Year 6
Miss Taylor Mrs Gleeson
Class Teacher HLTA
Welcome
Welcome to Year 6
Hello and welcome to Year 6, my name is Miss Taylor and I am the class teacher. In Year 6, we strive to create learning environment that is engaging and motivating for all, encouraging all children to fulfil their potential while preparing them for the next step to High School.
As Year 6 are the oldest pupils in the school, we greatly encourage independence and responsibility. All our pupils have taken on extra roles such as: Head boy/girl, Deputies, House Captains and Play Leaders. Throughout St Alban’s, our Year 6 children act as role models to the younger children, demonstrating our school’s core values.
If you have any further question, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Kind regards
Miss Taylor
Maths
At St Alban’s we follow a Mastery Approach to teaching Maths, ensuring children have a firm understanding of the different Mathematical concepts through Varied Fluency, Reasoning and Problem Solving. During the Autumn Term we will be covering a range of Maths topics such as
- Place Value
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Fractions A
- Fractions B
- Converting units
We also practice our arithmetic and times tables skills weekly.
English
For our English lessons, we follow the Pathways to Write Scheme. This half term we studying the book Can we save the tiger? by Martin Jenkins and learning how to write a hybrid text based on an amazing animal. As part of this topic, our Mastery Keys are:
- Enhance meaning through selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary.
- Use modal verbs and adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility.
- Use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis.
Reading
Reading also plays a vital role in our English curriculum. This half term we are reading the book Into the Jungle by Katherine Rundell. Within each reading session we focus on developing our reading and comprehension skills by exploring the different reading domains.
- Vocabulary
- Retrieval
- Inference
- Predicting
- Summarise
- Compare, contrast and comment
- Author's choice
In Year 6 we also use Reading Plus and the children have weekly targetted reading sessions online.
RE
As a Catholic School, the teaching of the church is at the heart of everything we do. As well as daily worship, we follow the Come and See Scheme. Our topics for the Autumn Term are:
- Domestic Church-Family: Loving
- Baptism/Confirmation-Belonging: Vocation and Commitment
- Advent/Christmas-Loving: Expectations
We will also study a brief topic about Judaism and Harvest this term.
Geography
Countries of South America
This half term we will be taking a journey across the other side of the world to learn about the fascinating continent of South America. Within this topic we will explore the different countries and environmental regions of South America as well as learn about its different geographical features. We will also continue to develop our map reading and compass skills including identifying both the tropic and artic circles.
Science
Evolution and Inheritance
This unit introduces the children to the key concepts of evolution and inheritance by building upon previous topics, including animal characteristics and fossils. Year 6 will learn about inherited traits and apply their knowledge to various animals and plants, before being introduced to the work of Mary Anning and Charles Darwin. Throughout the unit, the children will learn about the fascinating history of the human race and discover links between extinct animals and those which are still living today.
