Year 6

ENGLISH

This half term, we will be reading 'Rose Blanche' by Roberto Innocenti, 

Rose Blanche was the name of a young German girl who, at their peril, protested against the war. Like them, Rose observes all the changes going on around her which others choose to ignore. She watches as the streets of her small German town fill with soldiers. One day she sees a little boy escaping from the back of a truck, only to be captured by the mayor and shoved back into it. Rose follows the truck to a desolate place out of town, where she discovers many other children, staring hungrily from behind an electric barbed wire fence. She starts bringing the children food, instinctively sensing the need for secrecy, even with her mother. Until the tide of the war turns and soldiers in different uniforms stream in from the East, and Rose and the imprisoned children disappear for ever . . .

Shared Reading

In Shared Reading, we are using a range of books, as part of the 'Steps to Read' programme. This programme helps to move the children on from 'reading and understanding' to being able to predict, explain and infer from the the text, setting them up for success in the future. 

Children will use excerpts from these books, but there are copies in the class library for the children to read as a 'Read for Pleasure' book, should they want to.

MATHS

This half term, we will be developing our understanding of place value; focusing on arithmetic and reasoning-based questions.

History

 Year 6 will be focusing on History this half term. Our topic for this term is World war 2 with. Year 6 students learn how World war II started, how daily life changed in Britain, and what major events shaped the war from 1939 to 1945.