Year 6
Spring Term
This term we look at the Polar Regions with a strong geographical focus.
In geography we look at how the Polar regions differ; lines of latitude and longitude; Polar climates; Polar day and night; Polar oceans and landscapes; climate change; natural resources; indigenous people and tourism.
In English we begin by thinking about metaphorical poetry - how our inner thoughts control our actions. This is linked to the poem the Dreadful Menace.
Then we look at biographies of our heroes - including a description of a key event in our hero's life.
In maths it is all about fractions, decimals and percentages and links between them.
In Science we are learning about Evolution and Inheritance - how plants and animals have adapted.
Autumn Term
History - The children learn about African Kingdoms and how these attracted interest from Europeans for their wealth. We find out about how the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was triangular and the movement of goods and people across the Atlantic. We think about the people who were affected by this, across the world, and how this period of time impacted on the human rights or millions of people.
Children show empathy and understanding and echo their learning in English with descriptive writing and persuasive writing creating a powerful voice to add to the calls for abolishment of the trade. We observe how modern-slavery is still an issue today and what we can do to combat it.
English
In year 6 we begin by writing about our class names. We are named after Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean and Vicky McClure. We blogged about their personal histories and their impact.
We moved onto thinking about figurative language and how we can describe things. We began by designing and then describing a dragon, linking to art. After that we described the conditions the enslaved would face on the middle passage. We then think about the language which is needed to persuade others as we write to abolish slavery. Later in the term we use Anthony Horowitz's novel, Stormbreaker, to look at shifts in formality. We end the term with humorous instructions on how to steal Christmas using the Grinch as our text.






Maths
Year six maths revisits learning from across the key stage and then asks children to work in detail on fractions, decimals and percentages as well as formal methods for addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Our table knowledge is really important and so we ask our pupils to rehearse their table knowledge so that it is really important.
Science
Autumn one - this half term's topic is 'Living Things & Their Habitats'. Children have been learning to identify the kingdoms of life and to classify living things within those kingdoms. They have looked closely at vertebrates, fungi and yeasts. Within this unit, the children enjoyed investigating the conditions mold needed to grow and completing scientific drawings of some mushroom spores!
Autumn two - Our second science topic is 'Light' and we refine our understanding of how light travels, is reflected and is dispersed.
RE - in autumn one we learn about the Jewish Festivals of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, and in autumn two how Guru Hargobind from the Sikh religion was a leader who people followed.
Music - in autumn one we looked at music that described places and in autumn two we compose music to suit a film.
Art - in autumn one we look at dragons and then use our skills in tints and tones to create landscapes in the style of Georgia O'Keefe. In autumn two David Hockney is the artist that we learn about and create portraits in his style.
Look at our great work!



Show Racism the Red Card














We spent the day at Nottingham Forest Football Club learning about Show Racism the Red Card.
We were lucky enough to meet Callum Hudson-Odoi, Andrew Omobamidele and Naomi Bedeau who all play for Nottingham Forest. We also got to meet Vicky McClure who was working with her dementia choir at the City Ground and popped in to say hello. A great day was had by all.