Year 6
Welcome Event Year 6 - Friday 13th September 2024
Year 6 Team
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The Wider Curriculum
Our science learning this half term in on evolution and adaptation.
By the end of the half term, the children will be able to recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago. They will also recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents. As well as this, they will show that they can identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.
In geography, our VIPs are:
The Earth is split into two halves- the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere. The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn mark the tropical parts of the world, the Arctic and Antarctic Circle mark the most northern and southern locations on the Earth. The equator marks halfway between the North and South Pole
Different parts of the world have different time zones measured from the Meridian in Greenwich. South America has tropical, temperate and arid environmental regions. Key human and physical features in South America are: Amazon Rainforest, Andes Mountains, Cerrado Savannah, Amazon River, Christ the Redeemer Statue, cities such as Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia
A biome is an area of the world with similar climate, plants and animals that live there.
A vegetation belt is plants of the same type that grow in one area.
We will be learning these during our study of South America.
Our religion of focus this half term is Islam. The children will be learning what some Muslims believe about Allah.
To show understanding of what some Muslims believe about the Qur’an.
To be able to explain the significance of the stories of Muhammad to a Muslim.
To explain how Muslim beliefs, teaching and stories impact on their daily life.
We will be completing a unit on food in design technology this half term.
The children will learn to generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes and pattern pieces.
They will also select and use a wider range of ingredients according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities.
While planning their menu, they will investigate and analyse a range of existing products/meals/food types
Finally, as an outcome, they will evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.
English
In English, we will be inspired by Alfred Noye' poem: the Highwayman. We will be using part one as inspiration and re-writing it into a narrative. Our VIPs for this unit are:
- Parenthesis can be used to add extra information to a sentence. The rest of the sentence will make sense, even if the parenthesis is taken out.
- Writing in the 1st person is the use of pronouns I, me, we, us to write from the narrator’s perspective
- Subordinating conjunctions are words or phrases that link a subordinate clause( dependent) to a main clause (Independent).
We will then move on to write a non-fiction style text based on a made up continent.
Maths
Maths
In maths, we will be developing the children's understanding of fractions. They will be converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions, then use these skills to add, subtract, divide and multiply - by whole numbers and integers.
As well as this, we will be continually reviewing the four operations, place value and rounding.
Year 6 PGL Gallery
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