Year 6
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 think about what it was like to be a slave owner and how with shifts in formality we can compare that to the lives of the enslaved. We end the term by writing in our support to abolish slavery.
Science - 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 mould needed to grow and completing scientific drawings of some mushroom spores!
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.