Welcome to Year 6 

The Team

Mr Silvester
​Yew ​Class Teacher
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Ms Kesteloot
​LSA
Ms Green
​Class Teacher

PE Days

Yew Class: Monday (outside PE) Tuesday (swimming)
Ash Class: Monday (outside PE) Tuesday (swimming)

Make sure that your child comes into school wearing a PE kit suitable for outdoor PE on Mondays so that they can stay warm. 

On Tuesdays, the children will be travelling to Stantonbury Leisure Centre for their swimming. Ensure that they have their swimming kits with them and a towel. 

Resources

Rock UK Residential information

Key Dates 

Monday 3rd June - Back into school
Tuesday 4th June - Residential Meeting
Wednesday 6th June - Books at Bedtime 

Monday 8th - Wednesday 10th July - Rock UK Residential 
Wednesday 17th July - Year 6 performance to parents (9:30 - 10:30)
Thursday 18th July - Year 6 performance to parents (5:00 - 6:00)
Friday 19th July - Year 6 Graduation - parents invited (9:30 - 10:30)


​Term 6

Geography - Independent Fieldwork

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Locating major cities of the countries studied.
  • Locating some key physical features in countries studied on a map.
  • Locating key human features in countries studied.
  • Locating many cities in the UK.
  • Confidently locating the twelve geographical regions of the UK.
  • Identifying key physical and human characteristics of the geographical regions in the UK.
  • Giving examples of alternative viewpoints and solutions used in regards to an environmental issue and explaining how this links to climate change.
  • Recognising geographical issues affecting people in different places and environments.
  • Describing and explaining how humans can impact the environment both positively and negatively, using examples.
  • Confidently using and understanding maps at more than one scale.
  • Using atlases, maps, globes and digital mapping to locate countries studied.​

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research the key words we are going to be using this half term.
  • Go onto www.kahoot.com and complete one of their many quizzes about the counties/cities in the UK.
  • Test your children using an atlas or Google Maps to locate countries quickly.

Year 6 End of Year Production

"The School - O - Vision Song Contest" 

Script summary
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So, 2024 is the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s win at Eurovision. But forget Eurovision! We bring you instead an equally-spectacular musical extravaganza – the School-O-Vision Song Contest! Representing the varied groups that make up our school community, different acts compete to win the School-O-Vision crown, half a century after it was first won by legendary group, RABBLE! Between flamboyant musical performances and the hosts’ catty banter, we also get to peek behind the scenes at the groups in their daily lives and find out how teachers, parents, premises officers, kitchen staff, infants and, of course, this year’s Yr 6 leavers, all contribute to school life in their own unique and hilarious ways!
 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​Although we can't put the script on the school website, the children will have brought a script home. Please help them learn their learns or practise acting out any scenes that they are in.

You can also listen to and learn the songs that we will be signing during the performance: you can search "School-O-Vision" on Sportify or YouTube and the songs will be available. 

Similarly, you can visit the website we have used to purchase our script. On there are many free resources the children can use to help them with their characters. 

https://www.edgyproductions.com/shop/the-school-o-vision-song-contest/

Science - Making Connections

This unit revisits the working scientifically skills covered in Year 6, including:
  • Posing questions.
  • Planning.
  • Predicting.
  • Observing.
  • Measuring.
  • Recording.
  • Graphing.
  • Analysing and drawing conclusions.
  • Evaluating.

The children this term will be using all of their knowledge gained in previous units about light. We will be designing our experiment to investigate which sunglasses work best (i.e which sunglasses protect our eyes the most from light rays). The children will investigate independently, record their results, plot their data on a graph and present their findings to the rest of the class. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

  • The children can watch the following video on YouTube about the importance of sunglasses, sun cream, wearing a hat etc.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZIFAM9j7G4
  • The children could conduct their own scientific investigation at home using any available materials and they can present their findings. 

Computing - Programming

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Decomposing a program without support.
  • Predicting how software will work based on previous experience.
  • Writing more complex algorithms for a purpose.
  • Programming an animation.
  • Iterating and developing their programming as they work.
  • Confidently using loops in their programming.
  • Using a more systematic approach to debugging code, justifying what is wrong and how it can be corrected.
  • Writing code to create a desired effect.
  • Using a range of programming commands.
  • Using repetition within a program.
  • Using logical thinking to explore software more independently, making predictions based on their previous experience.
  • Identify ways to improve and edit programs, videos, images etc.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

https://makecode.microbit.org/

The above website will be used in class this half term to introduce children to "Micro bit". When you access the website, there are various step-by-step instructions on how to code the Micro-bit. The children can program how to write their own name tag, how to create a digital dice or how to code a pet hamster.

DT: Playground Structures

​In DT, the children will be learning how to: 

Designing a playground featuring a variety of different structures, giving consideration to how the structures will be used.
Considering effective and ineffective designs.
Building a range of play apparatus structures drawing upon new and prior knowledge of structures.
Measuring, marking and cutting wood to create a range of structures.
Using a range of materials to reinforce and add decoration to structures. Improving a design plan based on peer evaluation.
Testing and adapting a design to improve it as it is developed.
​Identifying what makes a successful structure.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

At home, the children could start to think about what changes they would make to the playground. Whether this is moving equipment such as the library containers and climbing frame, or add new equipment such as an area to relax and play board games. Once decided, the children could sketch out a map of what the playground would look like. To take this even further, the children could create an "exploded diagram" of their new playground structure. 

Music - Film Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify how different styles of music contribute to the feel of a film.
  • Participate in discussions, sharing their views and justifying  answers.
  • Use the terms ‘major’ and ‘minor’.
  • Identify different instruments to describe how music evokes different emotions.
  • Identify pitch, tempo and dynamics, and use these to explain and justify answers.
  • Give reasonable and thought-out suggestions for what different graphic scores represent.
  • Use our bodies, voices and instruments to create sounds to represent a given theme.
  • Create a musical score to represent a composition.
  • Interpret graphic scores and performing compositions.
  • Creating sounds that relate to the scene of a film.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise composing music using various sources found in the home. 
  • Listen to current music and write/draw about how it makes you feel. 
  • Use Chrome Music Lab or Band Lab to create some of your own digital film music.
  • Research John Williams and Hans Zimmer and their famous works.
  • Listen to famous pieces of film music such as:
  • Jaws
  • Jurassic Park
  • Star Wars
  • ET,
  • Harry Potter
  • Lord of the Rings

PE - Striking and fielding

In PE this half term we will be learning: 
-how to throw a ball underarm at a wicket from a variety of directions
how to increase distance when throwing over arm
-how to perform close catching and deep fielding catching with consistency
-how to stop the ball using 2 different techniques and return accurately to partner 
-how to demonstrate wicket keeping stance and sideways movement
-how to perform overarm bowling technique
-how to improve batting accuracy and directional batting using a forward drive
-how to hit a ball bowled underarm 
using a forward drive
-how to throw a ball underarm at a wicket from a variety of directions
how to increase distance when throwing over arm
-how to perform close catching and deep fielding catching with consistency
-how to stop the ball using 2 different techniques and return accurately to partner 
-how to demonstrate wicket keeping stance and sideways movement
-how to perform overarm bowling technique