Autumn 1
For the love of reading text
Wonder by R.J Palacio
Our class text this half term - to promote a love of reading - will be ‘Wonder’ by R.J Palacio. Wonder tells the story of August, who was born with a facial deformity. He is about to start mainstream school. How will the children react to August?
Writing to describe: Character/Dialogue
Writing to persuade: Diary Writing
Writing to discuss: Balanced argument
Poetry: Sonnet
White Rose Maths
In maths this half term, we will start by exploring place value for the first 2 weeks of Year 6. We will then move onto addition, subtraction, multiplication and division for the remaining 6 weeks of the half term. Each topic will recap previous learning, and move our learning on using problem solving and reasoning, linked to the end of KS2 SATS.
Geography/ History
History – The Maya Civilisation
In this unit, the children will explore the world of the Maya, and debate whether they should continue to be remembered today as a significant culture. The children will begin by learning about the lives of the Maya today, before focusing on ancient Maya architectural achievements, their religion and surviving writings. They will also study the possible reasons why the Maya city states declined after 900 AD, looking at conspiracy theories and considering whether everything they read online is reliable. They will consider the issues faced when studying a culture where only limited types of evidence are available, predominantly archaeological evidence.
Science
Living things and their habitats
Our topic for Science this half term will be ’Living Things and Their Habitats. In our learning this half term we will be describing how living things are classified, are similar and different, including microorganisms, plants and animals. We will also be giving reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics.
Educational Visit
NA
PSHE/RSE/ RE
RE
Creating and Science. Conflicting or complimentary?
Children will be learning about the differing viewpoints of certain aspects of life, comparing what religion believes to what science believes.
PHSE
How can we keep healthy as we grow?
Art/ D & T/ Music
Art – Our artist focus is Andy Warhol
During Art this term, we will be delving into the different techniques to express feelings, exploring screen printing and create patterns for purposes.
D&T – Making a pop-up book
During D&T we will be researching a topic to create a pop-up book about. We will then design our pop-up book, and learn to create different mechanisms to help with the components of our book. We will then use these skills and the research completed to create a pop-up book of a chosen topic.
Music – Happy by Pharell Williams
We will be focusing on the style of pop and motown.
Spanish
Numbers 31-50
In Spanish, we will recap previous knowledge of numbers before taking the next step and learning the numbers 31-50. Within this topic, the children will learn how to say the numbers in Spanish as well as applying these numbers in conversations.
PE day
Invaders, boot camp , healthy body- Inside and out
Our PE day will be Wednesday afternoon.
Spellings/ Reading
Ambitious synonyms
Homophones and near homophones
Adjectives ending in -ant, ent
Words with hyphens