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Year 6 - Woodpeckers
Year 6 - Woodpeckers
Welcome to Woodpeckers class page
Class teacher - Miss Stuart
Class teaching assistant - Mr Butler
PE is on a Wednesday (swimming). Children should come into school with their swimming costumes and towel.
What are we learning this term?
Main Experiences
Marvelous Maya
Year 6 have travelled back in time to visit the Ancient Maya-learning about how the Ancient Maya lived, what they believed in and the significant impact they have had on the world. Year 6 have examined how useful different sources are for helping us understand the Ancient Maya and also why they declined.
Hook: Year 6 did many activities linked to the Ancient Maya-these included learning the Maya number system and using it to do Maya maths, discovering what the Maya invented, deciding true and false statements linked to the Ancient Maya and tasting Ancient Maya ‘hot chocolate’-which most of Year 6 found to be bitter.
Outcome: To create a video sharing what the children have learnt about Ancient Maya and educating others.
PHOTOS
How can you support at home?
Homework is uploaded to TEAMs every Friday. If you need the work printing, please ask.
Make sure that children continue to access Times Table Rock Stars each night to improve their fluency and speed of their times table knowledge.
Please ensure that your child reads for 15 minutes each evening.
Spellings will be given out on a Monday and children will be quizzed on them the following Monday.
Term 1 - Heartbeat
Heartbeat
What makes a healthy heart?
In our first learning experience 'Heartbeat' we are exploring the circulatory system and how it functions. From measuring our resting heart rate to seeing the changes to our pulse through a variety of exercises, to learning about the different parts of the heart and the impact of exercise and drugs. We will also look at life-saving skills. At the end of our experience we will share our knowledge with professionals in a workshop, celebrating our learning.
Outcome
We shared our learning with experts in the field! They were so impressed with our knowledge of the heart!
Term 2 - Run Rabbit Run!
For our World War Two experience we are looking at how the local community was affected by the events of the Second World War. We will be learning about many areas, including rationing, evacuation and The Blitz.
Hook
To start our experience we learnt about rationing and made no bake chocolate cake - a popular cake made during the war!
Outcome
We will be holding an exibition to show off our learning!
Look out for the date.
Term 3 - Marvellous Maya
How did the Ancient Mayan civilisation contribute to modern beliefs and technology?
In this experience we are exploring the Ancient Maya and their beliefs. We are focusing on where Ancient Maya was, how their society was structured into different city-states, the roles of different people in Ancient Maya and also their technology and inventions.
Hook
We tasted Ancient Mayan cocoa-we found it very bitter.
Outcome
We wrote our own version of the Ancient Mayan traditional tale The Mayan Twins and published them.
We are also going to make Ancient Mayan quizzes on the computers!
Recommended book list - Year 6
Below are a selection of books which are recommend for Year 6 readers.
The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff – Andy Seed
A Boy Called Hope – Lara Williamson
Illegal – Eoin Colder
The Nowhere Emporium – Ross Mackenzie
Time Travelling with a Hamster – Ross Welford
Cogheart – Peter Bunzl
The Girl of Ink and Stars – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Eren – Simon P Clark
The Railway Children – E.Nesbit
Abomination – Robert Swindells
Carries War – Nina Bawden
The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Nature – Christopher Lloyd
Raspberries on the Yangtze – Karen Wallace
The Crowstarver – Dick King-Smith
Awful End – Philip Ardagh
From Hereabout Hill – Michael Morpurgo
Fruit and Nutcase – Jean Ure
Granny – Anthony Horowitz
The Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkin
Kenzuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo
Lion Boy – Zizou Corder
The Machiene Gunners – Robert Westall
The Viewer – Gary Crew
My Swordhand is Singing – Marcus Sedgwick
Once – Morris Gleitzman
The Other Side of Truth – Beverley Naidoo
The SIlver Sword – Ian Serrailler
Skellig – David Almond
Superfudge – Judy Blume
Tell me no Lies – Malorie Blackman
The Weathermonger – Peter Dickinson
What Katy Did – Susan Coolidge
The Wheel of Surya – Jamila Gavin
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S Lewis
Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
Why the Whales Came – Michael Morpurgo
The Borrowers – Mary Norton
Silverfin – Charlie Higson
Oranges in No Man’s Land – Elizabeth Laird
Times Tables
Times tables are extremely important in Year 6. To help with this, children have access to Times Table Rock Stars.
Here are some other useful websites to help with practising times tables:
