Welcome to Year 6; the final year of your child's primary school journey. This school year promises to be an exciting one with various fun learning opportunities throughout the year. With a number of trips, the residential, an end of year performance and leavers events, it is a very rewarding year for the childrens hard work throughout primary school. The children are now confident and competent learners who are able to listen, work hard and apply their knowledge.

To ensure that the children are prepared for their transition to High School, we encourage independence and that they are able to take responsibility for themselves and their own learning. With the children sitting their KS2 SATs tests in the summer term, we encourage full engagement with homework, revision and home learning to help fill any learning gaps the children have so that they feel fully prepared to sit their tests in May.

Term 1 – Autumn

In term 1, our topic is “Crime and Punishment”. We look at how crime and punishment has changed through the different periods of time and how they compare to today's laws and judicial system. The children will even get the opportunity to play a role in our very own court trial!

In our English units, we investigate the features of narrative, instructional writing and poetry. Relative clauses, types of conjunctions and the use of brackets, dashes and commas to indicate parenthesis are examples of the grammar focuses this term.  Our class stories for this term are ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar and ‘Friend or Foe' by Michael Morpurgo. 

We work hard to further develop our understanding of mathematical reasoning within Place Value, the Four Operations and Fractions. We then apply these skills in real life situations. 

In Science, we are investigating Light. We will be discovering how our eyes help us to see objects as well as how light can be reflected and refracted. We develop our investigative skills as we become detectives of light with different experiments to help solve a crime! 

Term 2 - Spring

Our topics in the spring term are World War 2 and the Economic Activity of the UK. In our World War 2 topic we look at what life was like during the wartime and what impact it had on Britain. We dive into areas such as how Hitler became the ruler of Germany, how the war started, the rationing of food and much more. At the end of this topic, the children will go on a trip where they will become evacuees for the day and learn what life was like for children during the war who were evacuated. 

In our second topic, we look at the Economic Activity of the UK and what the main sectors are within the country. We take a look at the different ways that the county makes money and how this affects those involved.

In English, our focus texts are Resist (Linked to our WW2 topic) where we look at the key features of a non-chronological report and Macbeth which is our unit of work on poetry. Our grammar focusses are synonyms and antonyms, word classes, colons for a list and bullet points. 

Term 3 - Summer

Coming soon!

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