Year 6

Welcome to Year 6    

Hi Year 6!

Welcome back to your home learning! 

I hope you have had a lovely half term and made the most of the beautiful weather that we have had.  

Your home learning for this week is below. Remember all activities are on Seesaw for you to complete.

I am loving seeing everything that is being posted. Keep up the excellent effort!

Home Project – Year 6 (Summer 2 – Week 5)

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

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English -  See Seesaw

• The promise – Explore & Illustrate it
• Rock, Paper, Scissors – Create 3 contrasting characters

Spelling -  See Seesaw

• Group 1 – Word families
• Group 2 – Negative meaning - Prefixes

Maths  – See Seesaw

• Problem solving
• Equivalent Fractions
• Converting mixed numbers and improper fractions

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art – See Seesaw

• Draw a sketch map of Ancient Olympia

RE – Mary & the Saints – See Seesaw

• Stories about Mary and her life with Jesus – Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and presentation in the temple, finding the temple, Wedding at Cana and standing at the cross.

Science – Electricity– See Seesaw

• Libbie Hyman - Classification

PE– See Seesaw

• Yoga session

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Home Project – Year 6 (Summer 2 – Week 4)

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

All tasks are available to complete on Seesaw!! Your codes were sent by Parent mail. If you have trouble accessing, please e-mail me!

English -  See Seesaw

• The Last Wild – Explore & Illustrate it
• The Last Wild – Prediction
• Martin Luther King – Louisiana Test
• Martine Luther Ling - Poem

Spelling -  See Seesaw

• Group 1 – ie or ei after c
• Group 2 – er, ed or ing suffixes

Maths  – See Seesaw

• Addition & Subtraction – Written methods
• Multiplication – Written methods
• Division – Written methods
• Bodmas

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art – See Seesaw

• Research The Battle Of Marathon

RE – Mary & the Saints – See Seesaw

• Research Mary’s feast days

Science – Electricity– See Seesaw

• Stephen Hawkins – Theories on Black Holes.

PE– See Seesaw

• Yoga session

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Home Project – Year 6 (Summer 2 – Week 3)

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

All tasks are available to complete on Seesaw!! Your codes were sent by Parent mail. If you have trouble accessing, please e-mail me!

Reading – See Seesaw

• 60 Second read – Help! - fiction
• Reading comprehension – non-fiction
• 3 mark question
• Vocabulary in context
• Retrieval questions

English -  See Seesaw

• Activity 1 – The City of Silence – Create a simple list poem
• Activity 2 – The City of Silence – Comprehension based on a poem
• Activity 3 – The City of Silence – Write a repetitive poem
• Activity 4 – The City of Silence - Juxtaposition
• Activity 5 – The City of Silence – Write a repeating pattern poem

Spelling -  See Seesaw

• Group 1 – suffix -fer
• Group 2 – short i spelt y

Maths  – See Seesaw

• Money Matters – Multiples
• Money Matters – Factors
• Money Matters – Primes
• Money Matters – Angles – Protractor work
• Money Matters – Circles – Compass work

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art – See Seesaw

• Ancient Greek Olympic events – What event can you depict from the urns?

RE – Belonging – See Seesaw

• Research St Anne’s Church

Science – Electricity– See Seesaw

• Electricity circuits

PE– See Seesaw

• Yoga session

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Home Project – Year 6 (Summer 2 – Week 2)

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

All tasks are available to complete on Seesaw!! Your codes were sent by Parent mail. If you have trouble accessing, please e-mail me!

Reading – See Seesaw

• Chapter 27 – Comprehension questions
• Chapter 28 & 29 –  Making judgements using evidence from the text
• Chapter 30 – Freeze Frame
• Chapter 31 – Scientific vocabulary
• Book review

English -  See Seesaw

• Activity 1 – The City of Silence - List of places
• Activity 2 – The City of Silence - Abstract nouns
• Activity 3 – The City of Silence - Combinations of words
• Activity 4 – The City of Silence - Alliteration
• Activity 5 – The City of Silence - Judging ideas

Spelling -  See Seesaw

• Group 1 – Hyphenated prefix words
• Group 2 – Homophones and near homophones

Maths  – See Seesaw

• Money Matters – Budgets
• Money Matters – Types of bank accounts
• Money Matters – Keeping money safe
• Money Matters – Paying for things
• Money Matters – Jobs and money

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art – See Seesaw

• Research how the Ancient Olympic Games began.

RE – Belonging – See Seesaw

• Research responsibilities of the Pope and Archbishop

Science – Electricity– See Seesaw

• Electricity circuits

PE– See Seesaw

• Yoga session

ICT – See Seesaw

• Film making – Research

Music – See Seesaw

• Music genres

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Home Project – Year 6 (Summer 2 – Week 1)

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

All tasks are available to complete on Seesaw!! Your codes were sent by Parent mail. If you have trouble accessing, please e-mail me!

Reading – See Seesaw

• Chapter 22 – Listen and answer questions
• Chapter 23 –  Summarise a chapter
• Chapter 24 - Debate
• Chapter 25 –  Character inference
• Chapter 26 – Retrieve information and visualise

English -  See Seesaw

• Activity 6 – Comprehension
• Activity 7 –  Sentence and Grammar work
• Activity 8 –  Through the eyes of a character
• Activity 9 – Planning a portal story
• Activity 10 – Writing a portal story

Spelling -  See Seesaw

• Group 1 – Words ending ent, ence and ency
• Group 2 – Words with the sound ur spelt with ear

Maths  – See Seesaw

• Multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
• Multiplying decimals by integers
• Dividing decimals by integers
• Converting decimals to fractions and simplifying
• Arithmetic

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art – See Seesaw

• Research and create a time line of where the Olympic Games have been held.

RE – Belonging – See Seesaw

• Read the words of the Risen Christ – Matthew 28:16-20
• Research stories of the Apostles, find out the different places that they went to in the world to proclaim the Good News.
• Research information about the current Pope, find out about his life, motto and coat of arms.

Science – Electricity– See Seesaw

• Read the text and answer the questions about the history of electricity.

PE– See Seesaw

• Yoga session

ICT – See Seesaw

• Film making – Writing a script

Music – See Seesaw

• Melody and Pitch – Record yourself singing along to Somewhere Only We Know.

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Home Project – Year 6 (8)

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

All tasks are available to complete on Seesaw!! Your codes were sent by Parent mail. If you have trouble accessing, please e-mail me!

Reading – See Seesaw

• Chapter 17 – use information from a text to draw a conclusion.
• Chapter 18 – Demonstrate understanding – Answer a range of question types
• Chapter 19 & 20 – To comment and reflect on author’s use of style and choice
• Chapter 21 – To evaluate how a character has changed over time.

English -  See Seesaw

• Doors – Make a list of all the things you miss doing.
• Using the poem I opened the magical box, create your own using I opened the magical door.
• Create, draw or paint your own door.
• Idioms
• Listen to and respond to poems

Spelling -  See Seesaw

• Group 1 – Adjectives with ant & nouns – ancy or ance
• Group 2 – Long vowel sounds /ai/ spelt ai

Maths  – See Seesaw

• Multiplying fractions and mixed numbers by integers
• Multiply fractions by fractions
• Divide fractions by integers
• Fractions of amounts in context
• Arithmetic paper

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art – See Seesaw

• Locate and plot launch sites on a world map
• Research the launch sites for physical and human geography of the site.

RE – Pentecost– See Seesaw

• Identify the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit in the Letter to the Galatians (5:22-230
• Write a prayer asking for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit – Eg – Spirit of Peace help us to make peace.

Science – Animals & their habitats– See Seesaw

• Microorganisms – investigate the conditions in which mould grows best.

PE– See Seesaw

• Fitness 5

ICT – See Seesaw

• Design a house – Use Roblox, Minecraft or just draw it out.

Music – See Seesaw

• Create your own beat using Incredibox

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Home Project – Year 6 (7)

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

All tasks are available to complete on Seesaw!! Your codes were sent by Parent mail. If you have trouble accessing, please e-mail me!

Reading – See Seesaw

• Chapter 9-10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13 & 14
• Chapter 15

English -  See Seesaw

• Using your research from last week, draft an information text for an adult about your chosen space topic
• Edit and improve your draft – Up-level your vocabulary choices and sentence structures.
• Write a final draft of your information text – as an assessed piece.
• Re-draft your information text for a younger audience – KS1 – Look at how your vocabulary choices and sentence structure will need to change.
• Write a final draft of your information text for children.

Spelling -  See Seesaw

• Group 1 – Homophones ce-cy nouns and se-sy verbs
• Group 2 – a – long vowel sounds

Maths – Angles – See Seesaw

• Lesson 1 – Simplify Fractions
• Lesson 2 – Compare and order fractions
• Lesson 3 – Add and subtract fractions
• Lesson 4 –  Mixed addition and subtraction
• Lesson 5 – Maths challenge/Arithmetic

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art – See Seesaw

• Research and create a fact file on one of the following key space people: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrine, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Albert II, Helen Sharman.

RE – Pentecost– See Seesaw

• Write a definition and explain the importance of the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
• Research and create a biography for your chosen Saint.

Science – Animals & their habitats– See Seesaw

• Match the animal to their characteristics
• Design a creature that has a set of characteristics of one type of animal

PE– See Seesaw

• Fitness challenge 4

ICT – See Seesaw

• Create a game on Scratch

Music – See Seesaw

• Complete the A song challeng…

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Home Project – Year 6 (6)

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

All tasks are available to complete on Seesaw!! Your codes were sent by Parent mail. If you have trouble accessing, please e-mail me!

Reading – See Seesaw

• Bug Club
• Reading Chapter 8 – Chapter 11 - Cosmic

English -  See Seesaw

• To write an information text using your research from last week
• To edit and improve
• To write a final draft

Maths – Angles – See Seesaw

• Lesson 1 – Angles in special quadrilaterals
• Lesson 2 – Angles in regular polygons
• Lesson 3 – Problem solving
• Lesson 4 – Problem solving
• Lesson 5 – Maths challenge/Arithmetic

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art – See Seesaw

• Research about VE Day
• Design your own VE Day medal
• Design your own VE Day memorial Teacup
• Crack Morse code
• Write your own message in Morse code
• Create a wartime recipe

RE – Easter– See Seesaw

• Research and create a poster of the symbol of Pentecost.
• Good Shepherd collective worship

PE– See Seesaw

• Fitness challenge 3

ICT – See Seesaw

• Create a game on Scratch

Music – See Seesaw

• Research some popular wartime songs

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Home Project – Year 6 (4)

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

All tasks are available to complete on Seesaw!! Your codes were sent by Parent mail. If you have trouble accessing, please e-mail me!

Reading – See Seesaw

• Lesson 1 - Listen to Chapter 1 “I am not exactly in the Lake District” – Complete the activity and questions
• Lesson 2 - Listen to Chapter 2 “Completely Doomed” and answer the questions
• Lesson 3 - Listen to Chapter 3 “ My Favourite Gravity” – complete the activity and questions
• Lesson 4 – Record yourself reading Chapter 4 “I nearly shaved myself to death” – complete the activity and questions
• Lesson 5 - Listen to Chapter 5 “My Visible Friend” complete the activity and questions. (You do not need to do the freeze frame activity – unless you can get your family to help you!!!! J)

English -  See Seesaw

•  Lesson 1 - Make a list of everything you already know about space. Read the Rubbish tip alien and perform with musical instruments or clap to create the rhythm of the poem. Read a range of poems about space and identify the success criteria for your chosen star activity. STS – Create a glossary using your space words.
• Lesson 2 – What does space look/feel/smell/sound like? Is it lonely? What would you miss most about being in space? What colour is space? Look at the images of meteors, stars, the sun, the moon, Saturn etc. Annotate the pictures (Or write a list) using your chosen star activity. Then write a six ways to look at the x poem (See example) using your words and phrases.
• Lesson 3 – You are going to write your own poem about Space. How would you feel if you saw an alien? What do aliens look like? Watch ‘The planets’ https://www.literacyshed.com/the-sci---fi-shed.html Listen to the words at the end of the song. How has humour been used? Create your own alien and setting for your poem to be based around. Use the techniques from your chosen star activity.
• Lesson 4 – Today you are going to draft your own poem. You are going to include humour in your poem. Choose your star activity and look at the examples to help you. Think about the structure.
• Lesson 5 – Edit and improve your poem. Complete your final draft. You can even record yourself performing your poem and send me the video.

Maths – Fractions revision – See Seesaw

• To simplify fractions using your knowledge of equivalent fractions
• To place fractions on a number line
• To order and compare fractions using the denominator
• To add and subtract fractions
• Arithmetic

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art – See Seesaw

• (History) Write questions that you would like to find out in one colour and things you already know in another colour. (see resources)
• Can you name all of the planets in our solar system in the correct order? Read the information and create an accurate diagram of our solar system. (See resources)

Science – See Seesaw

• Become a taxonomist by sorting and grouping the animals at a new zoo
• Identify the 6 classes – mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds and insects

RE – Easter– See Seesaw

• Read the 4 Gospels of the Resurrection and identify similarities and differences between them.
• Read the story of Thomas and the Resurrection, write a letter to Thomas as one of the apostles, trying to persuade him that Christ was alive.         

PE– See Seesaw

Create an exercise video

ICT – See Seesaw

Minecraft coding

Music – See Seesaw

Compose a song on Google Chrome Song maker

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Hello Year 6,

Your tasks will now be added to  your Seesaw accounts.

1. Please either go to: https://web.seesaw.me/ on a computer or install the Seesaw Class App on iOS or Android device.

2. Tap "I'm a student"

3. Type in your student code to access your Seesaw account

4. Keep this code safe, this is like a password!

Happy Easter

Hi everyone!

Wishing you all a safe and happy Easter!

You have hopefully received your Seesaw login details, where you can complete your tasks... No need to print anything (unless you can and want to)

You can send me work in more creative ways - Annotated pictures, PowerPoints etc!!

You can also message me how you are all doing and how you are keeping busy.

This link is for a lovely Liturgy by Dan and Emily (Retreat Day) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL-kS4ZP6hs&feature=youtu.be

Miss Gillin

Hi everyone!

I hope you are all safe and well.

Please look out for your Bug club login details arriving by Parent Mail Tuesday 31st!

You can access lots of books, spelling & grammar games and science too!!

If you don't receive a text by the end of the day, e-mail me and I'll send you your login information.

https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0&l=0

Miss Gillin

Home Project – Year 6 (3)

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks – Please see subject areas for helpful PowerPoints and questions – No need to print any, just use on the screen.

Reading

• Vocabulary in context (Over 2 days) – Read each sentence and determine the meaning of the word using cross sentence clues or your prior knowledge. Then explain what clues helped you determine the meaning. – See subject area on website for words
• WW2 Reading comprehension
• Listen to one of David Walliams’ Audio stories: https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/
•          What were the key events in the story?
•          Who was your favourite character and why?
•          What was your favourite part of the story and why?
•          Infer how the characters were feeling during different stages in the story.

English

•  To use a hyphen to avoid ambiguity – Research or see information on Webpage
• To plan a story based on an evacuee – Good example on Website
• To draft your evacuation story – Success criteria on Website
• To edit and improve your writing – Checklist on website
• To write a final draft of your evacuation story

Maths – Algebra – Resources on the subject links and use your revision books

• Find the rule
• Express missing number problems algebraically
• To use simple formulae
• To solve two step algebra equations
• Arithmetic paper
• Access White Rose Maths daily home learning: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art

• (History) – Research about D-Day
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48456573

Science

• Revise our evolution topic:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvhhvcw/articles/z9qs4qt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvhhvcw/articles/zp9f4qt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9bbkqt/articles/z2ym2p3

• Complete the assessment – On website (No need to print, just answer the questions you can and look up any answers you are unsure of.

RE – Holy week

• Activity 1
• Lk. 22: 39-46 – The Garden of Gethsemane Lk.
• 22: 47-53 – The Betrayal of Jesus
• Read the passage describing the betrayal of Jesus by Judas. How does Judas identify Jesus? How does Jesus describe himself?
• Read the story about Peter denying Jesus. Retell the story as if you were one of the people standing in the courtyard warming yourself by the fire. What sort of state was Peter in?  How did you know he was a Galilean and probably one of the followers of Jesus? What was he like when the cock crowed and when Jesus looked straight at him from inside the High Priest’s house?        
• Writing: Write up your account of this encounter with Peter in the form of a letter to the High Priest’s Chief Guard. Explain your reasons for thinking why Peter was a follower of Jesus. Include in your letter your observations of how Peter reacted to the questioning, his reactions after the cock crowed and your reason why you think he denied being a follower of Jesus.

• Activity 2

• Read accounts from the four Gospels of the crucifixion of Jesus. Mt. 26:36-27: 66 – The Passion of Jesus in the Four Gospels Mk. 14: 43-15: 47 Lk. 22:47-23: 56 Jn. 18:1-19: 42
• Note from the Gospels the words that Jesus said from the cross.
• Note words the crowd used to mock Jesus
• Draw 2 crosses, in one cross write the words Jesus said from the cross. In the second cross write the words that the crowd use to mock Jesus.
• From what you have learnt about the passion of Jesus, draw pictures of the different events and some symbols which explain each episode.

1. Garden of Gethsemane
2. Denial of Jesus
3. Crucifixion
4. Burial

• E.g: cup for the Garden of Gethsemane a fire for the denial of Jesus, clothes, nails and the cross for his stripping and crucifixion, stones and oil for his burial.

PE

Do a workout with Jo Wicks, he has a new workout every day at 9:00am

https://www.youtube.com/thebodycoach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzoy_J3I_c 

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Hello everyone!

I hope you are all safe and well and getting on with the tasks ok.

If you would like any of your fun homeworking pictures adding to the website, please e-mail them to me!

Missing you all

Miss Gillin

Home Project – Year 6 (2)

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks – Please see subject areas for helpful PowerPoints and questions – No need to print any, just use on the screen.

Reading

• Complete a different activity from the diary of Mary Anning pack

English

•  Discuss/identify the features of a good story opener
• Colons/semi-colons punctuation

• Watch The Piano (Flashback) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-JiBxMPsUU the story of the old man reflecting back on his life.
• You are going to write a story as an evacuee – Write a setting description (City child, moving to countryside) – Think about your senses – See, hear, smell, taste and touch
• Write a character description (Try to include a semi colon and colon)

Maths

• Multiply decimals by integers
• Divide decimals by integers
• Represent decimals as fraction
• Convert fractions to decimals
• Arithmetic paper

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art

• (History) - Write a comparison between war time children and today or write a diary entry as a child in war time detailing your findings from your research.
• http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/war/children.htm

Science

• Research how human intervention effects evolution – For example, dog breeding for specific traits.

RE

• Read Abraham appeals to God (Genesis: 18:20-32)
• Imagine that you are Abraham asking God what he might do if there were just so many just men. What might your fears be in asking God these questions? What might you feel each time God replies?
• What does this story teach us about the mercy and forgiveness of God?
• Write a newspaper report of this event. Try and capture Abraham’s thoughts and feelings and the generosity of God.

Year 6 - Home Tasks

Day 1

• English – To discuss/ identify the features of a diary. What are the important features that can be identified
• Maths - Discuss/Identify different types of triangles
• RE – Read and discuss the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman ( John 4:1-40) – Answer the questions
• What state was Jesus in when the woman came?
• What did he ask of her?
• Why was she so opposed to his request?
• Why did Jews have little to do with Samaritans?
• Look at the names that the woman gives to Jesus in the story. Do you know the meaning of some of these names? Use a Bible glossary to find out.
• What does Jesus offer to the woman?
• Why do you think this was a special gift?
• Jesus changed the woman’s view of him. Who did she think he was in the end?
• How do you think this meeting with Jesus might have changed the life of the Samaritan Woman?
• Write a diary as the Samaritan woman or the next episode in the story – Think about some things she would have told her friends and neighbours the next day. Imagine her thoughts and feelings the next time she went to the well.

Day 2

• English – To write an informal diary entry as Anne Frank, hiding in her annex
• Maths - Discuss/identify properties of shapes
• Science – Research how humans have evolved
• Science – Research how human intervention effects evolution

Day 3

• English – To edit and improve my diary entry and write up final draft
• Maths - Draw given dimensions of 2D shapes
• Topic – (History)Research children during the war – Going to school, Home life, Toys
• Topic – (History) Write a comparison between war time children and today or write a diary entry as a child in war time detailing your findings from your research.

Day 4

• English – Watch Goodnight Mr Tom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJBkfKtCvM
• Maths - Discuss/practise knowledge of shape
• Topic – (History) Research what rationing is and why Britain had to introduce it during the war.
• Topic – (History) Research different types of wartime recipes
• Topic – (D&T) make some of the recipes you have researched, take pictures and write a review.

Day 5

• English – To discuss/identify the features of a good story opener
• Maths - Discuss/complete arithmetic paper
• Topic – (History) Listen to Winston Churchill’s speech - https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1941-1945-war-leader/to-v-e-crowds/
• Topic – (History) – Find out about the significance of D-Day

Daily practice –

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Spring Term

RE

We are looking at how prayer is important for our relationship with God, This week we look at praying through a sacred dance to Mary's song: Magnificat

Topic

A siren sounds, a building crumbles, a spitfire zooms overhead. Take cover! It's 1939 and Britain is at war. Deep down in the Anderson shelter, we are learning why nations are fighting and why child evacuees must make the long journey from their homes and families into unknown territory.

Autumn 

Topic

From nothingness came chaos, from chaos came air and water, from air and water came life! Then, rising majestically from the darkness, came Gaia, Mother Earth, a beacon of warmth and light.

Discover a fantastical world full of mythical creatures and legendary heroes. Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis and Zeus reign almighty from Mount Olympus, watching mere mortals on dusty Athenian streets.

Meet Theseus, the hero, and Helen of Troy, the beautiful face that launched a thousand ships.

Explore the terrains of Greece, where in pure blue skies, the sun scorches waxen wings and melts the fortunes of Icarus and Daedalus.

Then decide your own fate, when a mysterious box is found and stirs your curious mind.

The children will be focusing on Geography, locating Modern and Ancient Greece on a map and identifying the geographical features of the beautiful mountainous county. They will study the history of Greek architecture and life and how Ancient Greece shaped Modern Greece. 

English

Meet Zeus, king of all the gods, ruler of the skies, cloud gatherer and master of rain. Listen to his torrid tales of how he fought and conquered his father, Cronus, then drew lots with his brothers, Poseidon and Hades, to become supreme ruler of the gods. 

The children will discover his deadly powers and his lightning thunderbolt which he hurls at those who displease him by writing his biography. The children will also be introduced to a range of Greek myths, retelling them and writing their own.

Maths

This half term, the children will be focusing on place value of numbers up to 10, 000, 000. They will learn the value of each digit of numbers, including decimals to 3 decimal places.

The children will be looking at how to make a number 10, 100 and 1000 times bigger of smaller, applying their knowledge of place value.

Science

Children will be learning about the main body parts and internal organs to explore and answer questions that help them to understand how the circulatory system enables the body to function.

The children will learn how to keep their bodies healthy and how their bodies might be damaged - including how some drugs and other substances can be harmful to the human body. Children will work scientifically by: exploring the work of scientists and scientific research about the relationship between diet, exercise lifestyle and health.

RE

The story of the people of God

In this unit, the children will develop their knowledge and understanding of the structure of the Bible and the forms of literature that are found in the different books. The children will be introduced to stories of significant people in the Old Testament. They will discover what some of these stories tell us about their relationship with God.