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 Monday and Thursday, when you will be learning Lacrosse and developing your skills in Gymnastics. 

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, leggins 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 - Autumn One

Amazing Africa

As historians, we will learn:

• when the Kingdom of Benin was at its most and least powerful.
• how the Obas of Benin controlled their people.
• what life was like in ancient Benin for craftspeople and farmers.
• why the Nigerians want the Benin bronzes returned.
• how important trade was in keeping Benin rich and powerful.
• what evidence there is for there being a golden age of Benin.
• why Benin fell to the British and not the Portuguese empire.

As artists, we will:

• who Michelle Reader is and how her artwork promotes awareness of the need to re-use and re-cycle.
• learn how fly tipping and human behaviour can lead to endangered animals and their habitats.
• find out which animals enjoy the African habitat.
• consider which everyday materials I could use for my African animal sculpture.
• learn the techniques of collage.
• enjoy a session with an artist who will show me how to join different materials to make a three-dimensional sculpture.
• follow a design brief.
• make and evaluate a three-dimensional sculpture of an African animal using a range of techniques, media, colours and textures. 

As musicians, we will:

• learn to play call and response rhythms using percussion instruments
• create an eight-beat break to play within a performance
• have weekly music lessons from a music teacher who will teach us how to play rhythms on the djembes, leading to a class performance for parents!

As geographers, we will learn:

• how Africa compares to the United Kingdom.
• why the countries in Africa are so different.
• about the climate in Africa
• The impacts of droughts on people in South Africa
• what powers the South African economy.
• why South Africa is a popular tourist destination.
• what life is like in Cape Town.

As computer scientists and technicians, using the software: Stop Motion Studio, we will:

• learn what animation is, specifically stop motion
• plan, create and edit a stop motion video linked to an area of our art, history or literacy work

As children who value our positive health and well-being, in PSHE, we will:

• consider what our strengths and achievements are as well as our aspirations and goals
• consider what influences me to behave a certain way
• learn how the media promotes certain body types
• find out ways to resist pressure
• learn why people join gangs and what the risks of being a member of a gang could be
• learn the features of a healthy relationship and how this differs to an unhealthy relationship
• learn that I have a right to protect my body and the ways in which I can keep my body safe
• find out what the responsibilities of parents are
• learn the impact that different drugs have on vital organs
• consider what causes stress and learn the ways in which I can deal with stress

As Linguists, using speaking, reading and listening skills, we will:

• Identify cognates and use the context to deduce the meaning of new words.
• Identify the appropriate time to use a dictionary to look up unfamiliar words.
• Apply rules to generate all forms of an adjective.
• Use a range of adjectives and descriptive phrases to describe clothing.
• Describe an outfit and its purpose in multi-clause sentences using porque – because.
• Create an outfit by following the description in a design brief accurately.
• Read or say sentences aloud using the correct pronunciation when giving a presentation.

As scientists, we will:

• explain how organisms are classified using the Linnaean system
• learn to classify cold-blooded vertebrate groups into their common characteristics
• classify invertebrates
• describe how the plant kingdom is organised (based on shared characteristics)
• Work scientifically to produce a classification key 
• learn about the work of Carl Linnaeus - a bontanist and zoologist who developed taxonomy for classification

As children who embrace learning about different religions, in RE, we will learn:

• consider what we do when times get hard.
• discuss art reflecting the afterlife in Christianity, Hinduism and Humanism. 
• find out what people believe carries on after we die.
• learn what people believe our soul to be.
• consider how the belief that somebody has a soul may affect the way they live their life.
• find out what beliefs comfort people through difficult times, such as bereavement.
• learn what a belief in reincarnation is.
• compare similarities and differences in beliefs about the after life.
• find out how different religions live their life based on their beliefs about the afterlife.
• learn how different ceremonies for death reflect different beliefs.

As mathematicians, we will:

• learn the value of each digit in numbers up to ten million.
• calculate using powers of ten.
• read intervals on number lines, placing numbers up to ten million on the correct division. 
• compare and order any integers.
• round any integer.
• calculate using negative numbers.
• add and subtract integers.
• find common factors and common multiples.
• learn and apply the rules of divisibility.
• find all of the prime numbers up to one hundred.
• calculate with square and cube numbers.
• multiply four digit numbers by two digit numbers.
• learn the methods for short and long division, using whole numbers and numbers that lead to remainders.
• learn how to use factors to aid division.
• learn the rules for the order of operations (BODMAS).
• solve problems using the four operations of multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.

As writers, we will, through writing in the style of a flashback:

• link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time, manner and place.
• revise and use the rules for the punctuation of direct speech, using dialogue to convey the character and advance the action.
• use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely.
• use passive verbs.
• use small details to amuse, entertain or create drama for characters.
• engage our reader through the use of effective grammar and vocabulary.
• manipulate sentence length.
• use paragraphs to vary pace