This year you are lucky enough to have

Miss Radcliffe - Class Teacher

Miss Stairmand - Teaching Assistant 

 

PE will take place every Monday and Thursday, when you will complete some dodgeball and health realted fitness.

For PE sessions please bring the following:

- Black shorts, legins 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 Two

Ancient Egyptians

As historians, we will learn:

- when Ancient Egypt was in relation to other civilisations

- what Egyptians believed about life after death

- the role that religion played in the life of Ancient Egyptians and how it is different to religions that we already know about

- what the structure of Ancient Egyptian society was 

- why the Ancient Egyptians were ahead of their time

- what some of the achievements of the Ancient Egyptians were and how this is evident today

 

A musicians, we will learn:

- to sing with accuracy, control, fluency and expression

- to explore and use different forms of notation

- to understand note length

- to read simple pitch notation

- to use hieroglyphs and stave notation to write a piece of music

 

As geographers, we will learn:

- to locate Egypt, comparing its location to the United Kingdom and plotting its longitude and latitude

co-ordinates

- to describe the climate of Egypt

- why the River Nile is so important to the Egyptian economy as well as its significance to the Ancient Egyptian civilisation

- what powers the Egyptian economy

- why Egypt is such a popular tourist destination

- the positive impacts of tourism as well as how Egypt is developing sustainable tourism 

 

As designer technicians, when creating an ancient sandal, we will learn:

- that ancient sandals were worn by the wealthy: they were a symbol of somebody's social class

- to use a prototype to ensure designs and patterns are true to size

- to embellish designs using the gilding technique and gold leaf

- to use decorative stitching

- to use the technique of weaving

 

As computer scientists and technicians, using the software: Sonic Pi, we will:

- create a programme that plays themed music

- plan a soundtrack for a programme

- programme a soundtrack

- programme music for a specific purpose

 

As children who value our positive relationships, in PSHE, we will learn:

- that there are different perceptions of normal

- to consider what our personal boundaries are 

- why some people choose to communicate through social media and some of the risks of doing so

- that sites have age restrictions and regulations for use

 

As scientists, we will learn, through revision of our previous work on circulation, light and reflection, classification and circuits,

- to plan a comparative test

- to gather and record data

- to conclude and evaluate an investigation, using data to inform a conclusion

 

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

- to consider why people do good and bad things

- what a Humanist is, considering what a Humanist's code for living would be

- where Christian people gather their code of living from

- how we can create peace

- what honesty looks like in every-day life

- how Humanists and Christians know how to act, considering what they base their decisions on 

 

As mathematicians, we will be learning some of the key skills which will prepare us for high school:

- rounding, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals

- naming 2D and 3D dimensional shapes

- identifying parallel and perpendicular lines

- identifying line symmetry

- finding the volume and surface area of cuboids

- simplifying fractions and ratios

- finding percentages and fractions of amounts

- adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing negative numbers 

 

As writers, we will -

- write a non-chronological report about Ancient Egyptian religion, including: semi-colons, colons, commas and dashes to demarcate clauses as well as parenthesis for extra detail

- a diary from the different perspectives of people living in the Ancient Egyptian society, including paragraph, humour to convey feeling and emotion, the subjunctive form, passive voice and a range of sentence starters.