Glade Hill Primary and Nursery School
We are Golden and we SPARKLE
Yr 6 - Super Sycamores
Welcome to Super Sycamores
Class Page...
Here you will find information about what we are learning each half-term and photographs of the exciting things we get up to in Super Sycamores!
To get in touch with me, please contact the office or email, which is below, and I will aim to respond within the working week.
sycamores@gladehill.nottingham.sch.uk
Miss Roome 
Key Reminders
- Read at least 3 times per week
- Practise spellings on your colour each week
- Practise your times-tables or arithmetic skills each week
- Complete MyMaths homework
- PE is on Wednesdays and Fridays
Our Wonderful World class project - Germany!
Year 5 and 6 Meet and Greet Video
Super Sycamores 2023-24
Summer 2
This half term we will be reading...
Writing
In our writing lessons, we will be applying all of the skills we have learned this year to a range of different genres including biography, stories with a dilemma and a campaign.
Reading
We will continue to consolidate the reading keys and prepare the children for Reading at secondary school. We will based this on our class novel - The Nightbus Hero
Maths
We will continue to consolidate the key areas to prepare the children for Maths at secondary school.
Wider Curriculum
Geography - Human geography
Science - CREST award
DT: Playgrounds
Computing: Spreadsheets
PE- Swimming and preparation for sports day
PSHE- Growing and changing (RSHE week), transition to secondary and Drug Aware week.
Key Information
- Read at least 3 times per week
- Practise spellings on your colour each week
- Important events: Bikeability, residential, leavers' assembly
- Swimming days are Tuesday
- PE is on Fridays.
Summer 1
During Summer 1 we will be reading...
Reading
In our shared reading lessons, we will be developing our skills by reading and understanding texts across a range of genres – including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Maths
In our maths lessons we will be recapping and practising everything we have learned this year in preparation for SATs. After SATs, we will continue to consolidate the key areas to prepare the children for Maths at secondary school.
Wider Curriculum
Geography - Physical Geography
Science - Evolution and Inheritance
PE- Striking and fielding
PSHE- Physical health and wellbeing and sun awareness.
Key Information
- Read at least 3 times per week
- Practise spellings on your colour each week
- Complete MyMaths homework
- PE is on Fridays.
Spring 2
During Spring 2 we will be reading...
Reading
In our shared reading lessons, we will be developing our skills by reading and understanding texts across a range of genres – including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Maths
In our maths lessons this half-term, we will be learning about mean and averages as well as time and measure. Alongside this, we will be doing extra arithmetic learning during SATs booster groups in the afternoons.
Wider Curriculum
Geography - Place knowledge
Science - Living things and their habitats
PE- Target games
PSHE- Money and Work
Key Information
- Read at least 3 times per week
- Practise spellings on your colour each week
- Complete MyMaths homework
- PE is on Fridays.
Spring 1
During Spring 1 we will be reading...
Year 6 Curriculum
Writing
In our writing lessons, we will be using our history topic of WWII as a stimulus. We will be writing letters, short stories and speeches. We will be learning about the key features of these genres before planning and writing our own.
Reading
In our shared reading lessons, we will be developing our skills by reading and understanding texts across a range of genres – including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. These will all be linked to our history topic WWII- starting with Goodnight Mister Tom.
Maths
In our maths lessons this half-term, we will be learning about: measures, fractions, decimals and percentages. Alongside this, we will be doing extra arithmetic learning during SATs booster groups in the afternoons.
Wider Curriculum
History- WWII
PE- Rugby (taught by a specialist coach)
PSHE- Belonging to a Community
Media Literacy and Digital Resilience
Key Information
- Read at least 3 times per week
- Practise spellings on your colour each week
- Complete MyMaths homework
- PE is on Fridays
- Trip to the National Holocaust Centre- Wednesday 31st January
Our theme for the Autumn term is …
Friendship and Courage
Autumn 2!
During Autumn 2 we will be reading...
Year 6 Curriculum
We are writers...
In our writing lessons, we will be reading Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. We will be using this book as a stimulus to write a short story with tension, a newspaper report and an argument text. We will be learning about the key features of these genres before planning and writing our own.
We are readers...
In our shared reading lessons, we will be developing our skills by reading and understanding texts across a range of genres – including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Our main focus will be on understanding vocabulary, improving our inference skills and summarising and sequencing a text.
We are mathematicians...
In our maths lessons this half-term, we will be learning about: numbers up to 10 million; multiplication and division; area, perimeter, position and direction; and order of operations.
Alongside this, we will be practising our arithmetic skills daily- including times tables for those children who are not yet fluent in them.
Wider Curriculum
Geography- Locational Knowledge (North America)
DT- Digital World
Science- Energy (Light)
PE- Net and wall games
Computing- Online safety, blogging
French- Describing people, body, clothing
Music- Dynamics, pitch and texture
RE- Beliefs in action in the world
PSHE- DART, safe relationships, respecting ourselves and others
Autumn 1
Friendship and Courage
During Autumn 1 we will be reading…
Year 6 Curriculum
We are writers...
In our writing lessons, we will be using Harry Potter as a stimulus to write fantasy stories, non-chronological reports and persuasive adverts. We will be focussing on the audience and purpose for our writing, the impact it has on the reader and how we are going to achieve this.
We are readers...
In our shared reading lessons, we will be developing our skills by reading and understanding texts across a range of genres - both fiction and non-fiction. Our main focus will be on understanding vocabulary and improving our inference skills.
We are mathematicians...
In our maths lessons this half-term, we will be learning about place value and the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). We will also have a daily maths blast session where we will be practising the skills we have already learnt.
We are historians, artists, scientists, musicians and athletes...
History- Ancient Islamic Civilisations
Art- Pencil sketching
Science- Animals including humans
PE- Invasion games