*Spring Term – What are we learning?*

English – Key reading, writing, grammar, comprehension, spelling and language skills taught through a wide variety of text-types (disaster stories, newspaper reports, explanation texts, narrative poetry, stories with a moral, discursive writing).

Maths – Revision of place value and fractions, reflection and symmetry, imperial and metric units of measure, decimals and percentages, properties of 2D and 3D shapes, area and perimeter, statistics, algebra, ratio, volume and problem-solving.

Whole-Class Novel – The Blockbusters by Frank Cottrell-Boyce / You Are Awesome by Matthew Syed / Holes by Louis Sachar / 10 Children Who Changes The World by Paterson Joseph

Science – Light / Animals Including Humans

PE – Tag Rugby/Gymnastics/Yoga/Netball/Dance

History – The Windrush Generation

Geography – Physical Processes / Settlements and Economics

ICT – Internet safety, Digital Literacy, SAMLABS coding skills

Art – Drawing

Design and Technology – Sewing

RE – How do people explain the suffering in the world? What does it mean to be human? (Christianity and Buddhism)

PSHE – Economic Wellbeing

French – Key vocabulary revision (including numbers to 79), Days, Months, Clothes, Colours, Family, Pets

Music – Singing

Important Information

PE

Year 6 have PE every TUESDAY and every THURSDAY afternoon.

Please ensure your children come to school in their full PE Kits every Thursday:

• Yellow PE shirt (COMPULSORY)
• Non-branded, plain black shorts (COMPULSORY)
• Black pumps (COMPULSORY)
• All jewellery is to be removed before every PE session and long hair is expected to be tied back. Children MUST be able to take their own earrings out for swimming.

Homework

•  Reading- children are expected to read daily. They will choose their own book to bring home – this could be a story, information text, newspaper, poetry book or even a magazine!
• Weekly homework will be given out on Mondays, due back the following Monday.

Assessment

We use formative assessment in every lesson, to ensure all children reach their full potential in all areas of the curriculum. Summative assessment is completed at least once every term where the children sit tests similar to their end of KS2 SATS. We formally assess in:

• Reading and comprehension
• Spelling, punctuation and grammar
• Maths – arithmetic and reasoning

If you have any questions or want to speak to me, please do not hesitate to contact me by coming into school, phoning school or signing up to Class Dojo and speaking to me directly there through its secure messaging system. Thank you!