John Stainer

 

Year 6 

In Year 6 Olive we have Miss Awuku and Mr Smith. The class is supported by Patrick King.

In Year 6 Magenta we have  Claire Power and Miss Diss. The class is  supported by Mohammad Ali and Zoe Henderson. 

Autumn Term

In the Autumn Term we enjoy getting stuck into work straight away. We follow all the national curriculum subjects, and particularly enjoy reading The Watertower by Gary Crew, studying Macbeth and learning about The Ancient Greeks.

We like to take our learning home with us, and we complete project work about Athens and Sparta, and produce our own autobiographies. The best bit is sharing them with the rest of the class. As part of our Ancient Greek Learning, we dressed up for a Greek Day in costumes, and acted out The Battle of Marathon.


In November we go to Kingswood activity centre in Ashford, Kent as a class and take part in many different activities including climbing, abseiling, archery, den building and many more. This really helps us get to know each other, and challenge ourselves so that we are ready for anything that life throws at us.

 
Most of our Year 6 children are Student Leaders. Student Leaders:

  • Lead initiatives to support a range of charities eg organising foods for Lewisham Food Bank, selling poppies for Remembrance Day etc.
  • Are actively involved in Governing Body Elections and the staff recruitment process.
  • Monitor behaviour as children move around the school. 
  • Are actively involved in termly class enterprise 

Frank is our Head Boy and J'dan-Rae is our Head Girl. They will be extremely well supported by Deputy Head Boy, Anthony and Deputy Head Girl, Maddison. 

Spring Term

In the Spring Term the focus for Year 6 is mainly revision and getting fully ready for our SATs exams in May.

We like to be fully prepared so we spend most of our time revising, and getting good at all the different elements of the exams. We know that the more we are calm and ready to just do our best, the better we will do and we know that there is no reason to panic.

We follow the Success for All (SFA) scheme, which helps to prepare us with reading comprehension and all the various writing genres. We love the topic that we study in the Spring – Anne Frank’s Diary! We follow the BBC adaptation, exploring how Anne copes as she is growing up in hiding in Amsterdam. We do lots of reading and writing around the topic, including our own piece of research for home learning. We even have a debate as to whether it should be taught in Primary school!  

Summer Term:

We love the Summer Term in Year 6 because we feel really grown up as we prepare to transition to secondary school.

In English we continue to develop our excellent writing, inspired by short stories suc as; The Giant's Necklace and Beneath the surface We enjoy catching up on lots of Art and DT. We finish reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. We also work on maths transition units on The Golden Triangle and Spirals. Our geography topic will be learning all about South America.

The real highlight though, is preparing and performing our end of year production. We act, sing and dance and show off all our creative talents.

Here are some pictures of the lovely pieces of work we have completed.