Welcome to Year 6 

The Team

Mr Silvester
Yew Class Teacher
Miss Hannigan
Ash Class Teacher 
Steph
​​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 PE on both days so that they can stay warm. 


​This Half Term

Project - Darwin's Voyage 

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use an atlas to locate the countries of South America using a world map. 
  • Identify and locate the capital cities of the countries of South America.
  • Identify and conduct a comparison of how a geographical region has changed over time.
  • Compare and describe the geographical similarities and differences between regions of the UK and South America.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research countries in South America including flags, languages and capital cities.
  • Watch documentaries on the wildlife found in South American locations such as within the rainforest.
  • Write a setting description based on a photograph of the Chilean mountains or the Amazon rainforest.
  • Discuss with friends or family members places you have visited considering similarities and differences to where you live.

English - 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
  • Take a trip to the Sedgwick Museum at Cambridge University (free) and write aa report about a dinosaur of your choice for a Wikipedia entry.

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:
  • Build on knowledge of fossils from Year 3
  • Explore how living things have changed over time
  • Learn about how key characteristics are passed on 
  • Learn about variation and how things are never identical
  • Explore how animals and plants adapt to suit their environment

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss the following vocabulary with your child: evolution, inheritance, prehistoric, trait and natural selection
  • Explore your family tree and how certain key characteristics have been passed on from one generation to another. 
  • Learn to classify living things (such as plants) according to their physical characteristics 

Computing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand what coding and debugging means.
  • Recognise differences between working with 2D and 3D shapes.
  • Create and modify 3D shapes virtually.
  • Review designs using different angles by rotating virtual 3D objects.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Use resizing and rotation tools across a range of different software (e.g. Google Docs and Powerpoint).
  • Discuss what makes a 3D shape and name common 3D shapes you spot in the world around you.
  • Recreate pictures virtually using software on ICT equipment.
  • Remember to keep safe when online!

Click here for help with online safety.

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Explore patterns in nature 
  • Use a range of art media, including: printing with ink, biro sketching, use of acrylic paint and charcoal sketching
  • Exploring a range of artists inspired by nature and geometric patterns, including: William Escher, William Morris and Fred Tomaselli . 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Spot patterns around your home or when on walks. Draw or photograph what you find
  • Find out about William Escher and create your own repeating tessellation
  • Have a go at trying your own mindfulness colouring or sketching

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Compose musical pieces using repeated patterns inspired by nature
  • Rehearse and perform music composed within a group
  • Read music by understanding note time values, reading clef and stave values and learning the names of notes (we often refer to this as music theory)
  • Learning festive music and performing carols in front of an audience.

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. 
  • Listen to music inspired by South America. What instruments can you hear? How does it make you feel? What time is the music written in? Why might this be?

 RE - What Does Eternal Mean?

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Develop understanding of concepts and mastery of skills to make sense of religion and belief. 
  • ​Unpick the term 'eternity' and have a good understanding about what this word means in a religious context
  • Describe how Christians believe that some things are eternal


​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 what 'eternal' means to you and your family
  • Ask family members about their own faith and how this plays a part in their lives.
  • Research what other faiths make of this terminology and make comparisons with other religions
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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. Then, Thursday PM for Miss Hannigan's class and Friday PM for Mr Silvester's class.
Sports: Gymnastics and Outdoor Adventure Activities (OAA)
Skills taught include: 
  • Orienteering and compass reading skills (OAA)
  • Team building and adventure games (OAA)
  • Build on balance and fluid movement by sequencing different stretches together into a routine (gymnastics)

French (MFL): Language Angels

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Name common verbs in French.
  • Count to 20
  • Order food and drink for breakfast in a cafe using the verb'Je Peux': 
  • Say how I am feeling
  • Recap basic greetings from Year 5

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Try jumps and squates to help maintain fitness and balance
  • Try bouldering when on visits to outdoor locations. 
  • Test how long you can run for without stopping. Develop stamina by trying to run for longer every weekend.
  • Perform a range of stretches to develop agility.

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: