To encourage children to take responsibility for organising and completing their own homework Year 6 will have a set homework routine.  All homework will be issued on Friday and needs to be completed and returned by Wednesday.  All written homework will need to be completed in a homework book.  As homework diaries are no longer used as a form of communication any comments you would like to make can be made after each weeks set of homework.
The homework for a week will consist of 30 minutes reading, 1 piece of Maths, 1 piece of Literacy, spellings to learn and sometimes a spelling task.

Homework tasks will be written in the homework books each week.

Year 6 Autumn Term Curriculum

Science

• Forces
• Different changes and dissolving

ICT

• Multimedia presentation
• Using the internet to search large databases and to
  interpret information

Our overall umbrella topic this term is:

This will incorporate the following areas:

History - Victorian Britain

Geography -

• Connecting Ourselves to the World
• Investigating Rivers

Music - Developing singing, listening and composing skills

Art - Developing drawing and making skills

P.E.   - Invasion Games

R.E.   - Faith in Action

Please refer to the letter already sent home with specific details of where Year 6 will be dismissed from at the end of each day.

During the term we shall be covering the following units in our Literacy lessons

Poetry - Comparing the work of two poets.  Writing own poetry.

Narrative Writing - Planning and structuring narrative texts, using details to develop the plot and characters.

Media/Plays - Comparing different versions of plays and stories in print and film.

Journalistic - Looking at journalistic style and writing newspaper reports.

Biographies - Developing skills of biographical writing
Reports - Identifying and using the features of reports in own writing.

Family Worships           
6G - 25th September 2009
6M - 6th November 2009
Harvest Festival - 13th October 2009
Staff Training Day - 23rd October 2009
Half Term - 26th – 30th October 2009
Advent Service - 2nd December 2009
Shugborough - 4th – 8th January 2010

In addition during this term we will be having a Victorian day on Tuesday 20th October where the children can come dressed as Victorian school children and experience life as it was then.  Perhaps you may like to start thinking about a simple costume now, clothes you have already can easily be adapted.  More details to follow!!!!

If any parents could come in to help either on a regular basis with displays and admin, or occasionally for trips and practical activities please let us know.  Any offers of help will be gratefully received.

Indoor games kit will be required every Thursday.

Indoor kit – white tee shirt and dark shorts.

Outdoor games kit will be required every Friday.

Outdoor kit – trainers and suitable clothing for cold weather.

No football shirts please.

Autumn Term Numeracy

During the term we shall be covering the following units.

• Place value
• Mental methods of multiplication and division.
• Fractions, decimals and percentages.
• Ratio and proportion.
• Handling data.
• Using a calculator.
• Reasoning about shapes and measures.
• Position and movement.
• Reading and interpreting scales.
• + and – problems and checking solutions.
• Number sequences.