This year you are lucky enough to have

Miss Radcliffe - Class Teacher

Mrs Payne - Teaching Assistant 

Miss Wareing - Teaching Assistant 

PE will take place every Thursday where we will be exploring and learning skills linked to cricket.   

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, leggings or jogging bottoms

- White t-shirt or polo shirt

- Black pumps or trainers

It is usually best to leave your child's PE kit in school for the half-term so that it is always available to use.

It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day as the days on which they will be able to read with an adult may change from time to time. It is also crucial that you listen to your child read each evening and ensure that you sign their reading record highlighting what they have read and how they performed.

Within this class. the children will complete an Accelerated Reader quiz once they have completed a book - this is great for building their word count! Afterwards, they are able to change their reading books. 

Homework will be set on a Tuesday through our online learning platform, SeeSaw. A link for which is placed below:

https://app.seesaw.me/#/login

All homework should be completed by the following Monday and will be checked by your teacher on this day. Please make sure that if you are having difficulties with the homework, that you contact your class teacher with plenty of time so that they can assist your child in its completion. In addition, the school also run a homework club which can really help support those children that struggle completing their tasks independently.

Year 6 - Summer 2

The Americas

As mathematicians, we will:

• Revise the year 6 curriculum, will particular focus on the four operations and fractions, decimals and percentages
• Apply our knowledge to reasoning problems
• Work through arithmetic calculations, increasing our calculation speed

As writers we will…

• Recap KS2 grammar and spelling rules 
• Edit and improve independent writing pieces 
• Write for a range of purposes and genres

As readers we will aim to revise the following VIPERS skills: 

• V - Vocabulary questions exploring how to deduce the meaning of unfamiliar words as well as understanding of how word choice affects meaning and tone.
• I - Inference questions check their ability to "read between the lines" — to use clues in the text along with their own knowledge to work out something that isn’t directly stated.
• P - Prediction questions encourage pupils to use evidence from what they’ve read so far to guess what might happen next. It builds on inference skills but looks forward rather than interpreting what’s already happened.
• E - Explain style questions focus on giving reasons or justify something using evidence from the text. These questions help children show their understanding by going beyond simple recall.
• R - Retrieval style questions alongside using the text tracking method to find and recall facts or details directly from the text — no guesswork or inference needed. The answer is right there in the text, often word-for-word or very close.
• S - Summary questions ask pupils to identify the main ideas from a section of text or summarise events, usually in the order they happen. These questions assess whether pupils can condense information and understand key points rather than every detail.

As children who value our relationships we will aim to:

• Understand how name calling and rumour spreading are challenging behaviours.
• Know the different stages of grief.
• Know what causes people to grieve.
• Understand what confidentiality is and when it is right to break this.
• Know what the different types of relationships are and what constitutes a positive, healthy relationship.
• Understand the different types of marriages and what the difference is between an arranged marriage and a forced marriage.
• Understanding the term normal and discussing if the term ‘normal’ should be used. 

As historians we will answer the following enquiry questions:

• What is the New World?
• Why can we now eat chocolate and vanilla ice cream?
• What impact did the Columbian Exchange have?
• Was Christopher Columbus a hero?

As people who respect different religions and cultures we will:

• Understand what we mean by agnostic, atheist and theist through a philosophical lens.
• Know how psychology helps us to understand what people mean when they think about the idea of God.
• Understand what we can learn from theology about the idea of God.
• Understand why some people believe that God does not exist.
• Know where we stand in terms of our beliefs in God.

As Spanish speakers we will:

• Use contextual clues and knowledge of grammar to deduce meaning and translate sentences.
• Describe the Ancient Maya people using evidence to justify conclusions.
• Deduce the meaning of directional language and follow simple directions.
• Interpret directional language to navigate around a Maya city.
• Apply knowledge of directional and descriptive language to write clues for a treasure hunt around a Maya city.

As Musicians we will:

• Name three key features of blues music.
• Sing in tune, using vocal expression to convey meaning.
• Explain what a chord is and play the chord of C sixteen times.
• Play the 12-bar blues correctly.
• Play the notes of the blues scale in the correct order, ascending and descending.
• Play a selection of blues scale notes out of order in their own improvisation.

As Geographers we will:

• Compare America to the UK
• Research North America
• Explore Manchester City Centre 
• Compare perspectives of NYC
• Compare Manchester and NYC

As Scientists we will:

• Define and identify variation in organisms and recall that it is caused by inherited and environmental factors.
• Recall that living things produce offspring of the same kind but are not normally identical to their parents.
• Describe patterns of inheritance from parent to offspring in a given example or family tree.
• Describe what an adaptation is; it cannot be chosen and is usually inherited.
• Describe key characteristics that would help an organism to survive and explain how an adaptation helps the organism to survive.
• Explain how variation may affect survival within a population and recall what natural selection means.
• Recall what evolution is, identify differences between a living thing and its ancestor and describe key steps in the evolution of a species.
• Recall different types of evidence that can be used to explain evolution and describe methods that make scientists’ results or conclusions more trustworthy.

When working scientifically, we will:

• Sort variation as environmental, inherited or a mixture of both.
• Evaluate a method by recalling variables that were effectively kept the same and those that were harder to control.
• Comment on the reliability of the results and the degree of trust.
• Consider how evidence is used to form theories and the degree of trust the evidence offers.

As computer scientists, we will:

• Evaluate code, understand what it does and adapt existing code for a specific purpose.
• Debug programs and make them more efficient using sequence, selection, repetition or variables.
• Design appropriate housing for their product using CAD software, including any input or output devices needed to make it work.
• Create an appealing website for their product aimed at their target audience, which explains what their product is and what it does using persuasive language.
• Create an edited video of their project, articulating the key benefits.
• Describe and show how to search for information online and be aware of the accuracy of the results presented.

As Rounders players we will:

• Throw accurately into space
• Ground field well
• Back up fielders in the outfield
• Know the rules of rounders
• Adjust positions in the field depending on who is batting
• Play a full game of rounders