St Oswald'sC of E AcademyChurch, School, Community

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Year 6

Year 6 Staff

Teachers: Miss Hartshorne (Monday - Thursday)

Mrs Valentine (Thursday & Friday)

Support staff: Mrs Talbot (Monday - Wednesday)

Mrs Lindsay (Thursday/Friday)

(Mrs Roxby - PPA cover)

Welcome to our Year 6 class page!

Our PE days for this half term are Monday afternoons and Friday mornings. Please remove earrings before school unless the child can remove them themselves. If they are newly pierced, they can be taped over but please provide your own surgical tape for this. On Fridays, children may come to school in their PE kit but should have their usual school uniform in their school bags to change into this afterwards.

Homework:

Reading at least 3 times a week recorded in reading records; books will be changed on a Monday and children are encouraged to read wider to supplement their school book.
Recall maths facts to be practised weekly.
Spellings sent out fortnightly for practise.
Times tables practised weekly and need to be fluent in quick recall up to 12 x 12.

You may find the following document helpful to you in supporting your child's reading: there are content domain specific question stems that will help promote discussion helping to improve their understanding of vocabulary, retrieving, summarising, inferring, predicting, explaining and comparing:

KS2 Reading Domain Question Prompts.docx

Core Texts

Autumn Term: Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Spring Term: Holes by Louis Sachar

Summer Term: The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow

A Child's War

Welcome to our learning journey, as we step back in time 80 years ago, where we will find out what life was like for a child growing up during World War II.

WWII was a battle between two groups of countries - the Allied powers and the Axis powers. The major Allied powers were Britain, France Russia, China and the US. The major Axis powers were Germany, Italy and Japan.

Together with the Nazi Party, Hitler wanted Germany to rule Europe. To gain more land and power, on 1st September 1939, German troops invaded Poland. Adolf Hitler refused to stop the invasion. Britain and France declared war on Germany - WWII had begun.

Have a look at this video from BBC Bitesize about how WWII started. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-the-outbreak-of-world-war-2/z7d847h

Campaigns and Posters

The war meant that food and many things were limited. Posters were created stressing the need to stop waste and unnecessary consumption, for the recycling of scarce materials, and for boosting food production from gardens and allotments. These posters were called propaganda and were an integral part of encouraging people to support the war effort. Posters and slogans were put up to remind people for the need to get involved or save whatever they could.

Have a look at some more of the posters and the catchy slogans here http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/war/campaigns.htm#:~:text=The%20war%20meant%20that%20many,production%20from%20gardens%20and%20allotments.&text=Posters%20and%20slogans%20were%20put,save%20what%20ever%20they%20could.

Have a go at designing your own propaganda poster to support the war effort. Make sure you share it with us on Class Dojo!

Rationing

In January 1940, the British government introduced food rationing. The scheme was designed to ensure fair shares for all at a time of national shortage. The Ministry of Food was responsible for overseeing rationing. Every man, woman and child was given a ration book with coupons.

Basic foodstuffs such as sugar, meat, fats, bacon and cheese were directly rationed by an allowance of coupons.

As shortages increased, long queues became commonplace. It was common for someone to reach the front of a long queue, only to find out that the item they had been waiting for had just run out.

Have a go at making something using a wartime recipe. Here are a few examples:-

Wartime Loaf - https://the1940sexperiment.com/2009/08/08/return-to-the-1940s-wartime-loaf/

Wartime Ration Scones - https://www.lavenderandlovage.com/2020/03/wartime-high-tea-recipes.html

Wartime Carrot Cake - https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/croome/recipes/wartime-carrot-cake

Don't forget to show us your wartime baking efforts on Class Dojo!

Term 2

Welcome to the Victorian Era!

The children will be exploring why it is such an important period in British history. They will find out about Queen Victoria herself and the hierarchy of society. Would the modern day child like to live in high society or would they prefer to be a working class/poor child during the Victorian times? Living conditions will be explored and what it would be like to live an part of a Victorian family.

Children will also consider the growth of industry (inventions) and the impact this had on the towns and cities, including transportation and housing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkb6fdm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/zh2w47h