Welcome to Year 6 

The Team

Mr Jenkins
Ash ​​Class Teacher
Mr Rowlands
​Yew ​Class Teacher
Thoura 
LSA (EAL Specialist)
Mrs Dixon
​Teacher/Deputy/SENCo
Mrs Jenkins
Teacher 
Steph
​​LSA
Kerry
​LSA
Kirsty 
​LSA​
PE Days
Yew & Ash Class: Tuesday
Make sure that your child comes into school wearing a PE kit suitable for outdoor sport on PE days so that they can stay warm. 

Swimming Days (from 26th May)
Yew & Ash Class: Thursday
Make sure your child has suitable swimming items in a bag each Thursday. The children will be walking to the pool so may need suitable coats on this day depending on the weather.

Key Dates 

  • Monday 2nd May - Bank Holiday
  • Week beginning 9th May - SATs week
  • Friday 13th May - Post SATs celebration (leaver hoodies delivered)
  • Thursday 19th May - Parent RSE meeting with Miss Parish
  • Thursday 19th May - Harry Potter World trip (leaves 8:45)
  • Thursday 26th May - Year 6 swimming begins (Thursdays)
  • Thursday 26th May - Final day in school.


​This Half Term

Project - The Mayans / UK Coastal Regions

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Explore what life was like during the time of the Mayans.
  • Identify how Mayan diet influenced daily life through jobs, exploration and settling.
  • Compare land use in coastal regions of Ancient Mayan locations and modern UK cities.
  • Understand the religious beliefs of the Ancient Mayans.
  • Research European exploration and the discovery of the Mayans.
  • Examine historical artifacts.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research Ancient Mayan farming and consider how they used their location to support population growth.
  • Research a coastal location in the UK and an Ancient Mayan coastal city.
  • Discuss how coastal holiday locations in the UK differ to those you may have visited abroad.
  • Read Mayan stories. 
  • Visit museums to look at different sources and consider whether it is reliable or not based on who and when it was created.

English - The Rain Player & Macbeth

 Reading:
Using Holes and Macbeth, 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
  • Compare the structure of different text types
  • Evaluate the authors use of language and its resulting impact

Writing:
Using our class texts, this half term we will be learning to:
  • Write for a range of purposes, including: to inform and evaluate
  • Use features of non-fiction guides and balanced arguments
  • 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 reports and information about Central and South America and discuss the histories of these countries at home.
  • Think about letters you have at home, how are these laid out and how do you present a formal letter?
  • Read instructions of games you have at home and consider what language is used and what presentational features are included.
  • Practise writing stories which convey emotion and make the reader feel happy or sorry for a character.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Read and interpret line graphs.
  • Read and interpret pie charts using percentages.
  • Understand the properties of circles.
  • Calculate the mean and mode from a set of data.
  • Calculate angles using shape knowledge.
  • Accurately nets to create 3D shapes.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Investigate packaging by opening them to see how 2D shapes are used to create 3D shapes.
  • Identify different 3D shapes in packaging in shops and consider why some shapes are more common than others.
  • Track the number of steps you take every hour in a day and plot your growing total on a line graph.
  • 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 - Electricity

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Take measurements (i.e. amps) using a range of equipment.
  • Record and present data in charts and graphs.
  • Identify and explain how circuits work.
  • Explain how bulbs can be made brighter and dimmer.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss the following vocabulary with your child: amp, socket,  live electrical wire, volt, complete battery, copper.
  • Explore what you have in your house which requires electricity to work.
  • Identify a number of electronic devices which you use regularly at home. Now research how we performed these same tasks before electricity was available. How have things changed over time?

Computing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use spreadsheets to present and manipulate data.
  • Describe how to search for information within a wide group of technologies (e.g. social media, image sites, video sites).
  • Use different search technologies.
  • Evaluate digital content and can explain how I make choices from search results.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Create a table at home (electronically using Excel or Google Sheets, or on paper) about any topic you choose e.g. goals in a game, colours of cars parked in the street.
  • Produce a bar graph to represent your data in your table electronically using Excel or Google Sheets, or on paper).
  • Look for examples of how tables are used to record data around us (e.g. league tables, train timetables, weather temperature tables). Discuss how tables are sorted differently to help show the data that is deemed important.
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Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques.
  • Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design.
  • Learn great artists, architects and designers in history.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Have a go at drawing animals you see in the local area.
  • Find out about Banksy and Andy Warhol, considering what makes their works different when compared to other artists.
  • Visit a local art gallery. Consider the motivations and messages which might be behind different pieces of art.

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Explore rhythmical patterns 
  • Explore the 'pulse' in a song or extract of music
  • Understand how to compose a repetitive phrase and record this in written form
  • Explore the work of Zoltan Kodaly

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise making repeating rhythms using your hands and feet at home 
  • Listen to current music and write/draw about how it makes you feel. 
  • Listen to music inspired by the Americas. How are they similar/different to each other or music from the UK?

 RE - Expressing Faith

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Develop understanding of how different religious groups use music and song to express how they feel
  • ​Unpick how different cultures and faiths use artistic patterns or images to express their belief
  • Describe how people use religious stories to share their knwoledge and faith


​PSHE - E-Safety and Bullying
This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Keep ourselves safe online
  • Keep our identity and personal information private and secure
  • Know what to do if worried when using websites
  • Think about what bullying is and how we can stop it from happening

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss your own faith or beliefs at home
  • Ask family members about their own faith and how this plays a part in their lives.
  • Research different religious patterns or imagery in the local area or online. 
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about how to keep apps and social media accounts secure
  • Discuss ways we can respond to hurtful messages so that they are empowered and in control in the event of online bullying
  • Share ways to stay safe online.

PE

Outdoor PE will be on Tuesday PM for all of Year 6. Swimming will start from the 26th May on Thursdays.

Sport: Cricket/Swimming
  • Use varying techniques to stop a moving ball
  • Use defensive batting techniques to protect stumps
  • Use varying attacking batting techniques to strike a ball in differing directions
  • Develop water confidence and safety
  • Use a variety of strokes when moving in the water

French (MFL): My Family (La Famille)

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Recognise , say and write the nouns for members of our family in French
  • Tell somebody about my family members 
  • Tell somebody the names of my family members in French
  • Listen to, read and then recognise numbers to 100
  • Use the French for 'my' as a possessive adjective

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Try jumps and squats to help maintain fitness and balance
  • Try throwing and catching when at the park or in the garden. How many different throws can you try?
  • Watch a game of cricket or view highlights online. Consider how they use body movements to vary the direction of their batting shots.
  • Attend a local leisure centre swimming session to develop water confidence.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​Why not try:
  • Watching a video in French with subtitles on to see common words and their spellings. 
  • Orally rehearse simple sentences in French.
  • Having a go at the activities available on the link below: