for-a-school-place/apply-online-for-a-school-place/
All learners have been encouraged to access TT Rockstars at home as we are already finding that a super times table knowledge is required to access the Year 6 maths curriculum.
Autumn 2
As always in Year 6, reading, writing and maths will continue to be a big focus in Autumn 2 but we also have some really interesting topics coming up in our foundation subjects. We have attached links to the knowledge organisers for Science, History, RE and DT which will really help learners get a headstart in these areas:
DT Knowledge Organiser
RE Knowledge Organiser
Below is some information about the other subjects:
A look back at last year...
SUMMER TERM
Summer 1 has been an extremely busy term in Year 6 as we have been preparing for the SATs. The learners were a credit to themselves, their parents and the school in the way they tackled some tricky tests. We celebrated by having a 'snowball' fight with all our practise papers - look at the action shots!
We also completed writing a newspaper report and a narrative based on the short film Alma. For the newspaper report, learners had to take on the role of interviewer as they created imaginary dialogue from people who were near the scene of Alma's disappearance. In the narrative, the focus was to create a spooky atmosphere through carefully chosen vocabulary. Please take some time to read the examples below from some of our very talented writers.
Summer 2 is all about enjoying our final term at Marsden. As well as a trip, an inspire event, the leavers' party and the awards assembly, we will immerse ourselves in the foundation subjects.
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Newspaper report 1.docx | .docx | ||
Newspaper report 2.docx | .docx | ||
Alma narrative 1.pdf | |||
Alma narrative 2.pdf |
HOME LEARNING IS SENT OUT IN YEAR 6 ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM ON A FRIDAY AND IS DUE BACK ON A WEDNESDAY. PE IS ON A MONDAY AND LEARNERS COME TO SCHOOL WEARING THEIR KIT.
AUTUMN 2
This half term, we have written biographies about some inspiring famous people and are now studying Romeo and Juliet! The learners have really enjoyed acting out some of the scenes and writing in role as the different characters.
Our History unit has been all about the Ancient Greeks and we were really fortunate to take part in a workshop run by the brilliant Past Productions. During the day, we learnt about some of the Greek Gods, performed some Greek plays, created some Greek plates and took part in a few Olympic events!
Check out some of the outcomes:
AUTUMN 1
We have had a great Autumn term so far with the learners really meeting the extra demands that Year 6 brings with it. We have been fortunate to have visits from the police and Paul Sturgiss (the world's tallest basketballer) as well as an online session with author Burhana Islam
who recently won the Fantastic Book Award.
In Geography, we ended our topic by researching how humans are having a negative impact on the environment but more importantly what we can do to change this. Some of the posters we created are below.
In art, we finished our unit where we used the grid method to enlarge, reduce and distort image whilst maintaining perspective. Our final piece was based on Bradford-born artist David Hockney's artwork and the end results were absolutely stunning as you can see in the photo below!
We have recently introduced Knowledge Organisers for our science and geography topics. Knowledge Organisers are a really visual way of representing all the key concepts that the learners will encounter during each unit and can be used to pre-learn areas or as a retrieval tool after we have covered parts in class.
Attached below are the Knowledge Organisers we have introduced so far for you to download. They have also been uploaded to Google Classroom.
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Year 6 Autumn 2 - Ancient Greece.docx | .docx | ||
Year 6 Autumn 2 - Light and Shadow.docx | .docx | ||
Year 6 Autumn 1 - Evolution and Inheritance - Copy.docx | .docx |