Curriculum Newsletter Spring Term 2008 - 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 – Adventure stories, fables, fantasy adventures, playscripts, mystery stories, science fiction stories, stories with a dilemma or twist and humorous stories. 

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 finish the topic Life Processes and Living Things including the human body and Green Plants.  They will then be revising Materials and their Properties finding out about grouping materials, changing materials and separating mixtures of materials.

RE

Celebrations – The children will be gaining a greater understanding of the importance of celebration in people’s lives and about celebrations that mark important times in the life of a Christian.

Thanksgiving – The children will learn and understand giving and receiving thanks and the Eucharist: the great act of thanksgiving that Christians are challenged to live.

Self-Giving  - Children will know and understand the reasons for giving and for refusing to give and Lent and Holy Week: the Church’s seasons for giving in order to celebrate the sacrifice of Jesus at Easter.

PE

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

Art and DT 

Children will be completing their slipper design and they will be making them according to their design brief. The children will also be designing and creating a piece of head wear for a carnival.

ICT 

During Kingswood residential, children will make their own computer game using the program Mission maker. They will take photos with the digital camera and make up their own songs using ‘Dance Ejay’. 

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 CGP revision books, REVISEWISE website, Espresso, RM Maths, Spelling Focus and other software to revise.