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, Thursday
Ash Class: Monday, Friday

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

Resources

Key Dates 

Monday 15th April - Children back to school
  • Monday 29th April - Maths Day - more details to follow
  • Monday 6th May - Bank Holiday - school closed
  • Monday 13th May - SATs Week - tests will be running each day with the last test on Thursday Thursday 16th May
  • Monday 13th May 2024 - Home learning due in.
    Thursday 23rd May 2024 - Home Learning Gallery in the hall at 2.45pm (All families welcome). ​
  • Wednesday 22nd - Friday 24th May - Bikeability 
  • Friday 24th May - Last day  for children 


​Term 5

Project - Geography - Where does our energy come from?

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Describe the significance of energy.
  • Give examples of sources of energy and their trading routes.
  • Define renewable and non-renewable energy.
  • Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of different energy sources.
  • Describe the significance of the Prime Meridian. Identify human features on a digital map.
  • Discuss how transport links have changed over time. Locate UK cities on a map.
  • Use six-figure grid references to identify features on an OS map.
  • Consider and justify the location of energy sources.
  • Design and use interview questions.
  • Plot points on a sketch map

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: energy source, hydropower, natural gas, non-renewable, nuclear power, Prime Meridian, producer.
  • Find out what your energy usage is at home by checking the energy rating of your appliances such as your washing machine, microwave, kettle etc. 
  • If you have a smart meter, find out what your typical daily usage is and try to reduce this over time. 

Writing and Reading - Holes

 We will be continuing to use Holes as our class text this half term while re prepare for SATs.

Reading:
Using Holes, this half term we will be learning to:
  • Discuss idea, events and structures the writer has used
  • Summarise the main ideas from our class text
  • Evaluate the authors use of language and its resulting impact
  • Answer questions that ask us to justify and impression of the characters in the text 

Writing:
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a informal recount based on the classic game, Cluedo. 
  • Write a formal police report based on Cluedo (based on the events that have happened in Dr Black's mansion). 
  • Writing a survival guide on "How to survive a zombie apocalypse" using an increasing understanding of KS2 grammar such as colons and semi-colons.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Read other Louis Sachar novels so that you can familiarise yourself with his style of writing. 
  • Write your own "How To" guide on something that you are passionate about. E.g. "A beginner's guide to gymnastics" or "How to build Lego."

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Compare and order decimals
  • Find percentages of numbers
  • Solve geometry problems, including: translation and reflection of 2d shapes
  • Find the area and perimeter of regular and irregular 2d shapes
  • Find the volume of 3d shapes
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Investigate decimals and percentages in real life contexts as well as revise written methods to solve arithmetic problems
  • Ensure your child can name common 2d and 3d shapes
  • Visit Google Classroom and and watch the mathematics videos uploaded that relate to your childs class topic
  • Continue to support your child's times table knowledge including any cporrespoding division facts 

Science - Circulation and Health

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Recall factors that improve someone’s health and those that impact health negatively and suggest improvements to someone’s health.
  • Describe the circulatory system as the heart and blood vessels transporting blood around the body and recall that the heart is a pump that pushes blood through the circulatory system.
  • Describe the pathway of blood through the circulatory system, including passing through the heart twice in a complete circuit through the body.
  • Describe some of the functions of blood, including transporting substances like oxygen, water and nutrients around the body.
  • Recall what is meant by heart rate and research using multiple websites to find reliable animal masses.
  • Identify the pattern between animals’ size and heart rate and quote values as evidence.
  • Describe how different exercises affect heart rate and explain why heart rate changes during exercise.
  • Describe what happens to heart rate during and after exercise and compare two sets of heart data to identify a link between heart rate and fitness.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Click on the BBC Bitesize links below to websites that will help explain circulation and health. 
  • Click on the BBC Bitesize links below to websites that will help explain the circulatory system.
  • Complete a daily exercise to get your heart rate up.
  • Conduct an investigation over time to check your resting heart rate before exercise and after. 

Computing - Big Data

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Recognise that data can become corrupted within a network and that data sent in packets is more robust, as well as identify the need to update devices and software.
  • Recognise differences between mobile data and WiFi and use a spreadsheet to compare and identify high-use data activities and low-use data activities.
  • Make links between the Internet of Things and Big Data and give a basic example of how data analysis/analytics can lead to improvement in town planning.
  • Explain ways that Big Data or IoT principles could be used to solve a problem or improve efficiency within the school and prepare a presentation about their idea, considering the privacy of some data.
  • Present their ideas about how Big Data/IoT can improve the school and provide feedback to others on their presentations.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Memorise information on the knowledge organiser to ensure you are ready for the lesson. 
  • Create a Slideshow on how you would turn Great Linford Primary School into a "smart school".

DT - Textiles and Waistcoats

This half term we will be learning:
  • Consider a range of factors in their design criteria and use this to create a waistcoat design.
  • Use a template to mark and cut out a design.
  • Use a running stitch to join fabric to make a functional waistcoat.
  • Attach a secure fastening, as well as decorative objects.
  • Evaluate their final product.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Youtube a video guide on how to do different stitching styles. You could try a running stitch, a back stitch or a hemming stitch. 
  • Create your own item of clothing using the stitching techniques you have learnt and wear it to school. 

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