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. 


​This Half Term

Project - History - Who should go on the banknote?

 This half term we will be learning:
  • To know that members of society standing up for their rights can be the cause of change.
  • To know how historians select criteria for significance and that this changes.
  • To understand that there are different interpretations of historical figures and events.
  • To understand how the monarchy exercised absolute power.
  • To understand the process of democracy and parliament in Britain.
  • To understand that there are changes in the nature of society.
  • To be aware of the different beliefs that different cultures, times and groups hold.
  • To be able to identify the impact of beliefs on society.
  • To understand the changes and reasons for the organisation of society in Britain.
  • To understand how society is organised in different cultures, times and groups.
  • To be able to compare development and role of education in societies.
  • To understand the changing role of women and men in Britain.
  • To understand the development of global trade.
  • To understand that people in the past were as inventive and sophisticated in thinking as people today.
  • To be able to identify the achievements of civilisations and explain why these achievements were so important.
  • To be able to compare the achievements of different civilisations and groups.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research the significant individuals that are already on banknotes in Britain. 
  • Find out about the significant individuals on other banknotes around the world. 
  • Study the knowledge organiser so that you are prepared for the topic.

Writing and Reading - Holes

 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

Writing:
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write an informative guide on how to do something - this will link with our book on Holes. 
  • Write a short descriptive narrative that "shows" not tells the reader.
  • Apply skills from previous writing and grammar lessons to ensure writing is clear and concise. This includes: use of relative clauses, commas in a list to add clarity and use of pronouns to help our writing flow

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

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Define and identify variation in organisms and recall that it is caused by inherited and environmental factors.
  • Recall that living things produce offspring of the same kind but are not normally identical to their parents.
  • Describe patterns of inheritance from parent to offspring in a given example or family tree.
  • Describe what an adaptation is; it cannot be chosen and is usually inherited.
  • Describe key characteristics that would help an organism to survive and explain how an adaptation helps the organism to survive.
  • Explain how variation may affect survival within a population and recall what natural selection means.
  • Recall what evolution is, identify differences between a living thing and its ancestor and describe key steps in the evolution of a species.
  • Recall different types of evidence that can be used to explain evolution and describe methods that make scientists’ results or conclusions more trustworthy.

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 evolution and inheritance.

Computing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Explain how to record sounds and add in sound effects over the top.
  • Produce a simple radio play with some special effects and simple edits which demonstrate an understanding of how to use the software.
  • Create a document that includes correct date information and facts about the computers and how they made a difference.
  • Demonstrate a clear understanding of their device and how it affected modern computers, including well-researched information with an understanding of the reliability of their sources.
  • Describe all of the features that we’d expect a computer to have including RAM, ROM, hard drive and processor, but of a higher specification than currently available.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Use www.wavacity.com to record and edit your own voice clips.
  • Use the link below to learn more about how to use audacity to record and edit clips.

Art - Drawing 

This half term we will be learning:
  • Collect a good range of imagery, adding annotated notes and sketches.
  • Make relevant comparisons between different styles of art.
  • Use tools effectively to explore a range of effects.
  • Respond to the meaning of a spirit animal through drawing.
  • Generate symbols that reflect their likes and dislikes with little support.
  • Create a tile that is full of pattern, symbols and colours that represents themselves.
  • Discuss ideas to create light and dark through drawing techniques.
  • Explain the term chiaroscuro.
  • Apply chiaroscuro to create light and form through a tonal drawing.
  • Understand the impact of using techniques for effect.
  • Participate in a discussion that examines the similarities and differences between different styles of art.
  • Form their own opinions about what art is, justifying their ideas.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Reserach the famous artists from the list below and take inspiration to do your own drawings. 
  • Use the knowledge organiser to ensure you know the key vocabulary that is coming up. 
  • Create your own sketchbook.

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

RE - What is the Qu'ran?

 This half term we will be learning that:​
  • The Qur'an is the holy book for Muslims, revealed in stages to the Prophet Muhammad over 23 years.
  • The Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by God in Arabic.
  • Islam is the second biggest religion in the world.
  • Muhammad was born in 570.
  • Muslims treat the Qur’an respect by washing before they touch it, placing it on a stand and by covering with a cloth.
  • The Qur’an is written in Arabic.
  • There are 99 ‘beautiful names of Allah’. Al-Quddus’ mean pure one.

PSHE - Dreams and Goals
This half term we will be learning to:
  • understand our own personal strengths and how to set reasonable/realistic challenges for ourselves.
  • work out how to achieve our goals by making small steps
  • Identify the problems in the world that concern me and who I can speak to when needed.
  • Work with others to help make the world a better place.
  • show admiration for others.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss different ways people give to charity and which charities are visibly working in and around the area we live.
  • Ask family members about their own faith and how this plays a part in their lives.
  • Research what Akhirah means and why this is important to Muslims when considering how to lead a good life.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about challenges people you know and others may face in their lives and how they overcome these.
  • Discuss ways we can respond to others in times of struggle and need so that we are a supportive influence on others. 
  • Share ways to stay safe online.

PE

PE will be on Monday PM for all of Year 6. Then, Friday PM for Mr Feaver's class and Thursday PM for Mr Silvester's class.
Sports: Indoor Fitness 
Skills taught include: 
  • To perform in a circuit of activities to improve strength, conditioning and cardiovascular.
  • To perform in a circuit of activities to improve speed and stamina.
  • To perform consistently good co-ordination skills when under pressure
  • To improve agility and co-ordination skills when performing a set routine
  • To co-operate well with a partner when performing tasks to improve core
  • To show a rapid change in direction when performing agility exercises

French (MFL): Language Angels

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Tell the time in French using quarter past, half past and quarter to. •
  • Say and write in French what we do at the weekend using two or more sentences.
  • Integrate conjunctions and opinions into written and spoken work to make more interesting and extended sentences..

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could take a look at the "mobilization" card (see above) that we will be using at the start of each of our PE lessons. Try to focus on purposefully doing every move with correct form (it's not all about speed!) Or have a go at the circuit workout on YouTube (adults can get involved too!)
​To help at home: 
  • ​Click on the Language Angels link below
  • Go through the knowledge organiser to practise sentences in French
  • Learn the vocabulary we will use in the topic and test yourself