Curriculum Newsletter Spring Term 2009

Year 6

Numeracy

Place value, ordering and rounding.  Understanding long multiplication and long division.  Money and real life problems.  Fractions, decimals and percentages.  Measures including problems.  Handling data and checking results using a calculator and inverse operations.

Literacy

Fiction – Playscripts and stories with flashbacks.

Non-Fiction – Factual reports, letters to friends and family, formal letters, adverts, diaries, writing about your point of view, writing and argument, recounting events, biographies, newsletters, instructions, descriptions and explanations.

We will be revising how to answer the retrieval, summary, layout and inference reading comprehension questions.

Science

Children will revise topics in life processes, including the human body and plants; materials and their properties including changing materials, reversible and irreversible changes; and physical processes including forces, light and sound and magnetism.

RE

Journeys  In this topic, the children explore their experience of life as a journey.  They hear about Christian life as the Church family journeying with Jesus.

Communion  In this topic, the children explore what makes and breaks communion (friendship). They learn about the Eucharist challenging and enabling people to live and grow in communion every day.

Growing  In this topic, the children explore their own potential for growth.  They learn about Lent, Holy Week and Easter as the Church’s seasons for working at spiritual growth and celebrating Jesus fully alive.

PE

Kingswood outbound adventure activities such as abseiling, climbing, caving and fencing etc.  Swimming,  gymnastics and tennis.

Art and DT 

Children will be completing their slipper design and they will be making them according to their design brief.

ICT 

Children will make PowerPoint presentations based on their activities at Kingswood, learning how to attach sounds and hyperlinks to pages.

Music 

Cyclic patterns.  Children develop their ability to perform rhythmic patterns confidently and with a strong sense of pulse using the ICT program ‘Dance Ejay’.

SATS

Children will be completing practice SATS papers in class and for homework.  They will use CPG revision books, REVISEWISE website, Espresso, RM Maths, Spelling Focus and other software to revise.