Year 6
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The Wider Curriculum
We will be studying the same unit in biology between until the end of the year; we will be learning about the circulatory system in mammals, including humans. The children will learn about blood, the parts and function of the heart, and about making healthy lifestyle choices. Our VIPs are:
The heart pumps blood in the blood vessels around to the lungs.
Oxygen, nutrients and water are carried on the blood to different parts of the body.
Carbon dioxide is removed from the blood when it gets to the heart.
Diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle have an impact on the way our bodies function.
Our geography unit will be learning about volcanoes and how they are formed. Our VIPs are:
- Volcanoes are formed when magma rises from the centre of the Earth and erupts onto the surface as lava
- Two types are composite volcanoes and shield volcanoes and they are different
- Composite volcanoes occur when plates push together and shield volcanoes occur when plates move apart.
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Volcanoes can produce: pyroclastic flows, ash clouds, volcanic bombs and lava.
- Volcanoes mostly occur along the Ring of Fire.
In RE, we will be finishing our unit on Christianity, the moving on to learn about a non-religious world-view: Humanism.
For our design and technology, the children will be learning about pulleys and motors, then applying this understanding to design then create Fairground Rides. The children will be building circuits, then integrating them onto structures.
English
In English, we will completing our final pieces of writing that we will be using as evidence for our end of year assessments. The children will be writing across and range of genres and for different purposes, applying all the grammar that we have taught in KS2.
In reading, we will be continuing to study 'Once' by Morris Gleitzman. It is a story of two children and what their life was like in Nazi-occupied Poland during 1942. We will be using this text as inspiration for some of our writing as well as using it for the basis of class discussions, making predictions and drawing inferences about characters
Maths
Maths
In maths, the children will be studying geometry, learning about the parts of a circle, calculating radius and diameter. The children will also be developing their problem-solving skills, completing a range of investigations reviewing and recapping the topics that we have learnt this year.
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