Welcome to Year 6

Hello and welcome to Year 6. We all hope you enjoy browsing through our page.

English

In English this term we have worked on Friend or Foe. We all enjoyed...

• reading as a class
• making predictions through speech and drama
• finding evidence in the text
• writing from the perspective of a character
• comparing characters
• writing news reports

We are currently working on journalistic writing - focusing on the rugby World Cup. We have...

• written a pre-test news report
• enjoyed writing headlines, sub headlines and introductions
• writing direct and indirect speech using videos from England Vs Wales
• using statistics to write sentences
• writing short sentences for effect within a paragraph

Maths

In Maths we like to keep lessons practical, fun and interesting. So far we have worked on the following areas...

• place value
• counting in fractions
• the four main operations
• fractions
• pie charts
• percentages

World War Two in Coventry

What a great topic to start the year! The children are already World War Two experts and have excelled when completing the following work...

• sequencing key events of World War Two
• researching a specific key event
• a day in the life of an evacuee at The Herbert Art Gallery
• discussing the impact of the Blitz/WW2 at The Coventry Transport Museum
• finding journalistic features from a news report based on a WW2 bomb being found in Coventry