Year 6
Welcome to Year 6
What are Year 6 learning about this half term?
Autumn 2
This half term Year 6 will be focused on history beginning their WW2 topic we will focus on Germany – past and present- before looking at how the war began and what the impact on Europe was. We will also be recognising Remembrance Day and using the date as inspiration for poetry writing.
Our Science learning will see us investigating Charles Darwins Theory of Evolution when we learn about evolution and inheritance. We will be looking at how plants, animals and humans have adapted to survive over time. Our English writing will be based around this topic as we create non-chronological reports about animals and setting descriptions about the beautiful islands Darwin visited during his exploration. We are also taking part in the Todmorden Book Festival and look forward to working with Ian Douglas, the storyteller, early on in the half term.
In maths we will complete our four operations learning by completing calculations using BIDMAS and thinking about how we can use known facts to help us in our mental mathematics. We will then move on to focusing on Fractions – adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.
Our Computing work is titled Bletchley Park – learning about the code breakers before we break and create codes of our own. In Music this half term we will listen, appraise, sing and create our own wartime songs.
In RE the children will learn about Forgiveness and how religions view the concept, before asking should we always forgive others? In the build up to Christmas we will switch focus when we look at the nativity and the role the shepherds played in this, we will investigate different accounts within the bible and compare and contrast these. Our DT learning this half term is an opportunity for us to explore micro:bits. We will be looking at navigating the world and working to a design brief to create a backpack which would help us on a worldwide expedition which will include compasses, pedometers, etc.
PE will be taking part in a range of sports during our multi-sports unit. We will also be participating in gymnastics with the coaching staff from Edstart each week. We will be continuing to take part in Gardening sessions each Thursday so please ensure children have suitable clothing for the weather, as the term grows much colder extra layers are needed for being outdoors.
Our Previous Learning this year
Autumn 1
In our first term back at school we wwere getting used to our new rules and the expectations placed on us now we are the oldest in the school, the first way in which we did this was by applying for roles of responsibility within the school writing a formal letter to the staff team.
In English we completed PVPG work from Grammarsaurus, this will helped us feel more confident in our sentence structure before we begin our extended writing. The texts we will be inspired to write by this half term will be 'The Island by Armin Greder.
Maths focused on units within the Power Maths scheme beginning with place value and moving on to learning formal methods to answer problems involving all four operations. All children’s learning can be further supported from home by participating in TTRS challenges making all pupils fluent and confident with their times tables.
We focsed on Geography in our Topic work, our key enquiry question was ‘Why is the coastline of the UK changing?’, in this unit we investigated how Britain’s coastal features are formed, the impact of weathering and erosion, and what the future of the landscape might be.
Science centred around electricity, we built a range of circuits and drew scientific diagrams to show these circuits. We will also made predictions when using various equipment and looked at alternatives to energy sources within the UK. In Computing the children explored what AI is and how it generates text images and code, they will also considered the ethical implications and its potential to replace human roles.
In Music the class appraised the work of classical composer Felix Mendelssohn, learning about dynamics, pitch and texture, before they worked on their own group compositions featuring changes in texture, dynamics and pitch. Art will be concentrated on monochromatic pieces when learning about drawing detailed portraits with accurate proportions, when we learned these skills we then got creative when learning to draw a Tim Burton style self-portrait. In French we will be reviewed our prior learning and put this into written work – taking into account the correct use of verb tense.
In PE we showed our adventurous sides while learning orienteering and working on our fundamental, physical skills. We were also busy outside in the allotments as we turned our hand to gardening each week.
Meet the staff...
Miss McDaid (Class Teacher)
Miss Ruby (Support Assistant)
Miss Wallace (Support Assistant)
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