Welcome to Year 6 

The Team

Mr Feaver
​Ash ​​Class Teacher
Mr Maynard
​​LSA
Mr Silvester
​Yew ​Class Teacher
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Ms Kesteloot
​LSA
Ms Green
​Class Teacher
Daphne
​LSA

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 - Geography - What is population?

 This half term we will be learning:
  • To define global population distribution.
  • To understand how and why the global population has changed.
  • To begin to explain why people may choose to live in a particular environment.
  • To define birth rate and death rate.
  • To understand what influences birth and death rates.
  • To define migration.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research the top ten populated countries in the world. 
  • Study the knowledge organiser so that you are prepared for the topic.
  • Take a "crash course" in population using the link below.

Writing and Reading - Journey to the River Sea 

Reading:
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 for a range of purposes, including: to persuade and inform
  • Use features of travel guides 
  • 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 age appropriate stories and information about travel and adventure to support our work in class
  • Read travel guides or online resources to the Galapagos and South America (click on the links below)
  • Try writing a travel guide to your own destination that you have visited on holiday 
  • Practise your spellings and grammar using the links below

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 that:
To know:
  • Light travels in a straight line from a light source.
  • Luminous objects are seen as a result of light directly entering the eye, whereas non-luminous objects reflect light into the eye.
  • Shiny surfaces reflect light uniformly.
  • When light is reflected off a surface, its direction changes.
  • Mirrors and periscopes work using reflection of light on smooth surfaces.
  • Shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them as a result of light travelling in straight lines.
  • There are relationships between light sources, objects and shadows.
  • The distance between the object and the screen affects the size of the shadow.​
  • The angle of a reflected ray is affected by the angle of the incoming ray on a smooth surface.

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 reflection, refraction and light.
  • Have a go at doing some of the light experiments below. Remember to work scientifically and ensure your experiments are fair!

Computing

This half term we will be learning:
  • Understanding and identifying barcodes, QR codes and RFID.
  • Identifying devices and applications that can scan or read barcodes, QR codes and RFID.
  • Understanding how barcodes, QR codes and RFID work.
  • Gathering and analysing data in real time.
  • Creating formulas and sorting data within spreadsheets.
  • Learning how ’big data’ can be used to solve a problem or improve efficiency.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Use the link below, with parent/carer permission, to create your own QR barcode to link to a website. 
  • Use the link below to learn more about RFID.

Art - Craft and Design Photo Opportunities 

This half term we will be learning:
  • To know how different materials can be used to produce photorealistic artwork.​
  • To know that macro photography is showing a subject as larger than it is in real life.
  • How to create a photomontage.
  • How to create artwork for a design brief.
  • How to use a camera or tablet for photography.
  • How to identify the parts of a camera.
  • How to take a macro photo, choosing an interesting composition. 
  • How to manipulate a photograph using photo editing tools.
  • How to use drama and props to recreate imagery.
  • How to take a portrait photograph.
  • How to use a grid method to copy a photograph into a drawing.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • If a camera is available, experiment with taking photos exploring how to change focus and zoom 
  • With an appropriate adult, use the link to start to edit photos using free software

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