Year 6 Amber Class

Mrs Perkins	Mrs Blanchard	Mrs Ayres	Ms V Bowman
Class Teacher	Teaching Assistant (AM)	Teaching Assistant	Teaching Assistant (PM)

Autumn Term One

The children have quickly settled into the routine of Year 6 and are already making great progress.

In English Writing, we have already written non-chronological reports, setting descriptions and an exciting adventure story about climbers crossing the dreaded Khumbu Icefalls of Mount Everest. The children have investigated and learnt how to develop character through carefully written dialogue and through the accurate use of ‘show don’t tell’ to intrigue and interest their readers.

In Mathematics, we have revised place value in numbers up to 10,000,000 and are coming to the end of a unit on the four operations. Some of the children have really stretched themselves to understand the concept of long division and are justly proud of their achievements.

In Science, we have looked again at Living Things and Their Environments building on work done previously in Key Stage 1 and lower Key Stage 2. They have learnt how to create classification keys and how living things are divided into different groups.

In RE we have looked at how different religions and world views have a range of practices and why religion looks different in different parts of the world and in PSHE we have considered how to keep ourselves safe in our local environment – a very important part of the curriculum especially as the children begin the preparation for secondary education and the greater independence that requires.

This half term seems to have flown by and now we look forward to preparing for a second half term together.