This year you are lucky enough to have:

Miss White-class teacher

Mrs Payne-teaching assistant and PPA cover on Thursday PM 

Friday: handball/rugby

For PE sessions please refer to the uniform policy. Children can wear any clothing appropriate for doing sport.

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.

Children complete a star reading test every term which gives them a new 'ZPD'. This is a code which corresponds to a book suitable for the reading level of your child. It is important that your child brings their reading book into school each day. Once your child finishes their book, they will complete a quiz testing how well they have understood the book. Their word count is logged and if they get all of the questions right on the quiz, they join the '100 per cent club'!  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 reading records will be checked and books changed once quizzes are completed.

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 - Spring 2

Mountains and Rivers 

As mathematicians, we will:

As children who learn about the wider World we will answer the following questions:

• How can I connect with global issues? 
• What rights do people have, and who does not have their rights met?
• How can you identify cultural practices that go against British law and Universal Human Rights? 
• Why is it important to keep personal boundaries and respect the right to privacy?
• What is life like for people in other countries, and how are their values and customs different from ours?
• How can we work with others to make the world a better place?
• What does it mean to set up an enterprise, and how can we start developing enterprise skills?
• How does the media present information, and how can we critique it?

As learners of RE we will be exploring the Big Question:

As scientists we will be able to answer:

As linguists in Spanish, we will be able to:

As geographers and world explorers we will:

• How do we get water on Earth?
• What waterways are in our local area?
• What is the name of our local river?
• In which direction is the local river from school?
• How are the waterways used?
• How can we Identify the rivers in the UK and across the world?
• What are the key features of a river?
• Where do Rivers Begin?
• Do rivers run in straight lines?
• Where do rivers end?
• Are mountains all the same shape?
• How can we Identify the mountain ranges in the UK and across the world.
• Does the climate change on a Mountain?
• What impact do mountains and rivers have on agriculture?
• What impact do mountains and rivers have on tourism?
• Why and how do you use 4 & 6 grid references?

As artists, we will explore the questions:

• What techniques and inspirations were used by the Japanese artists of the Edo period?
• How does Hokusai’s artwork: Great Wave of Kanawawa represent the Edo period?
• How can we design our very own monoprint artwork using layering techniques?

As writers we will…

• Write for the purpose of a journalistic report.
• Use colons to mark boundaries between clauses and clarify vocabulary.
• Use correct verb forms including present perfect and progressive verb forms.
• Use passive verbs.
• Distinguish between the language for speech and writing.

As historians we will…

• Question whether Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a superhero
• Analyse his achievements and historical impact

As design technologists we will…

• Think like engineers to explore how bridges are strengthened
• Investigate and test structural designs using practical experiments
• Apply our learning to design a scaled bridge prototype
• Use CAD software to refine and present our designs
• Evaluate our work and suggest improvements based on testing

As athletes we will be able to...

Handball 

• Get into a good ready position to move quickly and receive the ball
• Send a ball accurately in different ways 
• Move into space, signal to receive and catch consistently well 
• Pass and move into space
• I can turn my body sideways-on to receive a pass 
• Move the ball on quickly to catch out the opposition 
• Pass and move to support the ball carrier.
• Anticipate the play 
• Shoot with power and accuracy
• Pass out of the back of my hand
• Disguise passes and dummy pass 
• Think ahead and release the ball early when in possession 
• Display the School Games values 
• Apply a range of skills purposefully in a game 

Tag Rugby

• Pop pass and pocket pass
• Tag someone safely
• Pass well to my left and right 
• Send and receive a ball on the run and under pressure
• Pass a rugby ball backwards consistently
• Dummy a pass
• Pass accurately
• Pass missing out players in a line
• Attack in staggered lines 
• Organise my position so that I receive passes on the run
• Apply skills effectively 
• Develop game understanding and compete in a game of Tag Rugby