Welcome to Year 6

We are Kestrel Class (Mrs Webber) and Eagle Class (Mr Harper-Lower).

Reading

Oxford Reading Buddy:

We are delighted to tell you that our school uses Oxford Reading Buddy. This is a digital reading service to support children’s reading development at home and at school. It contains hundreds of digital books and book-quizzes all matched to each child’s reading ability. Please log in to Oxford Reading Buddy. Your child has their password in the back of their home-school learning journal. If you don’t have a tablet or PC at home the service works on smartphone as well. For more information go to this address and choose Parent Support: https://support.oxfordreadingbuddy.com/

Your child will also be given a physical copy of a book. This can be looked through when completing their quiz.

In year 6, children should be reading at home five times over a week. We also read every day in school between 8.45-9.15am. This is where children are able to read their book, complete a quiz and change their book once they’ve completed it.

Teachers keep track of individual scores and move on and/or support where necessary. When children complete a quiz, it gives teachers an analysis in how pupils have performed in certain areas such as finding information, making connections and using inference or understanding vocabulary. Teachers can then support appropriately.

The scheme goes up to level 20 which is aimed at Y6 greater depth readers.

Autumn Term 1 - Key focus

What did the Greeks do for us?

In this topic we will be answering our enquiry question by looking at the following:

Where Greece is, what it is like and why it became a successful civilisation.
What the Greek city states had in common and the conflict that arose between them.
The invention of democracy.
Greek life and how it influences our own lives today.