Year 6 - Oak Class

Curriculum News

English 

This half term, we will be reading a book called 'Friend or Foe?’. This book is based around WWII and will link with our current History topic. This will be used as inspiration for children to plan, draft and write their own informal letters and balanced arguments. Pupils will also be writing setting descriptions, diary entries as well as, participating in role plays and developing their reading skills such as predicting and inferring information. 

Maths 

We will start this half term by continuing our fractions unit from last half term in which we will be dividing fractions before moving onto decimals in which we will reading, writing, dividing and rounding a range of decimal numbers. We will then be using this information to convert a variety of measurements.

Spellings

Children will be tested on their weekly spellings every Friday. We will practise in school but please see lists below if you would like to further practise at home.

PE 

PE days Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Children are to come to school in appropriate school PE kits on these days.

Homework 

The children's homework this term will be a world wars themed HLC. See below. 

Reading 

Reading books are to be returned with a signed reading record every Wednesday.

History  

Our History focus this half term is World War II. The children explore what Germany was like before the war and the reasons for the war starting. We will also be looking at what life would have been like for people left at home and explore topics such; rationing, evacuation and surviving the Blitz. We will also be looking at the impact of the war on the North West of England and how the war ended here and in other countries.

Science  

This half term our science topic is ‘Electricity’. Pupils will draw and create a variety of circuits using scientific symbols, know renewable and non-renewable sources of generating electricity and know the scientific contributions of Nikola Tesla. 

Art 

The children will be completing a street art unit in Art this half term. They will be exploring how street artists uses art to provoke thought, understanding and applying one point perspective and using their learning to create our own class mural.

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