The class have a one hour Literacy lesson every day. In addition to this the children take part in guided reading, guided writing and extended writing. We teach spelling each week, through the use of a structured programme and the children are given set spellings and homework every Monday.

In the Autumn Term we will be covering:

Classic fiction, (poetry) drama by long established authors

Adaptation of classics on film/TV

Recounts of events, objectives, visits

Journalistic writing observational records, news reports

Autobiography/ biography
Non-chronological reports

If you want further details of the Literacy Teaching please come and ask.

For Numeracy we continue to set the children in KS2. This has been very successful and saw our SATs results continue to improve in 2005. The children are taught in small groups of similar ability and therefore their progress is more rapid.

In the Autumn Term we will be covering:

Place value, ordering, rounding Using a calculator

Shape and space

Reasoning about shapes

Measures, including problems

Understanding x and ÷

Mental calculation strategies
(x ÷)

Pencil and paper procedures
(x ÷)

The Science curriculum is based on the QCA documents which are then linked into our topic.

Children have one lesson of Science each week for approximately 1.5 hours.

We endeavour to make the lessons fun and encourage the children to learn through their own investigations.

Year 6 pupils do well in their SATS and are encouraged to further develop their knowledge at home by logging on to web sites such as the BBC Revise Wise programmes.