Curriculum Overview
Literacy
One of the first things the children will be writing when they get into Year 6 is a letter of application for the job roles.
After that they will be writing biographies for famous people linking in with our topic of ‘Who inspires us?’ The children will be learning how to plan, draft, write and edit their writing. En6/3.3 En6/3.4
In reading the children will be learning comprehension skills and understanding more about how they can give reasoned justifications for their views. En6/2.2
Numeracy
Initially we will be focusing on place value and learning about numbers up to 10 million and to four decimal places. Ma6/2.1 They will learn about patterns in numbers and this will lead on to us looking at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Ma6/2.2
Science
In Science the children will be learning about habitats Sc6/2.1 and animals including humans. Sc6/2.2. We will be leaning about the different parts of the human body including the circulatory system and then we will move onto describing the things we need to survive.
Topic
Our topic this term is ‘Who inspires us?’ As a class we will be focusing on inspirational people who have helped to change the world.
We even have a trip to Manchester Science and Industry museum planned as well as our camping residential. For visitors we have some safari rangers from Chester zoo coming in and a space VR workshop for all the children.
PE
PE will still be taught on a Monday and Wednesday, so please make sure you have your full PE kit in school (PE2/1.1). Swimming will take place on a Thursday (PE2/1.2).
Homework
Children will be provided with a Homework grid, where they will complete a piece of Homework once a week.
Spelling and handwriting will be given out on Monday for a test on Friday (En5/3.1, En5/3.2).
Reading: weekly your child will be given reading homework (En5/2.2) and in addition to this could you please read with your child as frequently as possible (even if they are a free reader, as this is proven to improve a child’s comprehension skills).