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?

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