St James' CE Primary School
With Mr Rawcliffe and Mrs Lowe
Class 6: Our School Day
Arrive between 8:35am - 8:45am
Home Time: 3:15pm
Homework
Homework tasks will be online and can be accessed through the children’s iPads. The homework will be set every Friday and will be due the following Wednesday.
1) Maths- ‘Learning by questions’ (LBQ).
2) Reading- 30 minutes reading task, accessed through ‘Reading Plus’.
3) Weekly spellings to learn for a test every Friday.
4) Regular reading of their school reading books with an adult at least three times a week.
|
Spring 2 The Amazing Amazon This is a geography topic. We will be locating the Amazon rainforest within South America. We will be exploring why the rainforest is so important and who lives in there – including plants, animals, and people. We will compare different settlements within Amazon Rainforest including indigenous people. We will consider the human impact on the rainforest ecosystem. |
|
ENGLISH This half-term, our core text is 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which is written by L Frank Baum
We are looking forward to lots of new reading and writing opportunities, based on this book and other companion texts, this half-term. This half term we will be focusing on key gramatical skills, which include: dialogue, relative clauses, commas for clarity and expanded noun phrases.
|
|
SCIENCE This half-term, we will be learning about 'Animals- including Humans ', as well as improving our working scientifically skills.
Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function.
Identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.
Recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs
|
|
RE (Religious Education) This half term we will be looking at 'What difference does the ressurection make to Christians?' Within this unit, pupils will study the ‘big story’ of the Bible, explaining the place of incarnation and salvation. They will study accounts of Jesus’ death and resurrection comparing their thoughts with the different ways that Christians may interpret these
|
|
Art Our project this half term is 'Make my voice heard '. This unit focuses on developing pupils' skills in using different art styles, exploring effects with tools, understanding and applying chiaroscuro, and creating symbolic and expressive drawings. It encourages children to form their own opinions about art, understand the impact of techniques, and convey messages through their artwork.
|
|
French Our next unit of the year is 'French Sport and the Olympics'. We will be extending and building our French vocabulary about different sports and countries, using different forms of verbs and finding out more about the French Olympics.
|
|
Computing This half-term, our topic is called 'Exploring spreadsheets'. In this unit, we will
Learning how to touch type is such an important life skill. You can practise at home with these fun BBC Bitesize activities - Dance Mat Typing. |
|
And all the rest... Music - Mrs Chambers from Tameside Music Service will continue to teach us to play the ukulele each Tuesday. On Tuesday afternoons we will join also with the rest of KS1 and 2 to sing with Miss Parnell with Mrs Lok playing the piano.
PSHE - Our theme for this term is 'Healthy Me'.
PE - Our PE lesson with Coach Jake is on a Wednesday afternoon. They will get changed for PE before their lesson at school on Wednesday and then come home in their PE kit. There is an after school sports club for children in year 5 and 6 on Wednesday - each half term is a new theme and parents/carers can sign up on Arbor. Class 6 will do the mile run each week as well as other physical activities. |
OUR CLASS PRAYERS
Lunch time Prayer
For health and strength and daily food,
We thank you, God. Amen
---------------------------------
Our End of Day Class Prayer
At the end of the day,
We would like to say,
Thank you God for another day,
Please keep us safe 'til the morning.
Amen
Mr Rawcliffe rawcliffel@sja.fa1.uk
Meet the Teacher
