Year 6 Curriculum Overview Spring Term 1

Year 6 SATs This is a very important term for your child.

There will be a SATs meeting held on Wednesday 20th January at 9.00am.

It is vital that you attend to find out exactly what the tests will entail and mean

Homework

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Mr Heseldon runs a drop in homework club on Monday and Tuesday lunchtimes for children who would like some help with their work.

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Lomeshaye Junior School Norfolk St Nelson Lancashire

Curriculum Overview Year 6 Mrs Spokes, Mr Heseldon and Miss De Curtis

Spring Term 1

Creative Curriculum: We began our Mayan theme by meeting a real life modern Mayan! We will continue to learn about the history, customs and culture of the Mayans and how they came in toEnglish: and out of power. We will learn about what made Civilisation great We travelthe to Mayan The Amazon this half term as andwe how some of their customs influenced meet Maia, a young girl who is sent to what wea do today. live long way from home. As we read Journey to the River Sea, we will develop Challenge: What am our writing and grammar skills in a variety of I? How am I related to different ways to enable us to write our own the Mayan theme? story with a historical setting. Our focus will be blending action, dialogue and description in order to engage our audience. We will also spend a lot of time investigating vocabulary as we strive to become confident readers and writers to prepare us for our futures.

Art/ Design and Technology: This half term, our art and design focus will be linked to our Mayan theme. It will also help us with our maths as we will explore symmetrical patterns and record our own using measurement and counting.

Visits: As well as our Mayan visitor , we will also be taking part in some special days at Marsden Heights. On Thursday 14th January we will take part I an Expression Day and on Monday 1st February an Exploration Day. Both of these days will be exciting and fin packed opportunities to develop our skills across the curriculum.

Maths: This half term we will be continuing sequences and writing formulae to describe them.

We will also be translating and reflecting shapes across all four coordinates. We will apply these skills to help us solve problems and challenges.

Science: During our science lessons Computing: this half term we will be organising, sorting This term, we will be using computers and classifying living thingsthe according to to consolidate our learning Mathsscientific and their characteristics.

Wefrom will apply English.

We will create sequencesinoforder code to skills of research and observation and patterns of repeating shapes. develop out understanding of how scientists Computers continue to be used to group living will things effectively. support learning in all lessons.