Year 6 - Eagles
Welcome to Eagles
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July 2020 - Transition Booklet
Welcome to Eagles Class!
This year, we are so proud to have been given important roles within school including: House Captains, librarians, members of the tech team and Head and Deputy Head Boy and Girl. As we are named Eagles, we aspire to be tenacious high-fliers who support the younger children in our school community.
Within our classroom, we have a thirst for learning and always strive to be the best we can be. Across Year 6 understand how important it is to work together and support each other in being the best we can be.
We are really excited to see what this year brings!
Knowledge Organiser - Autumn Term
Books we are currently reading in school
This is our text for the spring term. It links to our theme “Extreme Earth” as it is set in Indonesia during the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004. As part of our English lessons, we will write non-chronological reports based around Tsunamis; newspaper reports based on the main character’s story and persuasive arguments around the topic of deforestation and animal capture.
For the autumn term, our text is Riddle of the Runes, which is a mystery set during the Viking era. We will use this book to write balanced argument based on the life of a Viking child; narrative retelling parts of the story from different viewpoints and a diary entry stepping into the life of Alva, the main character.
Recommended Reads
Clockwork by Philip Pullman
Wonder by RJ Palacio
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Skellig by David Almond
Once/Now/Then/After by Morris Gleitzman
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Back Home by Michelle Magorian
A spoonful of Jam by Michelle Magorian
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotsen
Street Child by Berlie Doherty
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Plastic Sucks! by Dougie Poynter
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Beyond the Deepwoods by Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart
Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen
Beowulf by K. Crossley-Holland
Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Truckers by Terry Pratchett
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
Silver Fin by Charlie Higson
Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Loius Sachar
The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Moondial by Helen Creswell
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley
Beetle Queen by M G Leonard
You are Awesome by Matthew Syed
The Messenger Bird by Ruth Eastman
Twelve Minutes to Midnight by Christopher Edge
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
The Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudonym Bosch
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
The Indian in the cupboard series by Lynne Reid Banks
Box of Delights by John Masefield
Pages and Co by Anna James
Year 6 Challenge Books
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan
Holes by Louis Sacher
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Fib and Other Stories by George Layton
Secret Friends by Elizabeth Laird
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
Trash by Andy Mulligan
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpugo
The Railway Children by E Nesbit
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
Northern Lights series by Philip Pullman
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling