Welcome to Year 6 

The Team

Miss Parish
​Class Teacher
​Ash Class
Miss Green
​Class Teacher
​Yew Class
Miss. Chalk
​LSA
​Mrs. Archer
​LSA
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Miss.  Wilkins 
​LSA
Miss. Harvey
​LSA

PE Days 
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Indoor PE

Yew Class: Tuesday
Ash Class: Friday

Outdoor PE

Yew Class: Thursday
Ash Class: 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. 

Key Dates 

·  Home Learning due: 1st February
·  Last day of school: 12th February  
​·  Home Learning Assembly: 12th February  


​This Half Term

Project - Darwin and Evolution

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Examine how Darwin travelled around the world on the HMS Beagle.
  • Discuss the formation of his revolutionary 'Theory of Evolution'.
  • Explore how different species have evolved and adapted over time.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research the voyage of the HMS Beagle and create a google slides power point about the journey. 
  • Have a go at creating your own Darwin sketches images at home. 
  • Discuss with family members the impact of the evolution and the different scientific opinions around this.

Writing - Journey to the River Sea

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write letters using relative clauses.
  • Use dashes and hyphens within words.
  • Write using subordinating conjunctions. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Read age appropriate reports and information about South America and discuss this country at home.
  • Think about letters you have at home, how are these laid out and how do you present a formal letter?
  • Practise writing short book reviews at home based on your favourite books and remember to include why you enjoy those texts.

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Maths

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Add, subtract, divide and multiply with varying denominators.
  • Multiply 4 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers and applying this to real life contexts.
  • Find percentages of amounts.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Investigate fractions and practise solving real life problems involving fractions.
  • Look at the relationship between addition and subtraction. How can the inverse be used to help check your answers?
  • Practise your times tables! Focus on 7s, 8s and 9s, recalling multiplication and division facts. 

Science

This half term we will be learning to:

· Label different parts of the circulatory system.
· Understand the functions of the different parts of the circulatory system.
· Identify the effects of exercising on the human body.
· Explain how eating healthily effects the human body.
 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research how the human heart works and what parts it is made up of.
  • Collect data about your own heart rate and how much impact exercise has on your body.
  • Create different art representations of the circulatory system and how is it understood today.

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Reread some of your favourite stories to come up with ideas for your own text based adventure games online and note down your ideas.
  • Remember to keep safe when online!

Click here for help with online safety.
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand what coding and debugging means.
  • Use coding to create our own games on purple mash.
  • Create text based adventure games with multiple levels.

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create sketches of the HMS Beagle using charcoal and shading.
  • Use Purple Mash to create digital art based on evolution. 
  • ​Create some evolution bird projects which will include making wire birds and paper sculptures. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at different pictures of the HMS Beagle and use different mediums such as drawing, painting or collage to create pictures.
  • Reflect on artists' creations and think about how their pictures make you feel. 

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand that notes are on a staff and write simple repetitive patterns on a musical score.
  • Use body percussion to create our own body music.
  • Play a rhythm over a changing pulse.
  • Understand different tempos and how this impacts on playing styles. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Watch this video to learn more about body percussion!

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2DY1OpgrI 

RE

This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Understand the concept of eternity and discuss the role of eternal life in Christianity.
  • Discuss the different ways religions show eternity as a concept or an idea they support or disregard.
  • Focus on different strategies for debating religious views fairly and openly. 
PSHE
  • Understand what it means to have a long term and short term goal.
  • Understand how to set achievable and realistic long term/short term goals individually and as a group.
  • Discuss our understanding of bullying and how we can report and respond to bullying when we see it.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • scuss eternity within your family and try to debate: is anything in life eternal?
  • Ask family members about their own faith and how this plays a part in their lives.
  • Create a new safe hand at home to help you tackle any worries or bullying that you see.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Create a dreams ladder with your child and discuss steps to success.
  • Talk about people at home and how they achieved their goals. 
  • Set your self daily targets as a household.

PE

PE will be on Thursday PM for all of Year 6. Then, Tuesday PM for Miss. Green's class and Friday PM for Miss. Parish's class.

Outdoor: Football
Skills taught include: 
  • Travelling with a ball changing speed and direction confidently.
  • Choosing skills which meet the need of the situation.
  • Playing competitive games whilst showing respect to team members and opponents. 

Indoor : Gymnastics 

French (MFL): Language Angels

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Name different foods.
  • Revise greetings and using these to ask for basic food types. 
  • Speak and read numbers beyond 20.
  • Apply conversations to money and weather. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise passing larger balls in a group of three.
  • Watch different matches and discuss tactics used by the team.
  • Practise activities to raise your heart rate, try star jumps and lunges!





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​​Why not try:
  • Making a list of colours, foods and numbers. 
  • Naming as many French speaking countries as you can.
  • Having a go at the activities available on the link below: