Welcome to Year 6 at Red Hill!
We would like to warmly welcome your child into Year 6 and we are very excited to support them on their journey through their final year at Red Hill Primary School!
At Red Hill, we have four Year 6 classes:-
6L Miss Long (Mrs Bishop)
6M Miss Melvin
6FM Miss Marshall
6A Miss Argent
Our year group TAs are Mrs Smoothy and Mrs Saunders
SATs information video and PowerPoint
Please see the attached link for an information video regarding the SATs that are coming up in May. We have also attached the PowerPoint.
https://www.loom.com/share/ef8c38bd7ad84c1eb8f3879dd5c4a0de?sid=308dd0a9-a142-4a61-aaf4-76377b6cbb8e
If you have any questions that are not answered on here, please speak to your child's class teacher.
Curriculum
Please click below to see the curriculum map for Year 6 as well as the topic web for this half term. These are working documents however, so they may change as we progress into the term. The Year 6 Curriculum Meeting slides are also below.
Homework sheets
Please see below for weekly homework sheets. Children should have brought these home every Friday in their homework books.
Attached is also a recommended reading list.
Our learning
Our topic for Spring Term is ‘900CE'.
We will be learning that at 900 CE, different ancient civilizations were rising and declining across the world. We will study the ancient Mayan civilization, the Kingdom of Benin and the rise of the Islamic empire. We will need to be historians and use artefacts and historical sources to make observations about the life cycle of civilizations and the legacies they leave us.
What happens when empires grow?
What causes change and decline?
What have we learnt from these past civilisations
English
In English, we will be revising a range of punctuation and grammar in preperation for our SATs in May!
We will also be focusing on retrieval, inference and 3 mark answers in reading comprehensions.
Maths
Maths this half term has a focus of decimals, percentages and fractions. We will then be moving onto angles.
- Equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.
- Percentages of amounts
- Angles in a triangle
- Angles on straight lines
- Angles in quadrilaterals
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Supporting your child with their learning at home
Reading
Reading should be completed a minimum of 3x a week, but ideally for 10 minutes each evening. This can be completed with an adult, or children can choose to read independently. If reading independently, children can record their reading session in their book but should get an adult to initial it. If reading to an adult, the adults need to record the reading session in the reading record, alongside a sentence or two about how the read and anything they found tricky. Reading records must be in school every day.
Homework books
Homework books are sent home on a Friday and must be returned to school on a Wednesday. Weekly homework includes:
Maths
A short maths challenge linking to the week’s learning. There will be 3 different challenges that your child can choose to complete depending on how confident they felt with that concept in class. Children should also log into TTRS (https://ttrockstars.com) and practise their multiplication recall.
Spellings
Children will have 10 spellings sent home linking to a spelling pattern being taught in class. These will be tested in the spelling session on a Wednesday morning.
IPC
At the bottom of the homework will be some questions linking to the topics being taught in class. Please ask your children these questions and get them talking about all the incredible learning that is taking place in classrooms! This is a great chance for children to share all of their amazing knowledge.
PE
PE days are as follows for Spring 2:
6L- Tuesday and Wednesday
6M- Tuesday and Wednesday
6FM- Tuesday
6A- Tuesday
As we move into Winter, please ensure that children wear their winter PE kits (jogging bottoms, Red Hill PE top, school jumper and trainers). Please also make sure children bring a warm, waterproof coat with a hood.