Year Six
Autumn term 24
Welcome to Year 6 at Birchwood Grove!
On this page you will find information about planning, homework and announcements including key dates. We will also use Parent Mail or Seesaw to keep you updated.
Our curriculum is based around concepts, with every subject being linked where possible. Our concepts this term are:
Key text
We weren’t supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren’t even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar.
February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. The only person with two spare beds is Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. But he’s not used to company and he certainly doesn’t want any evacuees.
Desperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers. But Olive has a secret of her own. Her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid, and she’s desperate to discover what happened to her. And then she finds a strange coded note which seems to link Sukie to Devon, and to something dark and impossibly dangerous.
Autumn learning
Our concepts for the Autumn term are Change, Cause & Consequence and our focus subject is History!
During the Autumn term, we will be focused on our learning about The two World Wars. Looking at the impact and contribution of people in Britain and abroad, whilst answering our enquiry question: What are the causes of war and how do the consequences impact us?
100 recommended reads
Homework
-Reading (reading record to be completed and handed into the teacher every Wednesday)
-MyMath challenge
-Times Tables Rockstar (12 minutes/4 games a week)
-Spelling Shed (set lists following spelling patterns looked at in school)
-GPS task (set weekly on Edshed)
Homework will be set on a Friday and will be due in on Wednesday. Homework club will be on Fridays after school- contact the school office if your child would like to join. Please let us know if you are having trouble with any logins.
Help at home
Year 5 and 6 Statutory Spellings
Dates for your diary
School PTA discos – Friday 6th October.
Year 6 Child Measurement checks Thursday 24th October 2024
Bike Ability Week Beginning Monday 4th November 2024