Year Six

Welcome to Year 6! We have an action packed year ahead of us which will bring many challenges and rewards. As the class start their final year at Fullerton we are committed and focused on preparing them to achieve their potential academically whilst recognising the importance of developing the whole child and preparing them to live life in all it's fulness. Having taught this group in Year 4 I know that they are a brilliant mixture of ability and character and have no doubt that they will have the perseverance to meet all challenges head on while remaining excellent student leaders and role models for the rest of the school.

Home learning - We will send home learning tasks each Friday which will consist of a mixture of SPaG, maths and spellings activities.

PE - Our PE days will be on Wednesday's this year and will start with Gymnastics (HT1) before moving on to Dance (HT2).

Class Text - our class text this term is "Safiyyah's War" and tracks the story of a young Muslim girl living in Paris in WW2 who has the dangerous task of helping Jewish families escape Nazi persecution.

Literacy and Reading - Our learning this half term will be based on two books that are set in WW2 times. "When We Were Warriors" is a collection of three short stories set in England during WW2 whilst "Star of Fear, Star of Hope" is based in France and tells the story of a young girl whose Jewish best friend is forced to flee to hide from the Nazi regime.

Maths - we start our year focusing on place value then move on to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division before ending with fractions. Alongside this we ensure that the children are exposed to exam style arithmetic questions daily to gradually build their confidence when faced with this style of questioning.

Science - we will be looking at the bodily systems and in particular the circulatory system.

History - we look into WW2 and cover the themes of appeasement, evacuees, the home guard and VE Day.

Art - in our Art learning we focus on distortion and proportion.

Religious Education - we look at the enquiry question "What does it mean if Christians believe that God is holy and loving?".

Alongside these topics we will also be covering learning in Geography (HT2), Spanish, Music and PHSE.

If you have any questions or wish to ask us anything then please don't hesitate to contact via dojo or the school office.

Mr Wheeler, Miss Tyson and Mrs Plummer.