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Reading

Reading regularly is vital in Year 6 as it helps the children broaden their vocabulary, and enables them to make better progress in every curriculum area. It also helps them to become better writers as they begin to understand how different techniques can be used to interest the reader.

Reading has an enormous impact on children’s learning. For this reason, we have a huge focus on the teaching of reading. We use whole class reading sessions to improve children's understanding of reading skills using the VIPERS skills.

Fostering a love of books and reading is of great importance. If children enjoy what they are doing, they will learn more effectively. A love of reading leads to better life chances.

During whole class reading sessions, children investigate new and unfamiliar vocabulary, learn how to understand what questions are actually asking and how to best answer them. We also work on reading speed and accuracy.

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Writing

Writing in Year 6 covers a wide range of text types. Through different genres of writing, children will learn the key features of text types and how to make good use of a range of grammar skills to improve the effectiveness of their writing.

Autumn 1

The Piano

The Piano is a flashback narrative based on short animation by Aidan Gibbons.

Studying the film and the themes that run through short clip generates some fantastic speaking and listening opportunities as well as some amazing writing.

The children got a chance to listen to the music to see how it made them feel. they linked it to the past and remembered what happened. Then they listened to the music with the lonely man to began to understand his feelings and memories.

Whilst thoughts rushed swiftly through his mind, the lonesome man tapped his fingers gently on each key. Soothingly, the music reminded him of his past memories however unfortunately the music only made him remember the sombre, sad and depressing memories. Sorrow ran through him.

Autumn 1 - Flashbacks and Biographies

Year 6 are studying novels based on the Titanic and using the short animation of The Piano to inspire their own flashback writing.

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We are also studying biographies this half term. We will be immersing ourselves in many different biographies and analysing the features of them to support our own writing. One of the biographies we use is Walt Disney's. Her is a link where you can find an online version:

https://www.biography.com/business-figure/walt-disney

We will also be looking at Malala Yousafzai, Stephen Hawkin and Ellie Simmonds.

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, known for her advocacy for girls' education and her survival of a Taliban assassination attempt.

Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, the largest city in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. She is the daughter of Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai and has two younger brothers. Her father, an education advocate, ran a school, which greatly influenced Malala's passion for learning from a young age. She often accompanied him to classes, demonstrating her early enthusiasm for education.

Stephen Hawking (born January 8, 1942, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England—died March 14, 2018, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was an English theoretical physicist whose theory of exploding black holes drew upon both relativity theory and quantum mechanics. He also worked with space-time singularities.

Eleanor May Simmonds (born 11 November 1994^[2]) is a British retired Paralympian swimmer who competed in S6 events. She came to national attention when she competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, winning two gold medals for Great Britain. She was the youngest member of the team, at the age of 13.

In 2012, she was again selected for the Great Britain squad, this time swimming at a home games in London. She won another two golds in London, including setting a World Record in the 400m freestyle, and a further gold medal at the Rio Paralympics in 2016, this time setting a world record for the 200m medley.