Holy Trinity and St John's Church of England Primary School
Hope | Believe | Achieve
Red Kite
RED KIT CLASS
Mrs Barnes - Class Teacher
Miss Jones and Mrs Barkes - TAs
contact: redkite@htsj.school
Online Reading Records
Please use this quick and easy link to record when your child has read at home.
In class we will be awarding one house point for each time your child has read at home.
Newsletter for the beginning of 2020-21
Year 6 Mathematical coverage for 2020-21
Projects this Year:
To accompany our projects, we will be using the following texts to support your child's learning:
Term 1: Journey into the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson
Term 2: Shackleton's Journey - William Grill
Term 3: Pig Heart Boy - Malorie Blackman
Term 4: Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
Term 5: Rose Blanche - Ian McEwan
Term 6: Off we go to Mexico - Holes - Louis Sacher
Whilst not compulsory to purchase, we do encourage the children to have their own copies of these, where possible, to enable them to complete their learning and homework more easily. All books are available via good book retailers and online.
Term 1: Project work - Geography. Planning an expedition around the Galapagos Islands
Term 1: Project work, science - investigating beaks
Term 1: project work, science, sorting and classifying
Thursday 1st October 2020 Black History Day - the year 6 theme was 'Black Lives Matter'
11.11.20 Remembrance Day Artwork
Term 3 - Our Project this term is titled 'Blood Heart'. We hope you enjoy learning all about the heart with us.
English and Guided Reading Lessons will link to the book:
Term 4 - Project: A child's War
Our focus in English this term uses the book, Rose Blanche
Rose Blanche blurb:
An exceptionally moving picture book in which the reader views the sorrow of war through a young girl's eyes. Rose Blanche discovers a concentration camp full of children in the forest near her home town and silently takes food to them for the remainder of the war.
Anderson Shelters by Red Kite Class 30.03.21
Easter Crosses Artwork 26.03.21
Term 5 Hola Mexico!
This term we will be reading the book, 'Holes by Louis Sacher.
Plot Overview
Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he did not commit. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day. Stanley eventually realizes that they are digging these holes because the Warden is searching for something. As Stanley continues to dig holes and meet the other boys at the camp, the narrator intertwines three separate stories to reveal why Stanley's family has a curse and what the Warden is looking for.