Holden Lane Primary School
Working Together, Learning for Life
8th March 2017
Dear Parents,
We hope this letter will be useful to you, giving information about your child’s learning which will help
to support your child throughout this term.
TEACHER
YEAR GROUP
Subject Area
Literacy
Miss Bagguley, Miss Moss and Miss Kay
6
Topics
Speaking and Listening
 During discussions, children will be encouraged to listen
carefully, make contributions and ask questions that are
responsive to others’ views. They will also orally present
their work to other children in the class.
Reading and Writing
 The class text this half term will be the narrative poem
‘The Highwayman’. The children will focus on the poet’s
use of language, identifying figurative language and
discussing the impact of the language on the reader.
They will take part in group discussions and
performances of the poem. When answering questions
about the poem, the children will learn how to use
quotes from the poem as evidence to support their
answers.
 During reading sessions, the children will read a range
of fiction and non-fiction texts, answering questions
which involve them to locate evidence in a text, make
inferences from their reading and comment on
authors’ language choices.
 As part of their topic work, the children will have the
opportunity to read and write a range of non-fiction
text types.
Numeracy
During the half term, the children will:
 Use the four operations for calculations involving decimals
and fractions.
 Solve ration and proportion word problem.
 Identify the properties of quadrilaterals.
 Calculate fractions and percentages of amounts.
 Solve problems involving co-ordinates presented in four
quadrants.
Headteacher: Miss Clare Thomas, BA(Hons),NPQH
Ralph Drive, Sneyd Green, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 6JS
Telephone: 01782 234890 Fax: 01782 234762
E-mail: [email protected]
Holden Lane Primary School
Working Together, Learning for Life
Creative Curriculum
Topic
Geography
History
Art
Design and Technology
ICT
Music
World War 2
This half term, we will be continuing our topic about World
War 2. The children will be learning about:
 The role of women during the War
 Messages delivered by propaganda posters
 The impact of the War in other countries
 How World War 2 ended
Other subjects
Science: The children will continue to learn about
electricity, designing and building their own circuits.
RE: The children will continue to learn about the similarities
and differences of the beliefs of Christians and Humanists.
PHSCE: During this half term, the children will focus on the
relationships they have with others.
Further Information
Home Learning
Home Learning is intended to support learning in the
classroom and will be an extension of work covered in class.
The children will be given a homework task on a Friday which
will be collected in on the following Tuesday. If homework is
not returned to school on time, children will be asked to
attend a homework club on a Thursday lunchtime. Spellings
are sent home on a Monday to be learnt in preparation for a
test on Friday.
PE
During the Spring Term, Year 6 will have PE on a Monday and
a Wednesday. Their learning will focus on invasion games,
including tag-rugby and netball. Please make sure that your
child has trainers in school, in addition to a sweatshirt and
tracksuit bottoms to wear during outdoor PE lessons.
Please see us if you would like more information about any of the details given above.
Yours sincerely
Miss J Bagguley, Miss L Moss and Miss M Kay
Year 6 Teachers
Headteacher: Miss Clare Thomas, BA(Hons),NPQH
Ralph Drive, Sneyd Green, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 6JS
Telephone: 01782 234890 Fax: 01782 234762
E-mail: [email protected]