Year 6

Autumn Term

This half term(Autumn 2), we are going on a journey to discover a tribe. We will be linking many areas of the curriculum to this topic. Here are some of the exciting things that we will be learning about:

• Geography: The Rainforests of the World; where they are and facts about them. 
• Science: Classifying animals.
• Art: Christmas crafts.
• Reading: 'Macbeth' By William Shakespeare.
• Writing: Instructions and a balanced argument. 
• Maths: Fractions, decimals and percentages and long division. 
• PE: Netball skills and teamwork. 
• Computing: Branching database and hyperlinks.
• PSHE: Social media and mental health. 
• RE: How Sikhs show commitment. 
• Spanish: Conversational skills.

PE will take place every Tuesday for all Year 6 classes. Children should come to school wearing their PE kit on this day. They will stay in PE kit all day and do not need to bring their uniform.

This half term (Autumn 1), we are going on a journey to discover a tribe. We will be linking many areas of the curriculum to this topic. Here are some of the exciting things that we will be learning about:

• History: Understanding the Mayan Civilisation. 
• Science: Classifying animals.
• Art: Creating tribal head-dresses.
• Reading: 'The Explorer' by Katherine Rundell
• Writing: Diary entries, setting descriptions and an adventure story. 
• Maths: Place value and the 4 operations. 
• PE: Rugby skills and teamwork. 
• Computing: Coding.
• PSHE: Social media and mental health. 
• RE: How Sikhs show commitment. 
• Spanish: Conversational skills.

PE will take place every Tuesday for all Year 6 classes. Children should come to school wearing their PE kit on this day. They will stay in PE kit all day and do not need to bring their uniform.