Welcome to Year 6 

The Team

Miss Hannigan 
​​Ash Teacher   
Mr Silvester
 Yew Teacher
Miss Butler 
​LSA
Miss Wilkins
​LSA​

PE Days

Yew Class: Tuesday & Friday
Ash Class: Tuesday & Thursday

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. 

Key Dates 

  • Monday 20th February 2023 - Start of half term
  • Thursday 2nd  March 2023 - World Book Day
  • Tuesday 7th march 2023 - Parents Evening
  • Thursday 9th March 2023 - Parents Evening
  • Friday 17th March 2023 - Red Nose Day
  • Monday 20th March 2023 - Home learning due in
  • Tuesday 21st March 2023 - Home learning winners chosen
  • Thursday 23rd March 2023 - World Maths Day
  • Thursday 30th March 2023 - Home learning gallery 2.45pm in the hall
  • ​Friday 31st March - Last Day of School
  • Monday 17th April - Back to School


​This Half Term

Project - Ancient Mayans

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Locate key events on a timeline
  • Compare and  contrast our local area to that of the Americas
  • Look at how civilisations developed in other parts of the world
  • Find key events on a timeline 
  • Use evidence from a range of sources to draw conclusions about the Maya
  • Be able to identify the limits of archeological evidence 
  • Discuss the impact of European settlers on the Mayan way of life and how this led to the eventual downfall of the empire

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research where the Maya lived in relation to modern countries on a map
  • Look at art and crafts from this period and try making your own Mayan artefacts at home. (we will be using Salt Dough in school)
  • Try drawing a Mayan temple and label its key features
  • Research the different Mayan gods
  • The Mayans loved chocolate! Why not research the history of chocolate or have a go at making a flow chart to show how modern chocolate is produced.

English - The Rain Player & 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:
Using The Rain Player, 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 stories about the Maya - there are a variety of traditional tales and Myths available
  • Read the information guides about the Maya (see below)
  • Try writing your own Mayan myth or even a guide to the Mayans
  • Practise your spellings and grammar using the links below
  • Take a trip to the British Museum (free) or take a virtual tour (click on the link below) to find out more about the Maya

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Revise fractions, decimals and percentages
  • Use and apply Roman numerals
  • Revise shapes, graphs and charts
  • Find the area and perimeter of regular and irregular 2d shapes
  • Solve algebraic problems
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Investigate real-life algebraic problems when cooking or shopping
  • Ensure your child can recognise common Roman numerals
  • 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 - Light

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Build on knowledge of light from year 4
  • Explain how light travels in straight lines
  • Explain that we see things because light travels in straight lines from a source and reflects into our eyes
  • Explain that shadows are made bvecause light travels in straight lines
  • Explain the terms 'opaque' and 'translucent' in addition to 'transparent'

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss the following vocabulary with your child: transparent, translucent, opaque, straight, shadow, source and wavelength
  • Explore the different shapes and sizes of shadows at the different times of the day
  • Learn to use mirrors to bend and manipulate waves of light be using different objects in the home to investigate reflection (i.e. saucepans, bathroom mirrors etc.)

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:
  • Make observational drawings that are accurate and detailed
  • Scale-up pictures so that they are representative of what we can see
  • Learn how to draw portraits with accuracy
  • Use the terms 'complimentary colour' and 'exploded diagram' and apply these in our artwork

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Have a go at drawing shapes that you see around the home
  • Find out about animation by Ardman (who make Wallace and Grommit films) and look at how scaling up and down has been used
  • Have a go at the 'Young Inventors Challenge' by watching the video (click on the link below)

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

PE will be on Tuesday PM for all of Year 6 and on Thursdays (Ash) and Fridays (Yew).

Sport: Basketball
  • To dribble with a basketball
  • To use a range of techniques to pass a basketball effectively
  • To pivot and move around the court effectively
  • To keep possession of the ball
  • To mark effectively and get free from a defender
  • Apply all the skills learnt in a game of basketball
French

​ 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?
  • To practise pivoting whilst maintaining balance
  • If you have a basketball, or any ball, practise dribbling without looking at the ball with increasing speed and control

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: