To mark the end of our Bear topic we invited our ‘bears’ to join us for a Teddy Bear’s picnic. After a busy morning, eating porridge, preparing special treats and putting the finishing touches to our disguise we set off to the ‘woods’.
Here is an overview of what Year 3 will be doing throughout the Autumn Term
Dear Parents,
Welcome to Year 6 – I am sure it will turn out to be a challenging yet rewarding final year at Bede Burn.
English
Our first focus text this term will be a short story by Michael Morpurgo called ‘The Giant’s Necklace’. Through it, I hope the children will showcase their writing skills to me through a diary entry in role as the main character and a newspaper report of a significant event. ‘Viking Boy’ by Tony Bradman will be the next text we use to link fiction with our topic this term, which is the Vikings. We will also be revising grammar and punctuation rules from KS2 before we start on the new Y6 criteria.
Maths
This term our focus will be on securing place value knowledge and revising and consolidating all four number operations before we move on to look at fractions. This year we will be ensuring all children are fluent in all aspects of maths as well as incorporating reasoning and problem solving tasks.
Topic
The Vikings will be the subject of our topic work this term – we will be looking at where the Vikings came from, where they first landed in England and the struggle they had with the Anglo Saxons until their demise! Children will be making Viking longships and, hopefully, making a visit to Lindisfarne this term.
Science
Mr Haikney will be taking Y6 for Science and he will be focusing on ‘Animals including Humans’ looking at the circulatory and respiratory system.
PE
This term will be a mixture of team games e.g. rounders, kwik cricket while the weather holds and then we will have a go at circuit training indoors where children will compete against themselves to better their score in a variety of skills.
ICT
We will be looking at the program ‘Scratch’ to decompose a times tables games in order for the children to then program their own ‘Scratch’ file to make an interactive times tables game for younger children in our school.
As you know, in May 2017 your children will be sitting the SATs. These comprise of a reading test, grammar, punctuation and spelling test and a series of maths tests (one arithmetic and two reasoning papers). We shall, of course, be preparing the children for the SATs over the course of the year so that they can reach their full potential. I would be grateful if you could encourage your child to complete homework to the best of their ability. If there are any problems with homework (or any other aspect of Y6), please get in touch with me so I can help as soon as possible. My door will be open from 8.30 every morning and I will be available on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays after school – feel free to pop your head around the door!
Last year, a few children found it helpful to have some study guides at home to help them with the trickier aspects of grammar and punctuation in particular. This book is by no means essential but I would recommend Oxford School Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Dictionary (2014 – it has a purple/blue cover).
However, Y6 is not solely focused on the SATs. Y6 children have the responsibility of buddies in Reception this year – something I know they will enjoy and relish. We also have the annual Y6 trip to Thurston to look forward to. Our slot this year is in June. It is a brilliant trip, which is enjoyed by everyone who attends. More information will follow regarding specific dates and prices etc.
Year 6 will receive weekly homework; it will be set on a Wednesday to be completed by the following Monday. Seesaw will play a large role in homework this year – I know from Mrs Faulkner how well you all – children and parents – took to using it and I look forward to seeing the different styles of presenting homework. Please ensure homework is completed every week – feel free to help your child and please let me know if your child is struggling.
Reading is still very important in Y6; this should not just be listening to your child read but questioning them about what they have read, asking them to predict what might happen or to tell you about the main character for example. Reading journals should be written in regularly by both children and parents.
PE will take place on Thursdays and Fridays – please make sure that kit is in school on these days. (Kit consists of a red logoed Bede Burn t-shirt, black shorts and black plimsolls or trainers).
I am looking forward to working with you and the children to ensure everyone makes the most of this last year at Bede Burn and that the children leave with happy memories of their time here,
Yours sincerely,
Mrs M Todd
‘Crazy Sock Day’ was a great success, not least in that we were able to reunite each child with the correct shoes at the end of our first PE session. Thank you for your support this week, have a super weekend and we will see you all on Monday, doors open at 8.45am.
Weekend challenge~ find your socks!
Thank you so much for joining us for our Family Picnic at the park. It was lovely to see you all. Thank you also for all of your support throughout the year, we hope you have a lovely summer holiday.
The garden is full of fascinating things, some with wings that move so fast they buzz, some with eyes on sticks, some that can move with no legs at all and some with armour to protect themselves. The garden at school is full of even more amazing creatures, created by the children themselves and they have their own homes to keep them safe because ‘Bugs need homes too!’ Well done Nature Detectives.
The children certainly impressed the guides with their knowledge of castles on our visit to Newcastle Keep.They were able to answer all of the questions, some of them before they had even been asked. We were also very proud of them for their good behaviour and stamina! (There were a lot of steep steps to climb.)
Year 3 are using their iPads and science knowledge to write an account of their work
on Light and Shadows.
In English at the moment we are transforming the well loved story we’re going on a bear hunt to our own we’re going on a treasure hunt story. We started by learning and acting out the story we’re going on a bear hunt and have now planned our own obstacles that we will face, when finding hidden treasure on a deserted island.
We can’t wait to finish writing them! More pics to follow of our super-duper stories.
