Staff
Mrs Chamberlain (Teacher)
Mrs Higgins (Teacher a.m. only)
Mrs Nightingale
Welcome to Year Six!
We are one term into our exciting year of learning and are looking forward to our topic this term – Extreme Regions
RELIGION
This term in Year 5 Religious Education, we will begin with the unit “Galilee to Jerusalem.” Pupils will explore Jesus’ teachings in the Beatitudes and what they reveal about living a blessed life. They will compare Matthew and Luke’s accounts of the new law and great commandment, linking these to parables and lessons for Christian living today. We will make connections between the Beatitudes and the Ten Commandments, and study the Transfiguration, describing what the disciples witnessed and why Moses and Elijah were important. Pupils will also reflect on the meaning of the seven petitions in the Our Father and consider how virtues such as hope or charity relate to Jesus’ teaching.
The second unit, “Desert to Garden,” focuses on Lent and Easter. Pupils will learn about Ash Wednesday, its Mass, and the symbols and actions used, as well as how Christians respond to God’s call during Lent through prayer and reflection. They will explore Catholic teaching on sin, conscience, and the guidance offered by the Ten Commandments and Jesus’ great commandment. We will also look at Catholic beliefs about the ‘last things’—death, judgment, heaven, and hell—and reflect on St Paul’s words about the Resurrection. Finally, pupils will learn about the Rosary as a prayerful reflection on Christ’s life, focusing on the Sorrowful Mysteries.
ENGLISH
In our English lessons, we will be looking at texts with links to our topic including: Holes by Louis Sachar, Shackleton’s journey by William Grill and Home Sweet Home from Literacy Shed. We will use these as stimulus for our own writing to produce letters, narratives, character descriptions, balanced arguments, reports and instructions.
Grammar is taught during our English lessons. This term will be focusing on direct and reported speech, the progressive and perfect tense, subjunctive mood, commas for clarity, synonyms and antonyms, word class, sentence types and formal and informal language.
Weekly spellings are provided on Mondays. These are based on the National Curriculum spelling lists for Year 5 and 6. We will also revise previous years’ spelling rules throughout Year 6. There will be a spelling test every 4 weeks.
MATHS
During this half term, we will start by focusing on ratio before swiftly moving on to algebra where children will be looking to calculate the Nth term and use algebraic rules to correctly find an answer. After this, we will move onto decimals and also incorporate percentages. After half term, all children should be able to convert between decimals and percentages as well as calculate a percentage of an amount.
Later in the term, we will be covering area, perimeter and volume and finally statistics.
We will continue with our weekly arithmetic tests. Please continue to check in with your child about their progress.
SCIENCE
Our first topic this term is Evolution and Inheritance.
Our lessons will cover, recognising that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago. Understanding that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents. We will also learn to identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution
Our second topic, after the half term break is Animals, including humans
In this topic we will learn how to identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood. We will recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function. We will also work to describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans.
If you have any further questions about our learning this term, please call in to see Mrs Chamberlain.
Notices:
Arithmetic tests will take place every Friday.
PE is on Thursday afternoons and children should come to school dressed in their PE kit every Thursday.
Children are expected to participate in our online portals; TTRockstars and ReadTheory. All of their personal logins are inside each child’s Reading Record. As with reading books, little and often is the key to success!
