Golden Eagles

Welcome to Golden Eagles, Year 6 at Kilmersdon CEVA Primary School.  Eagles is taught by Miss Baker.  Everyone in Eagles is looking forward to the challenges and rewards the final year at Primary School brings.  As a class, we support each other, work hard and produce work we are proud of while enjoying our learning.

Over the year we work hard to prepare for the new challenges of secondary school. As well as covering all of the core subjects' curriculum, this year we will be learning about a range of topics, including The Kingdom of Benin (West Africa 900 - 1200AD), Mayan Civilisation, Victorians and Volcanoes and Earthquakes.

November

Spelling:

• ably, able
• le, el
• il, al
• y, igh, 
• micro, mini
• ies

Grammar:

• synonyms and antonyms
• parenthesis - brackets, dashes, commas
• relative clauses
• formal and informal language
• sentence openers for cohesion within and across paragraphs
• direct and indirect speech
• correct use of commas - using commas for lists, in noun phrases, for fronted adverbials, with opening subordinate clauses, parenthesis and to avoid ambiguity

Writing:

• formal letters
• discussion or argument text
• newspaper reports
• narrative

Maths:

• long division
• common multiples, common factors
• square numbers, cube numbers
• prime and composite numbers
• BIDMAS - order of operations

Topic:

• water resistance
• air resistance 
• mono printing and stencilling
• Mayan society

October

Spelling:

• ent, ant, once, ant, any, envy
• co -, re-
• able, ably

Grammar:

• using different sentence openers (subordinate clause, fronted adverbial, ISPACE)
• modal verbs
• correct use of commas - using commas for lists, in noun phrases, for fronted adverbials, with opening subordinate clauses, parenthesis and to avoid ambiguity

Writing:

• instructions for digging a hole
• informal letter

Maths:

• negative numbers
• column addition and subtraction
• short multiplication
• long multiplication
• short division

Topic:

• friction
• air resistance
• mono printing
• Introduction to The Benin Kingdom: Timeline (When was the Benin period in history?  What was happening in Britain during this time?); Where in Africa was the Benin Kingdom? Key vocabulary

September

Spelling:

• interesting adjectives
• homophones

Grammar:

• rules for using bullet points
• different sentence structures (simple, compound and complex sentences)
• subordinating and coordinating conjunctions
• correct use of commas - using commas for lists, in noun phrases, for fronted adverbials, with opening subordinate clauses and to avoid ambiguity

Writing:

• writing diary entries
• description of a picture
• setting description

Maths:

• read and write numbers up to ten million
• understand the value of each digit in number up to ten million
• order numbers up to ten million
• round numbers to any power of ten (e.g. nearest ten, nearest thousand, nearest ten thousand, nearest hundred thousand or nearest million)

Topic:

• physical features of Africa today (e.g. countries, rivers, mountains, deserts, surrounding oceans and seas, bordering countries)
• human features of Africa today
• Introduction to The Benin Kingdom: Timeline (When was the Benin period in history?  What was happening in Britain during this time?); Where in Africa was the Benin Kingdom? Key vocabulary
• gravity

Weeks beginning 4th and 11th February

Spelling:

• Words that follow the ‘i before e except after c’ rule and exceptions

Grammar:

• Recognise and use prepositions
• Use active and passive voice
• Use commas accurately
• Use verb tenses accurately

Writing:

• Describe settings in narrative
• Use sentence openers or conjunctions to write with cohesion within and across paragraphs
• Write their own version of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’
• Write a biography

Maths:

• Equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages
• Finding 10%, 25%, 50% and 1% of numbers mentally
• Understanding numbers with up to three decimals places

Topic:

• Recognise features of different plants
• Recognise parts of a plant and their function
• Understand how pollination happens

Weeks beginning 21st and 28th January 2018

Spelling: 

• Adding vowel suffixes to words ending in -fer
• ie before e except after c

Grammar: 

• Using expanded noun phrases
• Using subjunctive verb forma

Writing: 

• Narrative: alternative 'Jack and the Beanstalk' story
• Writing with cohesion within paragraphs

Maths:

• Finding fractions of amounts or numbers
• Finding percentages of amounts or numbers
• Multiplying decimals by integers
• Addition and subtraction of decimals

Topic: 

• Recognising features of plant classification groups
• Recognise features of animal classification groups

Well done to the Year 6 football team who played brilliantly and represented the school amazingly at the County Final Football Tournament.  All the children should be extremely proud of how well they played and their sportsmanship.  By coming third in their group, they just missed out on a place in the semi-final play off.  This was disappointing for them, however it was the the top twelve school teams in Somerset playing - fantastic.  Thank you to the parents for their support.  

Weeks beginning 7th and 14th January 2018

Spelling:

• Prefixes micro and mini

Grammar:

• Using expanded noun phrases
• Using pronouns

Writing:

• Narrative: The Worst Day Ever
• Using a picture as a stimulus for writing

Maths:

• Multiply fractions by integers (whole numbers)
• Multiply fractions by fractions
• Divide fractions by integers (whole numbers)
• Multiply by powers of ten (move digits left)
• Divide by powers of ten (move digits right)

Topic:

• Classify living things
• Recognise features of animal classification groups

Weeks beginning 26th November and 3rd December

Spelling:

• Words ending in -ably
• Word families (temper and vary)

Grammar:

• Using expanded noun phrases
• Using brackets, dashes or commas for parenthesis
• Using modal verbs to indicate degree of possibility
• Singular and plural

Writing:

• Explanation text: ‘Day and Night’
• Non-chronological report: ‘The Role of Women during WWII’ and a subject of their choice linked to our history or Science topics.
• Formal Letter linked to WWII
• Instructions for the use of a gas mask

Maths:

• Equivalent fractions
• Placing fractions on a number line
• Compare and order fractions
• Add and subtract fractions
• Multiply fractions by integers

Topic:

• Key events in WWII
• Jewish children during WWII, Anne Frank, Holocaust
• Time zones
• Sundials
• Shadows

Homework – 23rd November

Find out about Earth’s Moon. Use the questions below to help you.

What is the Moon and what do you think it is like?

How often does it orbit Earth?

Describe the different phases of the Moon during the lunar month.

Why does the Moon appear to change shape during the lunar cycle?

Extension

Find out how many moons other planets have and show this information in a table.

Weeks beginning 12th and 19th November

Spelling:

• Words ending in -able
• Words ending in -able when the root word ends in e

Grammar:

• Synonyms and antonyms
• Using relative clauses
• Pronouns

Writing:

• Narrative about being an evacuee, ‘The Day my Life Changed Forever’
• Letter home as an evacuee
• Non-chronological report, 'The Role of Women during WWII'

Maths:

• Prime, Square and Cube numbers
• Common Multiples
• Common Factors
• Order of Operations (follow BODMAS – Brackets, Orders, Divison and Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction)
• Simplify fractions

Topic:

• Investigating life on the Home front – evacuee, rationing, home guard
• The role of Women during WWII
• Time zones
• Moon Phases

Weeks beginning 8th and 15th October

Spelling:

• using a hyphen with prefixes re- and co-
• using a hyphen with compound adjectives to avoid ambiguity

Grammar:

• correct use of commas
• synonyms and antonyms
• using semi-colons and colons

Writing:

• a narrative about being an evacuee, ‘The Day my Life Changed Forever’
• a letter home as an evacuee

Maths:

• multiplication (long and short multiplication)
• short division
• division using factors
• long division

Topic:

• eclipses, time zones
• investigating life as an evacuee

Weeks beginning 24th September and 1st October

Spelling:

• adjectives that end in –ant and nouns that end in –ance or –ancy 
• adjectives that end in –ent and nouns that end in –ence or –ency

Grammar:

• simple, compound and complex sentences
• co-ordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) and subordinating conjunctions 
• recognising and accurately punctuating subordinate clauses 
• identifying and ensuring agreement of subject, object and verbs in sentences

Writing:

• a first person recount of an air raid during the Blitz
• a letter home as an evacuee

Maths:

• negative numbers
• addition and subtraction of whole numbers (column addition and subtraction)
• mental addition and subtraction

Topic:

• understanding how the rotation of Earth creates day and night, eclipses, time zones
• investigating life during the Blitz and as an evacuee

Weeks beginning 10th and 17th September

Spelling:

• ambitious adjectives
• tricky homophones

Grammar:

• using commas, colons and semi-colons to list
• simple, compound and complex sentences

Writing:

• instructions
• evacuee story

Maths - numbers up to ten million:

• reading and writing in words and figures
• the value of digits
• rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000 or million
• ordering and comparing using < > or =
• negative numbers

Topic

• World War II - when, where, who and why questions (basic facts)
• Space - the relationship between the size and distance of the Sun, Moon and Earth