Cypress Class (Year 6)
Welcome to Cypress Class
Staff
Class Teacher: Mrs Bennett
Class Teaching Assistant: Mrs Osmundsen
PPA Class Teacher: Mrs Olley (Wednesdays)
Term 1 Key Information
- PE on a Monday and Tuesday afternoon
- NO Forest School this term
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Tuesday 1st September - Start of Term 1
- Saturday 12th September - FRIENDS Boot Fair
- Tuesday 15th September - Individual & sibling photos
- Monday 21st September - Harvest festival at St Mary's Great Chart Church
- Wednesday 23rd September - International day of Sign Language
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Wednesday 30th September - Pop in Wednesday / book look after school
- Friday 2nd October - Pop in Friday / book look after school
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Friday 9th October - Oak Class Celebration Worship!
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Friday 16th October - FRIENDS Barn Dance Disco in Hall (Y5&6 4:30 - 6:00pm)
- Friday 23rd October - FRIENDS Non uniform day and Last day of Term
Term 1 Connected Learning
This term the Big Question is ‘Conflict and Resolution: Is it ever right to fight?’.
Our key text in English is ‘Star of Fear, Star of Hope’ by Jo Hoestlandt. This is a story set during the World War II Nazi occupation of France. This text focuses on the perspective of a child with a Jewish friend during WW2, and the Holocaust. During the unit the children will focus on use of descriptive language through use of expanded noun phrases and figurative language. Using paragraphs and manipulating sentence length. The children will write a narrative with flashbacks. Linked to the story we will be looking at WW2, it will start to look at the events that led up to the war. Then children will study events such as the Battle of Britain and D-Day landings. The focus is then the effect of war in Britain such as rations, evacuees and the Blitz. Children will also be looking at music from the time period and the effect it had on the people. In art the children are using LS Lowery as inspiration for creating paintings. They will explore light and shade in paintings, practice colour mixing to create values and tones and work on drawing different vanishing points for perspective.
In Science, the topic of study is light. The children will be exploring how light travels, reflection and refraction, including creating periscopes, how shadows change and light phenomena such as a rainbow.
The big question in RE is ‘Creation and Science: Conflicting or complementary?’ We will be looking at what the Bible says about creation and different ways Genesis 1 can be interpreted. It will also look at the science ideas of cosmology and evolution.
Key Texts
Maths in Year 6
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Timetables
Term 1 Cypress Class Timetable
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Home Learning
Every Friday children will receive a piece of English and Maths homework to complete by the following Friday - it will always be what they have learnt that week and therefore should be able to be completed independently. We provide this homework so that children can consolidate their learning in the hopes this will enable them to retain the information/process for longer.Useful Links
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