Welcome to Year 6 

The Team

Mr Jenkins
​​Class Teacher
​Ash Class
Miss Green
​Class Teacher
​Yew Class
Miss.  Wilkins 
​LSA
Miss. Chalk
​LSA
Mrs. Archer
​LSA​

PE Days

Yew Class: Tuesday, Thursday
Ash Class: Thursday, 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. 

Key Dates 

·  First day back after Easter / Home Learning launched: 12th April
·  Accelerated Reader Parent video introduction: 10th May
·  Reading Parents Evening slots / Home Learning due: 17th May
·  Last day of school: 28th May  


​This Half Term

Project - The Mayans

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Explore what life was like during the time of the Mayans.
  • Understand the religious beliefs of the Ancient Mayans.
  • Research historical information about the Mayans.
  • Examine historical artifacts.
  • Present and consider the reliability of information.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research Ancient Mayan gods and consider how they were used to explain events which we may use Science to explain now. 
  • 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.

Writing - Holes

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write diary entries using emotive language.
  • Use parenthesis to add additional information.
  • Write instructions using adverbials of time.
  •  Use literary techniques to build tension within narratives.

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:​
  • Use percentages for comparison.
  • Calculate percentages of whole numbers or measures.
  • Recall equivalences between simple fractions, decimals and percentages.
  • Describe positions on the full coordinate grid in all 4 quadrants.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Investigate percentages and practise solving real life problems involving fractions (such as sales in shops).
  • Look at the relationship between percentages, decimals and fractions. How can we use our knowledge of fractions to convert between these?
  • Practise your times tables! Focus on 7s, 8s and 12s, recalling multiplication and division facts. 

Science

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Classify and label the scientific characteristics of living things.
  • Design classification keys to sort organisms.
  • Exploring information about fungi and bacteria.
  • Research the work of Carl Linnaeus.
  • Create observational drawings of animals and plants including labels.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

  • Create a list of questions to sort groups of items such as sweets or fruit.
  • Use Purple Mash to create branching databases with words, pictures and sounds.
  • Explore the range of wildlife, plants and animals in the local environment.

Computing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand what coding and debugging means.
  • Use coding to solve problems.
  • Use different functions within lines of code.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Map out a route around your house and create lines of directions or instructions to guide someone along the route safely.  Will anyone trust your directions enough to try it with their eyes closed?
  • Use 2Code on Purple Mash to create multiple level games.
  • Import images into 2Code to vary your game design away from the pre-loaded available resources.
  • Remember to keep safe when online!

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Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create sketches of Ancient Mayan art work.
  • Use varying shades of paint to reflect Mayan festival colour schemes. 
  • ​Create Mayan headdress designs based on research. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at different pictures of Mayan sculptures and use different mediums such as drawing, painting or collage to create designs.
  • Research Mayan festivals considering the different materials used to create the costumes they wore. 

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand compose musical pieces using repeated patterns on electronic devices.
  • Rehearse and perform solo and group songs.
  • Interpret musical pieces through movements as part of a performance. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Learn lines for a performance.
  • Rehearse songs in preparation for a performance.
  • Use Purple Mash to compose musical sequences using different instrument sounds.

RE

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Develop understanding of concepts and mastery of skills to make sense of religion and belief. 
  • ​Explore the ways a Muslim might try to lead a good life.
  • Describe how people try to lead respectful lives in relation to religious beliefs.
  • Identify the positives of leading a good life and explain what this might look like.

PSHE
  • Understand how to take responsibility for my own safety and well-being.
  • Demonstrate ways I could stand up for myself and my friends in situations where others are trying to gain control.
  • Know how to resist pressure to do something online that might hurt myself or others.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss important decisions you have made in life and how these decisions have led to leading a better life.
  • 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 ways that you or others in your family help look after your well-being such as through hobbies.
  • Discuss how to make good choices during certain situations which can lead to a positive outcome. 
  • Share ways to stay safe online.

PE

PE will be on Thursday PM for all of Year 6. Then, Tuesday PM for Miss. Green's class and Friday PM for Mr Jenkins' class.
Sports: Cricket and Athletics
Skills taught include: 
  • Correct technique for standing long jump, triple jump, shot put, javelin, sprints, relay races and long distance running.
  • Fielding a struck ball, bowling and batting (making defensive and attacking shots).

French (MFL): Language Angels

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Name common verbs in French.
  • Spell common verbs in French and match the spellings to images.
  • Describe in French activities or sports I can do.
  • Say which fruits I like and which I do not like.
  • Ask a question in French to establish someone's food preferences.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise throwing over a long distance using different equipment such as a frisbee or a nerf ball.
  • Watch different events in athletics competitions.
  • Test how long you can run for without stopping. Develop stamina by trying to run for longer every weekend.
  • Measure the distance of your jumps and think about what you could do to jump further.
​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: