Year 6 - David Attenborough

David Attenborough Class — Year 6 — 2022 - 2023

Hello everyone and welcome to our David Attenborough class page.

We are one of three classes in Upper Key Stage 2. In our class there are 30 Year 6 children

Here you can see what we've been doing and find out about what we're learning.

Mr Lamb is our teacher and Mrs Hill helps us throughout the day.

Curriculum — what are we learning this year?

Autumn Term – History Focus

Were the Anglo-Saxons or the Vikings better invaders?

Spring Term – Geography Focus

Why are rainforests so important?

Summer Term – Art Focus

Why are people fascinated with space?

For more details please see

https://www.dalestorth.notts.sch.uk/our-dalestorth-curriculum/

Each term, you will receive a newsletter telling you more information about each topic as well as Knowledge Organisers. These provide you with ‘Subject Specific Vocabulary’ and ‘Sticky Knowledge’ that your child will be learning throughout the topic.

Knowledge Organisers

Autumn

Anglo-Saxons and Vikings KO

Year 6 History previous knowledge

Spring

Geography - Y6 Rainforests.pdf

Geography - Y6 South America.pdf

Summer

Useful Information

PE days are Mondays and Wednesdays.

Your child needs to come into school on their PE days (Mondays and Wednesdays) wearing their outdoor PE kit. PE will only take place outdoors until further notice. Again, please refer to the school website for details of our outdoor PE kit.

No jewellery is allowed in PE lessons, so if your child has their ears pierced they will either need to take their earrings out for P.E. or cover them with tape/plasters, provided by yourselves, so that they don’t get caught during the lesson.

Homework in Year 6 is given out each Thursday and is due in the following Tuesday.
Each week your child will receive three pieces of homework: maths, SPaG and comprehension in their three CPG books. Please ensure that your child does the correct page as we will mark this homework together. If your is struggling with any homework, then please let me know as soon as possible. I am happy to go over homework with individual children. Maths and SPaG guides will be sent home with your child to support their learning at home.

Spellings are given out on a Monday and your child will be tested on these the following Monday. The weekly spelling test will have a total of 15 spellings — 10 learnt and 5’unseen’ spellings from previous weeks. Spelling lists are located in the front of your child’s diary and they are uploaded to Spelling Bee (login details are located at the front of your child's diary)

https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/

SATs Tests

According to the Department for Education, SATs will take place in 2023. There will be a meeting later in the year to discuss the tests in more detail, but the test dates are Monday 8th May 2023 – Thursday 11th May 2023. Please DO NOT book any holidays during this week.

Photos

Coronation

Guinea Pig Monitors

Easter

Easter Disco

Topic Geography Showcase

Tropical Butterfly House

Comic Relief

Snow day March 2023

Creative Rainforest Homework

World Book Day

University of Nottingham

Author Visit -- Jessica Bowers

Geography Field Trip Sutton Lawn

Valentines Disco

Number Day

Gymnastics

Dogs Trust

Spring guinea pig monitors

Christmas Concert

KS2 Christmas Disco

End of Topic Museum

Christmas Party

Christmas Costa Trip

Christmas Jumper Day

Panto (Peter Pan)

Science - Heart

Christmas Decorations

Cinema Trip

World Cup England VS Iran

Children in Need

Science — Reversible and Irreversible Changes

Anti-Bullying Afternoon

Autumn 1 Guinea Pig Monitors

History Creative Homework

Library Visit

On Thursday 3rd November, Year 4 Frank and Year 6 Attenborough classes have visited Sutton Library. All of the children were beautifully behaved at the library and enjoyed listening to stories as well as browsing and choosing books to take home. It was a real pleasure taking the children out in the community, a big thank you to Sutton Library for inviting us.