Welcome to Year 6

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Dear parents,

Welcome back after the summer break.  We hope you are all well and have had a restful break with your children, ready for their final year at Brookhouse. It is a challenging year so it is vital your children attend school every day, where possible and are punctual in the mornings.  This means that good sleep hygiene routines need to be in place at home, as the new term begins.

We will continue to remind children about our school values of Respect, Good Manners, Patience, Perseverance and Honesty.  We will use our reward system 'Brookhouse Monster's University' to recognise good behaviour and attitudes.  If your child is in the winning University team, they will be given a reward at the end of the term.  Alongside this, they are also collecting dojos for personal reward, for which they will receive silver or gold stickers or a platinum certificate.  PSHE will also play a key role, this will take place through class and assembly sessions.  The topic for autumn 1 is 'Mental Health & Wellbeing with learning about 'Being Kind'.  Our character lessons will continue this half term, where we will work on the attributes of caring, helpfulness and cooperation. 

English

We will be covering a a fiction unit called Novel as a Theme and a non-fiction unit called Biographies.  We will do this through the use of the ‘Talk for Writing’ strategy of imitate, innovate and invent.  As well as this, we will be focusing on the skills needed to invent our own piece of writing and look at writing through other subject areas.  Whole class reading will continue to take place every day, through which we encourage children to focus on new vocabulary in the text and the comprehension of the text.  Daily handwriting and spelling will take place - focusing on foundational knowledge and building up fluency.

To further support your child's reading for pleasure, they will be able to change their school library book, fortnightly. Please support your children in their reading of school books, at home for ten minutes every day.  We will continue to encourage children to improve their Oracy skills through participating in the project Voice 21.

Mathematics 

We will begin the year by covering the the topics; number and place value (numbers to 10 million), calculations (four operations on whole numbers and fractions. The children will also be improving their arithmetic skills linked to the topics we have mentioned already.  This will all be taught through using concrete, pictorial and abstract mathematic models in every lesson, where appropriate.

Science

This half term we will covering biology: evolution and inheritance.  This is a topic which looks at how scientists through history have learnt about humans and animal and how they have changed and developed though history.  We will be finding out how we know about evolution and the key part key scientists have played in sharing this scientific knowledge.  Please encourage your child to learn their knowledge organiser as we try to review prior learning every week.

Physical Education

In Year 6, P.E will take place every Monday so please make sure your children come to school in their full P.E kit - Yellow P.E shirt with the school's logo, black joggers, shorts or leggings, trainers and their school green sweatshirt. In their P.E, pupils will be covering gymnastic skills of different balances and creating sequences with partners, using apparatus.

Music

This term pupils will continue to play their instruments; flutes and clarinets.  Their music teacher Emily will continue to develop their skills and they should be ready for performance in December which we will inform you about nearer the time.  As well as learning how to play their instruments we will also cover our music lessons through the unit 'Hey Mr Miller'.  By the end of this unit pupils will have learnt how to: compose syncopated melody, sing accurately, perform class arrangement and describe big band swing features.

Computing

In our computing this half term pupils will be covering a unit called 'Data Detectives', which looks at databases. Through this unit they will learn what databases are and how they are used by individuals and organisations. They will also understand the different common tools that are used for finding information and will create queries using a combination of these tools that provide requested information. Moreover, they will recognise the different ways data can be extracted from databases to provide information, including the use of charting tools to present this. As part of this they will link tables together using common fields and create queries that involve linked tables. 

Geography

Through their topic this half term children will develop and utilise place knowledge /human and physical geography.

Pupils will contrast the human and physical geographical features of Greece with those of Chile.

History

Our history topic is called 'World War' which we will learn about over the autumn term.  Pupils will be increasing their  knowledge and understanding of local, national and international history by gaining historical perspective, placing their growing knowledge into different contexts between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history. They will describe the nature and extent of diversity, change and continuity and suggest relationship between the causes of both world wars.  

A few key dates this half term to remember:

• Meet the year 6 teacher on 10th September at 8:45 am in the school library
• Parents meeting for our Robinwood visit in 2027, on  24th September at 8:45 am in the school library
• Y6 Class Assembly on 8th October at 8:45 am
• Parents Evening on 21st October 3:00pm - 6:00pm

Any queries feel free to talk to us in the morning or at the end of the day or arrange an appointment through the school office.

Thank you in advance for your continued support, it is much appreciated.

Mrs S Hussain (Year 6 Teacher and Upper School Leader)

Mrs F Patel (HLTA)

Mrs R Esmail (TA)

Mrs Y Hussain(SSA)

Mrs H Sheikh (SSA)