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English

Styles of writing to be covered

  • Narrative description
  • Balanced discussion
  • Non-narrative recount

Grammar

  • Use punctuation for speech correctly.
  • Use subordinate clauses for additional detail.
  • Develop punctuation use for effect (hyphens and semicolons/colons).
  • Understand and write in the active and passive voice.

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We are reading:

Maths

Computing

Science

History

Shape

  • Identify the nets of 3D shapes
  • Identify the features of a circle

Statistics

  • Calculating the mean
  • Interpreting line graphs
  • Drawing line graphs
  • Interpreting pie charts
  • Constructing pie charts

Proportion

  • Proportion and ratio problems

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Electricity

  • Understand an electrical circuit.
  • Investigate the components and how they function ( Practical investigation).
  • Understand and use scientific symbols to represent an electrical circuit
  • Investigate the components and how they function (Investigation write up).
  • Investigate what materials insulate against electricity.
  • Design and make an electrical game.

Introduction to Spreadsheets

  • Understand what a spreadsheet does
  • Identify key elements of a spreadsheet (cells, columns, rows and formulas)
  • Know how to manipulate rows and columns
  • Knowing how to create a graph from a prepared spreadsheet data
  • Know how to format a graph

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The Vikings

  • What happened when the Vikings invaded Britain?
  • What were the features of Viking culture in Britain?
  • What can we learn from primary sources?
  • What do historians say about how the Vikings changed Britain?
  • Discuss historical viewpoints - How did the Vikings change Britain?
  • A report - How did the Vikings change Britain?

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Year 6

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In PSHE year 6 will be learning about healthy lifestyles:

  • Taking responsibility for their health
  • Making choices that will benefit their health well-being
  • Thinking about decisions that may put them in a vulnerable position.
  • Understand mental health and what it means to be emotionally well.
  • Explore various interpretations of the Easter story and the sources shaping people's understanding.
  • Analyse how artists depict themes of Jesus' death and resurrection as described in the Gospels through visual representation.
  • Investigate alternative narratives that explore themes similar to those found in the Easter story.
  • Discuss whether Easter marks the conclusion of the narrative and its implications within Christian theology and belief systems.

DT

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We will be continuing to learn the violin. We will be learning about:

-scales

-harmony

-new note value (semiquavers)

-how to play with a backing track

-playing different styles of music

PSHE

Music

Religious Education

British Museum trip to investigate Viking artefacts.

Curriculum Enrichment

Physical Education (PE)

This term your PE will be on:

Fundamental Focus

Dynamic balance

Counter balance

Sport Specific Focus

Football

Whole child focus

PE award for:

Variety and disguise

Learning in class about:

Water safety

  • In DT this half term Year 6 will be constructing a toy boat inspired by the Viking longships.
  • They will research historic and contemporary boat design and be introduced to the principles of how forces including aerodynamics act on a sailing boat.
  • Children will experiment with and test materials and structures, create design drawings before developing a final design.

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