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.
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:
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