Welcome to Class 13!
Class teacher: Miss Lowes & Miss Honnor
Teaching Assistant: Mrs McRitchie
Wow- what a start to the new school year! The children in Class 13 have settled beautifully and have really impressed us with their excellent presentation and fantastic attitudes to learning. We cannot wait to see them thrive as the year progresses!
This term, we have some very interesting topics to launch, which will keep us engaged and very busy up until Christmas. We will be focussing on the novel, ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar in English initially, covering a range of reading and writing skills linked to this. We will also be looking at some World War 1 poetry, analysing and unpicking in order to find out more about life during this difficult period in Great Britain.
Our overarching topic this term is ‘The Americas’, during which we will learn about the geography (both physical and human) of North and South America. We will also look at natural disasters affecting these areas and how and where they occur in real life. In addition, we will look at land-use across The Americas, biomes and the influence of Christopher Columbus on their discovery.
In Maths, we will begin by looking at place value of numbers to 10 million and beyond, before using this knowledge in our work involving the four operations. We will continue to focus on more challenging calculations including long multiplication and long division and will apply our skills to a range of reasoning and problem-solving activities. We will then look at fractions, decimals and percentages and the relationship between these.
This term’s unit in Science will focus on genetics and inheritance – another very interesting topic! We will consider whether particular human characteristics are inherited (genetic) or environmentally influenced and learn about evolution (including Darwin’s finches) and natural selection.
In the subjects of Art and Design Technology, we will be exploring sculpture and architecture and will be using a design brief to create a sculpture of our own using Mod-Roc. In addition, we will be investigating and building pulley systems to help one of the characters in our novel in their day-to-day tasks.
Religious Education this term will look at the debate of ‘Creation vs Science’, considering the beliefs of Christians and scientists on how the world was created. We will also look at why some people believe in God whilst others do not or are not sure.
This term’s PE will take place in school with our sports coaches Olly, Megan and Luke. Alongside excellent trampolining, gymnastics and swimming sessions, we will be looking at tag rugby and invasion games.
Finally, in PHSE, we will consider how the media may influence us in our day-to-day lives. We will think about ‘fake news’ and how this can be used to manipulate the public and consider how we can spot aspects in the digital world (including Artificial Intelligence) that are perhaps not what they seem. After just a few days in Year 6, we are confident that our Class 13 children will have a year to remember- their final year in primary school. Let’s work hard, learn lots and make lots of amazing memories!
Year 6 Long Term Planning
What’s been happening in Class 13?
Year 6 had a fantastic first forest schools session.
