Welcome to the final term in year 6!
We are looking forward to an exciting and memorable last term together!
We are all working hard getting ready for our SATS tests in May.
As we get closer, it’s important that we remember:
SATs focus on what children know about Maths and English.
They will not reflect how talented they are at science, geography, art, PE…, and they certainly won’t highlight all their amazing personal characteristics.
SATs don’t tell the whole story.
As long as we try our best, everyone will be proud of us!
English: This term we will be looking at a range of writing styles. Firstly, we will be writing a balanced argument then we will be writing spy stories! We will continue to apply grammatical features from the KS2 writing objectives in our writing.
Maths: In our maths lessons we will be covering the Year 6 objectives from the maths Curriculum. We will be focussing on the using and applying aspect of maths through problem solving, reasoning, explaining and investigating.
Topic: We are covering two topics this half term. We will start with a short topic looking at Climate change and how this affects our local area. We will then move on to study the amazing Ancient Greeks! Although Climate change is only a short topic, we will study in detail how the area of Haughton Green and Denton is affected. During our Ancient Greece topic, we will also complete lots of art work and use clay to try and recreate some of the beautiful vases and sculptures they created.
Science:
Classifying Living Things: In this unit children will learn how to classify living things using the major classification kingdoms. They will identify and describe the observable characteristics of a range of classification groups including micro-organisms, plants and animals. Children will make careful observations to identify the characteristics that help scientists classify all living things, such as whether a living thing has a backbone and how they reproduce. Children will also be able to use their observations to construct classification keys of increasing complexity. They will use evidence from their investigation to predict and investigate how to accelerate the rate of decay. We will complete this unit in the summer term.
Evolution and Inheritance: In this unit children will have worked towards answering the Quest question ‘How do living things evolve?’ They will have investigated how living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago. They will have had the opportunity to make a visit (real or virtual) to a Natural History museum and they will have constructed a geological timeline. Children will have identified how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution. They will have explored the principal of inheritance, recognising that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but that normally such offspring vary and are not identical to their parents. Children will have researched how plants and animals are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and they will have identified some beneficial adaptations that may lead to evolution. They will have explored natural selection through drama and designed their own species.
Homework
The children will continue to get English and maths homework every week. We will always set the homework on a Friday, and it must be brought back into school by the following Wednesday.
We will be doing P.E. on Tuesday and Thursday. The children need their kits in school on these days. Just a reminder that school P.E. kit comprises of a white t-shirt, black shorts and pumps. All jewellery must be removed for P.E. Our units this term will be Danish long ball and athletics.
We also have lots of exciting things to ensure that the end to our time at Corrie is memorable! This includes the Year 6 show, Sports and Health week, Corrie’s Got Talent, Leavers Assembly and Go Ape trip!
Mrs Millard, Mrs McDade, Mrs Alderson