Year Spring Term
English
During the Spring term, the children's work will be based around writing a narrative based on the book 'Kensuke's Kingdom' by Michael Morpurgo. After this, we will be writing a setting description to focus on a variety of higher level punctuation such as colons, semi-colons, dashes and brackets for parenthesis. In Spring 2, we will be focusing on poetry and non-fiction as we write our own explanation text.
Reading
The children will participate in guided reading sessions, where they can access and discuss a wider variety of texts (poetry, fiction and non-fiction). We will complete a mixture of guided and independent activities where children can focus on a variety of SATs style questions from retrieval to inference. All Year 6 pupils will complete a good amount of SATs practice - looking at strategies for approaching the test papers.
Please encourage your child to read on a regular basis, both on their own and to an adult. Reading aloud is a key skill that we would really like to perfect this year.
Spelling
In the ‘Focused lessons’ we will revise and extend the children’s knowledge of spelling strategies. As the children progress through the various stages, they will look at Year 5 and Year 6 key spellings, common letter strings (affixes: prefixes, suffixes), stressed and unstressed vowels and the background to the words (etymology). Each week the children will study a new set of spellings in class before learning them ready for a test the following week.
Mathematics
In the spring term, the will initially look at fractions followed by decimals, converting units of measure, perimeter, area, volume, ratio and proportion.
In line with the National Curriculum, our objectives throughout the year are divided into the following mathematical areas:
- Number: Number and Place Value
- Number: Addition and Subtraction
- Number: Multiplication and Division
- Number: Fractions
- Number: Ratio & Proportion
- Measurement
- Geometry: Properties of Shape
- Geometry: Position and Direction
- Statistics
- Algebra
Calculation is, and always has been, a fundamental aspect of Maths. Therefore, every Maths lesson begins with morning maths challenges and operation challenge. The children will complete weekly assessments, focused on calculation and mental maths strategies. The children will also have weekly designated arithmetic lessons, daily arithmetic practice and will build up to weekly arithmetic tests on a Friday.
Science
In Science we are looking at materials. The children will conduct experiments to investigate why products are made out of certain materials and how different materials react together.
Computing:
We will be learning how to appraise and create podcasts as well as developing our own computer game looking at algorithms and different programmes.
History
In History, we our topic for this half term is 'What is the legacy of the Ancient Greek civilisation?' We will study how Ancient Greeks lived, the features of Ancient Greece, Greek Gods, and the impact the Ancient Greeks had.
PSHRE:
During our lessons, we will continue with ‘My Happy Mind’ whilst also looking at money and the decisions people make and can make about money. We will also look at health and how drugs, common to everyday life (nicotine, some medicines, alcohol) can affect health.
RE:
This half term, we will be learning about different religions and pose the question: ‘If God is all around, do we need a place of worship?’ This will enable the children to look in more detail about the religions and reflect on their own and others’ belief systems.
P.E. (Physical Education)
This term, the children will be doing Dance and then orienteering.
6LR - Monday afternoons
6DT- Wednesday afternoons
Homework
Homework this term will be sent out every other Friday and is expected back in every other Wednesday. Homework will consist of Maths, SPaG, Reading and spellings.
Children will continue to be regularly assessed in preparation for their SAT exams in May. They will be assessed in February, March and April formally, with weekly assessments and testing also taking place.
