Curriculum Overview Autumn 2 Year 6

How to support your child’s learning at home Our new half-termly home learning challenges have begun. We expect the children to produce in depth pieces of work for 2 challenges of their choice with much improved quality that reflects your child’s abilities in class. This is a great opportunity for your child to follow their interests and to have fun with their learning.

All the children have personal log in details for Times Table Rockstars. Just 5 minutes play a day makes a massive difference to the rapid recall of facts and it is great fun too!

Make sure you also use MyMaths at home to help you with Maths revision.

The best work will be celebrated in class and on our website.

Make sure you know your targets and are constantly striving to achieve them.

www.lomeshaye.lancs.sch.uk Lomeshaye Junior School Norfolk St Nelson Lancashire BB9 6SY

Curriculum Overview Year 6 Autumn 2 Miss Payne, Mrs Holden, Mr Heseldon, Mrs Malik

English: During this half term, our work in English will be based around the book Journey to the River Sea, written by Iva Ibbotson. We will develop a range of grammar skills throughout this topic, which will be applied throughout all our writing in school. This unit will end with the children writing their own story in the style of the book.

We will continue to use our new vocabulary books to explore new words.

Creative Curriculum: Magnificent Maya Our creative curriculum theme on the ancient Maya civilization will enable us to delve deeply into history to learn about the lives of people living in Central America from 2000BC through to 900AD. We will focus our learning around the Classic period from 250AD to 900AD as we discover about remarkable cities, number systems, writing and calendars.

Maths: This half term we are focusing on fractions, ratio, proportion and percentages at first. We will then look at measurement, statistics and geometry. To develop our reasoning skills we shall experience a wide range of problem solving activities that help us deepen our understanding of concepts.

Science: This half term, we will be studying light.

We will be learning about how light travels and how a reflection is created.

During the topic, we will also investigate shadows and carry out a fair test investigation.

Our home learning tasks will help children develop scientific vocabulary about light, reflection and refraction.

Geography: We will consider the forest biomes (rain forests) of Central America and interpret climate data, as well as discuss environmental issues that affect these areas today. Our mapping skills will be enhanced as we look in depth at maps, atlases and online resources.

History: In History, we will develop our ability to question artefacts and to develop our thinking about how we can learn about the past from the objects left behind.

PE:

We will start the term by trying out the Maya game of pok-ta-pok, where children play in teams to score points by hitting the ball (using only knees, elbows and hips) into their opposing teams end zone.

Visitors: We are lucky enough to have a visit from Dr Diane Davies, the only Maya archaeologist in England. She will be telling us about her work and helping us learn through practical workshops. We can’t wait!