Year 6

Welcome to Year 6

What are Year 6 learning about this half term?

Autumn 1

In our first term back at school we will be getting used to our new rules and the expectations placed on us now we are the oldest in the school, the first way in which we will do this is by applying for roles of responsibility within the school writing a formal letter to the staff team.

In English we will first of all be completing the PVPG work from Grammarsaurus, this will help us in feeling more confident in our sentence structure before we begin our extended writing.  The texts we will be inspired to write by this half term will be 'The Island by Armin Greder and 'Hansel and Gretel' by Neil Gaiman.  Our reading units will be focused on biomes of the world and then gothic literature as we get closer to 'spooky' season.

Maths will be focused on units within the Power Maths scheme beginning with place value and moving on to learning formal methods to answer problems involving all four operations.  All children’s learning can be further supported from home by participating in TTRS challenges making all pupils fluent and confident with their times tables.

This half term we will focus on Geography, our key enquiry question will be ‘Why is the coastline of the UK changing?’, in this unit we will investigate how Britain’s coastal features are formed, the impact of weathering and erosion, and what the future of the landscape might be.  We will learn how to read OS maps and use useful keys to help us locate specific landmarks.

Science will be a focus on electricity, building a range of circuits and drawing scientific diagrams to show these circuits.  We will also make predictions when using various equipment and look at alternatives to energy sources within the UK.  In Computing the children will be exploring what AI is and how it generates text images and code, they will also be considering the ethical implications and its potential to replace human roles.

In Music the class will appraise the work of classical composer Felix Mendelssohn, learning about dynamics, pitch and texture, before they work on their own group compositions featuring changes in texture, dynamics and pitch.  Art will be concentrating on monochromatic pieces when learning about drawing detailed portraits with accurate proportions, when we have learnt these skills we will then get creative when learning to draw a Tim Burton style self-portrait. In French we will be reviewing prior learning and putting this into written work – taking into account the correct use of verb tense.

In PE this half term we will be showing our adventurous sides while learning orienteering and working on our fundamental, physical skills.  We will also be busy outside in the allotments as we turn our hand to gardening each week.