Friday, 10 January 2025

Year 6 Curriculum Newsletter - Spring





Headteacher: Mrs L Nicholls


Year 6 - Spring Curriculum Newsletter 

 

It’s a very warm welcome back to school for our Year 6 family. This term is a really important term for the children to be at school, on time, everyday. We look forward to enjoying Spring with them!

Please find below some key information about this term and our expectations. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries using our inbox: year6@broadford.havering.sch.uk.


Homework: 

Our expectation at Broadford is that every child should do the following every night: 

● 15 minutes reading to themselves or an adult (signed in the reading record) 

● 15 minutes practising spellings in their spelling book 

● 15 minutes rehearsing times tables facts on Times Tables Rockstars 


Sumdog:

All children should have received or already know their Sumdog information. This is an online platform that the children can use to further consolidate learning. This is monitored by the class teacher and children will be rewarded for the use of Sumdog at home. Please note however, this is not compulsory. 


SATS Bootcamp

Your children have received their login to SATS Bootcamp. This will help support your child in answering SATS style questions.

Your child should visit: www.yearsix.co.uk and click ‘Login’ in the top right.


Spellings: 

Spellings will be given out on Mondays. The children should practise their words every evening. Spelling books must be brought in on Fridays, which is also when the weekly test happens. This will be closely monitored. 


P.E Lessons

For Wednesday and Friday afternoons, children can wear their PE kit to school for their lessons in the afternoon - black/navy shorts or jogging bottoms and a white polo/t-shirt. Children must not wear tracksuits or any other colours than those listed above. 


Forest School

This year all children will participate in Forest School, which will take place on Wednesday afternoons.

For these sessions they will need to change into: long trousers, a waterproof coat and a pair of old shoes or wellies that can stay in school.

Please make sure that children have weather appropriate attire, so that they can fully enjoy the sessions, even on a rainy day!



School Uniform

Please be reminded that the school colours are grey and navy. All school uniform is available through Premier School Wear. Children are permitted to wear stud earrings. Children must also not attend school wearing make-up or nail varnish/fake nails.


Reading Books

As reading is a huge priority here at Broadford, we will do our best to encourage the children to change their books regularly and every child will read 1:1 with an adult at least once a week. Please remind the children to let any adults know if they need to change their book and that it is their responsibility to bring any old reading books back to school.


105 Books to Read Before Leaving Broadford

Please be reminded of our reading reward system, where each year pupils can read 15 quality stories and be rewarded with certificates and prizes. There will be three certificates to earn - bronze, silver and gold. The children will keep trackers in school to monitor the books they have read - please find  all the key stage 2 trackers, along with the books they can read here. Please also note that some books have a gold star next to them indicating that the book can be reviewed using MyBookBlog. 


Key Dates


Spring 1

Spring 2

Monday 6th January 

Road Safety Workshop

Monday 24th February 

Return to school 

Friday 10th January 

University of Broadford begins

W/C Monday 24th March

Year 6 mock SATs week

W/C Monday 20th January 

Year 6 mock SATs week

Tuesday 28th January

Stay & Learn @ 2.30pm

Wednesday 2nd April

Easter parade

Thursday 30th January 

Food Bank talk 

Friday 4th April 

Spring term ends

Thursday 6th February 

Safe Internet Day



Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th February

Parents Evening








Curriculum Information

We have included a summary of the topics which the children will be covering this term below, so that you can best support your child with their learning at home.


We look forward to the year ahead as the children embark on their final chapter of their primary school career. 

Any questions please email - year6@broadford.havering.sch.uk


Yours faithfully,


Miss Wyatt                                    Mrs Green & Mrs Cocks                   Mrs  Spoor

Year 6 Lead                                  Larch Class Teachers                Redwood Class Teacher

Birch Class Teacher    

                          

Spring Term


1st Half Term

2nd Half Term

Literacy

Holes

Letter Writing

Narrative

Robin Hood 

TBC

Maths

Fractions, decimals and percentages

Ratio & Proportion

Revision of the four operations

Area & Volume

Coordinates & Translation

Revision of fractions, decimals and percentages 

It is essential for the children to know all of their Times Tables so that they can access the Mathematics curriculum in Year 6. Please encourage your child to practise on TTRockstars every evening to improve their speed and accuracy. 

Here are some useful websites to support your child with their learning at home:

Corbett Maths Primary 

Sumdog

SATs Bootcamp

Computing

Programming

Data and Information

Science

Light and Light Pollution

The Circulatory System 

Diet, Drugs and Lifestyle

History/Geography

Kingdom of Benin 

South America

PSHE

Valuing Difference

Keeping Safe

RE

What does it mean to be Christian? 

What does it mean to be a Muslim?

PE

Dance

Basketball

Art/Design and Technology

Activism

Exploring Identity

French

This is France - Distances, Neighbors, Directions, Paris, Nationalities and famous French people. 

Music

Benjamin Britten - A New Year Carol

You've Got A Friend


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