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Lowerhouse Junior School

Inspiring a lifelong love for learning

Year 6 - Ash

                                      

   

Star of the Week

 

 

Lily for her fantastic attitude to her behaviour for learning and contribution in class.

 

 


Our Headteacher Value of the Week Award Winner for Aspiration:
 

Joey for his aspirational start to year 6 and the effort he has put into his maths this week. 

 

 

 

 

 

Gold Award

 

 
 

 

 

Silver Award

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the Y6 Ash

Class Webpage

 

Teacher - Mrs Carter

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Sutcliffe

PE Teacher - Mr Chadwick
 

 

Here is where we will update you with everything we have been doing in the recent weeks. 

 

 

 

 

Spellings - w/c 16.09.2024

 

Our spelling test will be on a Friday - please return your completed spelling sheets on the morning of your test. 

 

 

adorable

valuable

believable

desirable

likable

ancient

apparent

appreciate

attached

available

 

 

 

 

English 

 

Our English lessons this half term are based around the book Skellig by David Almond. 

 

 


 

 

Maths

 

In maths this half term we will be following Red Rose Mastery as our scheme of work for maths. 

 

The first unit is place value.

 

 

 

Science

 

In Science this half term, we will be learning about Living things and their habitats - classification. 

The children will know and be able to:

 

  • Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals. 

  • Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics. 

  • Living things can be grouped into micro-organisms, plants and animals. 

  • Vertebrates can be grouped as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. 

  • Invertebrates can be grouped as snails and slugs, worms, spiders and insects. 

  • Plants can be grouped as flowering plants (incl. trees and grasses) and non-flowering plants (such as ferns and mosses). 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Topic

 

 

This half term our topic is geography and we will be focusing on 'Exploring North America'

and our enquiry questions is:  

 

What do we know about North America and what are its main geographical features? 

We will be conducting a N.America study; looking at rivers and mountains, and the distribution of resource. 

 

 

 

 

 

Our TTRS winners this week for the greatest amount of minutes played are:

 

Autumn

 

 

Our TTRS winners this week for the largest number of correct answers is:

 

Elayna

Reader of the Week

 

 

 

 

Computing