Year 6
Welcome to Year 6 
Despite the weather still feeling a little autumnal at times, we are definitely in the Summer Term now! Secondary school places have been allocated, and we only have a couple of weeks until the SATs tests begin on the 13th May. The children should be proud of how hard they have worked this year and can start looking forward to lots of fun activities and topics for their final term at Didsbury Road.
The timetable for the SATs tests this year is:
Monday 13th May- Grammar Paper1 (Questions) and Paper 2 (Spelling)
Tuesday 14th May- Reading Paper
Wednesday 15th May- Maths Paper 1 (Arithmetic) and Paper 2 (Reasoning)
Thursday 16th May- Maths Paper 3 (Reasoning)
During the week of SATs, please remind children to rest, relax and switch off as much as possible- the best preparation will be to eat well, stay hydrated and get lots of sleep!
Summer 1:
Maths - Shape (Angles, Circles and 3D shape), Position and Direction (co-ordinates, translations and reflections)
English - Spy Fiction and explanations, plus our whole class reading book- Kensuke's Kingdom
Science - Finishing our work on the classification of living things, then evolution and inheritance
Geography - Is South America the same all over?
Computing - HTML
Religion, Beliefs & Values - Finishing our work on 'What matters most to Christians and Humanists?' and then looking at how religious communities could help care for Planet Earth
Art - South American art
PSHE - The effects and risks of alcohol
French- Holiday vocab and travelling
Homework: (To continue until the end of Summer 1, then in Summer 2 will be more project-based.)
Monday - Maths: Arithmetic, Reasoning, Problem Solving
Tuesday - Grammar
Thursday - Reading comprehension
Friday - Spellings
We encourage children to read for a minimum of 10 minutes every day at home and to practise the spellings of the Common Exception Words for the whole of KS2 - children will have received copies of these. We shall also be learning these in school alongside the Year 6 spelling rules.